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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.3.txt deleted file mode 100644 index d03894b926..0000000000 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.3.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,366 +0,0 @@ -GIT v1.5.3 Release Notes -======================== - -Updates since v1.5.2 --------------------- - -* The commit walkers other than http are officially deprecated, - but still supported for now. - -* 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. - -* For people who need to import from Perforce, a front-end for - fast-import is in contrib/fast-import/. - -* Comes with git-gui 0.8.2. - -* Comes with updated gitk. - -* New commands and options. - - - "git log --date=<format>" can use more formats: iso8601, rfc2822. - - - The hunk header output from "git diff" family can be customized - with the attributes mechanism. See gitattributes(5) for details. - - - "git stash" allows you to quickly save away your work in - progress and replay it later on an updated state. - - - "git rebase" learned an "interactive" mode that let you - pick and reorder which commits to rebuild. - - - "git fsck" can save its findings in $GIT_DIR/lost-found, without a - separate invocation of "git lost-found" command. The blobs stored by - lost-found are stored in plain format to allow you to grep in them. - - - $GIT_WORK_TREE environment variable can be used together with - $GIT_DIR to work in a subdirectory of a working tree that is - not located at "$GIT_DIR/..". - - - Giving "--file=<file>" option to "git config" is the same as - running the command with GIT_CONFIG=<file> environment. - - - "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 - 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 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 - configuration variable to prime the commit message given to you in the - editor. - - - "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" learned a "window-memory" limit which - dynamically reduces the window size to stay within the - specified memory usage. - - - "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 format-patch" learned format.subjectprefix configuration - variable, which serves the same purpose as "--subject-prefix" - option. - - - "git tag -n -l" shows tag annotations while listing tags. - - - "git cvsimport" can optionally use the separate-remote layout. - - - "git blame" can be told to see through commits that change - 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 send-email" can also be told how to find whom to cc the - message to for each message via --cc-cmd. - - - "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. - - - "git -p command" now has a cousin of opposite sex, "git --no-pager - command". - -* Updated behavior of existing commands. - - - "gitweb" can offer multiple snapshot formats. - - ***NOTE*** Unfortunately, this changes the format of the - $feature{snapshot}{default} entry in the per-site - configuration file 'gitweb_config.perl'. It used to be a - three-element tuple that describe a single format; with the - new configuration item format, you only have to say the name - 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. - - - URL used for "git clone" and friends can specify nonstandard SSH port - by using ssh://host:port/path/to/repo syntax. - - - "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. - It runs "update-index --refresh" silently as needed. - - - "git tag -l" used to match tags by globbing its parameter as if it - has wildcard '*' on both ends, which made "git tag -l gui" to match - tag 'gitgui-0.7.0'; this was very annoying. You now have to add - asterisk on the sides you want to wildcard yourself. - - - 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 - before, if you have neither, environment variables VISUAL - and EDITOR are consulted in this order, and then finally we - fall back on "vi". - - - "git rm --cached" does not complain when removing a newly - added file from the index anymore. - - - Options to "git log" to affect how --grep/--author options look for - 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 log --name-status" does not require you to give "-r" anymore. - As a general rule, Porcelain commands should recurse when showing - diff. - - - "git format-patch --root A" can be used to format everything - since the beginning up to A. This was supported with - "git format-patch --root A A" for a long time, but was not - properly documented. - - - "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. - - - core.quotepath configuration can be used to make textual git - output to emit most of the characters in the path literally. - - - "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 cvsimport" creates lightweight tags; there is no - 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 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 - the end of the file. - - - "git fetch" over git native protocols with "-v" option 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". - - - "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 - rpm have been removed as well. - - - "git mailinfo" (hence "am") now tries to see if the message - is in utf-8 first, instead of assuming iso-8859-1, if - incoming e-mail does not say what encoding it is in. - -* Builds - - - old-style function definitions (most notably, a function - 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 - small enough delta results it creates while looking for the - best delta candidates. - - - "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. - - - 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. - - - "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 add paths..." and "git commit paths..." has also been - heavily optimized. - -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. - - - "git svn" misparsed the data from the commits in the repository when - the user had "color.diff = true" in the configuration. This has been - fixed. - - - There was a case where "git svn dcommit" clobbered changes made on the - SVN side while committing multiple changes. - - - "git-write-tree" had a bad interaction with racy-git avoidance and - gitattributes mechanisms. - - - "git --bare command" overrode existing GIT_DIR setting and always - made it treat the current working directory as GIT_DIR. - - - "git ls-files --error-unmatch" does not complain if you give the - same path pattern twice by mistake. - - - "git init" autodetected core.filemode but not core.symlinks, which - made a new directory created automatically by "git clone" cumbersome - to use on filesystems that require these configurations to be set. - - - "git log" family of commands behaved differently when run as "git - log" (no pathspec) and as "git log --" (again, no pathspec). This - inconsistency was introduced somewhere in v1.3.0 series but now has - been corrected. - - - "git rebase -m" incorrectly displayed commits that were skipped. |