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.
(read: safer than the usual one) after the user accumulates
too many loose objects.
+ * You need to explicitly set clean.requireForce to "false" to allow
+ git-clean without -f to do any damage (lack of the configuration
+ 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.
* 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.
* git-svnimport was removed in favor of git-svn.
* git-bisect learned "skip" action to mark untestable commits.
- * rename detection diff family, while detecting exact matches,
- has been greatly optimized.
+ * git-format-patch learned "format.numbered" configuration variable
+ to automatically turn --numbered option on when more than one
+ commits are formatted.
+
+ * git-ls-files learned "--exclude-standard" to use the canned
+ set of exclude files.
+
+ * git-rebase now detaches head during its operation, so after a
+ successful "git rebase" operation, the reflog entry branch@{1}
+ for the current branch points at the commit before the rebase
+ was started.
+
+ * "git-tag -a -f existing" begins the editor session using the
+ existing annotation message.
+
+ * "git cvsexportcommit" learned -w option to specify and switch
+ to the CVS working directory.
+
+ * "git checkout" from a subdirectory learned to use "../path"
+ 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 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,
All of the fixes in v1.5.3 maintenance series are included in
this release, unless otherwise noted.
+ * git-svn talking with the SVN over http will correctly quote branch
+ and project names.
+
+ * "git rev-list --objects A..B" choked when the lower boundary
+ of the range involved a subproject. This fix is also queued
+ for 'maint' (but not in there yet).
+
--
exec >/var/tmp/1
-O=v1.5.3.5-618-g5d4138a
+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
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