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- GIT v1.5.6 Release Notes
- ========================
-
- Updates since v1.5.5
- --------------------
-
- (subsystems)
-
- * Comes with updated gitk and git-gui.
-
- (portability)
-
- * git will build on AIX better than before now.
-
- * core.ignorecase configuration variable can be used to work better on
- filesystems that are not case sensitive.
-
- * "git init" now autodetects the case sensitivity of the filesystem and
- sets core.ignorecase accordingly.
-
- * cpio is no longer used; neither "curl" binary (libcurl is still used).
-
- (documentation)
-
- * Many freestanding documentation pages have been converted and made
- available to "git help" (aka "man git<something>") as section 7 of
- the manual pages. This means bookmarks to some HTML documentation
- files may need to be updated (eg "tutorial.html" became
- "gittutorial.html").
-
- (performance)
-
- * "git clone" was rewritten in C. This will hopefully help cloning a
- repository with insane number of refs.
-
- * "git rebase --onto $there $from $branch" used to switch to the tip of
- $branch only to immediately reset back to $from, smudging work tree
- files unnecessarily. This has been optimized.
-
- * Object creation codepath in "git-svn" has been optimized by enhancing
- plumbing commands git-cat-file and git-hash-object.
-
- (usability, bells and whistles)
-
- * "git add -p" (and the "patch" subcommand of "git add -i") can choose to
- apply (or not apply) mode changes independently from contents changes.
-
- * "git bisect help" gives longer and more helpful usage information.
-
- * "git bisect" does not use a special branch "bisect" anymore; instead, it
- does its work on a detached HEAD.
-
- * "git branch" (and "git checkout -b") can be told to set up
- branch.<name>.rebase automatically, so that later you can say "git pull"
- and magically cause "git pull --rebase" to happen.
-
- * "git branch --merged" and "git branch --no-merged" can be used to list
- branches that have already been merged (or not yet merged) to the
- current branch.
-
- * "git cherry-pick" and "git revert" can add a sign-off.
-
- * "git commit" mentions the author identity when you are committing
- somebody else's changes.
-
- * "git diff/log --dirstat" output is consistent between binary and textual
- changes.
-
- * "git filter-branch" rewrites signed tags by demoting them to annotated.
-
- * "git format-patch --no-binary" can produce a patch that lack binary
- changes (i.e. cannot be used to propagate the whole changes) meant only
- for reviewing.
-
- * "git init --bare" is a synonym for "git --bare init" now.
-
- * "git gc --auto" honors a new pre-auto-gc hook to temporarily disable it.
-
- * "git log --pretty=tformat:<custom format>" gives a LF after each entry,
- instead of giving a LF between each pair of entries which is how
- "git log --pretty=format:<custom format>" works.
-
- * "git log" and friends learned the "--graph" option to show the ancestry
- graph at the left margin of the output.
-
- * "git log" and friends can be told to use date format that is different
- from the default via 'log.date' configuration variable.
-
- * "git send-email" now can send out messages outside a git repository.
-
- * "git send-email --compose" was made aware of rfc2047 quoting.
-
- * "git status" can optionally include output from "git submodule
- summary".
-
- * "git svn" learned --add-author-from option to propagate the authorship
- by munging the commit log message.
-
- * new object creation and looking up in "git svn" has been optimized.
-
- * "gitweb" can read from a system-wide configuration file.
-
- (internal)
-
- * "git unpack-objects" and "git receive-pack" is now more strict about
- detecting breakage in the objects they receive over the wire.
-
-
- Fixes since v1.5.5
- ------------------
-
- All of the fixes in v1.5.5 maintenance series are included in
- this release, unless otherwise noted.
-
- And there are too numerous small fixes to otherwise note here ;-)
-