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1GIT v1.5.6 Release Notes
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3
4Updates since v1.5.5
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6
7(subsystems)
8
9* Comes with updated gitk and git-gui.
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11(portability)
12
13* git will build on AIX better than before now.
14
15* core.ignorecase configuration variable can be used to work better on
16 filesystems that are not case sensitive.
17
18* "git init" now autodetects the case sensitivity of the filesystem and
19 sets core.ignorecase accordingly.
20
21* cpio is no longer used; neither "curl" binary (libcurl is still used).
22
23(documentation)
24
25* Many freestanding documentation pages have been converted and made
26 available to "git help" (aka "man git<something>") as section 7 of
27 the manual pages. This means bookmarks to some HTML documentation
28 files may need to be updated (eg "tutorial.html" became
29 "gittutorial.html").
30
31(performance)
32
33* "git clone" was rewritten in C. This will hopefully help cloning a
34 repository with insane number of refs.
35
36* "git rebase --onto $there $from $branch" used to switch to the tip of
37 $branch only to immediately reset back to $from, smudging work tree
38 files unnecessarily. This has been optimized.
39
40* Object creation codepath in "git-svn" has been optimized by enhancing
41 plumbing commands git-cat-file and git-hash-object.
42
43(usability, bells and whistles)
44
45* "git add -p" (and the "patch" subcommand of "git add -i") can choose to
46 apply (or not apply) mode changes independently from contents changes.
47
48* "git bisect help" gives longer and more helpful usage information.
49
50* "git bisect" does not use a special branch "bisect" anymore; instead, it
51 does its work on a detached HEAD.
52
53* "git branch" (and "git checkout -b") can be told to set up
54 branch.<name>.rebase automatically, so that later you can say "git pull"
55 and magically cause "git pull --rebase" to happen.
56
57* "git branch --merged" and "git branch --no-merged" can be used to list
58 branches that have already been merged (or not yet merged) to the
59 current branch.
60
61* "git cherry-pick" and "git revert" can add a sign-off.
62
63* "git commit" mentions the author identity when you are committing
64 somebody else's changes.
65
66* "git diff/log --dirstat" output is consistent between binary and textual
67 changes.
68
69* "git filter-branch" rewrites signed tags by demoting them to annotated.
70
71* "git format-patch --no-binary" can produce a patch that lack binary
72 changes (i.e. cannot be used to propagate the whole changes) meant only
73 for reviewing.
74
75* "git init --bare" is a synonym for "git --bare init" now.
76
77* "git gc --auto" honors a new pre-auto-gc hook to temporarily disable it.
78
79* "git log --pretty=tformat:<custom format>" gives a LF after each entry,
80 instead of giving a LF between each pair of entries which is how
81 "git log --pretty=format:<custom format>" works.
82
83* "git log" and friends learned the "--graph" option to show the ancestry
84 graph at the left margin of the output.
85
86* "git log" and friends can be told to use date format that is different
87 from the default via 'log.date' configuration variable.
88
89* "git send-email" now can send out messages outside a git repository.
90
91* "git send-email --compose" was made aware of rfc2047 quoting.
92
93* "git status" can optionally include output from "git submodule
94 summary".
95
96* "git svn" learned --add-author-from option to propagate the authorship
97 by munging the commit log message.
98
99* new object creation and looking up in "git svn" has been optimized.
100
101* "gitweb" can read from a system-wide configuration file.
102
103(internal)
104
105* "git unpack-objects" and "git receive-pack" is now more strict about
106 detecting breakage in the objects they receive over the wire.
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108
109Fixes since v1.5.5
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111
112All of the fixes in v1.5.5 maintenance series are included in
113this release, unless otherwise noted.
114
115And there are too numerous small fixes to otherwise note here ;-)