Update draft release notes for 1.5.5
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Mar 15, 2008 at 23:59 UTC
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@@ -6,7 +6,16 @@ Updates since v1.5.4
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(subsystems)
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- * Comes with git-gui 0.9.3
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+ * Comes with git-gui 0.9.3.
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+(portability)
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+ * We shouldn't ask for BSD group ownership semantics by setting g+s bit
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+ on directories on older BSD systems that refuses chmod() by non root
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+ users. BSD semantics is the default there anyway.
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+ * Bunch of portability improvement patches coming from an effort to port
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+ to Solaris has been applied.
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(performance)
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@@ -27,6 +36,9 @@ Updates since v1.5.4
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(usability, bells and whistles)
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+ * Bash completion script (in contrib) are aware of more commands and
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+ options.
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* You can be warned when core.autocrlf conversion is applied in
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such a way that results in an irreversible conversion.
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@@ -54,11 +66,6 @@ Updates since v1.5.4
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used to tell "git-fetch" and "git-push" to use different URL than what
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is given from the command line.
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- * "git push <somewhere> HEAD" and "git push <somewhere> +HEAD" works as
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- expected; they push the current branch (and only the current branch).
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- In addition, HEAD can be written as the value of "remote.<there>.push"
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- configuration variable.
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* "git add -i" behaves better even before you make an initial commit.
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* "git am" refused to run from a subdirectory without a good reason.
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* "git gc" learned --quiet option.
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+ * "git gc" now automatically prunes unreachable objects that are two
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+ weeks old or older.
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* "git grep" now knows "--name-only" is a synonym for the "-l" option.
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* "git help <alias>" now reports "'git <alias>' is alias to <what>",
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instead of saying "No manual entry for git-<alias>".
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+ * "git help" can use different backends to show manual pages and this can
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+ be configured using "man.viewer" configuration.
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+ * "gitk" does not restore window position from $HOME/.gitk anymore (it
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+ still restores the size).
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* "git log --grep=<what>" learned "--fixed-strings" option to look for
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<what> without treating it as a regular expression.
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* "git gui" learned an auto-spell checking.
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+ * "git push <somewhere> HEAD" and "git push <somewhere> +HEAD" works as
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+ expected; they push the current branch (and only the current branch).
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+ In addition, HEAD can be written as the value of "remote.<there>.push"
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+ configuration variable.
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+ * When the configuration variable "pack.threads" is set to 0, "git
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+ repack" auto detects the number of CPUs and uses that many threads.
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* "git send-email" learned to prompt for passwords
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interactively.
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* "git send-email" learned an easier way to suppress CC
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recipients.
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- * When the configuration variable "pack.threads" is set to 0, "git
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- repack" auto detects the number of CPUs and uses that many threads.
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+ * "git stash" learned "pop" command, that applies the latest stash and
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+ removes it from the stash, and "drop" command to discard the named
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+ stash entry.
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+ * "git submodule" learned a new subcommand "summary" to show the
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+ symmetric difference between the HEAD version and the work tree version
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+ of the submodule commits.
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* Various "git cvsimport", "git cvsexportcommit", "git svn" and
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"git p4" improvements.
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* "git checkout" is rewritten in C.
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+ * "git remote" is rewritten in C.
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* Two conflict hunks that are separated by a very short span of common
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lines are now coalesced into one larger hunk, to make the result easier
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* Run-command API's use of file descriptors is documented clearer and
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+ * diff output can be sent to FILE * that is different from stdout. This
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+ will help reimplementing more things in C.
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Fixes since v1.5.4
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------------------
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exec >/var/tmp/1
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-O=v1.5.4.3-428-g6b48990
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+O=v1.5.4.4-620-gc817faa
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echo O=`git describe refs/heads/master`
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git shortlog --no-merges $O..refs/heads/master ^refs/heads/maint