GIT 1.5.4-rc1
It's been a week since -rc0, and we have quite a lot of fixes, so here it is. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Dec 19, 2007 at 17:21 UTC
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@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com>
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Kent Engstrom <kent@lysator.liu.se>
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Lars Doelle <lars.doelle@on-line ! de>
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Lars Doelle <lars.doelle@on-line.de>
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+Li Hong <leehong@pku.edu.cn>
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Lukas Sandström <lukass@etek.chalmers.se>
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Martin Langhoff <martin@catalyst.net.nz>
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Michael Coleman <tutufan@gmail.com>
Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.4.txt
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@@ -14,11 +14,10 @@ Removal
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Deprecation notices
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- * Next feature release of git (this change is scheduled for v1.5.5 but
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- it could slip) will by default install dashed form of commands
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- (e.g. "git-commit") outside of users' normal $PATH, and will install
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- only selected commands ("git" itself, and "gitk") in $PATH. This
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- implies:
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+ * Next feature release of git (this change is scheduled for v1.6.0)
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+ will by default install dashed form of commands (e.g. "git-commit")
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+ outside of users' normal $PATH, and will install only selected
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+ commands ("git" itself, and "gitk") in $PATH. This implies:
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- Using dashed form of git commands (e.g. "git-commit") from the
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command line has been informally deprecated since early 2006, but
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* The post-receive hook was introduced in March 2007 to supersede
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post-update hook, primarily to overcome the command line length
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limitation of the latter. Use of post-update hook will be deprecated
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- in future versions of git, perhaps in v1.5.5.
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+ in future versions of git, starting from v1.6.0.
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* "git lost-found" was deprecated in favor of "git fsck"'s --lost-found
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option, and will be removed in the future.
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* "git peek-remote" is deprecated, as "git ls-remote" was written in C
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and works for all transports, and will be removed in the future.
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- * From v1.5.5, the repack.usedeltabaseoffset config option will default
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+ * From v1.6.0, the repack.usedeltabaseoffset config option will default
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to true, which will give denser packfile (i.e. more efficient storage).
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The downside is that git older than version 1.4.4 will not be able
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to directly use a repository packed using this setting.
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- * From v1.5.5, the pack.indexversion config option will default to 2,
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+ * From v1.6.0, the pack.indexversion config option will default to 2,
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which is slightly more efficient, and makes repacking more immune to
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data corruptions. Git older than version 1.5.2 may revert to version 1
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of the pack index with a manual "git index-pack" to be able to directly
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mean "always" (even when the output is not going to a terminal).
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This has been corrected to mean the same thing as "auto".
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+ * "git diff" Porcelain now respects diff.external configuration, which
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+ is another way to specify GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF.
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* HTTP proxy can be specified per remote repository using
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remote.*.httpproxy configuration, or global http.proxy configuration
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variable.
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* "git rebase --interactive" mode can now work on detached HEAD.
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+ * Other minor to serious bugs in "git rebase -i" has been fixed.
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* "git rebase" now detaches head during its operation, so after a
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successful "git rebase" operation, the reflog entry branch@{1} for
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the current branch points at the commit before the rebase was
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"git commit"; the parameters to -m options are formatted as separate
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paragraphs.
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+ * The format "git show" outputs an annotated tag has been updated to
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+ include "Tagger: " and "Date: " lines from the tag itself. Strictly
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+ speaking this is a backward incompatible change, but this is a
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+ reasonable usability fix and people's script shouldn't have been
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+ relying on the exact output from "git show" Porcelain anyway.
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* "git cvsexportcommit" learned -w option to specify and switch to the
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CVS working directory.
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exec >/var/tmp/1
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-O=v1.5.4-rc0-35-g530e741
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+O=v1.5.4-rc0-85-gdbedf97
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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
GIT-VERSION-GEN
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#!/bin/sh
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-DEF_VER=v1.5.4-rc0.GIT
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+DEF_VER=v1.5.4-rc1.GIT
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LF='
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