Update draft Release Notes for 1.5.3
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@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ Lars Doelle <lars.doelle@on-line.de>
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Lukas Sandström <lukass@etek.chalmers.se>
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Martin Langhoff <martin@catalyst.net.nz>
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Michele Ballabio <barra_cuda@katamail.com>
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Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@bluebottle.com>
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Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
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Ramsay Allan Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
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René Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
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@ -4,14 +4,16 @@ GIT v1.5.3 Release Notes
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Updates since v1.5.2
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--------------------
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* An initial interation of Porcelain level superproject support
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started to take shape.
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* The commit walkers other than http are officially deprecated,
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but still supported for now.
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* Thee are a handful pack-objects changes to help you cope better with
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repositories with pathologically large blobs in them.
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* The submodule support has Porcelain layer.
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* There are a handful pack-objects changes to help you cope better
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with repositories with pathologically large blobs in them.
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* For people who need to import from Perforce, a front-end for
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fast-import is in contrib/fast-import/ now.
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fast-import is in contrib/fast-import/.
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* Comes with git-gui 0.8.0.
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@ -19,10 +21,25 @@ Updates since v1.5.2
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* New commands and options.
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- "git log" learned a new option '--follow', to follow
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- "git stash" allows you to quickly save away your work in
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progress and replay it later on an updated state.
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- "git rebase" learned an "interactive" mode that let you
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pick and reorder which commits to rebuild.
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- "git fsck" can save its findings in $GIT_DIR/lost-found,
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without a separate invocation of "git lost-found" command.
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- $GIT_WORK_TREE environment variable can be used together with
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$GIT_DIR to work in a subdirectory of a working tree that is
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not located at "$GIT_DIR/..".
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- "git log" learned a new option "--follow", to follow
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renaming history of a single file.
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- "git-filter-branch" is a reborn cg-admin-rewritehist.
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- "git-filter-branch" lets you rewrite the revision history of
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the current branch, creating a new branch. You can specify a
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number of filters to modify the commits, files and trees.
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- "git-cvsserver" learned new options (--base-path, --export-all,
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--strict-paths) inspired by git-daemon.
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@ -58,11 +75,15 @@ Updates since v1.5.2
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- "git format-patch" learned --numbered-files option. This
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may be useful for MH users.
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- "git format-patch" learned format.subjectprefix configuration
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variable, which serves the same purpose as "--subject-prefix"
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option.
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- "git tag -n -l" shows tag annotations while listing tags.
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- "git cvsimport" can optionally use the separate-remote layout.
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- "git blame" can be told to see through commits that changes
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- "git blame" can be told to see through commits that change
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whitespaces and indentation levels with "-w" option.
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- "git send-email" can be told not to thread the messages when
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@ -71,8 +92,18 @@ Updates since v1.5.2
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- "git config" learned NUL terminated output format via -z to
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help scripts.
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- "git init -q" makes the command quieter.
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* Updated behavior of existing commands.
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- "git svn dcommit" retains local merge information.
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- "git config" to set values also honors type flags like --bool
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and --int.
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- core.quotepath configuration can be used to make textual git
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output to emit most of the characters in the path literally.
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- "git mergetool" chooses its backend more wisely, taking
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notice of its environment such as use of X, Gnome/KDE, etc.
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@ -84,7 +115,7 @@ Updates since v1.5.2
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$path/$project/.git are more useful. We use $project part
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in the filename, which we used to discard.
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- "git cvsimort" creates lightweight tag; there is not any
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- "git cvsimport" creates lightweight tags; there is no
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interesting information we can record in an annotated tag,
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and the handcrafted ones the old code created was not
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properly formed anyway.
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@ -99,9 +130,9 @@ Updates since v1.5.2
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- "git-apply --whitespace=strip" removes blank lines added at
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the end of the file.
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- "git-fetch" over git native protocols with -v shows connection
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status, and the IP address of the other end, to help
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diagnosing problems.
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- "git-fetch" over git native protocols with "-v" option shows
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connection status, and the IP address of the other end, to
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help diagnosing problems.
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- We used to have core.legacyheaders configuration, when
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set to false, allowed git to write loose objects in a format
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@ -124,8 +155,8 @@ Updates since v1.5.2
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.gitattributes. It does not attempt to deltify blobs that
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come from paths with delta attribute set to false.
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- new-workdir script (in contrib) can now be used with a bare
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repository.
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- "new-workdir" script (in contrib) can now be used with a
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bare repository.
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- "git-mergetool" learned to use gvimdiff.
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@ -179,6 +210,6 @@ this release, unless otherwise noted.
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--
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exec >/var/tmp/1
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O=v1.5.2.2-603-g7c85173
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O=v1.5.3-rc0
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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
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