User visible changes
--------------------
-[[Note that none of these are not merged to 'master' as of this writing
-but they will be before 1.6.0 happens]]
-
With the default Makefile settings, most of the programs are now
installed outside your $PATH, except for "git", "gitk", "git-gui" and
some server side programs that need to be accessible for technical
Source changes needed for porting to MinGW environment are now all in the
main git.git codebase.
+By default, packfiles created with this version uses delta-base-offset
+encoding introduced in v1.4.4. Pack idx files are using version 2 that
+allows larger packs and added robustness thanks to its CRC checking,
+introduced in v1.5.2.
+
+GIT_CONFIG, which was only documented as affecting "git config", but
+actually affected all git commands, now only affects "git config".
+GIT_LOCAL_CONFIG, also only documented as affecting "git config" and
+not different from GIT_CONFIG in a useful way, is removed.
+
+An ancient merge strategy "stupid" has been removed.
+
Updates since v1.5.6
--------------------
* git-p4 in contrib learned "allowSubmit" configuration to control on
which branch to allow "submit" subcommand.
+* git-gui learned to stage changes per-line.
+
(portability)
+* Changes for MinGW port have been merged, thanks to Johannes Sixt and
+ gangs.
+
* Sample hook scripts shipped in templates/ are now suffixed with
*.sample. We used to prevent them from triggering by default by
relying on the fact that we install them as unexecutable, but on
* Updated howto/update-hook-example
-* Got rid of usage of "git-foo" from the tutorial.
+* Got rid of usage of "git-foo" from the tutorial and made typography
+ more consistent.
* Disambiguating "--" between revs and paths is finally documented.
(usability, bells and whistles)
+* A new environment variable GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES can be used to stop
+ the discovery process of the toplevel of working tree; this may be useful
+ when you are working in a slow network disk and are outside any working tree,
+ as bash-completion and "git help" may still need to run in these places.
+
+* git-apply can handle a patch that touches the same path more than once
+ much better than before.
+
+* git-apply can be told not to trust the line counts recorded in the input
+ patch but recount, with the new --recount option.
+
* git-archive can be told to omit certain paths from its output using
export-ignore attributes.
+* git-clone can clone from a remote whose URL would be rewritten by
+ configuration stored in $HOME/.gitconfig now.
+
+* git-diff --check now checks leftover merge conflict markers.
+
+* When remote side used to have branch 'foo' and git-fetch finds that now
+ it has branch 'foo/bar', it refuses to lose the existing remote tracking
+ branch and its reflog. The error message has been improved to suggest
+ pruning the remote if the user wants to proceed and get the latest set
+ of branches from the remote, including such 'foo/bar'.
+
* fast-export learned to export and import marks file; this can be used to
interface with fast-import incrementally.
-* Original SHA-1 value for "update-ref -d" is optional now.
+* "git rerere" can be told to update the index with auto-reused resolution
+ with rerere.autoupdate configuration variable.
+
+* git-send-mail can talk not just over SSL but over TLS now.
* You can tell "git status -u" to even more aggressively omit checking
untracked files with --untracked-files=no.
+* Original SHA-1 value for "update-ref -d" is optional now.
+
* Error codes from gitweb are made more descriptive where possible, rather
than "403 forbidden" as we used to issue everywhere.
All of the fixes in v1.5.6 maintenance series are included in
this release, unless otherwise noted.
- * diff -c/--cc showed unnecessary "deletion" lines at the context
- boundary (needs backmerge to maint).
-
- * "git-clone <src> <dst>" did not create leading directories for <dst>
- like the scripted version used to do (needs backport to maint).
+ * "git fetch" into an empty repository used to remind the fetch will
+ be huge by saying "no common commits", but it is already known by
+ the user anyway (need to backport 8cb560f to 'maint').
---
exec >/var/tmp/1
-O=v1.5.6.1-104-ga08b868
+O=v1.5.6.2-246-g86d7244
echo O=$(git describe refs/heads/master)
git shortlog --no-merges $O..refs/heads/master ^refs/heads/maint
projects / git.git / blobdiff