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helper script lost all its users and has been removed.
+Temporarily disabled
+--------------------
+
+ * "git http-push" is known not to work well with cURL library older
+ than 7.16, and we had reports of repository corruption. It is
+ disabled on such platforms for now. Unfortunately, 1.5.3.8 shares
+ the same issue. In other words, this does not mean you will be
+ fine if you stick to an older git release. For now, please do not
+ use http-push from older git with cURL older than 7.16 if you
+ value your data. A proper fix will hopefully materialize in
+ later versions.
+
+
Deprecation notices
-------------------
- * The next feature release of git (this change is scheduled for v1.6.0)
- will by default install dashed form of commands (e.g. "git-commit")
- outside of users' normal $PATH, and will install only selected
- commands ("git" itself, and "gitk") in $PATH. This implies:
+ * From v1.6.0, git will by default install dashed form of commands
+ (e.g. "git-commit") outside of users' normal $PATH, and will install
+ only selected commands ("git" itself, and "gitk") in $PATH. This
+ implies:
- Using dashed forms of git commands (e.g. "git-commit") from the
command line has been informally deprecated since early 2006, but
now it officially is, and will be removed in the future. Use
- dashless forms (e.g. "git commit") instead.
+ dash-less forms (e.g. "git commit") instead.
- Using dashed forms from your scripts, without first prepending the
return value from "git --exec-path" to the scripts' PATH, has been
- Use of dashed forms with "PATH=$(git --exec-path):$PATH; export
PATH" early in your script is not deprecated with this change.
- Users are strongly encouraged to adjust their habits and scripts now
- to prepare for this.
+ Users are strongly encouraged to adjust their habits and scripts now
+ to prepare for this change.
* The post-receive hook was introduced in March 2007 to supersede
the post-update hook, primarily to overcome the command line length
* Comes with much improved gitk, with i18n.
- * Comes with "git gui" 0.9.1 with i18n.
+ * Comes with git-gui 0.9.2 with i18n.
* gitk is now merged as a subdirectory of git.git project, in
preparation for its i18n.
command line in the generated log message, when told to cherry-pick a
commit by naming a tag that points at it. It does not anymore.
- * "git for-each-ref" learned %(xxxdate:<dateformat>) syntax to show the
+ * "git for-each-ref" learned %(xxxdate:<date-format>) syntax to show the
various date fields in different formats.
* "git gc --auto" is a low-impact way to automatically run a variant of
* "git pull --rebase" is a different way to integrate what you fetched
into your current branch.
- * "git fast-export" produces datastream that can be fed to fast-import
+ * "git fast-export" produces data-stream that can be fed to fast-import
to reproduce the history recorded in a git repository.
* "git add -i" takes pathspecs to limit the set of files to work on.
from its first parent.
* "git commit" used to unconditionally strip comment lines that
- began with '#' and removed excess blank lines. This
- behaviour has been made configurable.
+ began with '#' and removed excess blank lines. This behavior has
+ been made configurable.
* "git commit" has been rewritten in C.
* "git status" from a subdirectory now shows relative paths, which
makes copy-and-pasting for git-checkout/git-add/git-rm easier. The
- traditional behaviour to show the full path relative to the top of
+ traditional behavior to show the full path relative to the top of
the work tree can be had by setting status.relativepaths
configuration variable to false.
* "git help" learned "-w" option to show documentation in browsers.
- * In addition there are quite a few internal clean-ups. Notably
+ * In addition there are quite a few internal clean-ups. Notably:
- many fork/exec have been replaced with run-command API,
brought from the msysgit effort.
- enhancement and more use of the strbuf API.
+ * Makefile tweaks to support HP-UX is in.
Fixes since v1.5.3
------------------
* The way "git diff --check" behaves is much more consistent with the way
"git apply --whitespace=warn" works.
- * "git svn" talking with the SVN over http will correctly quote branch
+ * "git svn" talking with the SVN over HTTP will correctly quote branch
and project names.
* "git config" did not work correctly on platforms that define
* Recent versions of AsciiDoc 8 has a change to break our
documentation; a workaround has been implemented.
---
-exec >/var/tmp/1
-O=v1.5.4-rc3
-echo O=`git describe refs/heads/master`
-git shortlog --no-merges $O..refs/heads/master ^refs/heads/maint
+ * "git diff --color-words" colored context lines in a wrong color.