RelNotes-1.5.4.txt

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

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.


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.

 * 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.

 * "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.

 * 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" and "show-externals" subcommands.

 * calling "git svn" from a subdirectory failed 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.

 * 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.

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

 * A corrupt ref at the remote site can be removed via "git push".

 * 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=v1.5.3.7-948-gb52e985
echo O=`git describe refs/heads/master`
git shortlog --no-merges $O..refs/heads/master ^refs/heads/maint