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authorNicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>2010-09-06 20:29:57 -0400
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2010-09-06 17:41:18 -0700
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Documentation: move RelNotes into a directory of their own
There are 108 of them already. That's a bit more than one third of all the files in the Documentation directory already, and still growing. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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-GIT v1.5.5 Release Notes
-========================
-
-Updates since v1.5.4
---------------------
-
-(subsystems)
-
- * Comes with git-gui 0.10.1
-
-(portability)
-
- * We shouldn't ask for BSD group ownership semantics by setting g+s bit
- on directories on older BSD systems that refuses chmod() by non root
- users. BSD semantics is the default there anyway.
-
- * Bunch of portability improvement patches coming from an effort to port
- to Solaris has been applied.
-
-(performance)
-
- * On platforms with suboptimal qsort(3) implementation, there
- is an option to use more reasonable substitute we ship with
- our software.
-
- * New configuration variable "pack.packsizelimit" can be used
- in place of command line option --max-pack-size.
-
- * "git fetch" over the native git protocol used to make a
- connection to find out the set of current remote refs and
- another to actually download the pack data. We now use only
- one connection for these tasks.
-
- * "git commit" does not run lstat(2) more than necessary
- anymore.
-
-(usability, bells and whistles)
-
- * Bash completion script (in contrib) are aware of more commands and
- options.
-
- * You can be warned when core.autocrlf conversion is applied in
- such a way that results in an irreversible conversion.
-
- * A catch-all "color.ui" configuration variable can be used to
- enable coloring of all color-capable commands, instead of
- individual ones such as "color.status" and "color.branch".
-
- * The commands refused to take absolute pathnames where they
- require pathnames relative to the work tree or the current
- subdirectory. They now can take absolute pathnames in such a
- case as long as the pathnames do not refer outside of the
- work tree. E.g. "git add $(pwd)/foo" now works.
-
- * Error messages used to be sent to stderr, only to get hidden,
- when $PAGER was in use. They now are sent to stdout along
- with the command output to be shown in the $PAGER.
-
- * A pattern "foo/" in .gitignore file now matches a directory
- "foo". Pattern "foo" also matches as before.
-
- * bash completion's prompt helper function can talk about
- operation in-progress (e.g. merge, rebase, etc.).
-
- * Configuration variables "url.<usethis>.insteadof = <otherurl>" can be
- used to tell "git-fetch" and "git-push" to use different URL than what
- is given from the command line.
-
- * "git add -i" behaves better even before you make an initial commit.
-
- * "git am" refused to run from a subdirectory without a good reason.
-
- * After "git apply --whitespace=fix" fixes whitespace errors in a patch,
- a line before the fix can appear as a context or preimage line in a
- later patch, causing the patch not to apply. The command now knows to
- see through whitespace fixes done to context lines to successfully
- apply such a patch series.
-
- * "git branch" (and "git checkout -b") to branch from a local branch can
- optionally set "branch.<name>.merge" to mark the new branch to build on
- the other local branch, when "branch.autosetupmerge" is set to
- "always", or when passing the command line option "--track" (this option
- was ignored when branching from local branches). By default, this does
- not happen when branching from a local branch.
-
- * "git checkout" to switch to a branch that has "branch.<name>.merge" set
- (i.e. marked to build on another branch) reports how much the branch
- and the other branch diverged.
-
- * When "git checkout" has to update a lot of paths, it used to be silent
- for 4 seconds before it showed any progress report. It is now a bit
- more impatient and starts showing progress report early.
-
- * "git commit" learned a new hook "prepare-commit-msg" that can
- inspect what is going to be committed and prepare the commit
- log message template to be edited.
-
- * "git cvsimport" can now take more than one -M options.
-
- * "git describe" learned to limit the tags to be used for
- naming with --match option.
-
- * "git describe --contains" now barfs when the named commit
- cannot be described.
-
- * "git describe --exact-match" describes only commits that are tagged.
-
- * "git describe --long" describes a tagged commit as $tag-0-$sha1,
- instead of just showing the exact tagname.
-
- * "git describe" warns when using a tag whose name and path contradict
- with each other.
-
- * "git diff" learned "--relative" option to limit and output paths
- relative to the current directory when working in a subdirectory.
-
- * "git diff" learned "--dirstat" option to show birds-eye-summary of
- changes more concisely than "--diffstat".
-
- * "git format-patch" learned --cover-letter option to generate a cover
- letter template.
-
- * "git gc" learned --quiet option.
-
- * "git gc" now automatically prunes unreachable objects that are two
- weeks old or older.
-
- * "git gc --auto" can be disabled more easily by just setting gc.auto
- to zero. It also tolerates more packfiles by default.
-
- * "git grep" now knows "--name-only" is a synonym for the "-l" option.
-
- * "git help <alias>" now reports "'git <alias>' is alias to <what>",
- instead of saying "No manual entry for git-<alias>".
-
- * "git help" can use different backends to show manual pages and this can
- be configured using "man.viewer" configuration.
-
- * "gitk" does not restore window position from $HOME/.gitk anymore (it
- still restores the size).
-
- * "git log --grep=<what>" learned "--fixed-strings" option to look for
- <what> without treating it as a regular expression.
-
- * "git gui" learned an auto-spell checking.
-
- * "git push <somewhere> HEAD" and "git push <somewhere> +HEAD" works as
- expected; they push the current branch (and only the current branch).
- In addition, HEAD can be written as the value of "remote.<there>.push"
- configuration variable.
-
- * When the configuration variable "pack.threads" is set to 0, "git
- repack" auto detects the number of CPUs and uses that many threads.
-
- * "git send-email" learned to prompt for passwords
- interactively.
-
- * "git send-email" learned an easier way to suppress CC
- recipients.
-
- * "git stash" learned "pop" command, that applies the latest stash and
- removes it from the stash, and "drop" command to discard the named
- stash entry.
-
- * "git submodule" learned a new subcommand "summary" to show the
- symmetric difference between the HEAD version and the work tree version
- of the submodule commits.
-
- * Various "git cvsimport", "git cvsexportcommit", "git cvsserver",
- "git svn" and "git p4" improvements.
-
-(internal)
-
- * Duplicated code between git-help and git-instaweb that
- launches user's preferred browser has been refactored.
-
- * It is now easier to write test scripts that records known
- breakages.
-
- * "git checkout" is rewritten in C.
-
- * "git remote" is rewritten in C.
-
- * Two conflict hunks that are separated by a very short span of common
- lines are now coalesced into one larger hunk, to make the result easier
- to read.
-
- * Run-command API's use of file descriptors is documented clearer and
- is more consistent now.
-
- * diff output can be sent to FILE * that is different from stdout. This
- will help reimplementing more things in C.
-
-Fixes since v1.5.4
-------------------
-
-All of the fixes in v1.5.4 maintenance series are included in
-this release, unless otherwise noted.
-
- * "git-http-push" did not allow deletion of remote ref with the usual
- "push <remote> :<branch>" syntax.
-
- * "git-rebase --abort" did not go back to the right location if
- "git-reset" was run during the "git-rebase" session.
-
- * "git imap-send" without setting imap.host did not error out but
- segfaulted.