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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.1.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a5d2dd3 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,204 @@ +GIT v1.5.1 Release Notes +======================== + +Updates since v1.5.0 +-------------------- + +* Deprecated commands and options. + + - git-diff-stages and git-resolve have been removed. + +* New commands and options. + + - "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. + + - "git diff --no-index pathA pathB" can be used as diff + replacement with git specific enhancements. + + - "git diff --no-index" can read from '-' (standard input). + + - "git diff" also learned --exit-code to exit with non-zero + status when it found differences. In the future we might + want to make this the default but that would be a rather big + 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. + + - "git format-patch --attach" now emits attachments. Use + --inline to get an inlined multipart/mixed. + + - "git name-rev" learned --refs=<pattern>, to limit the tags + used for naming the given revisions only to the ones + matching the given pattern. + + - "git remote update" is to run "git fetch" for defined remotes + to update tracking branches. + + - "git cvsimport" can now take '-d' to talk with a CVS + repository different from what are recorded in CVS/Root + (overriding it with environment CVSROOT does not work). + + - "git bundle" can help sneaker-netting your changes between + repositories. + + - "git mergetool" can help 3-way file-level conflict + resolution with your favorite graphical merge tools. + + - A new configuration "core.symlinks" can be used to disable + 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. + + - "git log" family learned a new traversal option --first-parent, + which does what the name suggests. + + +* Updated behavior of existing commands. + + - "git-merge-recursive" used to barf when there are more than + one common ancestors for the merge, and merging them had a + rename/rename conflict. This has been fixed. + + - "git fsck" does not barf on corrupt loose objects. + + - "git rm" does not remove newly added files without -f. + + - "git archimport" allows remapping when coming up with git + branch names from arch names. + + - git-svn got almost a rewrite. + + - core.autocrlf configuration, when set to 'true', makes git + to convert CRLF at the end of lines in text files to LF when + reading from the filesystem, and convert in reverse when + writing to the filesystem. The variable can be set to + 'input', in which case the conversion happens only while + reading from the filesystem but files are written out with + LF at the end of lines. Currently, which paths to consider + 'text' (i.e. be subjected to the autocrlf mechanism) is + decided purely based on the contents, but the plan is to + allow users to explicitly override this heuristic based on + paths. + + - The behavior of 'git-apply', when run in a subdirectory, + without --index nor --cached were inconsistent with that of + the command with these options. This was fixed to match the + behavior with --index. A patch that is meant to be applied + with -p1 from the toplevel of the project tree can be + applied with any custom -p<n> option. A patch that is not + relative to the toplevel needs to be applied with -p<n> + option with or without --index (or --cached). + + - "git diff" outputs a trailing HT when pathnames have embedded + SP on +++/--- header lines, in order to help "GNU patch" to + parse its output. "git apply" was already updated to accept + this modified output format since ce74618d (Sep 22, 2006). + + - "git cvsserver" runs hooks/update and honors its exit status. + + - "git cvsserver" can be told to send everything with -kb. + + - "git diff --check" also honors the --color output option. + + - "git name-rev" used to stress the fact that a ref is a tag too + much, by saying something like "v1.2.3^0~22". It now says + "v1.2.3~22" in such a case (it still says "v1.2.3^0" if it does + not talk about an ancestor of the commit that is tagged, which + makes sense). + + - "git rev-list --boundary" now shows boundary markers for the + commits omitted by --max-age and --max-count condition. + + - The configuration mechanism now reads $(prefix)/etc/gitconfig. + + - "git apply --verbose" shows what preimage lines were wanted + when it couldn't find them. + + - "git status" in a read-only repository got a bit saner. + + - "git fetch" (hence "git clone" and "git pull") are less + noisy when the output does not go to tty. + + - "git fetch" between repositories with many refs were slow + even when there are not many changes that needed + transferring. This has been sped up by partially rewriting + the heaviest parts in C. + + - "git mailinfo" which splits an e-mail into a patch and the + meta-information was rewritten, thanks to Don Zickus. It + handles nested multipart better. The command was broken for + a brief period on 'master' branch since 1.5.0 but the + breakage is fixed now. + + - 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 seriously optimized by clever + use of a cache. This should be most noticeable in git-log + family of commands that involve reading many tree objects. + In addition, traversing revisions while filtering changes + with pathspecs is made faster by terminating the comparison + between the trees as early as possible. + + +* Hooks + + - 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. The proper place to do this is the new post-receive + hook. An example hook has been added to contrib/hooks/. + + +* Others + + - git-revert, git-gc and git-cherry-pick are now built-ins. + + +-- +exec >/var/tmp/1 +O=v1.5.1-rc3-29-gd8b6a1a +echo O=`git describe master` +git shortlog --no-merges $O..master ^maint + +# Local Variables: +# mode: text +# End: |