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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.1.txt | 53 | ||||
| -rwxr-xr-x | GIT-VERSION-GEN | 2 |
2 files changed, 41 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.1.txt index f78cf56bc..8461fb437 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.1.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.1.txt @@ -10,11 +10,15 @@ Updates since v1.5.0 * New commands and options. - - "git log" and friends take --reverse. This makes output - that typically goes reverse order in chronological order. - "git shortlog" usually lists commits in chronological order, - but with "--reverse", they are shown in reverse - chronological order. + - "git log" and friends take --reverse, which instructs them + to give their output in the order opposite from their usual. + They typically output from new to old, but with this option + their output would read from old to new. "git shortlog" + usually lists older commits first, but with this option, + they are shown from new to old. + + - "git log --pretty=format:<string>" to allow more flexible + custom log output. - "git diff" learned --ignore-space-at-eol. This is a weaker form of --ignore-space-change. @@ -22,9 +26,6 @@ Updates since v1.5.0 - "git diff --no-index pathA pathB" can be used as diff replacement with git specific enhancements. - - "git diff --pretty=format:<string>" to allow more flexible - custom log output. - - "git diff --no-index" can read from '-' (standard input). - "git diff" also learned --exit-code to exit with non-zero @@ -33,6 +34,17 @@ Updates since v1.5.0 backward incompatible change; it will stay as an option for now. + - "git diff --quiet" is --exit-code with output turned off, + meant for scripted use to quickly determine if there is any + tree-level difference. + + - Textual patch generation with "git diff" without -w/-b + option has been significantly optimized. "git blame" got + faster because of the same change. + + - "git log" and "git rev-list" has been optimized + significantly when they are used with pathspecs. + - "git branch --track" can be used to set up configuration variables to help it easier to base your work on branches you track from a remote site. @@ -61,6 +73,19 @@ Updates since v1.5.0 symlinks on filesystems that do not support them; they are checked out as regular files instead. + - You can name a commit object with its first line of the + message. The syntax to use is ':/message text'. E.g. + + $ git show ":/object name: introduce ':/<oneline prefix>' notation" + + means the same thing as: + + $ git show 28a4d940443806412effa246ecc7768a21553ec7 + + - "git bisect" learned a new command "run" that takes a script + to run after each revision is checked out to determine if it + is good or bad, to automate the bisection process. + * Updated behaviour of existing commands. @@ -133,6 +158,9 @@ Updates since v1.5.0 - send-email learned configurable bcc and chain-reply-to. + - "git remote show $remote" also talks about branches that + would be pushed if you run "git push remote". + - Using objects from packs is now seriouly optimized by clever use of a cache. This should be most noticeable in git-log family of commands that involve reading many tree objects. @@ -143,10 +171,9 @@ Updates since v1.5.0 * Hooks - - The sample update hook to show how to send out notification - e-mail was updated to show only new commits that appeared in - the repository. Earlier, it showed new commits that appeared - on the branch. + - The part to send out notification e-mails was removed from + the sample update hook, as it was not an appropriate place + to do so. * Others @@ -156,7 +183,7 @@ Updates since v1.5.0 -- exec >/var/tmp/1 -O=v1.5.0.5-446-g5d86501 +O=v1.5.1-rc1-63-g12d6697 echo O=`git describe master` git shortlog --no-merges $O..master ^maint diff --git a/GIT-VERSION-GEN b/GIT-VERSION-GEN index 39ba8d135..551c39161 100755 --- a/GIT-VERSION-GEN +++ b/GIT-VERSION-GEN @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ #!/bin/sh GVF=GIT-VERSION-FILE -DEF_VER=v1.5.1-rc1.GIT +DEF_VER=v1.5.1-rc2.GIT LF=' ' |