From: Junio C Hamano Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 16:20:06 +0000 (-0700) Subject: Update draft Release Notes for 1.5.3 X-Git-Tag: v1.5.3-rc0~42 X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=124d3e4cacdf018ddad3449919f471a624e85433;p=git.git Update draft Release Notes for 1.5.3 Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.3.txt index d111661a7..ef2f95b3c 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.3.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.3.txt @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -GIT v1.5.3 Release Notes (draft) +GIT v1.5.3 Release Notes ======================== Updates since v1.5.2 @@ -10,8 +10,23 @@ Updates since v1.5.2 * Thee 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/ now. + +* Comes with git-gui 0.8.0. + +* Comes with updated gitk. + * New commands and options. + - "git log" learned a new option '--follow', to follow + renaming history of a single file. + + - "git-filter-branch" is a reborn cg-admin-rewritehist. + + - "git-cvsserver" learned new options (--base-path, --export-all, + --strict-paths) inspired by git-daemon. + - "git-submodule" command helps you manage the projects from the superproject that contain them. @@ -36,9 +51,45 @@ Updates since v1.5.2 - "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 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 changes + 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. + * Updated behavior of existing commands. - - "git push" pretends that you immediately fetched back from + - "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 cvsimort" creates lightweight tag; there is not any + 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. @@ -48,17 +99,25 @@ Updates since v1.5.2 - "git-apply --whitespace=strip" removes blank lines added at the end of the file. - - fetch over git native protocols with -v shows connection + - "git-fetch" over git native protocols with -v shows connection status, and the IP address of the other end, to help diagnosing problems. - - core.legacyheaders is no more, although we still can read - objects created in a new loose object format. + - 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" + - "git-cvsserver" does not barf upon seeing "cvs login" request. - "pack-objects" honors "delta" attribute set in @@ -68,10 +127,25 @@ Updates since v1.5.2 - 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". * Builds - - + - old-style function definitions (most notably, a function + without parameter defined with "func()", not "func(void)") + have been eradicated. * Performance Tweaks @@ -88,6 +162,10 @@ Updates since v1.5.2 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 ------------------ @@ -96,14 +174,11 @@ this release, unless otherwise noted. * Bugfixes - - .... This has not - been backported to 1.5.2.x series, as it is rather an - intrusive change. - + - "gitweb" had trouble handling non UTF-8 text with older + Encode.pm Perl module. -- exec >/var/tmp/1 -O=v1.5.2-45-ged82edc -O=v1.5.2-172-g1a8b769 +O=v1.5.2.2-603-g7c85173 echo O=`git describe refs/heads/master` git shortlog --no-merges $O..refs/heads/master ^refs/heads/maint