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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.1.txt deleted file mode 100644 index daed367270..0000000000 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.1.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,371 +0,0 @@ -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. - -Fixes since v1.5.0 ------------------- - -These are all in v1.5.0.x series. - -* Documentation updates - - - Clarifications and corrections to 1.5.0 release notes. - - - The main documentation did not link to git-remote documentation. - - - Clarified introductory text of git-rebase documentation. - - - Converted remaining mentions of update-index on Porcelain - documents to git-add/git-rm. - - - Some i18n.* configuration variables were incorrectly - described as core.*; fixed. - - - added and clarified core.bare, core.legacyheaders configurations. - - - updated "git-clone --depth" documentation. - - - user-manual updates. - - - Options to 'git remote add' were described insufficiently. - - - Configuration format.suffix was not documented. - - - Other formatting and spelling fixes. - - - user-manual has better cross references. - - - gitweb installation/deployment procedure is now documented. - - -* Bugfixes - - - git-upload-pack closes unused pipe ends; earlier this caused - many zombies to hang around. - - - git-rerere was recording the contents of earlier hunks - duplicated in later hunks. This prevented resolving the same - conflict when performing the same merge the other way around. - - - git-add and git-update-index on a filesystem on which - executable bits are unreliable incorrectly reused st_mode - bits even when the path changed between symlink and regular - file. - - - git-daemon marks the listening sockets with FD_CLOEXEC so - that it won't be leaked into the children. - - - segfault from git-blame when the mandatory pathname - parameter was missing was fixed; usage() message is given - instead. - - - git-rev-list did not read $GIT_DIR/config file, which means - that did not honor i18n.logoutputencoding correctly. - - - Automated merge conflict handling when changes to symbolic - links conflicted were completely broken. The merge-resolve - strategy created a regular file with conflict markers in it - in place of the symbolic link. The default strategy, - merge-recursive was even more broken. It removed the path - that was pointed at by the symbolic link. Both of these - problems have been fixed. - - - 'git diff maint master next' did not correctly give combined - diff across three trees. - - - 'git fast-import' portability fix for Solaris. - - - 'git show-ref --verify' without arguments did not error out - but segfaulted. - - - 'git diff :tracked-file `pwd`/an-untracked-file' gave an extra - slashes after a/ and b/. - - - 'git format-patch' produced too long filenames if the commit - message had too long line at the beginning. - - - Running 'make all' and then without changing anything - running 'make install' still rebuilt some files. This - was inconvenient when building as yourself and then - installing as root (especially problematic when the source - directory is on NFS and root is mapped to nobody). - - - 'git-rerere' failed to deal with two unconflicted paths that - sorted next to each other. - - - 'git-rerere' attempted to open(2) a symlink and failed if - there was a conflict. Since a conflicting change to a - symlink would not benefit from rerere anyway, the command - now ignores conflicting changes to symlinks. - - - 'git-repack' did not like to pass more than 64 arguments - internally to underlying 'rev-list' logic, which made it - impossible to repack after accumulating many (small) packs - in the repository. - - - 'git-diff' to review the combined diff during a conflicted - merge were not reading the working tree version correctly - when changes to a symbolic link conflicted. It should have - read the data using readlink(2) but read from the regular - file the symbolic link pointed at. - - - 'git-remote' did not like period in a remote's name. - - - 'git.el' honors the commit coding system from the configuration. - - - 'blameview' in contrib/ correctly digs deeper when a line is - clicked. - - - 'http-push' correctly makes sure the remote side has leading - path. Earlier it started in the middle of the path, and - incorrectly. - - - 'git-merge' did not exit with non-zero status when the - working tree was dirty and cannot fast forward. It does - now. - - - 'cvsexportcommit' does not lose yet-to-be-used message file. - - - int-vs-size_t typefix when running combined diff on files - over 2GB long. - - - 'git apply --whitespace=strip' should not touch unmodified - lines. - - - 'git-mailinfo' choke when a logical header line was too long. - - - 'git show A..B' did not error out. Negative ref ("not A" in - this example) does not make sense for the purpose of the - command, so now it errors out. - - - 'git fmt-merge-msg --file' without file parameter did not - correctly error out. - - - 'git archimport' barfed upon encountering a commit without - summary. - - - 'git index-pack' did not protect itself from getting a short - read out of pread(2). - - - 'git http-push' had a few buffer overruns. - - - Build dependency fixes to rebuild fetch.o when other headers - change. - - - git.el does not add duplicate sign-off lines. - - - git-commit shows the full stat of the resulting commit, not - just about the files in the current directory, when run from - a subdirectory. - - - "git-checkout -m '@{8 hours ago}'" had a funny failure from - eval; fixed. - - - git-merge (hence git-pull) did not refuse fast-forwarding - when the working tree had local changes that would have - conflicted with it. - - - a handful small fixes to gitweb. - - - build procedure for user-manual is fixed not to require locally - installed stylesheets. - - - "git commit $paths" on paths whose earlier contents were - already updated in the index were failing out. - - -* Tweaks - - - sliding mmap() inefficiently mmaped the same region of a - packfile with an access pattern that used objects in the - reverse order. This has been made more efficient. |