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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.3.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e2e809e --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.3.txt @@ -0,0 +1,215 @@ +GIT v1.5.3 Release Notes +======================== + +Updates since v1.5.2 +-------------------- + +* The commit walkers other than http are officially deprecated, + but still supported for now. + +* The submodule support has Porcelain layer. + +* 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 updated gitk. + +* New commands and options. + + - "git stash" allows you to quickly save away your work in + progress and replay it later on an updated state. + + - "git rebase" learned an "interactive" mode that let you + pick and reorder which commits to rebuild. + + - "git fsck" can save its findings in $GIT_DIR/lost-found, + without a separate invocation of "git lost-found" command. + + - $GIT_WORK_TREE environment variable can be used together with + $GIT_DIR to work in a subdirectory of a working tree that is + not located at "$GIT_DIR/..". + + - "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 + the current branch, creating a new branch. 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-submodule" command helps you manage the projects from + the superproject that contain them. + + - In addition to core.compression configuration option, + core.loosecompression and pack.compression options can + independently tweak zlib compression levels used for loose + and packed objects. + + - "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 + --extended-regexp options to tweak its matching logic used + for --grep fitering. + + - "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. + + - "git repack" can be told to split resulting packs to avoid + exceeding limit specified with "--max-pack-size". + + - "git fsck" gained --verbose option. This is really really + verbose but it might help you identify exact commit that is + corrupt in your repository. + + - "git format-patch" learned --numbered-files option. This + may be useful for MH users. + + - "git format-patch" learned format.subjectprefix configuration + variable, which serves the same purpose as "--subject-prefix" + option. + + - "git tag -n -l" shows tag annotations while listing tags. + + - "git cvsimport" can optionally use the separate-remote layout. + + - "git blame" can be told to see through commits that change + whitespaces and indentation levels with "-w" option. + + - "git send-email" can be told not to thread the messages when + sending out more than one patches. + + - "git config" learned NUL terminated output format via -z to + help scripts. + + - "git init -q" makes the command quieter. + +* Updated behavior of existing commands. + + - "git svn dcommit" retains local merge information. + + - "git config" to set values also honors type flags like --bool + and --int. + + - core.quotepath configuration can be used to make textual git + output to emit most of the characters in the path literally. + + - "git mergetool" chooses its backend more wisely, taking + notice of its environment such as use of X, Gnome/KDE, etc. + + - "gitweb" shows merge commits a lot nicer than before. The + default view uses more compact --cc format, while the UI + allows to choose normal diff with any parent. + + - snapshot files "gitweb" creates from a repository at + $path/$project/.git are more useful. We use $project part + in the filename, which we used to discard. + + - "git cvsimport" creates lightweight tags; there is no + interesting information we can record in an annotated tag, + and the handcrafted ones the old code created was not + properly formed anyway. + + - "git-push" pretends that you immediately fetched back from + the remote by updating corresponding remote tracking + branches if you have any. + + - The diffstat given after a merge (or a pull) honors the + color.diff configuration. + + - "git-apply --whitespace=strip" removes blank lines added at + the end of the file. + + - "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 + 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 + the legacy/traditional format. + + - "--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 + formatted mailboxes. + + - "git-cvsserver" does not barf upon seeing "cvs login" + request. + + - "pack-objects" honors "delta" attribute set in + .gitattributes. It does not attempt to deltify blobs that + come from paths with delta attribute set to false. + + - "new-workdir" script (in contrib) can now be used with a + bare repository. + + - "git-mergetool" learned to use gvimdiff. + + - "gitview" (in contrib) has a better blame interface. + + - "git log" and friends did not handle a commit log message + that is larger than 16kB; they do now. + + - "--pretty=oneline" output format for "git log" and friends + deals with "malformed" commit log messages that have more + than one lines in the first paragraph better. We used to + show the first line, cutting the title at mid-sentence; we + concatenate them into a single line and treat the result as + "oneline". + +* Builds + + - old-style function definitions (most notably, a function + without parameter defined with "func()", not "func(void)") + have been eradicated. + +* Performance Tweaks + + - git-pack-objects avoids re-deltification cost by caching + small enough delta results it creates while looking for the + best delta candidates. + + - diff-delta code that is used for packing has been improved + to work better on big files. + + - when there are more than one pack files in the repository, + the runtime used to try finding an object always from the + newest packfile; it now tries the same packfile as we found + the object requested the last time, which exploits the + locality of references. + + - verifying pack contents done by "git fsck --full" got boost + by carefully choosing the order to verify objects in them. + + +Fixes since v1.5.2 +------------------ + +All of the fixes in v1.5.2 maintenance series are included in +this release, unless otherwise noted. + +* Bugfixes + + - "gitweb" had trouble handling non UTF-8 text with older + Encode.pm Perl module. + +-- +exec >/var/tmp/1 +O=v1.5.3-rc0 +echo O=`git describe refs/heads/master` +git shortlog --no-merges $O..refs/heads/master ^refs/heads/maint |