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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.3.txt index 21bb1fc6f2..9c36e8baeb 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.3.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.3.txt @@ -9,6 +9,19 @@ Updates since v1.5.2 * The submodule support has Porcelain layer. + Note that the current submodule support is minimal and this is + deliberately so. A design decision we made is that operations + at the supermodule level do not recurse into submodules by + default. The expectation is that later we would add a + mechanism to tell git which submodules the user is interested + in, and this information might be used to determine the + recursive behaviour of certain commands (e.g. "git checkout" + and "git diff"), but currently we haven't agreed on what that + mechanism should look like. Therefore, if you use submodules, + you would probably need "git submodule update" on the + submodules you care about after running a "git checkout" at + the supermodule level. + * There are a handful pack-objects changes to help you cope better with repositories with pathologically large blobs in them. @@ -46,21 +59,21 @@ Updates since v1.5.2 - "git log" learned a new option "--follow", to follow renaming history of a single file. - - "git-filter-branch" lets you rewrite the revision history of + - "git filter-branch" lets you rewrite the revision history of specified branches. You can specify a number of filters to modify the commits, files and trees. - - "git-cvsserver" learned new options (--base-path, --export-all, - --strict-paths) inspired by git-daemon. + - "git cvsserver" learned new options (--base-path, --export-all, + --strict-paths) inspired by "git daemon". - "git daemon --base-path-relaxed" can help migrating a repository URL that did not use to use --base-path to use --base-path. - - "git-commit" can use "-t templatefile" option and commit.template + - "git commit" can use "-t templatefile" option and commit.template configuration variable to prime the commit message given to you in the editor. - - "git-submodule" command helps you manage the projects from + - "git submodule" command helps you manage the projects from the superproject that contain them. - In addition to core.compression configuration option, @@ -68,15 +81,15 @@ Updates since v1.5.2 independently tweak zlib compression levels used for loose and packed objects. - - "git-ls-tree -l" shows size of blobs pointed at by the + - "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 + - "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 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. @@ -112,6 +125,9 @@ Updates since v1.5.2 - "git config" learned NUL terminated output format via -z to help scripts. + - "git add" learned "--refresh <paths>..." option to selectively refresh + the cached stat information. + - "git init -q" makes the command quieter. * Updated behavior of existing commands. @@ -126,9 +142,19 @@ Updates since v1.5.2 of the format ('tgz', 'tbz2' or 'zip'). Please update the your configuration file accordingly. + - "git clone" uses -l (hardlink files under .git) by default when + cloning locally. + + - "git bundle create" can now create a bundle without negative refs, + i.e. "everything since the beginning up to certain points". + - "git diff" (but not the plumbing level "git diff-tree") now recursively descends into trees by default. + - "git diff" does not show differences that come only from + stat-dirtiness in the form of "diff --git" header anymore. When + generating a textual diff, it shows a warning message at the end. + - The editor to use with many interactive commands can be overridden with GIT_EDITOR environment variable, or if it does not exist, with core.editor configuration variable. As @@ -143,8 +169,16 @@ Updates since v1.5.2 given strings now have shorter abbreviations. -i is for ignore case, and -E is for extended regexp. + - "git log" learned --log-size to show the number of bytes in + the log message part of the output to help qgit. + - "git svn dcommit" retains local merge information. + - "git svnimport" allows an empty string to be specified as the + trunk/ directory. This is necessary to suck data from a SVN + repository that doe not have trunk/ branches/ and tags/ organization + at all. + - "git config" to set values also honors type flags like --bool and --int. @@ -167,7 +201,7 @@ Updates since v1.5.2 and the handcrafted ones the old code created was not properly formed anyway. - - "git-push" pretends that you immediately fetched back from + - "git push" pretends that you immediately fetched back from the remote by updating corresponding remote tracking branches if you have any. @@ -177,10 +211,10 @@ Updates since v1.5.2 - "git commit --amend" is now compatible with various message source options such as -m/-C/-c/-F. - - "git-apply --whitespace=strip" removes blank lines added at + - "git apply --whitespace=strip" removes blank lines added at the end of the file. - - "git-fetch" over git native protocols with "-v" option shows + - "git fetch" over git native protocols with "-v" option shows connection status, and the IP address of the other end, to help diagnosing problems. @@ -195,10 +229,10 @@ Updates since v1.5.2 - "--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 + - "git mailsplit" (hence "git am") can read from Maildir formatted mailboxes. - - "git-cvsserver" does not barf upon seeing "cvs login" + - "git cvsserver" does not barf upon seeing "cvs login" request. - "pack-objects" honors "delta" attribute set in @@ -208,7 +242,7 @@ Updates since v1.5.2 - "new-workdir" script (in contrib) can now be used with a bare repository. - - "git-mergetool" learned to use gvimdiff. + - "git mergetool" learned to use gvimdiff. - "gitview" (in contrib) has a better blame interface. @@ -223,8 +257,8 @@ Updates since v1.5.2 "oneline". - "git p4import" has been demoted to contrib status. For - a superior option, checkout the git-p4 front end to - git-fast-import (also in contrib). The man page and p4 + a superior option, checkout the "git p4" front end to + "git fast-import" (also in contrib). The man page and p4 rpm have been removed as well. - "git mailinfo" (hence "am") now tries to see if the message @@ -237,13 +271,15 @@ Updates since v1.5.2 without parameter defined with "func()", not "func(void)") have been eradicated. + - "git tag" and "git verify-tag" have been rewritten in C. + * Performance Tweaks - - git-pack-objects avoids re-deltification cost by caching + - "git pack-objects" avoids re-deltification cost by caching small enough delta results it creates while looking for the best delta candidates. - - git-pack-objects learned a new heuristcs to prefer delta + - "git pack-objects" learned a new heuristcs to prefer delta that is shallower in depth over the smallest delta possible. This improves both overall packfile access performance and packfile density. @@ -260,6 +296,13 @@ Updates since v1.5.2 - verifying pack contents done by "git fsck --full" got boost by carefully choosing the order to verify objects in them. + - "git read-tree -m" to read into an already populated index + has been optimized vastly. The effect of this can be seen + when switching branches that have differences in only a + handful paths. + + - "git commit paths..." has also been optimized. + Fixes since v1.5.2 ------------------ |