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User visible changes
--------------------
-[[Note that none of these are not merged to 'master' as of this writing
-but they will be before 1.6.0 happens]]
-
-With default Makefile settings, most of the programs are now installed
-outside your $PATH, except for "git", "gitk", "git-gui" and some server
-side programs that needs to be accessible when connecting over ssh.
-
-When talking to remote repository over ssh, necessary server side programs
-are now invoked with "git $program" notation, not with "git-$program"
-notation. This should work with both servers running older git where you
-had all of these programs installed on $PATH, or newer git where you have
-only "git" on $PATH. However, if the remote side is running a custom
-software that restricts programs you can run over ssh, it might cause
-problems. Use --upload-pack="git-upload-pack" (when using ls-remote,
-fetch and pull on the client side), --receive-pack="git-receive-pack"
-(when using push on the client side), or --exec="git-upload-archive" (when
-using git-archive) as appropriate when talking to such a remote.
+With the default Makefile settings, most of the programs are now
+installed outside your $PATH, except for "git", "gitk", "git-gui" and
+some server side programs that need to be accessible for technical
+reasons. Invoking a git subcommand as "git-xyzzy" from the command
+line has been deprecated since early 2006 (and officially announced in
+1.5.4 release notes); use of them from your scripts after adding
+output from "git --exec-path" to the $PATH is still supported in this
+release, but users are again strongly encouraged to adjust their
+scripts to use "git xyzzy" form, as we will stop installing
+"git-xyzzy" hardlinks for built-in commands in later releases.
Source changes needed for porting to MinGW environment are now all in the
main git.git codebase.
+By default, packfiles created with this version uses delta-base-offset
+encoding introduced in v1.4.4. Pack idx files are using version 2 that
+allows larger packs and added robustness thanks to its CRC checking,
+introduced in v1.5.2.
+
Updates since v1.5.6
--------------------
(subsystems)
+* git-p4 in contrib learned "allowSubmit" configuration to control on
+ which branch to allow "submit" subcommand.
+
(portability)
* Sample hook scripts shipped in templates/ are now suffixed with
* Updated howto/update-hook-example
-(performance, robustness etc.)
+* Got rid of usage of "git-foo" from the tutorial.
+
+* Disambiguating "--" between revs and paths is finally documented.
+
+(performance, robustness, sanity etc.)
+
+* even more documentation pages are now accessible via "man" and "git help".
* reduced excessive inlining to shrink size of the "git" binary.
objects created will be fsync'ed (this is only useful on filesystems
that does not order data writes properly).
+* "git commit-tree" plumbing can make Octopus with more than 16 parents.
+ "git commit" has been capable of this for quite some time.
+
(usability, bells and whistles)
+* git-apply can handle a patch that touches the same path more than once
+ much better than before.
+
+* git-apply can be told not to trust the line counts recorded in the input
+ patch but recount, with the new --recount option.
+
* git-archive can be told to omit certain paths from its output using
export-ignore attributes.
+* git-clone can clone from a remote whose URL would be rewritten by
+ configuration stored in $HOME/.gitconfig now.
+
+* git-diff --check now checks leftover merge conflict markers.
+
+* When remote side used to have branch 'foo' and git-fetch finds that now
+ it has branch 'foo/bar', it refuses to lose the existing remote tracking
+ branch and its reflog. The error message has been improved to suggest
+ pruning the remote if the user wants to proceed and get the latest set
+ of branches from the remote, including such 'foo/bar'.
+
* fast-export learned to export and import marks file; this can be used to
interface with fast-import incrementally.
* Original SHA-1 value for "update-ref -d" is optional now.
+* git-send-mail can talk not just over SSL but over TLS now.
+
* You can tell "git status -u" to even more aggressively omit checking
untracked files with --untracked-files=no.
---
exec >/var/tmp/1
-O=v1.5.6.1-77-gf9a08f6
+O=v1.5.6.1-155-gaa0c1f2
echo O=$(git describe refs/heads/master)
git shortlog --no-merges $O..refs/heads/master ^refs/heads/maint