| GIT v1.5.4 Release Notes |
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| Updates since v1.5.3 |
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| * Comes with much improved gitk. |
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| * git-reset is now built-in. |
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| * git-send-email can optionally talk over ssmtp and use SMTP-AUTH. |
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| * git-rebase learned --whitespace option. |
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| * git-remote knows --mirror mode. |
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| * git-merge can call the "post-merge" hook. |
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| * git-pack-objects can optionally run deltification with multiple threads. |
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| * git-archive can optionally substitute keywords in files marked with |
| export-subst attribute. |
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| * git-for-each-ref learned %(xxxdate:<dateformat>) syntax to |
| show the various date fields in different formats. |
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| * git-gc --auto is a low-impact way to automatically run a |
| variant of git-repack that does not lose unreferenced objects |
| (read: safer than the usual one) after the user accumulates |
| too many loose objects. |
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| * git-push has been rewritten in C. |
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| * git-push learned --dry-run option to show what would happen |
| if a push is run. |
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| * git-remote learned "rm" subcommand. |
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| * git-rebase --interactive mode can now work on detached HEAD. |
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| * git-cvsserver can be run via git-shell. |
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| * git-am and git-rebase are far less verbose. |
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| * git-pull learned to pass --[no-]ff option to underlying git-merge. |
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| * Various Perforce importer updates. |
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| Fixes since v1.5.3 |
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| All of the fixes in v1.5.3 maintenance series are included in |
| this release, unless otherwise noted. |
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| -- |
| exec >/var/tmp/1 |
| O=v1.5.3.4-450-g952a9e5 |
| echo O=`git describe refs/heads/master` |
| git shortlog --no-merges $O..refs/heads/master ^refs/heads/maint |
