X-Git-Url: https://git.tokkee.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2FRelNotes-1.5.3.txt;h=0668d3c0cadc8e252ae07e0f873f603fafa02c27;hb=6d14414d21973580547ca1935b2692a43c0b0b5f;hp=21bb1fc6f2d1dfdb0231ba7381f0ade1ecb66c49;hpb=4f8f03d6435e3e1c0d4f95d43022b81c95d6347f;p=git.git diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.3.txt index 21bb1fc6f..0668d3c0c 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.3.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.3.txt @@ -9,13 +9,26 @@ Updates since v1.5.2 * The submodule support has Porcelain layer. + Note that the current submodule support is minimal and this is + deliberately so. A design decision we made is that operations + at the supermodule level do not recurse into submodules by + default. The expectation is that later we would add a + mechanism to tell git which submodules the user is interested + in, and this information might be used to determine the + recursive behaviour of certain commands (e.g. "git checkout" + and "git diff"), but currently we haven't agreed on what that + mechanism should look like. Therefore, if you use submodules, + you would probably need "git submodule update" on the + submodules you care about after running a "git checkout" at + the supermodule level. + * There are a handful pack-objects changes to help you cope better with repositories with pathologically large blobs in them. * For people who need to import from Perforce, a front-end for fast-import is in contrib/fast-import/. -* Comes with git-gui 0.8.0. +* Comes with git-gui 0.8.2. * Comes with updated gitk. @@ -46,21 +59,21 @@ Updates since v1.5.2 - "git log" learned a new option "--follow", to follow renaming history of a single file. - - "git-filter-branch" lets you rewrite the revision history of + - "git filter-branch" lets you rewrite the revision history of specified branches. You can specify a number of filters to modify the commits, files and trees. - - "git-cvsserver" learned new options (--base-path, --export-all, - --strict-paths) inspired by git-daemon. + - "git cvsserver" learned new options (--base-path, --export-all, + --strict-paths) inspired by "git daemon". - "git daemon --base-path-relaxed" can help migrating a repository URL that did not use to use --base-path to use --base-path. - - "git-commit" can use "-t templatefile" option and commit.template + - "git commit" can use "-t templatefile" option and commit.template configuration variable to prime the commit message given to you in the editor. - - "git-submodule" command helps you manage the projects from + - "git submodule" command helps you manage the projects from the superproject that contain them. - In addition to core.compression configuration option, @@ -68,15 +81,15 @@ Updates since v1.5.2 independently tweak zlib compression levels used for loose and packed objects. - - "git-ls-tree -l" shows size of blobs pointed at by the + - "git ls-tree -l" shows size of blobs pointed at by the tree entries, similar to "/bin/ls -l". - - "git-rev-list" learned --regexp-ignore-case and + - "git rev-list" learned --regexp-ignore-case and --extended-regexp options to tweak its matching logic used - for --grep fitering. + for --grep filtering. - - "git-describe --contains" is a handier way to call more - obscure command "git-name-rev --tags". + - "git describe --contains" is a handier way to call more + obscure command "git name-rev --tags". - "git gc --aggressive" tells the command to spend more cycles to optimize the repository harder. @@ -109,11 +122,20 @@ Updates since v1.5.2 - "git send-email" can be told not to thread the messages when sending out more than one patches. + - "git send-email" can also be told how to find whom to cc the + message to for each message via --cc-cmd. + - "git config" learned NUL terminated output format via -z to help scripts. + - "git add" learned "--refresh ..." option to selectively refresh + the cached stat information. + - "git init -q" makes the command quieter. + - "git -p command" now has a cousin of opposite sex, "git --no-pager + command". + * Updated behavior of existing commands. - "gitweb" can offer multiple snapshot formats. @@ -126,9 +148,27 @@ Updates since v1.5.2 of the format ('tgz', 'tbz2' or 'zip'). Please update the your configuration file accordingly. + - "git clone" uses -l (hardlink files under .git) by default when + cloning locally. + + - URL used for "git clone" and friends can specify nonstandard SSH port + by using ssh://host:port/path/to/repo syntax. + + - "git bundle create" can now create a bundle without negative refs, + i.e. "everything since the beginning up to certain points". + - "git diff" (but not the plumbing level "git diff-tree") now recursively descends into trees by default. + - "git diff" does not show differences that come only from + stat-dirtiness in the form of "diff --git" header anymore. + It runs "update-index --refresh" silently as needed. + + - "git tag -l" used to match tags by globbing its parameter as if it + has wildcard '*' on both ends, which made "git tag -l gui" to match + tag 'gitgui-0.7.0'; this was very annoying. You now have to add + asterisk on the sides you want to wildcard yourself. + - The editor to use with many interactive commands can be overridden with GIT_EDITOR environment variable, or if it does not exist, with core.editor configuration variable. As @@ -143,8 +183,25 @@ Updates since v1.5.2 given strings now have shorter abbreviations. -i is for ignore case, and -E is for extended regexp. + - "git log" learned --log-size to show the number of bytes in + the log message part of the output to help qgit. + + - "git log --name-status" does not require you to give "-r" anymore. + As a general rule, Porcelain commands should recurse when showing + diff. + + - "git format-patch --root A" can be used to format everything + since the beginning up to A. This was supported with + "git format-patch --root A A" for a long time, but was not + properly documented. + - "git svn dcommit" retains local merge information. + - "git svnimport" allows an empty string to be specified as the + trunk/ directory. This is necessary to suck data from a SVN + repository that doe not have trunk/ branches/ and tags/ organization + at all. + - "git config" to set values also honors type flags like --bool and --int. @@ -167,7 +224,7 @@ Updates since v1.5.2 and the handcrafted ones the old code created was not properly formed anyway. - - "git-push" pretends that you immediately fetched back from + - "git push" pretends that you immediately fetched back from the remote by updating corresponding remote tracking branches if you have any. @@ -177,16 +234,16 @@ Updates since v1.5.2 - "git commit --amend" is now compatible with various message source options such as -m/-C/-c/-F. - - "git-apply --whitespace=strip" removes blank lines added at + - "git apply --whitespace=strip" removes blank lines added at the end of the file. - - "git-fetch" over git native protocols with "-v" option shows + - "git fetch" over git native protocols with "-v" option shows connection status, and the IP address of the other end, to help diagnosing problems. - We used to have core.legacyheaders configuration, when set to false, allowed git to write loose objects in a format - that mimicks the format used by objects stored in packs. It + that mimics the format used by objects stored in packs. It turns out that this was not so useful. Although we will continue to read objects written in that format, we do not honor that configuration anymore and create loose objects in @@ -195,10 +252,10 @@ Updates since v1.5.2 - "--find-copies-harder" option to diff family can now be spelled as "-C -C" for brevity. - - "git-mailsplit" (hence "git-am") can read from Maildir + - "git mailsplit" (hence "git am") can read from Maildir formatted mailboxes. - - "git-cvsserver" does not barf upon seeing "cvs login" + - "git cvsserver" does not barf upon seeing "cvs login" request. - "pack-objects" honors "delta" attribute set in @@ -208,7 +265,7 @@ Updates since v1.5.2 - "new-workdir" script (in contrib) can now be used with a bare repository. - - "git-mergetool" learned to use gvimdiff. + - "git mergetool" learned to use gvimdiff. - "gitview" (in contrib) has a better blame interface. @@ -223,8 +280,8 @@ Updates since v1.5.2 "oneline". - "git p4import" has been demoted to contrib status. For - a superior option, checkout the git-p4 front end to - git-fast-import (also in contrib). The man page and p4 + a superior option, checkout the "git p4" front end to + "git fast-import" (also in contrib). The man page and p4 rpm have been removed as well. - "git mailinfo" (hence "am") now tries to see if the message @@ -237,13 +294,15 @@ Updates since v1.5.2 without parameter defined with "func()", not "func(void)") have been eradicated. + - "git tag" and "git verify-tag" have been rewritten in C. + * Performance Tweaks - - git-pack-objects avoids re-deltification cost by caching + - "git pack-objects" avoids re-deltification cost by caching small enough delta results it creates while looking for the best delta candidates. - - git-pack-objects learned a new heuristcs to prefer delta + - "git pack-objects" learned a new heuristic to prefer delta that is shallower in depth over the smallest delta possible. This improves both overall packfile access performance and packfile density. @@ -260,6 +319,13 @@ Updates since v1.5.2 - verifying pack contents done by "git fsck --full" got boost by carefully choosing the order to verify objects in them. + - "git read-tree -m" to read into an already populated index + has been optimized vastly. The effect of this can be seen + when switching branches that have differences in only a + handful paths. + + - "git add paths..." and "git commit paths..." has also been + heavily optimized. Fixes since v1.5.2 ------------------ @@ -272,8 +338,29 @@ this release, unless otherwise noted. - "gitweb" had trouble handling non UTF-8 text with older Encode.pm Perl module. --- -exec >/var/tmp/1 -O=v1.5.3-rc4 -echo O=`git describe refs/heads/master` -git shortlog --no-merges $O..refs/heads/master ^refs/heads/maint + - "git svn" misparsed the data from the commits in the repository when + the user had "color.diff = true" in the configuration. This has been + fixed. + + - There was a case where "git svn dcommit" clobbered changes made on the + SVN side while committing multiple changes. + + - "git-write-tree" had a bad interaction with racy-git avoidance and + gitattributes mechanisms. + + - "git --bare command" overrode existing GIT_DIR setting and always + made it treat the current working directory as GIT_DIR. + + - "git ls-files --error-unmatch" does not complain if you give the + same path pattern twice by mistake. + + - "git init" autodetected core.filemode but not core.symlinks, which + made a new directory created automatically by "git clone" cumbersome + to use on filesystems that require these configurations to be set. + + - "git log" family of commands behaved differently when run as "git + log" (no pathspec) and as "git log --" (again, no pathspec). This + inconsistency was introduced somewhere in v1.3.0 series but now has + been corrected. + + - "git rebase -m" incorrectly displayed commits that were skipped.