| GIT v1.5.3 Release Notes (draft) |
| ======================== |
| |
| Updates since v1.5.2 |
| -------------------- |
| |
| * An initial interation of Porcelain level superproject support |
| started to take shape. |
| |
| * Thee are a handful pack-objects changes to help you cope better with |
| repositories with pathologically large blobs in them. |
| |
| * New commands and options. |
| |
| - "git-submodule" command helps you manage the projects from |
| the superproject that contain them. |
| |
| - In addition to core.compression configuration option, |
| core.loosecompression and pack.compression options can |
| independently tweak zlib compression levels used for loose |
| and packed objects. |
| |
| - "git-ls-tree -l" shows size of blobs pointed at by the |
| tree entries, similar to "/bin/ls -l". |
| |
| - "git-rev-list" learned --regexp-ignore-case and |
| --extended-regexp options to tweak its matching logic used |
| for --grep fitering. |
| |
| - "git-describe --contains" is a handier way to call more |
| obscure command "git-name-rev --tags". |
| |
| - "git gc --aggressive" tells the command to spend more cycles |
| to optimize the repository harder. |
| |
| - "git repack" can be told to split resulting packs to avoid |
| exceeding limit specified with "--max-pack-size". |
| |
| * Updated behavior of existing commands. |
| |
| - "git push" pretends that you immediately fetched back from |
| the remote by updating corresponding remote tracking |
| branches if you have any. |
| |
| - The diffstat given after a merge (or a pull) honors the |
| color.diff configuration. |
| |
| - "git-apply --whitespace=strip" removes blank lines added at |
| the end of the file. |
| |
| - 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. |
| |
| - "git-mailsplit" (hence "git-am") can read from Maildir |
| formatted mailboxes. |
| |
| - "git cvsserver" does not barf upon seeing "cvs login" |
| request. |
| |
| - "pack-objects" honors "delta" attribute set in |
| .gitattributes. It does not attempt to deltify blobs that |
| come from paths with delta attribute set to false. |
| |
| - new-workdir script (in contrib) can now be used with a bare |
| repository. |
| |
| |
| * Builds |
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| - |
| |
| * Performance Tweaks |
| |
| - git-pack-objects avoids re-deltification cost by caching |
| small enough delta results it creates while looking for the |
| best delta candidates. |
| |
| - diff-delta code that is used for packing has been improved |
| to work better on big files. |
| |
| - when there are more than one pack files in the repository, |
| the runtime used to try finding an object always from the |
| newest packfile; it now tries the same packfile as we found |
| the object requested the last time, which exploits the |
| locality of references. |
| |
| Fixes since v1.5.2 |
| ------------------ |
| |
| All of the fixes in v1.5.2 maintenance series are included in |
| this release, unless otherwise noted. |
| |
| * Bugfixes |
| |
| - .... This has not |
| been backported to 1.5.2.x series, as it is rather an |
| intrusive change. |
| |
| |
| -- |
| exec >/var/tmp/1 |
| O=v1.5.2-45-ged82edc |
| O=v1.5.2-172-g1a8b769 |
| echo O=`git describe refs/heads/master` |
| git shortlog --no-merges $O..refs/heads/master ^refs/heads/maint |
