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1 -Major changes that are not news

2 --------------------------------

1 +GIT v1.5.0 Release Notes

2 +========================

3

4 -There were a handful big changes that happened before this major

5 -release.

4 +Old news

5 +--------

6

7 This section is for people who are upgrading from ancient

8 -versions. Some of them are one-way street upgrades -- once you

9 -use the feature your repository cannot be used with ancient git.

8 +versions of git. Although all of the changes in this section

9 +happened before the current v1.4.4 release, they are summarized

10 +here in the v1.5.0 release notes for people who skip versions

11 +between upgrading.

12 +

13 +In general, you should not have to worry about incompatibility.

14 +There is no need to perform "repository conversion". However,

15 +some of the changes are one-way street upgrades -- once you use

16 +the feature your repository cannot be used with ancient git.

17

18 - There is a new configuration variable core.legacyheaders that

12 - changes the format of loose objects to more efficient to pack

13 - and send out of the repository over git native protocol.

14 - However, this format cannot be read by git older than v1.4.2;

15 - people fetching from your repository using older clients over

16 - dumb transports (e.g. http) will also be affected. This is

17 - not enabled by default.

19 + changes the format of loose objects so that they are more

20 + efficient to pack and to send out of the repository over git

21 + native protocol. However, this format cannot be read by git

22 + older than v1.4.2; people fetching from your repository using

23 + older clients over dumb transports (e.g. http) using older

24 + versions of git will also be affected. This is not enabled

25 + by default.

26

27 - Another configuration repack.usedeltabaseoffset further

28 allows packfile to be created in more space efficient format,

21 - which cannot be read by git older than v1.4.3. This is not

29 + which cannot be read by git older than v1.4.3. This is not

30 enabled by default.

31

32 - 'git pack-refs' appeared in v1.4.4; this command allows tags

33 to be accessed much more efficiently than the traditional

26 - 'one-file-per-tag' format. Older git-native client can fetch

27 - from a repository that packed its tags, but older dumb

28 - transports cannot. This is done by an explicit user action,

29 - either by use of "git pack-refs --prune" command or by use of

30 - "git gc" command.

34 + 'one-file-per-tag' format. Older git-native clients can

35 + fetch from a repository that packed its tags (the server side

36 + needs to run the up-to-date version of git), but older dumb

37 + transports cannot. Packing of refs is done by an explicit

38 + user action, either by use of "git pack-refs --prune" command

39 + or by use of "git gc" command.

40

41 - 'git -p' to paginate anything -- many commands do pagination

42 by default on a tty. Introduced between v1.4.1 and v1.4.2;

34 - this may surprise old timer users.

43 + this may surprise old timers.

44

45 - 'git archive' superseded 'git tar' in v1.4.3;

46

@@ -43,7 +52,10 @@ use the feature your repository cannot be used with ancient git.

52 - 'gitweb' became part of git.git during v1.4.0 timeperiod and

53 seriously modified since then.

54

46 - - reflog is an v1.4.0 invention.

55 + - reflog is an v1.4.0 invention. This alows you to name a

56 + revision that a branch used to be at (e.g. "git diff

57 + master@{yesterday} master" allows you to see changes since

58 + yesterday's tip of the branch).

59

60

61 Updates in v1.5.0 since v1.4.4 series

@@ -80,7 +92,9 @@ Updates in v1.5.0 since v1.4.4 series

92

93 - The data for origin repository is stored in the configuration

94 file $GIT_DIR/config, not in $GIT_DIR/remotes/, for newly

83 - created clones (the latter is still supported).

95 + created clones. The latter is still supported and there is

96 + no need to convert your existing repository if you are

97 + already comfortable with your workflow with the layout.

98

99 - git-clone always uses what is known as "separate remote"

100 layout for a newly created repository with a working tree;

@@ -200,391 +214,3 @@ Updates in v1.5.0 since v1.4.4 series

214

215 - Better error messages for often used Porcelainish commands.

216

203 -

204 -----------------------------------------------------------------

205 -Alex Riesen (1):

206 - Make perl/ build procedure ActiveState friendly.

207 -

208 -Alexandre Julliard (1):

209 - vc-git: Ignore errors caused by a non-existent directory in vc-git-registered.

210 -

211 -Andreas Ericsson (2):

212 - ls-files: Give hints when errors happen.

213 - git-diff: Introduce --index and deprecate --cached.

214 -

215 -Andy Parkins (8):

216 - Improve git-prune -n output

217 - Add support to git-branch to show local and remote branches

218 - Use .git/config for storing "origin" shortcut repository

219 - De-emphasise the symbolic link documentation.

220 - Explicitly add the default "git pull" behaviour to .git/config on clone

221 - Colourise git-branch output

222 - Allow subcommand.color and color.subcommand color configuration

223 - git-status always says what branch it's on

224 -

225 -Aneesh Kumar K.V (1):

226 - Add config example with respect to branch

227 -

228 -Brian Gernhardt (6):

229 - Add --add option to git-repo-config

230 - Make git-diff documentation use [--] when it should.

231 - Add documentation for show-branch --topics

232 - Remove COLLISION_CHECK from Makefile since it's not used.

233 - Keep "git --git-dir" from causing a bus error.

234 - Make git-show-branch options similar to git-branch.

235 -

236 -David Miller (1):

237 - Pass -M to diff in request-pull

238 -

239 -Eric Wong (29):

240 - git-svn: handle authentication without relying on cached tokens on disk

241 - git-svn: correctly access repos when only given partial read permissions

242 - git-svn: exit with status 1 for test failures

243 - git-svn: allow SVN:: lib users to track the root of the repository (again)

244 - git-svn: use ~/.subversion config files when using SVN:: libraries

245 - git-svn: enable delta transfers during fetches when using SVN:: libs

246 - git-svn: update tests for recent changes

247 - git-svn: error out when the SVN connection fails during a fetch

248 - git-svn: fix output reporting from the delta fetcher

249 - git-svn: color support for the log command

250 - git-svn: documentation updates

251 - git-svn: fix multi-init

252 - git-svn: avoid network timeouts for long-running fetches

253 - git-svn: extra error check to ensure we open a file correctly

254 - git-svn: use do_switch for --follow-parent if the SVN library supports it

255 - rerere: add clear, diff, and status commands

256 - rerere: record (or avoid misrecording) resolved, skipped or aborted rebase/am

257 - git-svn: enable logging of information not supported by git

258 - git-svn: allow dcommit to take an alternate head

259 - git-svn: correctly display fatal() error messages

260 - git-svn: correctly handle packed-refs in refs/remotes/

261 - git-svn: correctly handle "(no author)" when using an authors file

262 - git-svn: convert to using Git.pm

263 - git-svn: remove support for the svn command-line client

264 - git-svn: rename 'commit' command to 'set-tree'

265 - git-cvsserver: fix breakage when calling git merge-file

266 - Remove NO_ACCURATE_DIFF options from build systems

267 - git-svn: enable common fetch/commit options for dcommit

268 - Makefile: add quick-install-doc for installing pre-built manpages

269 -

270 -Han-Wen Nienhuys (2):

271 - git-tag: allow empty tag message if -m is given explicitly.

272 - ident.c: Trim hint printed when gecos is empty.

273 -

274 -Iñaki Arenaza (1):

275 - git-cvsimport: add support for CVS pserver method HTTP/1.x proxying

276 -

277 -J. Bruce Fields (5):

278 - Documentation: clarify tutorial pull/merge discussion

279 - cvs-migration: improved section titles, better push/commit explanation

280 - Documentation: reorganize cvs-migration.txt

281 - Documentation: update git-clone man page with new behavior

282 - Documentation: simpler shared repository creation

283 -

284 -Jakub Narebski (26):

285 - gitweb: Protect against possible warning in git_commitdiff

286 - gitweb: Buffer diff header to deal with split patches + git_patchset_body refactoring

287 - gitweb: Default to $hash_base or HEAD for $hash in "commit" and "commitdiff"

288 - gitweb: New improved formatting of chunk header in diff

289 - gitweb: Add an option to href() to return full URL

290 - gitweb: Refactor feed generation, make output prettier, add Atom feed

291 - gitweb: Finish restoring "blob" links in git_difftree_body

292 - gitweb: Replace SPC with   also in tag comment

293 - gitweb: Do not use esc_html in esc_path

294 - gitweb: Use git-show-ref instead of git-peek-remote

295 - gitweb: Add author and committer email extraction to parse_commit

296 - gitweb: Add author and contributor email to Atom feed

297 - gitweb: Use author_epoch for pubdate in gitweb feeds

298 - gitweb: Make project description in projects list link to summary view

299 - gitweb: Fix Atom feed <logo>: it is $logo, not $logo_url

300 - git-clone: Rename --use-immingled-remote option to --no-separate-remote

301 - Document git-diff whitespace flags -b and -w

302 - gitweb: Allow PNG, GIF, JPEG images to be displayed in "blob" view

303 - gitweb: Don't use Content-Encoding: header in git_snapshot

304 - gitweb: Show target of symbolic link in "tree" view

305 - gitweb: Add generic git_object subroutine to display object of any type

306 - gitweb: Hyperlink target of symbolic link in "tree" view (if possible)

307 - gitweb: SHA-1 in commit log message links to "object" view

308 - gitweb: Do not show difftree for merges in "commit" view

309 - gitweb: Add title attribute to ref marker with full ref name

310 - gitweb: Add "next" link to commit view

311 -

312 -Jeff King (2):

313 - shortlog: fix segfault on empty authorname

314 - vim syntax: follow recent changes to commit template

315 -

316 -Jim Meyering (1):

317 - Set permissions of each new file before "cvs add"ing it.

318 -

319 -Johannes Schindelin (30):

320 - Build in shortlog

321 - shortlog: do not crash on parsing "[PATCH"

322 - shortlog: read mailmap from ./.mailmap again

323 - shortlog: handle email addresses case-insensitively

324 - shortlog: fix "-n"

325 - shortlog: use pager

326 - sha1_object_info(): be consistent with read_sha1_file()

327 - xdiff: add xdl_merge()

328 - xdl_merge(): fix an off-by-one bug

329 - xdl_merge(): fix thinko

330 - diff -b: ignore whitespace at end of line

331 - xdl_merge(): fix and simplify conflict handling

332 - cvs-migration document: make the need for "push" more obvious

333 - Add builtin merge-file, a minimal replacement for RCS merge

334 - merge-file: support -p and -q; fix compile warnings

335 - Get rid of the dependency on RCS' merge program

336 - merge-recursive: add/add really is modify/modify with an empty base

337 - INSTALL: no need to have GNU diff installed

338 - git-show: grok blobs, trees and tags, too

339 - Document git-merge-file

340 - add a function to rename sections in the config

341 - git-branch: rename config vars branch.<branch>.*, too

342 - Introduce GIT_TEMPLATE_DIR

343 - Use git-merge-file in git-merge-one-file, too

344 - git-tag: support -F <file> option

345 - git-reset --hard: tell the user what the HEAD was reset to

346 - move read_mmfile() into xdiff-interface

347 - Add a test for git-rerere

348 - Make git-rerere a builtin

349 - commit-tree: encourage UTF-8 commit messages.

350 -

351 -Josef Weidendorfer (2):

352 - Add branch.*.merge warning and documentation update

353 - Move "no merge candidate" warning into git-pull

354 -

355 -Junio C Hamano (126):

356 - upload-pack: stop the other side when they have more roots than we do.

357 - apply --numstat: mark binary diffstat with - -, not 0 0

358 - pack-objects: tweak "do not even attempt delta" heuristics

359 - Store peeled refs in packed-refs file.

360 - remove merge-recursive-old

361 - git-merge: make it usable as the first class UI

362 - merge: allow merging into a yet-to-be-born branch.

363 - Store peeled refs in packed-refs (take 2).

364 - git-fetch: reuse ls-remote result.

365 - git-fetch: fix dumb protocol transport to fetch from pack-pruned ref

366 - git-fetch: allow glob pattern in refspec

367 - refs outside refs/{heads,tags} match less strongly.

368 - Typefix builtin-prune.c::prune_object()

369 - Allow git push to delete remote ref.

370 - gitweb: (style) use chomp without parentheses consistently.

371 - git-clone: stop dumb protocol from copying refs outside heads/ and tags/.

372 - git-branch -D: make it work even when on a yet-to-be-born branch

373 - git-shortlog: fix common repository prefix abbreviation.

374 - git-shortlog: make common repository prefix configurable with .mailmap

375 - git-commit: show --summary after successful commit.

376 - git-fetch: exit with non-zero status when fast-forward check fails

377 - git-fetch: allow forcing glob pattern in refspec

378 - fetch-pack: do not barf when duplicate re patterns are given

379 - grep: do not skip unmerged entries when grepping in the working tree.

380 - git-merge: tighten error checking.

381 - git-merge: do not leak rev-parse output used for checking internally.

382 - cvsimport: style fixup.

383 - git-merge: fix confusion between tag and branch

384 - xmerge: make return value from xdl_merge() more usable.

385 - merge-recursive: use xdl_merge().

386 - read-tree: further loosen "working file will be lost" check.

387 - Loosen "working file will be lost" check in Porcelain-ish

388 - read-tree: document --exclude-per-directory

389 - git-merge: squelch needless error message.

390 - git-merge: fix "fix confusion between tag and branch" for real

391 - Fix perl/ build.

392 - git-rerere: add 'gc' command.

393 - Documentation/git-commit: rewrite to make it more end-user friendly.

394 - git-commit: allow --only to lose what was staged earlier.

395 - shortlog: remove "[PATCH]" prefix from shortlog output

396 - shortlog: fix segfault on empty authorname

397 - diff --numstat: show binary with '-' to match "apply --numstat"

398 - add test case for recursive merge

399 - git-push: document removal of remote ref with :<dst> pathspec

400 - Revert "git-diff: Introduce --index and deprecate --cached."

401 - git merge: reword failure message.

402 - spurious .sp in manpages

403 - git-push: accept tag <tag> as advertised.

404 - send-pack: tighten checks for remote names

405 - branch --color: change default color selection.

406 - git-blame: show lines attributed to boundary commits differently.

407 - config documentation: group color items together.

408 - git-svn: allow both diff.color and color.diff

409 - Update git-diff documentation

410 - git-fetch: make it work from within a subdirectory.

411 - git-reset: make it work from within a subdirectory.

412 - git-reset [--mixed] <tree> [--] <paths>...

413 - merge: give a bit prettier merge message to "merge branch~$n"

414 - git-clone: use wildcard specification for tracking branches

415 - git-pull: refuse default merge without branch.*.merge

416 - git-clone: lose the artificial "first" fetch refspec

417 - git-clone: lose the traditional 'no-separate-remote' layout

418 - update-index: make D/F conflict error a bit more verbose.

419 - git-add: remove conflicting entry when adding.

420 - Fix check_file_directory_conflict().

421 - Fix mis-mark-up in git-merge-file.txt documentation

422 - markup fix in svnimport documentation.

423 - rev-list --left-right

424 - Teach all of log family --left-right output.

425 - Make left-right automatic.

426 - Teach show-branch how to show ref-log data.

427 - git-fetch: Avoid reading packed refs over and over again

428 - avoid accessing _all_ loose refs in git-show-ref --verify

429 - show-ref: fix --quiet --verify

430 - show-ref: fix --verify --hash=length

431 - parse-remote::expand_refs_wildcard()

432 - show-ref: fix --exclude-existing

433 - racy-git: documentation updates.

434 - rerere: fix breakage of resolving.

435 - fix testsuite: make sure they use templates freshly built from the source

436 - Teach git-branch to delete tracking branches with -r -d

437 - blame: -b (blame.blankboundary) and --root (blame.showroot)

438 - git-add --interactive

439 - git-add --interactive: hunk splitting

440 - Revert "fix testsuite: make sure they use templates freshly built from the source"

441 - Do not create $GIT_DIR/remotes/ directory anymore.

442 - Use preprocessor constants for environment variable names.

443 - Revert "Make left-right automatic."

444 - fix populate-filespec

445 - config_rename_section: fix FILE* leak

446 - simplify inclusion of system header files.

447 - revision: --skip=<n>

448 - git-add: error out when given no arguments.

449 - compat/inet_ntop: do not use u_int

450 - diff documentation: mostly talk about <commit>

451 - add for_each_reflog_ent() iterator

452 - Protect commits recorded in reflog from pruning.

453 - Teach git-repack to preserve objects referred to by reflog entries.

454 - reflog: fix warning message.

455 - Move in_merge_bases() to commit.c

456 - git reflog expire

457 - Revert "git-pull: refuse default merge without branch.*.merge"

458 - parse-remote: mark all refs not for merge only when fetching more than one

459 - _XOPEN_SOURCE problem also exists on FreeBSD

460 - commit-tree: do not overflow MAXPARENT

461 - reflog expire: prune commits that are not incomplete

462 - merge and reset: adjust for "reset --hard" messages

463 - default pull: forget about "newbie protection" for now.

464 - Do not support "partial URL shorthand" anymore.

465 - Really fix headers for __FreeBSD__

466 - git-tag: lose exit after die

467 - reflog expire: do not punt on tags that point at non commits.

468 - Allow branch.*.merge to talk about remote tracking branches.

469 - git-add --interactive: add documentation

470 - match_pathspec() -- return how well the spec matched

471 - git-rm: update to saner semantics

472 - t3600: update the test for updated git rm

473 - git-rm: Documentation

474 - read_directory: show_both option.

475 - git-add: add ignored files when asked explicitly.

476 - git-add: warn when adding an ignored file with an explicit request.

477 - git-add -f: allow adding otherwise ignored files.

478 - GIT v1.5.0 preview

479 - Move encoding conversion routine out of mailinfo to utf8.c

480 - i18n.logToUTF8: convert commit log message to UTF-8

481 - Teach log family --encoding

482 -

483 -Lars Hjemli (4):

484 - Add -v and --abbrev options to git-branch

485 - git-branch: add options and tests for branch renaming

486 - rename_ref: use lstat(2) when testing for symlink

487 - git-branch: let caller specify logmsg

488 -

489 -Luben Tuikov (1):

490 - Export PERL_PATH

491 -

492 -Michael Loeffler (1):

493 - git-fetch: ignore dereferenced tags in expand_refs_wildcard

494 -

495 -Nicolas Pitre (12):

496 - builtin git-shortlog is broken

497 - pack-objects: remove redundent status information

498 - make 'git add' a first class user friendly interface to the index

499 - change the unpack limit treshold to a saner value

500 - repacked packs should be read-only

501 - make commit message a little more consistent and conforting

502 - make patch_delta() error cases a bit more verbose

503 - make git a bit less cryptic on fetch errors

504 - index-pack usage of mmap() is unacceptably slower on many OSes other than Linux

505 - clarify some error messages wrt unknown object types

506 - checkout: make the message about the need for a new branch a bit clearer

507 - add .mailmap for git-shortlog output with the git repository

508 -

509 -Paul Mackerras (1):

510 - gitk: Fix enabling/disabling of menu items on Mac OS X

511 -

512 -Peter Baumann (1):

513 - config option log.showroot to show the diff of root commits

514 -

515 -Petr Baudis (1):

516 - Make git-clone --use-separate-remote the default

517 -

518 -Quy Tonthat (4):

519 - git-clone documentation

520 - Documentation: new option -P for git-svnimport

521 - git-branch -d: do not stop at the first failure.

522 - Documentation/git-branch: new -r to delete remote-tracking branches.

523 -

524 -René Scharfe (1):

525 - shortlog: remove range check

526 -

527 -Robert Fitzsimons (17):

528 - gitweb: Show '...' links in "summary" view only if there are more items

529 - gitweb: Add missing show '...' links change.

530 - gitweb: optimize git_get_last_activity.

531 - gitweb: optimize git_shortlog_body.

532 - gitweb: optimize git_summary.

533 - gitweb: Use rev-list pattern search options.

534 - gitweb: Require a minimum of two character for the search text.

535 - gitweb: Allow search to be disabled from the config file.

536 - gitweb: Paginate commit/author/committer search output

537 - gitweb: Add parse_commits, used to bulk load commit objects.

538 - gitweb: We do longer need the --parents flag in rev-list.

539 - gitweb: Change summary, shortlog actions to use parse_commits.

540 - gitweb: Change log action to use parse_commits.

541 - gitweb: Change header search action to use parse_commits.

542 - gitweb: Change atom, rss actions to use parse_commits.

543 - gitweb: Change history action to use parse_commits.

544 - gitweb: Use rev-list --skip option.

545 -

546 -Robin Rosenberg (1):

547 - Make cvsexportcommit work with filenames with spaces and non-ascii characters.

548 -

549 -Sean Estabrooks (1):

550 - Update documentation to remove incorrect GIT_DIFF_OPTS example.

551 -

552 -Shawn O. Pearce (31):

553 - Teach git-completion.bash how to complete git-merge.

554 - Hide plumbing/transport commands from bash completion.

555 - Teach bash how to complete options for git-name-rev.

556 - Add current branch in PS1 support to git-completion.bash.

557 - Teach bash how to complete git-format-patch.

558 - Teach bash how to complete git-cherry-pick.

559 - Teach bash how to complete git-rebase.

560 - Teach bash about git log/show/whatchanged options.

561 - Support bash completion of refs/remote.

562 - Teach bash about git-repo-config.

563 - Support --strategy=x completion in addition to --strategy x.

564 - Cache the list of merge strategies and available commands during load.

565 - Teach bash about git-am/git-apply and their whitespace options.

566 - Teach bash how to complete long options for git-commit.

567 - Fix broken bash completion of local refs.

568 - Remove uncontested renamed files during merge.

569 - Avoid accessing a slow working copy during diffcore operations.

570 - Provide more meaningful output from 'git init-db'.

571 - Enable reflogs by default in any repository with a working directory.

572 - Teach bash the new features of 'git show'.

573 - Suggest use of "git add file1 file2" when there is nothing to commit.

574 - Align section headers of 'git status' to new 'git add'.

575 - Default GIT_COMMITTER_NAME to login name in recieve-pack.

576 - Suggest 'add' in am/revert/cherry-pick.

577 - Rename imap-send's internal info/warn functions.

578 - Introduce a global level warn() function.

579 - Don't crash during repack of a reflog with pruned commits.

580 - Use extended SHA1 syntax in merge-recursive conflicts.

581 - Display 'theirs' branch name when possible in merge.

582 - Rename gitfakemmap to git_mmap.

583 - Switch git_mmap to use pread.

584 -

585 -Terje Sten Bjerkseth (1):

586 - Fix system header problems on Mac OS X

587 -

588 -Uwe Zeisberger (1):

589 - Fix documentation copy&paste typo

590 -

1.5.0 release notes - reword introductory text.