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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.4.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..c9c537649f --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.4.txt @@ -0,0 +1,154 @@ +GIT v1.5.4 Release Notes +======================== + +Updates since v1.5.3 +-------------------- + + * Comes with much improved gitk. + + * Comes with git-gui 0.9.0 with i18n. + + * git-lost-found was deprecated in favor of git-fsck's --lost-found + option. + + * git-peek-remote is deprecated, as git-ls-remote was written in C and + works for all transports. + + * "progress display" from many commands are a lot nicer to the + eye. Transfer commands show throughput data. + + * git-reset is now built-in and its output can be squelched with -q. + + * git-send-email can optionally talk over ssmtp and use SMTP-AUTH. + + * git-rebase learned --whitespace option. + + * In git-rebase, when you decide not to replay a particular change + after the command stopped with a conflict, you can say "git-rebase + --skip" without first running "git reset --hard", as the command now + runs it for you. + + * git-remote knows --mirror mode. + + * git-merge can call the "post-merge" hook. + + * git-pack-objects can optionally run deltification with multiple threads. + + * git-archive can optionally substitute keywords in files marked with + export-subst attribute. + + * git-for-each-ref learned %(xxxdate:<dateformat>) syntax to + show the various date fields in different formats. + + * git-gc --auto is a low-impact way to automatically run a + variant of git-repack that does not lose unreferenced objects + (read: safer than the usual one) after the user accumulates + too many loose objects. + + * You need to explicitly set clean.requireForce to "false" to allow + git-clean without -f to do any damage (lack of the configuration + variable used to mean "do not require", but we now use the safer + default). + + * git-clean has been rewritten in C. + + * git-push has been rewritten in C. + + * git-push learned --dry-run option to show what would happen + if a push is run. + + * git-push does not update a tracking ref on the pushing side when the + remote refused to update the corresponding ref. + + * git-push learned --mirror option. This is to push the local refs + one-to-one to the remote, and deletes refs from the remote that do + not exist anymore in the repository on the pushing side. + + * git-remote learned "rm" subcommand. + + * git-rebase --interactive mode can now work on detached HEAD. + + * git-cvsserver can be run via git-shell. + + * git-am and git-rebase are far less verbose. + + * git-pull learned to pass --[no-]ff option to underlying git-merge. + + * Various Perforce importer updates. + + * "git log" learned --early-output option to help interactive + GUI implementations. + + * git-svnimport was removed in favor of git-svn. + + * git-bisect learned "skip" action to mark untestable commits. + + * git-format-patch learned "format.numbered" configuration variable + to automatically turn --numbered option on when more than one + commits are formatted. + + * git-ls-files learned "--exclude-standard" to use the canned + set of exclude files. + + * git-rebase now detaches head during its operation, so after a + successful "git rebase" operation, the reflog entry branch@{1} + for the current branch points at the commit before the rebase + was started. + + * "git-tag -a -f existing" begins the editor session using the + existing annotation message. + + * "git cvsexportcommit" learned -w option to specify and switch + to the CVS working directory. + + * "git checkout" from a subdirectory learned to use "../path" + to allow checking out a path outside the current directory + without cd'ing up. + + * "git send-email --dry-run" shows full headers for easier + diagnosis. + + * "git merge-ours" is built-in. + + * "git svn" learned "info" subcommand. + + * "git status" from a subdirectory now shows relative paths + which makes copy-and-pasting for git-checkout/git-add/git-rm + easier. + + * Output processing for '--pretty=format:<user format>' has + been optimized. + + * Rename detection diff family, while detecting exact matches, + has been greatly optimized. + + * Example update and post-receive hooks have been improved. + + * In addition there are quite a few internal clean-ups. Notably + + - many fork/exec have been replaced with run-command API, + brought from the msysgit effort. + + - introduction and more use of the option parser API. + + - enhancement and more use of the strbuf API. + + +Fixes since v1.5.3 +------------------ + +All of the fixes in v1.5.3 maintenance series are included in +this release, unless otherwise noted. + + * git-svn talking with the SVN over http will correctly quote branch + and project names. + + * "git rev-list --objects A..B" choked when the lower boundary + of the range involved a subproject. This fix is also queued + for 'maint' (but not in there yet). + +-- +exec >/var/tmp/1 +O=v1.5.3.6-950-gda03a58 +echo O=`git describe refs/heads/master` +git shortlog --no-merges $O..refs/heads/master ^refs/heads/maint |