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:
+ * The next feature release of git (this change is scheduled for v1.6.0)
+ 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 $PATH. This implies:
- - Using dashed form of git commands (e.g. "git-commit") from the
+ - Using dashed forms of git commands (e.g. "git-commit") from the
command line has been informally deprecated since early 2006, but
now it officially is, and will be removed in the future. Use
- dashless form (e.g. "git commit") instead.
+ dashless forms (e.g. "git commit") instead.
- - Using dashed from from your scripts, without first prepending the
+ - Using dashed forms from your scripts, without first prepending the
return value from "git --exec-path" to the scripts' PATH, has been
informally deprecated since early 2006, but now it officially is.
- - Use of dashed form with "PATH=$(git --exec-path):$PATH; export
+ - Use of dashed forms with "PATH=$(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
+ the 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.
+ in future versions of git, starting from v1.6.0.
* "git lost-found" was deprecated in favor of "git fsck"'s --lost-found
option, and will be removed in the future.
* "git peek-remote" is deprecated, as "git ls-remote" was written in C
- and works for all transports, and will be removed in the future.
+ and works for all transports; "git peek-remote" will be removed in
+ the future.
- * From v1.5.5, the repack.usedeltabaseoffset config option will default
- to true, which will give denser packfile (i.e. more efficient storage).
+ * From v1.6.0, the repack.usedeltabaseoffset config option will default
+ to true, which will give denser packfiles (i.e. more efficient storage).
The downside is that git older than version 1.4.4 will not be able
to directly use a repository packed using this setting.
- * From v1.5.5, the pack.indexversion config option will default to 2,
+ * From v1.6.0, the pack.indexversion config option will default to 2,
which is slightly more efficient, and makes repacking more immune to
data corruptions. Git older than version 1.5.2 may revert to version 1
of the pack index with a manual "git index-pack" to be able to directly
* gitk is now merged as a subdirectory of git.git project, in
preparation for its i18n.
- * progress display from many commands are a lot nicer to the eye.
+ * progress displays 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
* Output processing for '--pretty=format:<user format>' has been
optimized.
- * Rename detection of diff family, while detecting exact matches, has
+ * 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.
+ * Rename detection of diff family tries to make more natural looking
+ pairing. Earlier, if multiple identical rename sources were
+ found in the preimage, the source used was picked pretty much at random.
* Value "true" for color.diff and color.status configuration used to
mean "always" (even when the output is not going to a terminal).
This has been corrected to mean the same thing as "auto".
+ * "git diff" Porcelain now respects diff.external configuration, which
+ is another way to specify GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF.
+
+ * "git diff" can be told to use different prefixes other than
+ "a/" and "b/" e.g. "git diff --src-prefix=l/ --dst-prefix=k/".
+
+ * "git diff" sometimes did not quote paths with funny
+ characters properly.
+
+ * "git log" (and any revision traversal commands) misbehaved
+ when --diff-filter is given but was not asked to actually
+ produce diff.
+
* HTTP proxy can be specified per remote repository using
remote.*.httpproxy configuration, or global http.proxy configuration
variable.
* "git reset" is now built-in and its output can be squelched with -q.
+ * "git reset --hard" does not make any sense in a bare
+ repository, but did not error out; fixed.
+
* "git send-email" can optionally talk over ssmtp and use SMTP-AUTH.
* "git rebase" learned --whitespace option.
* "git rebase --interactive" mode can now work on detached HEAD.
+ * Other minor to serious bugs in "git rebase -i" have been fixed.
+
* "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
* "git remote" learned "rm" subcommand.
- * "git cvsserver" can be run via "git shell".
+ * "git cvsserver" can be run via "git shell". Also, "cvs" is
+ recognized as a synonym for "git cvsserver", so that CVS users
+ can be switched to git just by changing their login shell.
* "git cvsserver" acts more like receive-pack by running post-receive
and post-update hooks.
* "git commit --amend" can amend a merge that does not change the tree
from its first parent.
+ * "git commit" used to unconditionally strip comment lines that
+ began with '#' and removed excess blank lines. This
+ behaviour has been made configurable.
+
* "git commit" has been rewritten in C.
* "git stash random-text" does not create a new stash anymore. It was
"git commit"; the parameters to -m options are formatted as separate
paragraphs.
+ * The format "git show" outputs an annotated tag has been updated to
+ include "Tagger: " and "Date: " lines from the tag itself. Strictly
+ speaking this is a backward incompatible change, but this is a
+ reasonable usability fix and people's scripts shouldn't have been
+ relying on the exact output from "git show" Porcelain anyway.
+
+ * "git cvsimport" did not notice errors from underlying "cvsps"
+ and produced a corrupt import silently.
+
* "git cvsexportcommit" learned -w option to specify and switch to the
CVS working directory.
makes copy-and-pasting for git-checkout/git-add/git-rm easier. The
traditional behaviour to show the full path relative to the top of
the work tree can be had by setting status.relativepaths
- configuration variable to true.
+ configuration variable to false.
* "git blame" kept text for each annotated revision in core needlessly;
this has been corrected.
--
exec >/var/tmp/1
-O=v1.5.4-rc0-35-g530e741
+O=v1.5.4-rc2-37-ge0cd252
echo O=`git describe refs/heads/master`
git shortlog --no-merges $O..refs/heads/master ^refs/heads/maint
projects / git.git / blobdiff