RelNotes-1.5.1.txt

GIT v1.5.1 Release Notes
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Updates since v1.5.0
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* Deprecated commands and options.

 - git-diff-stages and git-resolve have been removed.

* New commands and options.

 - "git log" and friends take --reverse. This makes output
 that typically goes reverse order in chronological order.
 "git shortlog" usually lists commits in chronological order,
 but with "--reverse", they are shown in reverse
 chronological order.

 - "git diff" learned --ignore-space-at-eol. This is a weaker
 form of --ignore-space-change.

 - "git diff --no-index pathA pathB" can be used as diff
 replacement with git specific enhancements.

 - "git name-rev" learned --refs=<pattern>, to limit the tags
 used for naming the given revisions only to the ones
 matching the given pattern.

 - "git remote update" is to run "git fetch" for defined remotes
 to update tracking branches.

 - "git cvsimport" can now take '-d' to talk with a CVS
 repository different from what are recorded in CVS/Root
 (overriding it with environment CVSROOT does not work).

 - "git bundle" can help sneaker-netting your changes between
 repositories.


* Updated behaviour of existing commands.

 - git-svn got almost a rewrite.

 - core.autocrlf configuration, when set to 'true', makes git
 to convert CRLF at the end of lines in text files to LF when
 reading from the filesystem, and convert in reverse when
 writing to the filesystem. The variable can be set to
 'input', in which case the conversion happens only while
 reading from the filesystem but files are written out with
 LF at the end of lines. Currently, which paths to consider
 'text' (i.e. be subjected to the autocrlf mechanism) is
 decided purely based on the contents, but the plan is to
 allow users to explicitly override this heuristic based on
 paths.

 - The behaviour of 'git-apply', when run in a subdirectory,
 without --index nor --cached were inconsistent with that of
 the command with these options. This was fixed to match the
 behaviour with --index. A patch that is meant to be applied
 with -p1 from the toplevel of the project tree can be
 applied with any custom -p<n> option. A patch that is not
 relative to the toplevel needs to be applied with -p<n>
 option with or without --index (or --cached).

 - "git diff" outputs a trailing HT when pathnames have embedded
 SP on +++/--- header lines, in order to help "GNU patch" to
 parse its output. "git apply" was already updated to accept
 this modified output format since ce74618d (Sep 22, 2006).

 - "git cvsserver" runs hooks/update and honors its exit status.

 - "git cvsserver" can be told to send everything with -kb.

 - "git diff --check" also honors the --color output option.

 - "git name-rev" used to stress the fact that a ref is a tag too
 much, by saying something like "v1.2.3^0~22". It now says
 "v1.2.3~22" in such a case (it still says "v1.2.3^0" if it does
 not talk about an ancestor of the commit that is tagged, which
 makes sense).

 - "git rev-list --boundary" now shows boundary markers for the
 commits omitted by --max-age and --max-count condition.

 - The configuration mechanism now reads $(prefix)/etc/gitconfig.

 - "git apply --verbose" shows what preimage lines were wanted
 when it couldn't find them.

 - "git status" in a read-only repository got a bit saner.

* Hooks

 - The sample update hook to show how to send out notification
 e-mail was updated to show only new commits that appeared in
 the repository. Earlier, it showed new commits that appeared
 on the branch.

--
exec >/var/tmp/1
O=v1.5.0.2-259-g16d5315
echo O=`git describe master`
git shortlog --no-merges $O..master ^maint

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