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GIT v1.5.5 Release Notes
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Updates since v1.5.4
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(subsystems)
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* Comes with git-gui 0.10.1
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(portability)
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* We shouldn't ask for BSD group ownership semantics by setting g+s bit
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on directories on older BSD systems that refuses chmod() by non root
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users. BSD semantics is the default there anyway.
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* Bunch of portability improvement patches coming from an effort to port
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to Solaris has been applied.
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(performance)
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* On platforms with suboptimal qsort(3) implementation, there
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is an option to use more reasonable substitute we ship with
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our software.
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* New configuration variable "pack.packsizelimit" can be used
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in place of command line option --max-pack-size.
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* "git fetch" over the native git protocol used to make a
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connection to find out the set of current remote refs and
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another to actually download the pack data. We now use only
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one connection for these tasks.
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* "git commit" does not run lstat(2) more than necessary
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anymore.
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(usability, bells and whistles)
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* Bash completion script (in contrib) are aware of more commands and
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options.
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* You can be warned when core.autocrlf conversion is applied in
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such a way that results in an irreversible conversion.
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* A catch-all "color.ui" configuration variable can be used to
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enable coloring of all color-capable commands, instead of
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individual ones such as "color.status" and "color.branch".
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* The commands refused to take absolute pathnames where they
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require pathnames relative to the work tree or the current
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subdirectory. They now can take absolute pathnames in such a
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case as long as the pathnames do not refer outside of the
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work tree. E.g. "git add $(pwd)/foo" now works.
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* Error messages used to be sent to stderr, only to get hidden,
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when $PAGER was in use. They now are sent to stdout along
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with the command output to be shown in the $PAGER.
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* A pattern "foo/" in .gitignore file now matches a directory
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"foo". Pattern "foo" also matches as before.
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* bash completion's prompt helper function can talk about
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operation in-progress (e.g. merge, rebase, etc.).
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* Configuration variables "url.<usethis>.insteadof = <otherurl>" can be
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used to tell "git-fetch" and "git-push" to use different URL than what
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is given from the command line.
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* "git add -i" behaves better even before you make an initial commit.
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* "git am" refused to run from a subdirectory without a good reason.
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* After "git apply --whitespace=fix" fixes whitespace errors in a patch,
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a line before the fix can appear as a context or preimage line in a
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later patch, causing the patch not to apply. The command now knows to
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see through whitespace fixes done to context lines to successfully
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apply such a patch series.
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* "git branch" (and "git checkout -b") to branch from a local branch can
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optionally set "branch.<name>.merge" to mark the new branch to build on
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the other local branch, when "branch.autosetupmerge" is set to
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"always", or when passing the command line option "--track" (this option
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was ignored when branching from local branches). By default, this does
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not happen when branching from a local branch.
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* "git checkout" to switch to a branch that has "branch.<name>.merge" set
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(i.e. marked to build on another branch) reports how much the branch
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and the other branch diverged.
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* When "git checkout" has to update a lot of paths, it used to be silent
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for 4 seconds before it showed any progress report. It is now a bit
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more impatient and starts showing progress report early.
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* "git commit" learned a new hook "prepare-commit-msg" that can
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inspect what is going to be committed and prepare the commit
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log message template to be edited.
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* "git cvsimport" can now take more than one -M options.
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* "git describe" learned to limit the tags to be used for
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naming with --match option.
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* "git describe --contains" now barfs when the named commit
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cannot be described.
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* "git describe --exact-match" describes only commits that are tagged.
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* "git describe --long" describes a tagged commit as $tag-0-$sha1,
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instead of just showing the exact tagname.
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* "git describe" warns when using a tag whose name and path contradict
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with each other.
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* "git diff" learned "--relative" option to limit and output paths
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relative to the current directory when working in a subdirectory.
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* "git diff" learned "--dirstat" option to show birds-eye-summary of
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changes more concisely than "--diffstat".
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* "git format-patch" learned --cover-letter option to generate a cover
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letter template.
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* "git gc" learned --quiet option.
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* "git gc" now automatically prunes unreachable objects that are two
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weeks old or older.
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* "git gc --auto" can be disabled more easily by just setting gc.auto
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to zero. It also tolerates more packfiles by default.
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* "git grep" now knows "--name-only" is a synonym for the "-l" option.
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* "git help <alias>" now reports "'git <alias>' is alias to <what>",
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instead of saying "No manual entry for git-<alias>".
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* "git help" can use different backends to show manual pages and this can
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be configured using "man.viewer" configuration.
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* "gitk" does not restore window position from $HOME/.gitk anymore (it
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still restores the size).
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* "git log --grep=<what>" learned "--fixed-strings" option to look for
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<what> without treating it as a regular expression.
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* "git gui" learned an auto-spell checking.
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* "git push <somewhere> HEAD" and "git push <somewhere> +HEAD" works as
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expected; they push the current branch (and only the current branch).
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In addition, HEAD can be written as the value of "remote.<there>.push"
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configuration variable.
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* When the configuration variable "pack.threads" is set to 0, "git
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repack" auto detects the number of CPUs and uses that many threads.
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* "git send-email" learned to prompt for passwords
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interactively.
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* "git send-email" learned an easier way to suppress CC
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recipients.
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* "git stash" learned "pop" command, that applies the latest stash and
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removes it from the stash, and "drop" command to discard the named
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stash entry.
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* "git submodule" learned a new subcommand "summary" to show the
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symmetric difference between the HEAD version and the work tree version
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of the submodule commits.
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* Various "git cvsimport", "git cvsexportcommit", "git cvsserver",
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"git svn" and "git p4" improvements.
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(internal)
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* Duplicated code between git-help and git-instaweb that
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launches user's preferred browser has been refactored.
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* It is now easier to write test scripts that records known
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breakages.
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* "git checkout" is rewritten in C.
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* "git remote" is rewritten in C.
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* Two conflict hunks that are separated by a very short span of common
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lines are now coalesced into one larger hunk, to make the result easier
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to read.
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* Run-command API's use of file descriptors is documented clearer and
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is more consistent now.
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* diff output can be sent to FILE * that is different from stdout. This
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will help reimplementing more things in C.
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Fixes since v1.5.4
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------------------
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All of the fixes in v1.5.4 maintenance series are included in
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this release, unless otherwise noted.
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* "git-http-push" did not allow deletion of remote ref with the usual
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"push <remote> :<branch>" syntax.
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* "git-rebase --abort" did not go back to the right location if
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"git-reset" was run during the "git-rebase" session.
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* "git imap-send" without setting imap.host did not error out but
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segfaulted.
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