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authorNicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>2010-09-06 20:29:57 -0400
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Documentation: move RelNotes into a directory of their own
There are 108 of them already. That's a bit more than one third of all the files in the Documentation directory already, and still growing. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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-GIT v1.5.4 Release Notes
-========================
-
-Removal
--------
-
- * "git svnimport" was removed in favor of "git svn". It is still there
- in the source tree (contrib/examples) but unsupported.
-
- * As git-commit and git-status have been rewritten, "git runstatus"
- helper script lost all its users and has been removed.
-
-
-Temporarily disabled
---------------------
-
- * "git http-push" is known not to work well with cURL library older
- than 7.16, and we had reports of repository corruption. It is
- disabled on such platforms for now. Unfortunately, 1.5.3.8 shares
- the same issue. In other words, this does not mean you will be
- fine if you stick to an older git release. For now, please do not
- use http-push from older git with cURL older than 7.16 if you
- value your data. A proper fix will hopefully materialize in
- later versions.
-
-
-Deprecation notices
--------------------
-
- * From v1.6.0, git will by default install dashed form of commands
- (e.g. "git-commit") outside of users' normal $PATH, and will install
- only selected commands ("git" itself, and "gitk") in $PATH. This
- implies:
-
- - Using dashed forms of git commands (e.g. "git-commit") from the
- command line has been informally deprecated since early 2006, but
- now it officially is, and will be removed in the future. Use
- dash-less forms (e.g. "git commit") instead.
-
- - Using dashed forms from your scripts, without first prepending the
- return value from "git --exec-path" to the scripts' PATH, has been
- informally deprecated since early 2006, but now it officially is.
-
- - Use of dashed forms with "PATH=$(git --exec-path):$PATH; export
- PATH" early in your script is not deprecated with this change.
-
- Users are strongly encouraged to adjust their habits and scripts now
- to prepare for this change.
-
- * The post-receive hook was introduced in March 2007 to supersede
- the post-update hook, primarily to overcome the command line length
- limitation of the latter. Use of post-update hook will be deprecated
- in future versions of git, starting from v1.6.0.
-
- * "git lost-found" was deprecated in favor of "git fsck"'s --lost-found
- option, and will be removed in the future.
-
- * "git peek-remote" is deprecated, as "git ls-remote" was written in C
- and works for all transports; "git peek-remote" will be removed in
- the future.
-
- * "git repo-config" which was an old name for "git config" command
- has been supported without being advertised for a long time. The
- next feature release will remove it.
-
- * From v1.6.0, the repack.usedeltabaseoffset config option will default
- to true, which will give denser packfiles (i.e. more efficient storage).
- The downside is that git older than version 1.4.4 will not be able
- to directly use a repository packed using this setting.
-
- * From v1.6.0, the pack.indexversion config option will default to 2,
- which is slightly more efficient, and makes repacking more immune to
- data corruptions. Git older than version 1.5.2 may revert to version 1
- of the pack index with a manual "git index-pack" to be able to directly
- access corresponding pack files.
-
-
-Updates since v1.5.3
---------------------
-
- * Comes with much improved gitk, with i18n.
-
- * Comes with git-gui 0.9.2 with i18n.
-
- * gitk is now merged as a subdirectory of git.git project, in
- preparation for its i18n.
-
- * progress displays from many commands are a lot nicer to the eye.
- Transfer commands show throughput data.
-
- * many commands that pay attention to per-directory .gitignore now do
- so lazily, which makes the usual case go much faster.
-
- * Output processing for '--pretty=format:<user format>' has been
- optimized.
-
- * Rename detection of diff family while detecting exact matches has
- been greatly optimized.
-
- * Rename detection of diff family tries to make more natural looking
- pairing. Earlier, if multiple identical rename sources were
- found in the preimage, the source used was picked pretty much at random.
-
- * Value "true" for color.diff and color.status configuration used to
- mean "always" (even when the output is not going to a terminal).
- This has been corrected to mean the same thing as "auto".
-
- * "git diff" Porcelain now respects diff.external configuration, which
- is another way to specify GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF.
-
- * "git diff" can be told to use different prefixes other than
- "a/" and "b/" e.g. "git diff --src-prefix=l/ --dst-prefix=k/".
-
- * "git diff" sometimes did not quote paths with funny
- characters properly.
-
- * "git log" (and any revision traversal commands) misbehaved
- when --diff-filter is given but was not asked to actually
- produce diff.
-
- * HTTP proxy can be specified per remote repository using
- remote.*.httpproxy configuration, or global http.proxy configuration
- variable.
-
- * Various Perforce importer updates.
-
- * Example update and post-receive hooks have been improved.
-
- * Any command that wants to take a commit object name can now use
- ":/string" syntax to name a commit.
-
- * "git reset" is now built-in and its output can be squelched with -q.
-
- * "git reset --hard" does not make any sense in a bare
- repository, but did not error out; fixed.
-
- * "git send-email" can optionally talk over ssmtp and use SMTP-AUTH.
-
- * "git rebase" learned --whitespace option.
-
- * In "git rebase", when you decide not to replay a particular change
- after the command stopped with a conflict, you can say "git rebase
- --skip" without first running "git reset --hard", as the command now
- runs it for you.
-
- * "git rebase --interactive" mode can now work on detached HEAD.
-
- * Other minor to serious bugs in "git rebase -i" have been fixed.
-
- * "git rebase" now detaches head during its operation, so after a
- successful "git rebase" operation, the reflog entry branch@{1} for
- the current branch points at the commit before the rebase was
- started.
-
- * "git rebase -i" also triggers rerere to help your repeated merges.
-
- * "git merge" can call the "post-merge" hook.
-
- * "git pack-objects" can optionally run deltification with multiple
- threads.
-
- * "git archive" can optionally substitute keywords in files marked with
- export-subst attribute.
-
- * "git cherry-pick" made a misguided attempt to repeat the original
- command line in the generated log message, when told to cherry-pick a
- commit by naming a tag that points at it. It does not anymore.
-
- * "git for-each-ref" learned %(xxxdate:<date-format>) syntax to show the
- various date fields in different formats.
-
- * "git gc --auto" is a low-impact way to automatically run a variant of
- "git repack" that does not lose unreferenced objects (read: safer
- than the usual one) after the user accumulates too many loose
- objects.
-
- * "git clean" has been rewritten in C.
-
- * You need to explicitly set clean.requireForce to "false" to allow
- "git clean" without -f to do any damage (lack of the configuration
- variable used to mean "do not require -f option to lose untracked
- files", but we now use the safer default).
-
- * The kinds of whitespace errors "git diff" and "git apply" notice (and
- fix) can be controlled via 'core.whitespace' configuration variable
- and 'whitespace' attribute in .gitattributes file.
-
- * "git push" learned --dry-run option to show what would happen if a
- push is run.
-
- * "git push" does not update a tracking ref on the local side when the
- remote refused to update the corresponding ref.
-
- * "git push" learned --mirror option. This is to push the local refs
- one-to-one to the remote, and deletes refs from the remote that do
- not exist anymore in the repository on the pushing side.
-
- * "git push" can remove a corrupt ref at the remote site with the usual
- ":ref" refspec.
-
- * "git remote" knows --mirror mode. This is to set up configuration to
- push into a remote repository to store local branch heads to the same
- branch on the remote side, and remove branch heads locally removed
- from local repository at the same time. Suitable for pushing into a
- back-up repository.
-
- * "git remote" learned "rm" subcommand.
-
- * "git cvsserver" can be run via "git shell". Also, "cvs" is
- recognized as a synonym for "git cvsserver", so that CVS users
- can be switched to git just by changing their login shell.
-
- * "git cvsserver" acts more like receive-pack by running post-receive
- and post-update hooks.
-
- * "git am" and "git rebase" are far less verbose.
-
- * "git pull" learned to pass --[no-]ff option to underlying "git
- merge".
-
- * "git pull --rebase" is a different way to integrate what you fetched
- into your current branch.
-
- * "git fast-export" produces data-stream that can be fed to fast-import
- to reproduce the history recorded in a git repository.
-
- * "git add -i" takes pathspecs to limit the set of files to work on.
-
- * "git add -p" is a short-hand to go directly to the selective patch
- subcommand in the interactive command loop and to exit when done.
-
- * "git add -i" UI has been colorized. The interactive prompt
- and menu can be colored by setting color.interactive
- configuration. The diff output (including the hunk picker)
- are colored with color.diff configuration.
-
- * "git commit --allow-empty" allows you to create a single-parent
- commit that records the same tree as its parent, overriding the usual
- safety valve.
-
- * "git commit --amend" can amend a merge that does not change the tree
- from its first parent.
-
- * "git commit" used to unconditionally strip comment lines that
- began with '#' and removed excess blank lines. This behavior has
- been made configurable.
-
- * "git commit" has been rewritten in C.
-
- * "git stash random-text" does not create a new stash anymore. It was
- a UI mistake. Use "git stash save random-text", or "git stash"
- (without extra args) for that.
-
- * "git stash clear extra-text" does not clear the whole stash
- anymore. It is tempting to expect "git stash clear stash@{2}"
- to drop only a single named stash entry, and it is rude to
- discard everything when that is asked (but not provided).
-
- * "git prune --expire <time>" can exempt young loose objects from
- getting pruned.
-
- * "git branch --contains <commit>" can list branches that are
- descendants of a given commit.
-
- * "git log" learned --early-output option to help interactive GUI
- implementations.
-
- * "git bisect" learned "skip" action to mark untestable commits.
-
- * "git bisect visualize" learned a shorter synonym "git bisect view".
-
- * "git bisect visualize" runs "git log" in a non-windowed
- environments. It also can be told what command to run (e.g. "git
- bisect visualize tig").
-
- * "git format-patch" learned "format.numbered" configuration variable
- to automatically turn --numbered option on when more than one commits
- are formatted.
-
- * "git ls-files" learned "--exclude-standard" to use the canned set of
- exclude files.
-
- * "git tag -a -f existing" begins the editor session using the existing
- annotation message.
-
- * "git tag -m one -m bar" (multiple -m options) behaves similarly to
- "git commit"; the parameters to -m options are formatted as separate
- paragraphs.
-
- * The format "git show" outputs an annotated tag has been updated to
- include "Tagger: " and "Date: " lines from the tag itself. Strictly
- speaking this is a backward incompatible change, but this is a
- reasonable usability fix and people's scripts shouldn't have been
- relying on the exact output from "git show" Porcelain anyway.
-
- * "git cvsimport" did not notice errors from underlying "cvsps"
- and produced a corrupt import silently.
-
- * "git cvsexportcommit" learned -w option to specify and switch to the
- CVS working directory.
-
- * "git checkout" from a subdirectory learned to use "../path" to allow
- checking out a path outside the current directory without cd'ing up.
-
- * "git checkout" from and to detached HEAD leaves a bit more
- information in the reflog.
-
- * "git send-email --dry-run" shows full headers for easier diagnosis.
-
- * "git merge-ours" is now built-in.
-
- * "git svn" learned "info" and "show-externals" subcommands.
-
- * "git svn" run from a subdirectory failed to read settings from the
- .git/config.
-
- * "git svn" learned --use-log-author option, which picks up more
- descriptive name from From: and Signed-off-by: lines in the commit
- message.
-
- * "git svn" wasted way too much disk to record revision mappings
- between svn and git; a new representation that is much more compact
- for this information has been introduced to correct this.
-
- * "git svn" left temporary index files it used without cleaning them
- up; this was corrected.
-
- * "git status" from a subdirectory now shows relative paths, which
- makes copy-and-pasting for git-checkout/git-add/git-rm easier. The
- traditional behavior to show the full path relative to the top of
- the work tree can be had by setting status.relativepaths
- configuration variable to false.
-
- * "git blame" kept text for each annotated revision in core needlessly;
- this has been corrected.
-
- * "git shortlog" learned to default to HEAD when the standard input is
- a terminal and the user did not give any revision parameter.
-
- * "git shortlog" learned "-e" option to show e-mail addresses as well as
- authors' names.
-
- * "git help" learned "-w" option to show documentation in browsers.
-
- * In addition there are quite a few internal clean-ups. Notably:
-
- - many fork/exec have been replaced with run-command API,
- brought from the msysgit effort.
-
- - introduction and more use of the option parser API.
-
- - enhancement and more use of the strbuf API.
-
- * Makefile tweaks to support HP-UX is in.
-
-Fixes since v1.5.3
-------------------
-
-All of the fixes in v1.5.3 maintenance series are included in
-this release, unless otherwise noted.
-
-These fixes are only in v1.5.4 and not backported to v1.5.3 maintenance
-series.
-
- * The way "git diff --check" behaves is much more consistent with the way
- "git apply --whitespace=warn" works.
-
- * "git svn" talking with the SVN over HTTP will correctly quote branch
- and project names.
-
- * "git config" did not work correctly on platforms that define
- REG_NOMATCH to an even number.
-
- * Recent versions of AsciiDoc 8 has a change to break our
- documentation; a workaround has been implemented.
-
- * "git diff --color-words" colored context lines in a wrong color.