RelNotes-1.5.4.txt

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

Updates since v1.5.3
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 * 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
 run 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