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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.4.txt index a4a2a7f429..192766f868 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.4.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.4.txt @@ -1,20 +1,70 @@ GIT v1.5.4 Release Notes ======================== +Deprecation notices +------------------- + + * Next feature release of git (this change is scheduled for v1.5.5 but + it could slip) will by default install dashed form of commands + (e.g. "git-commit") outside of users' normal $PATH, and will install + only selected commands ("git" itself, and "gitk") in $PATH. This + implies: + + - Using dashed form of git commands (e.g. "git-commit") from the + command line has been informally deprecated since early 2006, but + now it officially is, and will be removed in the future. Use + dashless form (e.g. "git commit") instead. + + - Using dashed from from your scripts, without first prepending the + return value from "git --exec-path" to the scripts' PATH, has been + informally deprecated since early 2006, but now it officially is. + + - Use of dashed form with "PATH=$(git --exec-path):$PATH; export + PATH" early in your script is not deprecated with this change. + + Users are strongly encouraged to adjust their habits and scripts now + to prepare for this. + + * The post-receive hook was introduced in March 2007 to supersede + post-update hook, primarily to overcome the command line length + limitation of the latter. Use of post-update hook will be deprecated + in future versions of git, perhaps in v1.5.5. + + Updates since v1.5.3 -------------------- * Comes with much improved gitk. + * Comes with git-gui 0.9.0 with i18n. + + * git-lost-found was deprecated in favor of git-fsck's --lost-found + option. + + * git-peek-remote is deprecated, as git-ls-remote was written in C and + works for all transports. + + * git-cherry-pick made a misguided attempt to repeat the original + command line in the generated log message, when told to cherry-pick a + commit by naming a tag that points at it. It does not anymore. + * "progress display" from many commands are a lot nicer to the eye. Transfer commands show throughput data. + * many commands that pay attention to per-directory .gitignore now do + so lazily, which makes the usual case go much faster. + * git-reset is now built-in and its output can be squelched with -q. * git-send-email can optionally talk over ssmtp and use SMTP-AUTH. * git-rebase learned --whitespace option. + * In git-rebase, when you decide not to replay a particular change + after the command stopped with a conflict, you can say "git-rebase + --skip" without first running "git reset --hard", as the command now + runs it for you. + * git-remote knows --mirror mode. * git-merge can call the "post-merge" hook. @@ -37,11 +87,20 @@ Updates since v1.5.3 variable used to mean "do not require", but we now use the safer default). + * git-clean has been rewritten in C. + * git-push has been rewritten in C. * git-push learned --dry-run option to show what would happen if a push is run. + * git-push does not update a tracking ref on the pushing side when the + remote refused to update the corresponding ref. + + * git-push learned --mirror option. This is to push the local refs + one-to-one to the remote, and deletes refs from the remote that do + not exist anymore in the repository on the pushing side. + * git-remote learned "rm" subcommand. * git-rebase --interactive mode can now work on detached HEAD. @@ -54,9 +113,6 @@ Updates since v1.5.3 * Various Perforce importer updates. - * git-lost-found was deprecated in favor of git-fsck's --lost-found - option. - * "git log" learned --early-output option to help interactive GUI implementations. @@ -86,14 +142,41 @@ Updates since v1.5.3 to allow checking out a path outside the current directory without cd'ing up. + * "git send-email --dry-run" shows full headers for easier + diagnosis. + + * "git merge-ours" is built-in. + + * "git svn" learned "info" and "show-externals" subcommands. + + * calling "git svn" from a subdirectory failed read settings from the + .git/config. + + * "git svn" learned --use-log-author option, which picks up more + descriptive name from From: and Signed-off-by: lines in the commit + message. + + * "git status" from a subdirectory now shows relative paths + which makes copy-and-pasting for git-checkout/git-add/git-rm + easier. + + * "git checkout" from and to detached HEAD leaves a bit more + information in the reflog. + * Output processing for '--pretty=format:<user format>' has been optimized. - * Rename detection diff family, while detecting exact matches, - has been greatly optimized. + * Rename detection of diff family, while detecting exact matches, has + been greatly optimized. + + * Rename detection of diff family tries to make more naturally looking + pairing. Earlier if more than one identical rename sources were + found in the preimage, they were picked pretty much at random. * Example update and post-receive hooks have been improved. + * A corrupt ref at the remote site can be removed via "git push". + * In addition there are quite a few internal clean-ups. Notably - many fork/exec have been replaced with run-command API, @@ -119,6 +202,6 @@ this release, unless otherwise noted. -- exec >/var/tmp/1 -O=v1.5.3.6-727-g5d3d1ca +O=v1.5.3.7-948-gb52e985 echo O=`git describe refs/heads/master` git shortlog --no-merges $O..refs/heads/master ^refs/heads/maint |