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GIT v1.5.1 Release Notes
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Updates since v1.5.0
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* Deprecated commands and options.
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- git-diff-stages and git-resolve have been removed.
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* New commands and options.
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- "git log" and friends take --reverse, which instructs them
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to give their output in the order opposite from their usual.
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They typically output from new to old, but with this option
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their output would read from old to new. "git shortlog"
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usually lists older commits first, but with this option,
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they are shown from new to old.
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- "git log --pretty=format:<string>" to allow more flexible
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custom log output.
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- "git diff" learned --ignore-space-at-eol. This is a weaker
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form of --ignore-space-change.
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- "git diff --no-index pathA pathB" can be used as diff
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replacement with git specific enhancements.
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- "git diff --no-index" can read from '-' (standard input).
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- "git diff" also learned --exit-code to exit with non-zero
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status when it found differences. In the future we might
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want to make this the default but that would be a rather big
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backward incompatible change; it will stay as an option for
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now.
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- "git diff --quiet" is --exit-code with output turned off,
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meant for scripted use to quickly determine if there is any
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tree-level difference.
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- Textual patch generation with "git diff" without -w/-b
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option has been significantly optimized. "git blame" got
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faster because of the same change.
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- "git log" and "git rev-list" has been optimized
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significantly when they are used with pathspecs.
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- "git branch --track" can be used to set up configuration
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variables to help it easier to base your work on branches
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you track from a remote site.
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- "git format-patch --attach" now emits attachments. Use
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--inline to get an inlined multipart/mixed.
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- "git name-rev" learned --refs=<pattern>, to limit the tags
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used for naming the given revisions only to the ones
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matching the given pattern.
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- "git remote update" is to run "git fetch" for defined remotes
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to update tracking branches.
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- "git cvsimport" can now take '-d' to talk with a CVS
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repository different from what are recorded in CVS/Root
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(overriding it with environment CVSROOT does not work).
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- "git bundle" can help sneaker-netting your changes between
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repositories.
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- "git mergetool" can help 3-way file-level conflict
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resolution with your favorite graphical merge tools.
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- A new configuration "core.symlinks" can be used to disable
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symlinks on filesystems that do not support them; they are
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checked out as regular files instead.
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- You can name a commit object with its first line of the
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message. The syntax to use is ':/message text'. E.g.
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$ git show ":/object name: introduce ':/<oneline prefix>' notation"
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means the same thing as:
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$ git show 28a4d940443806412effa246ecc7768a21553ec7
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- "git bisect" learned a new command "run" that takes a script
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to run after each revision is checked out to determine if it
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is good or bad, to automate the bisection process.
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* Updated behaviour of existing commands.
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- "git fsck" does not barf on corrupt loose objects.
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- "git archimport" allows remapping when coming up with git
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branch names from arch names.
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- git-svn got almost a rewrite.
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- core.autocrlf configuration, when set to 'true', makes git
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to convert CRLF at the end of lines in text files to LF when
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reading from the filesystem, and convert in reverse when
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writing to the filesystem. The variable can be set to
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'input', in which case the conversion happens only while
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reading from the filesystem but files are written out with
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LF at the end of lines. Currently, which paths to consider
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'text' (i.e. be subjected to the autocrlf mechanism) is
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decided purely based on the contents, but the plan is to
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allow users to explicitly override this heuristic based on
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paths.
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- The behaviour of 'git-apply', when run in a subdirectory,
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without --index nor --cached were inconsistent with that of
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the command with these options. This was fixed to match the
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behaviour with --index. A patch that is meant to be applied
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with -p1 from the toplevel of the project tree can be
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applied with any custom -p<n> option. A patch that is not
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relative to the toplevel needs to be applied with -p<n>
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option with or without --index (or --cached).
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- "git diff" outputs a trailing HT when pathnames have embedded
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SP on +++/--- header lines, in order to help "GNU patch" to
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parse its output. "git apply" was already updated to accept
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this modified output format since ce74618d (Sep 22, 2006).
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- "git cvsserver" runs hooks/update and honors its exit status.
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- "git cvsserver" can be told to send everything with -kb.
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- "git diff --check" also honors the --color output option.
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- "git name-rev" used to stress the fact that a ref is a tag too
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much, by saying something like "v1.2.3^0~22". It now says
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"v1.2.3~22" in such a case (it still says "v1.2.3^0" if it does
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not talk about an ancestor of the commit that is tagged, which
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makes sense).
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- "git rev-list --boundary" now shows boundary markers for the
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commits omitted by --max-age and --max-count condition.
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- The configuration mechanism now reads $(prefix)/etc/gitconfig.
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- "git apply --verbose" shows what preimage lines were wanted
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when it couldn't find them.
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- "git status" in a read-only repository got a bit saner.
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- "git fetch" (hence "git clone" and "git pull") are less
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noisy when the output does not go to tty.
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- "git fetch" between repositories with many refs were slow
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even when there are not many changes that needed
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transferring. This has been sped up by partially rewriting
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the heaviest parts in C.
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- "git mailinfo" which splits an e-mail into a patch and the
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metainformation was rewritten, thanks to Don Zickus. It
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handles nested multipart better.
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- send-email learned configurable bcc and chain-reply-to.
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- "git remote show $remote" also talks about branches that
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would be pushed if you run "git push remote".
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- Using objects from packs is now seriouly optimized by clever
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use of a cache. This should be most noticeable in git-log
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family of commands that involve reading many tree objects.
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In addition, traversing revisions while filtering changes
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with pathspecs is made faster by terminating the comparison
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between the trees as early as possible.
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* Hooks
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- The part to send out notification e-mails was removed from
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the sample update hook, as it was not an appropriate place
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to do so.
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* Others
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- git-revert, git-gc and git-cherry-pick are now built-ins.
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--
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exec >/var/tmp/1
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O=v1.5.1-rc1-63-g12d6697
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echo O=`git describe master`
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git shortlog --no-merges $O..master ^maint
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