X-Git-Url: https://git.tokkee.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2FRelNotes-1.5.2.txt;h=6195715dc78a26ce9ac452bd64852455fb79137c;hb=41ffe5cdf5b0192cd70ef71b1cc37c7286d1dab0;hp=d93da608c70c3544963ad7dfd50ca12d39bc7fa9;hpb=e8760cde01299817daae26c9ad074b776bbd8f88;p=git.git diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.2.txt index d93da608c..6195715dc 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.2.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.2.txt @@ -1,9 +1,56 @@ -GIT v1.5.2 Release Notes (draft) +GIT v1.5.2 Release Notes ======================== Updates since v1.5.1 -------------------- +* Plumbing level superproject support. + + You can include a subdirectory that has an independent git + repository in your index and tree objects of your project + ("superproject"). This plumbing (i.e. "core") level + superproject support explicitly excludes recursive behaviour. + + The "subproject" entries in the index and trees of a superproject + are incompatible with older versions of git. Experimenting with + the plumbing level support is encouraged, but be warned that + unless everybody in your project updates to this release or + later, using this feature would make your project + inaccessible by people with older versions of git. + +* Plumbing level gitattributes support. + + The gitattributes mechanism allows you to add 'attributes' to + paths in your project, and affect the way certain git + operations work. Currently you can influence if a path is + considered a binary or text (the former would be treated by + 'git diff' not to produce textual output; the latter can go + through the line endings conversion process in repositories + with core.autocrlf set), expand and unexpand '$Id$' keyword + with blob object name, specify a custom 3-way merge driver, + and specify a custom diff driver. You can also apply + arbitrary filter to contents on check-in/check-out codepath + but this feature is an extremely sharp-edged razor and needs + to be handled with caution (do not use it unless you + understand the earlier mailing list discussion on keyword + expansion). These conversions apply when checking files in + or out, and exporting via git-archive. + +* The packfile format now optionally suports 64-bit index. + + This release supports the "version 2" format of the .idx + file. This is automatically enabled when a huge packfile + needs more than 32-bit to express offsets of objects in the + pack. + +* Comes with an updated git-gui 0.7.1 + +* Updated gitweb: + + - can show combined diff for merges; + - uses font size of user's preference, not hardcoded in pixels; + - can now 'grep'; + * New commands and options. - "git bisect start" can optionally take a single bad commit and @@ -17,8 +64,25 @@ Updates since v1.5.1 - "git format-patch" learned a new --subject-prefix= option, to override the built-in "[PATCH]". + - "git add -u" is a quick way to do the first stage of "git + commit -a" (i.e. update the index to match the working + tree); it obviously does not make a commit. + + - "git clean" honors a new configuration, "clean.requireforce". When + set to true, this makes "git clean" a no-op, preventing you + from losing files by typing "git clean" when you meant to + say "make clean". You can still say "git clean -f" to + override this. + + - "git log" family of commands learned --date={local,relative,default} + option. --date=relative is synonym to the --relative-date. + --date=local gives the timestamp in local timezone. + * Updated behavior of existing commands. + - When $GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL or $GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL is not set + but $EMAIL is set, the latter is used as a substitute. + - "git diff --stat" shows size of preimage and postimage blobs for binary contents. Earlier it only said "Bin". @@ -41,6 +105,29 @@ Updates since v1.5.1 - "git archive" does not insist you to give --format parameter anymore; it defaults to "tar". + - "git cvsserver" can use backends other than sqlite. + + - "gitview" (in contrib/ section) learned to better support + "git-annotate". + + - "git diff $commit1:$path2 $commit2:$path2" can now report + mode changes between the two blobs. + + - Local "git fetch" from a repository whose object store is + one of the alternates (e.g. fetching from the origin in a + repository created with "git clone -l -s") avoids + downloading objects unnecessarily. + + - "git blame" uses .mailmap to canonicalize the author name + just like "git shortlog" does. + + - "git pack-objects" pays attention to pack.depth + configuration variable. + + - "git cherry-pick" and "git revert" does not use .msg file in + the working tree to prepare commit message; instead it uses + $GIT_DIR/MERGE_MSG as other commands do. + * Builds - git-p4import has never been installed; now there is an @@ -49,49 +136,39 @@ Updates since v1.5.1 - gitk and git-gui can be configured out. - Generated documentation pages automatically get version - information from GIT_VERSION + information from GIT_VERSION. - Parallel build with "make -j" descending into subdirectory was fixed. * Performance Tweaks - - optimized "git-rev-list --bisect" (hence "git-bisect"). + - Optimized "git-rev-list --bisect" (hence "git-bisect"). - - optimized "git-add $path" in a large directory, most of + - Optimized "git-add $path" in a large directory, most of whose contents are ignored. + - Optimized "git-diff-tree" for reduced memory footprint. -Fixes since v1.5.1 ------------------- - -The following are all in v1.5.1.x series, unless otherwise noted. - -* Documentation updates - - - Various documentation updates from J. Bruce Fields, Frank - Lichtenheld, Alex Riesen and others. Andrew Ruder started a - war on undocumented options. - -* Bugfixes + - The recursive merge strategy updated a worktree file that + was changed identically in two branches, when one of them + renamed it. We do not do that when there is no rename, so + match that behaviour. This avoids excessive rebuilds. - - "git diff a/ b/" incorrectly fell in "diff between two - filesystem objects" codepath, when the user most likely - wanted to limit the extent of output to two tracked - directories. + - The default pack depth has been increased to 50, as the + recent addition of delta_base_cache makes deeper delta chains + much less expensive to access. Depending on the project, it was + reported that this reduces the resulting pack file by 10% + or so. - - git-quiltimport had the same bug as we fixed for - git-applymbox in v1.5.1.1 -- it gave an alarming "did not - have any patch" message (but did not actually fail and was - harmless). - - various git-svn fixes. +Fixes since v1.5.1 +------------------ - - Sample update hook incorrectly always refused requests to - delete branches through push. +All of the fixes in v1.5.1 maintenance series are included in +this release, unless otherwise noted. - - git-blame on a very long working tree path had buffer - overrun problem. +* Bugfixes - Switching branches with "git checkout" refused to work when a path changes from a file to a directory between the @@ -110,10 +187,11 @@ The following are all in v1.5.1.x series, unless otherwise noted. will not be backported to 1.5.1.x series, as it is rather an intrusive change. -* Performance Tweaks + - git-fetch had trouble with a remote with insanely large number + of refs. + + - "git clean -d -X" now does not remove non-excluded directories. --- -exec >/var/tmp/1 -O=v1.5.1.1-158-g86da9de -echo O=`git describe refs/heads/master` -git shortlog --no-merges $O..refs/heads/master ^refs/heads/maint + - rebasing (without -m) a series that changes a symlink to a directory + in the middle of a path confused git-apply greatly and refused to + operate.