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diff --git a/third_party/git/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.4.txt b/third_party/git/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.4.txt deleted file mode 100644 index f1323b61746e..000000000000 --- a/third_party/git/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.4.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,377 +0,0 @@ -GIT v1.5.4 Release Notes -======================== - -Removal -------- - - * "git svnimport" was removed in favor of "git svn". It is still there - in the source tree (contrib/examples) but unsupported. - - * As git-commit and git-status have been rewritten, "git runstatus" - helper script lost all its users and has been removed. - - -Temporarily disabled --------------------- - - * "git http-push" is known not to work well with cURL library older - than 7.16, and we had reports of repository corruption. It is - disabled on such platforms for now. Unfortunately, 1.5.3.8 shares - the same issue. In other words, this does not mean you will be - fine if you stick to an older git release. For now, please do not - use http-push from older git with cURL older than 7.16 if you - value your data. A proper fix will hopefully materialize in - later versions. - - -Deprecation notices -------------------- - - * From v1.6.0, git 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 $PATH. This - implies: - - - Using dashed forms of git commands (e.g. "git-commit") from the - command line has been informally deprecated since early 2006, but - now it officially is, and will be removed in the future. Use - dash-less forms (e.g. "git commit") instead. - - - Using dashed forms from your scripts, without first prepending the - return value from "git --exec-path" to the scripts' PATH, has been - informally deprecated since early 2006, but now it officially is. - - - Use of dashed forms with "PATH=$(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 change. - - * The post-receive hook was introduced in March 2007 to supersede - 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, 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; "git peek-remote" will be removed in - the future. - - * "git repo-config" which was an old name for "git config" command - has been supported without being advertised for a long time. The - next feature release will remove it. - - * 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 v1.6.0, 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 - access corresponding pack files. - - -Updates since v1.5.3 --------------------- - - * Comes with much improved gitk, with i18n. - - * Comes with git-gui 0.9.2 with i18n. - - * gitk is now merged as a subdirectory of git.git project, in - preparation for its i18n. - - * 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 - so lazily, which makes the usual case go much faster. - - * Output processing for '--pretty=format:<user format>' has been - optimized. - - * Rename detection of diff family while detecting exact matches has - been greatly optimized. - - * 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. - - * Various Perforce importer updates. - - * Example update and post-receive hooks have been improved. - - * Any command that wants to take a commit object name can now use - ":/string" syntax to name a commit. - - * "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. - - * In "git rebase", when you decide not to replay a particular change - after the command stopped with a conflict, you can say "git rebase - --skip" without first running "git reset --hard", as the command now - runs it for you. - - * "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 - started. - - * "git rebase -i" also triggers rerere to help your repeated merges. - - * "git merge" can call the "post-merge" hook. - - * "git pack-objects" can optionally run deltification with multiple - threads. - - * "git archive" can optionally substitute keywords in files marked with - export-subst attribute. - - * "git cherry-pick" made a misguided attempt to repeat the original - command line in the generated log message, when told to cherry-pick a - commit by naming a tag that points at it. It does not anymore. - - * "git for-each-ref" learned %(xxxdate:<date-format>) syntax to show the - various date fields in different formats. - - * "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. - - * "git clean" has been rewritten in C. - - * You need to explicitly set clean.requireForce to "false" to allow - "git clean" without -f to do any damage (lack of the configuration - variable used to mean "do not require -f option to lose untracked - files", but we now use the safer default). - - * The kinds of whitespace errors "git diff" and "git apply" notice (and - fix) can be controlled via 'core.whitespace' configuration variable - and 'whitespace' attribute in .gitattributes file. - - * "git push" learned --dry-run option to show what would happen if a - push is run. - - * "git push" does not update a tracking ref on the local side when the - remote refused to update the corresponding ref. - - * "git push" learned --mirror option. This is to push the local refs - one-to-one to the remote, and deletes refs from the remote that do - not exist anymore in the repository on the pushing side. - - * "git push" can remove a corrupt ref at the remote site with the usual - ":ref" refspec. - - * "git remote" knows --mirror mode. This is to set up configuration to - push into a remote repository to store local branch heads to the same - branch on the remote side, and remove branch heads locally removed - from local repository at the same time. Suitable for pushing into a - back-up repository. - - * "git remote" learned "rm" subcommand. - - * "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 am" and "git rebase" are far less verbose. - - * "git pull" learned to pass --[no-]ff option to underlying "git - merge". - - * "git pull --rebase" is a different way to integrate what you fetched - into your current branch. - - * "git fast-export" produces data-stream that can be fed to fast-import - to reproduce the history recorded in a git repository. - - * "git add -i" takes pathspecs to limit the set of files to work on. - - * "git add -p" is a short-hand to go directly to the selective patch - subcommand in the interactive command loop and to exit when done. - - * "git add -i" UI has been colorized. The interactive prompt - and menu can be colored by setting color.interactive - configuration. The diff output (including the hunk picker) - are colored with color.diff configuration. - - * "git commit --allow-empty" allows you to create a single-parent - commit that records the same tree as its parent, overriding the usual - safety valve. - - * "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 behavior has - been made configurable. - - * "git commit" has been rewritten in C. - - * "git stash random-text" does not create a new stash anymore. It was - a UI mistake. Use "git stash save random-text", or "git stash" - (without extra args) for that. - - * "git stash clear extra-text" does not clear the whole stash - anymore. It is tempting to expect "git stash clear stash@{2}" - to drop only a single named stash entry, and it is rude to - discard everything when that is asked (but not provided). - - * "git prune --expire <time>" can exempt young loose objects from - getting pruned. - - * "git branch --contains <commit>" can list branches that are - descendants of a given commit. - - * "git log" learned --early-output option to help interactive GUI - implementations. - - * "git bisect" learned "skip" action to mark untestable commits. - - * "git bisect visualize" learned a shorter synonym "git bisect view". - - * "git bisect visualize" runs "git log" in a non-windowed - environments. It also can be told what command to run (e.g. "git - bisect visualize tig"). - - * "git format-patch" learned "format.numbered" configuration variable - to automatically turn --numbered option on when more than one commits - are formatted. - - * "git ls-files" learned "--exclude-standard" to use the canned set of - exclude files. - - * "git tag -a -f existing" begins the editor session using the existing - annotation message. - - * "git tag -m one -m bar" (multiple -m options) behaves similarly to - "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. - - * "git checkout" from a subdirectory learned to use "../path" to allow - checking out a path outside the current directory without cd'ing up. - - * "git checkout" from and to detached HEAD leaves a bit more - information in the reflog. - - * "git send-email --dry-run" shows full headers for easier diagnosis. - - * "git merge-ours" is now built-in. - - * "git svn" learned "info" and "show-externals" subcommands. - - * "git svn" run from a subdirectory failed to read settings from the - .git/config. - - * "git svn" learned --use-log-author option, which picks up more - descriptive name from From: and Signed-off-by: lines in the commit - message. - - * "git svn" wasted way too much disk to record revision mappings - between svn and git; a new representation that is much more compact - for this information has been introduced to correct this. - - * "git svn" left temporary index files it used without cleaning them - up; this was corrected. - - * "git status" from a subdirectory now shows relative paths, which - makes copy-and-pasting for git-checkout/git-add/git-rm easier. The - traditional behavior to show the full path relative to the top of - the work tree can be had by setting status.relativepaths - configuration variable to false. - - * "git blame" kept text for each annotated revision in core needlessly; - this has been corrected. - - * "git shortlog" learned to default to HEAD when the standard input is - a terminal and the user did not give any revision parameter. - - * "git shortlog" learned "-e" option to show e-mail addresses as well as - authors' names. - - * "git help" learned "-w" option to show documentation in browsers. - - * In addition there are quite a few internal clean-ups. Notably: - - - many fork/exec have been replaced with run-command API, - brought from the msysgit effort. - - - introduction and more use of the option parser API. - - - enhancement and more use of the strbuf API. - - * Makefile tweaks to support HP-UX is in. - -Fixes since v1.5.3 ------------------- - -All of the fixes in v1.5.3 maintenance series are included in -this release, unless otherwise noted. - -These fixes are only in v1.5.4 and not backported to v1.5.3 maintenance -series. - - * The way "git diff --check" behaves is much more consistent with the way - "git apply --whitespace=warn" works. - - * "git svn" talking with the SVN over HTTP will correctly quote branch - and project names. - - * "git config" did not work correctly on platforms that define - REG_NOMATCH to an even number. - - * Recent versions of AsciiDoc 8 has a change to break our - documentation; a workaround has been implemented. - - * "git diff --color-words" colored context lines in a wrong color. |