| GIT v1.5.3 Release Notes |
| ======================== |
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| Updates since v1.5.2 |
| -------------------- |
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| * An initial interation of Porcelain level superproject support |
| started to take shape. |
| |
| * Thee 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/ now. |
| |
| * Comes with git-gui 0.8.0. |
| |
| * Comes with updated gitk. |
| |
| * New commands and options. |
| |
| - "git log" learned a new option '--follow', to follow |
| renaming history of a single file. |
| |
| - "git-filter-branch" is a reborn cg-admin-rewritehist. |
| |
| - "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 tag -n -l" shows tag annotations while listing tags. |
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| - "git cvsimport" can optionally use the separate-remote layout. |
| |
| - "git blame" can be told to see through commits that changes |
| 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. |
| |
| * Updated behavior of existing commands. |
| |
| - "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 cvsimort" creates lightweight tag; there is not any |
| 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 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. |
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| |
| 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=v1.5.2.2-603-g7c85173 |
| echo O=`git describe refs/heads/master` |
| git shortlog --no-merges $O..refs/heads/master ^refs/heads/maint |
