X-Git-Url: https://git.tokkee.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2FRelNotes-1.5.5.txt;h=29322124881bf65c3ee6f5d613251b09f4a98d9a;hb=55e839e378416b70720308e86439e2ad6ecccc4a;hp=849b6b96047d305122c24cd4728467ffde551238;hpb=eadbcd498a18d60467883aeb6c0726048e7382a2;p=git.git diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.5.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.5.txt index 849b6b960..293221248 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.5.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.5.txt @@ -4,6 +4,19 @@ GIT v1.5.5 Release Notes Updates since v1.5.4 -------------------- +(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 @@ -23,6 +36,9 @@ Updates since v1.5.4 (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. @@ -50,13 +66,10 @@ Updates since v1.5.4 used to tell "git-fetch" and "git-push" to use different URL than what is given from the command line. - * "git push HEAD" and "git push +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..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 @@ -66,8 +79,9 @@ Updates since v1.5.4 * "git branch" (and "git checkout -b") to branch from a local branch can optionally set "branch..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..merge" set (i.e. marked to build on another branch) reports how much the branch @@ -81,6 +95,8 @@ Updates since v1.5.4 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. @@ -89,6 +105,12 @@ Updates since v1.5.4 * "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. @@ -98,27 +120,54 @@ Updates since v1.5.4 * "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 " now reports "'git ' is alias to ", instead of saying "No manual entry for git-". + * "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=" learned "--fixed-strings" option to look for without treating it as a regular expression. * "git gui" learned an auto-spell checking. + * "git push HEAD" and "git push +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..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) @@ -130,6 +179,8 @@ Updates since v1.5.4 * "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. @@ -137,6 +188,8 @@ Updates since v1.5.4 * 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 ------------------ @@ -144,8 +197,11 @@ Fixes since v1.5.4 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 :" 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.