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Updates since v1.5.4
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+(subsystems)
+
+ * Comes with git-gui 0.10.1
+
+(portability)
+
+ * We shouldn't ask for BSD group ownership semantics by setting g+s bit
+ on directories on older BSD systems that refuses chmod() by non root
+ users. BSD semantics is the default there anyway.
+
+ * Bunch of portability improvement patches coming from an effort to port
+ to Solaris has been applied.
+
(performance)
* On platforms with suboptimal qsort(3) implementation, there
(usability, bells and whistles)
+ * Bash completion script (in contrib) are aware of more commands and
+ options.
+
* You can be warned when core.autocrlf conversion is applied in
such a way that results in an irreversible conversion.
used to tell "git-fetch" and "git-push" to use different URL than what
is given from the command line.
- * "git push <somewhere> HEAD" and "git push <somewhere> +HEAD" works as
- expected; they push the current branch (and only the current branch).
- In addition, HEAD can be written as the value of "remote.<there>.push"
- configuration variable.
-
* "git add -i" behaves better even before you make an initial commit.
+ * "git am" refused to run from a subdirectory without a good reason.
+
* After "git apply --whitespace=fix" fixes whitespace errors in a patch,
a line before the fix can appear as a context or preimage line in a
later patch, causing the patch not to apply. The command now knows to
* "git branch" (and "git checkout -b") to branch from a local branch can
optionally set "branch.<name>.merge" to mark the new branch to build on
the other local branch, when "branch.autosetupmerge" is set to
- "always". By default, this does not happen when branching from a local
- branch.
+ "always", or when passing the command line option "--track" (this option
+ was ignored when branching from local branches). By default, this does
+ not happen when branching from a local branch.
* "git checkout" to switch to a branch that has "branch.<name>.merge" set
(i.e. marked to build on another branch) reports how much the branch
inspect what is going to be committed and prepare the commit
log message template to be edited.
+ * "git cvsimport" can now take more than one -M options.
+
* "git describe" learned to limit the tags to be used for
naming with --match option.
* "git describe --exact-match" describes only commits that are tagged.
+ * "git describe --long" describes a tagged commit as $tag-0-$sha1,
+ instead of just showing the exact tagname.
+
+ * "git describe" warns when using a tag whose name and path contradict
+ with each other.
+
* "git diff" learned "--relative" option to limit and output paths
relative to the current directory when working in a subdirectory.
* "git format-patch" learned --cover-letter option to generate a cover
letter template.
+ * "git gc" learned --quiet option.
+
+ * "git gc" now automatically prunes unreachable objects that are two
+ weeks old or older.
+
+ * "git gc --auto" can be disabled more easily by just setting gc.auto
+ to zero. It also tolerates more packfiles by default.
+
* "git grep" now knows "--name-only" is a synonym for the "-l" option.
* "git help <alias>" now reports "'git <alias>' is alias to <what>",
instead of saying "No manual entry for git-<alias>".
+ * "git help" can use different backends to show manual pages and this can
+ be configured using "man.viewer" configuration.
+
+ * "gitk" does not restore window position from $HOME/.gitk anymore (it
+ still restores the size).
+
* "git log --grep=<what>" learned "--fixed-strings" option to look for
<what> without treating it as a regular expression.
* "git gui" learned an auto-spell checking.
+ * "git push <somewhere> HEAD" and "git push <somewhere> +HEAD" works as
+ expected; they push the current branch (and only the current branch).
+ In addition, HEAD can be written as the value of "remote.<there>.push"
+ configuration variable.
+
+ * When the configuration variable "pack.threads" is set to 0, "git
+ repack" auto detects the number of CPUs and uses that many threads.
+
* "git send-email" learned to prompt for passwords
interactively.
* "git send-email" learned an easier way to suppress CC
recipients.
- * When the configuration variable "pack.threads" is set to 0, "git
- repack" auto detects the number of CPUs and uses that many threads.
+ * "git stash" learned "pop" command, that applies the latest stash and
+ removes it from the stash, and "drop" command to discard the named
+ stash entry.
- * Various "git cvsimport", "git cvsexportcommit", "git svn" and
- "git p4" improvements.
+ * "git submodule" learned a new subcommand "summary" to show the
+ symmetric difference between the HEAD version and the work tree version
+ of the submodule commits.
+
+ * Various "git cvsimport", "git cvsexportcommit", "git cvsserver",
+ "git svn" and "git p4" improvements.
(internal)
* "git checkout" is rewritten in C.
+ * "git remote" is rewritten in C.
+
* Two conflict hunks that are separated by a very short span of common
lines are now coalesced into one larger hunk, to make the result easier
to read.
* Run-command API's use of file descriptors is documented clearer and
is more consistent now.
+ * diff output can be sent to FILE * that is different from stdout. This
+ will help reimplementing more things in C.
Fixes since v1.5.4
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All of the fixes in v1.5.4 maintenance series are included in
this release, unless otherwise noted.
----
-exec >/var/tmp/1
-O=v1.5.4.3-339-g7cf7f54
-echo O=`git describe refs/heads/master`
-git shortlog --no-merges $O..refs/heads/master ^refs/heads/maint
+ * "git-http-push" did not allow deletion of remote ref with the usual
+ "push <remote> :<branch>" syntax.
+
+ * "git-rebase --abort" did not go back to the right location if
+ "git-reset" was run during the "git-rebase" session.
+
+ * "git imap-send" without setting imap.host did not error out but
+ segfaulted.