I tagged 1.5.3-rc4 and it will soon be mirrored out. This is the last rc before the real thing, which I am hoping to happen by mid August. Until then, I won't look at anything but regression fixes and documentation updates. Please test this one well. http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/ git-1.5.3-rc4.tar.{gz,bz2} (tarball) git-htmldocs-1.5.3-rc4.tar.{gz,bz2} (preformatted docs) git-manpages-1.5.3-rc4.tar.{gz,bz2} (preformatted docs) testing/git-*-1.5.3-rc4-1.$arch.rpm (RPM) ---------------------------------------------------------------- GIT v1.5.3 Release Notes (draft) ======================== Updates since v1.5.2 -------------------- * The commit walkers other than http are officially deprecated, but still supported for now. * The submodule support has Porcelain layer. * There are a handful pack-objects changes to help you cope better with repositories with pathologically large blobs in them. * For people who need to import from Perforce, a front-end for fast-import is in contrib/fast-import/. * Comes with git-gui 0.8.0. * Comes with updated gitk. * New commands and options. - "git log --date=<format>" can use more formats: iso8601, rfc2822. - The hunk header output from "git diff" family can be customized with the attributes mechanism. See gitattributes(5) for details. - "git stash" allows you to quickly save away your work in progress and replay it later on an updated state. - "git rebase" learned an "interactive" mode that let you pick and reorder which commits to rebuild. - "git fsck" can save its findings in $GIT_DIR/lost-found, without a separate invocation of "git lost-found" command. The blobs stored by lost-found are stored in plain format to allow you to grep in them. - $GIT_WORK_TREE environment variable can be used together with $GIT_DIR to work in a subdirectory of a working tree that is not located at "$GIT_DIR/..". - Giving "--file=<file>" option to "git config" is the same as running the command with GIT_CONFIG=<file> environment. - "git log" learned a new option "--follow", to follow renaming history of a single file. - "git-filter-branch" lets you rewrite the revision history of specified branches. You can specify a number of filters to modify the commits, files and trees. - "git-cvsserver" learned new options (--base-path, --export-all, --strict-paths) inspired by git-daemon. - "git daemon --base-path-relaxed" can help migrating a repository URL that did not use to use --base-path to use --base-path. - "git-commit" can use "-t templatefile" option and commit.template configuration variable to prime the commit message given to you in the editor. - "git-submodule" command helps you manage the projects from the superproject that contain them. - In addition to core.compression configuration option, core.loosecompression and pack.compression options can independently tweak zlib compression levels used for loose and packed objects. - "git-ls-tree -l" shows size of blobs pointed at by the tree entries, similar to "/bin/ls -l". - "git-rev-list" learned --regexp-ignore-case and --extended-regexp options to tweak its matching logic used for --grep fitering. - "git-describe --contains" is a handier way to call more obscure command "git-name-rev --tags". - "git gc --aggressive" tells the command to spend more cycles to optimize the repository harder. - "git repack" learned a "window-memory" limit which dynamically reduces the window size to stay within the specified memory usage. - "git repack" can be told to split resulting packs to avoid exceeding limit specified with "--max-pack-size". - "git fsck" gained --verbose option. This is really really verbose but it might help you identify exact commit that is corrupt in your repository. - "git format-patch" learned --numbered-files option. This may be useful for MH users. - "git format-patch" learned format.subjectprefix configuration variable, which serves the same purpose as "--subject-prefix" option. - "git tag -n -l" shows tag annotations while listing tags. - "git cvsimport" can optionally use the separate-remote layout. - "git blame" can be told to see through commits that change whitespaces and indentation levels with "-w" option. - "git send-email" can be told not to thread the messages when sending out more than one patches. - "git config" learned NUL terminated output format via -z to help scripts. - "git init -q" makes the command quieter. * Updated behavior of existing commands. - "gitweb" can offer multiple snapshot formats. ***NOTE*** Unfortunately, this changes the format of the $feature{snapshot}{default} entry in the per-site configuration file 'gitweb_config.perl'. It used to be a three-element tuple that describe a single format; with the new configuration item format, you only have to say the name of the format ('tgz', 'tbz2' or 'zip'). Please update the your configuration file accordingly. - "git diff" (but not the plumbing level "git diff-tree") now recursively descends into trees by default. - The editor to use with many interactive commands can be overridden with GIT_EDITOR environment variable, or if it does not exist, with core.editor configuration variable. As before, if you have neither, environment variables VISUAL and EDITOR are consulted in this order, and then finally we fall back on "vi". - "git rm --cached" does not complain when removing a newly added file from the index anymore. - Options to "git log" to affect how --grep/--author options look for given strings now have shorter abbreviations. -i is for ignore case, and -E is for extended regexp. - "git svn dcommit" retains local merge information. - "git config" to set values also honors type flags like --bool and --int. - core.quotepath configuration can be used to make textual git output to emit most of the characters in the path literally. - "git mergetool" chooses its backend more wisely, taking notice of its environment such as use of X, Gnome/KDE, etc. - "gitweb" shows merge commits a lot nicer than before. The default view uses more compact --cc format, while the UI allows to choose normal diff with any parent. - snapshot files "gitweb" creates from a repository at $path/$project/.git are more useful. We use $project part in the filename, which we used to discard. - "git cvsimport" creates lightweight tags; there is no interesting information we can record in an annotated tag, and the handcrafted ones the old code created was not properly formed anyway. - "git-push" pretends that you immediately fetched back from the remote by updating corresponding remote tracking branches if you have any. - The diffstat given after a merge (or a pull) honors the color.diff configuration. - "git commit --amend" is now compatible with various message source options such as -m/-C/-c/-F. - "git-apply --whitespace=strip" removes blank lines added at the end of the file. - "git-fetch" over git native protocols with "-v" option shows connection status, and the IP address of the other end, to help diagnosing problems. - We used to have core.legacyheaders configuration, when set to false, allowed git to write loose objects in a format that mimicks the format used by objects stored in packs. It turns out that this was not so useful. Although we will continue to read objects written in that format, we do not honor that configuration anymore and create loose objects in the legacy/traditional format. - "--find-copies-harder" option to diff family can now be spelled as "-C -C" for brevity. - "git-mailsplit" (hence "git-am") can read from Maildir formatted mailboxes. - "git-cvsserver" does not barf upon seeing "cvs login" request. - "pack-objects" honors "delta" attribute set in .gitattributes. It does not attempt to deltify blobs that come from paths with delta attribute set to false. - "new-workdir" script (in contrib) can now be used with a bare repository. - "git-mergetool" learned to use gvimdiff. - "gitview" (in contrib) has a better blame interface. - "git log" and friends did not handle a commit log message that is larger than 16kB; they do now. - "--pretty=oneline" output format for "git log" and friends deals with "malformed" commit log messages that have more than one lines in the first paragraph better. We used to show the first line, cutting the title at mid-sentence; we concatenate them into a single line and treat the result as "oneline". - "git p4import" has been demoted to contrib status. For a superior option, checkout the git-p4 front end to git-fast-import (also in contrib). The man page and p4 rpm have been removed as well. - "git mailinfo" (hence "am") now tries to see if the message is in utf-8 first, instead of assuming iso-8859-1, if incoming e-mail does not say what encoding it is in. * Builds - old-style function definitions (most notably, a function without parameter defined with "func()", not "func(void)") have been eradicated. * Performance Tweaks - git-pack-objects avoids re-deltification cost by caching small enough delta results it creates while looking for the best delta candidates. - git-pack-objects learned a new heuristcs to prefer delta that is shallower in depth over the smallest delta possible. This improves both overall packfile access performance and packfile density. - diff-delta code that is used for packing has been improved to work better on big files. - when there are more than one pack files in the repository, the runtime used to try finding an object always from the newest packfile; it now tries the same packfile as we found the object requested the last time, which exploits the locality of references. - verifying pack contents done by "git fsck --full" got boost by carefully choosing the order to verify objects in them. Fixes since v1.5.2 ------------------ All of the fixes in v1.5.2 maintenance series are included in this release, unless otherwise noted. * Bugfixes - "gitweb" had trouble handling non UTF-8 text with older Encode.pm Perl module. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
