git/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.4.txt

GIT v1.5.4 Release Notes
========================

Removal
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 * "git svnimport" was removed in favor of "git svn".


Deprecation notices
-------------------

 * Next feature release of git (this change is scheduled for v1.5.5 but
   it could slip) will by default install dashed form of commands
   (e.g. "git-commit") outside of users' normal $PATH, and will install
   only selected commands ("git" itself, and "gitk") in $PATH.  This
   implies:

   - Using dashed form of git commands (e.g. "git-commit") from the
     command line has been informally deprecated since early 2006, but
     now it officially is, and will be removed in the future.  Use
     dashless form (e.g. "git commit") instead.

   - Using dashed from from your scripts, without first prepending the
     return value from "git --exec-path" to the scripts' PATH, has been
     informally deprecated since early 2006, but now it officially is.

   - Use of dashed form with "PATH=$(git --exec-path):$PATH; export
     PATH" early in your script is not deprecated with this change.

  Users are strongly encouraged to adjust their habits and scripts now
  to prepare for this.

 * The post-receive hook was introduced in March 2007 to supersede
   post-update hook, primarily to overcome the command line length
   limitation of the latter.  Use of post-update hook will be deprecated
   in future versions of git, perhaps in v1.5.5.

 * "git lost-found" was deprecated in favor of "git fsck"'s --lost-found
   option, and will be removed in the future.

 * "git peek-remote" is deprecated, as "git ls-remote" was written in C
   and works for all transports, and will be removed in the future.


Updates since v1.5.3
--------------------

 * Comes with much improved gitk.

 * Comes with "git gui" 0.9.0 with i18n.

 * progress display from many commands are a lot nicer to the eye.
   Transfer commands show throughput data.

 * many commands that pay attention to per-directory .gitignore now do
   so lazily, which makes the usual case go much faster.

 * Output processing for '--pretty=format:<user format>' has been
   optimized.

 * Rename detection of diff family, while detecting exact matches, has
   been greatly optimized.

 * Rename detection of diff family tries to make more naturally looking
   pairing.  Earlier if more than one identical rename sources were
   found in the preimage, they were picked pretty much at random.

 * "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 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 cherry-pick" made a misguided attempt to repeat the original
   command line in the generated log message, when told to cherry-pick a
   commit by naming a tag that points at it.  It does not anymore.

 * "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 -f option to lose untracked
   files", but we now use the safer default).

 * "git clean" 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 local 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" knows --mirror mode.  This is to set up configuration to
   push into a remote repository to store local branch heads to the same
   branch on the remote side, and remove branch heads locally removed
   from local repository at the same time.  Suitable for pushing into a
   back-up repository.

 * "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 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 tag -m one -m bar" (multiple -m options) behaves similarly to
   "git commit"; the parameters to -m options are formatted as separate
   paragraphs.

 * "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 now built-in.

 * "git svn" learned "info" and "show-externals" subcommands.

 * "git svn" run from a subdirectory failed to read settings from the
   .git/config.

 * "git svn" learned --use-log-author option, which picks up more
   descriptive name from From: and Signed-off-by: lines in the commit
   message.

 * "git status" from a subdirectory now shows relative paths which makes
   copy-and-pasting for git-checkout/git-add/git-rm easier.

 * "git checkout" from and to detached HEAD leaves a bit more
   information in the reflog.

 * "git branch" learned --contains option, to show only branches that
   can reach a given commit.

 * Example update and post-receive hooks have been improved.

 * "git push" can remove a corrupt ref at the remote site with the usual
   ":ref" refspec.

 * 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.

These fixes are only in v1.5.4 and not backported to v1.5.3 maintenance
series.

 * "git svn" talking with the SVN over http will correctly quote branch
   and project names.

--
exec >/var/tmp/1
O=v1.5.3.7-966-g6bda21b
echo O=`git describe refs/heads/master`
git shortlog --no-merges $O..refs/heads/master ^refs/heads/maint