| 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 | |
| is an option to use more reasonable substitute we ship with | |
| our software. | |
| * New configuration variable "pack.packsizelimit" can be used | |
| in place of command line option --max-pack-size. | |
| * "git fetch" over the native git protocol used to make a | |
| connection to find out the set of current remote refs and | |
| another to actually download the pack data. We now use only | |
| one connection for these tasks. | |
| * "git commit" does not run lstat(2) more than necessary | |
| anymore. | |
| (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. | |
| * A catch-all "color.ui" configuration variable can be used to | |
| enable coloring of all color-capable commands, instead of | |
| individual ones such as "color.status" and "color.branch". | |
| * The commands refused to take absolute pathnames where they | |
| require pathnames relative to the work tree or the current | |
| subdirectory. They now can take absolute pathnames in such a | |
| case as long as the pathnames do not refer outside of the | |
| work tree. E.g. "git add $(pwd)/foo" now works. | |
| * Error messages used to be sent to stderr, only to get hidden, | |
| when $PAGER was in use. They now are sent to stdout along | |
| with the command output to be shown in the $PAGER. | |
| * A pattern "foo/" in .gitignore file now matches a directory | |
| "foo". Pattern "foo" also matches as before. | |
| * bash completion's prompt helper function can talk about | |
| operation in-progress (e.g. merge, rebase, etc.). | |
| * Configuration variables "url.<usethis>.insteadof = <otherurl>" can be | |
| used to tell "git-fetch" and "git-push" to use different URL than what | |
| is given from the command line. | |
| * "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 | |
| see through whitespace fixes done to context lines to successfully | |
| apply such a patch series. | |
| * "git branch" (and "git checkout -b") to branch from a local branch can | |
| optionally set "branch.<name>.merge" to mark the new branch to build on | |
| the other local branch, when "branch.autosetupmerge" is set to | |
| "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.<name>.merge" set | |
| (i.e. marked to build on another branch) reports how much the branch | |
| and the other branch diverged. | |
| * When "git checkout" has to update a lot of paths, it used to be silent | |
| for 4 seconds before it showed any progress report. It is now a bit | |
| more impatient and starts showing progress report early. | |
| * "git commit" learned a new hook "prepare-commit-msg" that can | |
| 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. | |
| * "git describe --contains" now barfs when the named commit | |
| cannot be described. | |
| * "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. | |
| * "git diff" learned "--dirstat" option to show birds-eye-summary of | |
| changes more concisely than "--diffstat". | |
| * "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 <alias>" now reports "'git <alias>' is alias to <what>", | |
| instead of saying "No manual entry for git-<alias>". | |
| * "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=<what>" learned "--fixed-strings" option to look for | |
| <what> without treating it as a regular expression. | |
| * "git gui" learned an auto-spell checking. | |
| * "git push <somewhere> HEAD" and "git push <somewhere> +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.<there>.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. | |
| * "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. | |
| * "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) | |
| * Duplicated code between git-help and git-instaweb that | |
| launches user's preferred browser has been refactored. | |
| * It is now easier to write test scripts that records known | |
| breakages. | |
| * "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. | |
| * 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 | |
| ------------------ | |
| All of the fixes in v1.5.4 maintenance series are included in | |
| this release, unless otherwise noted. | |
| * "git-http-push" did not allow deletion of remote ref with the usual | |
| "push <remote> :<branch>" 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. |