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diff --git a/third_party/git/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.5.txt b/third_party/git/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.5.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 29322124881b..000000000000 --- a/third_party/git/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.5.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,207 +0,0 @@ -GIT v1.5.5 Release Notes -======================== - -Updates since v1.5.4 --------------------- - -(subsystems) - - * Comes with git-gui 0.10.1 - -(portability) - - * We shouldn't ask for BSD group ownership semantics by setting g+s bit - on directories on older BSD systems that refuses chmod() by non root - users. BSD semantics is the default there anyway. - - * Bunch of portability improvement patches coming from an effort to port - to Solaris has been applied. - -(performance) - - * On platforms with suboptimal qsort(3) implementation, there - is an option to use more reasonable substitute we ship with - our software. - - * New configuration variable "pack.packsizelimit" can be used - in place of command line option --max-pack-size. - - * "git fetch" over the native git protocol used to make a - connection to find out the set of current remote refs and - another to actually download the pack data. We now use only - one connection for these tasks. - - * "git commit" does not run lstat(2) more than necessary - anymore. - -(usability, bells and whistles) - - * Bash completion script (in contrib) are aware of more commands and - options. - - * You can be warned when core.autocrlf conversion is applied in - such a way that results in an irreversible conversion. - - * A catch-all "color.ui" configuration variable can be used to - enable coloring of all color-capable commands, instead of - individual ones such as "color.status" and "color.branch". - - * The commands refused to take absolute pathnames where they - require pathnames relative to the work tree or the current - subdirectory. They now can take absolute pathnames in such a - case as long as the pathnames do not refer outside of the - work tree. E.g. "git add $(pwd)/foo" now works. - - * Error messages used to be sent to stderr, only to get hidden, - when $PAGER was in use. They now are sent to stdout along - with the command output to be shown in the $PAGER. - - * A pattern "foo/" in .gitignore file now matches a directory - "foo". Pattern "foo" also matches as before. - - * bash completion's prompt helper function can talk about - operation in-progress (e.g. merge, rebase, etc.). - - * Configuration variables "url.<usethis>.insteadof = <otherurl>" can be - used to tell "git-fetch" and "git-push" to use different URL than what - is given from the command line. - - * "git add -i" behaves better even before you make an initial commit. - - * "git am" refused to run from a subdirectory without a good reason. - - * After "git apply --whitespace=fix" fixes whitespace errors in a patch, - a line before the fix can appear as a context or preimage line in a - later patch, causing the patch not to apply. The command now knows to - see through whitespace fixes done to context lines to successfully - apply such a patch series. - - * "git branch" (and "git checkout -b") to branch from a local branch can - optionally set "branch.<name>.merge" to mark the new branch to build on - the other local branch, when "branch.autosetupmerge" is set to - "always", or when passing the command line option "--track" (this option - was ignored when branching from local branches). By default, this does - not happen when branching from a local branch. - - * "git checkout" to switch to a branch that has "branch.<name>.merge" set - (i.e. marked to build on another branch) reports how much the branch - and the other branch diverged. - - * When "git checkout" has to update a lot of paths, it used to be silent - for 4 seconds before it showed any progress report. It is now a bit - more impatient and starts showing progress report early. - - * "git commit" learned a new hook "prepare-commit-msg" that can - inspect what is going to be committed and prepare the commit - log message template to be edited. - - * "git cvsimport" can now take more than one -M options. - - * "git describe" learned to limit the tags to be used for - naming with --match option. - - * "git describe --contains" now barfs when the named commit - cannot be described. - - * "git describe --exact-match" describes only commits that are tagged. - - * "git describe --long" describes a tagged commit as $tag-0-$sha1, - instead of just showing the exact tagname. - - * "git describe" warns when using a tag whose name and path contradict - with each other. - - * "git diff" learned "--relative" option to limit and output paths - relative to the current directory when working in a subdirectory. - - * "git diff" learned "--dirstat" option to show birds-eye-summary of - changes more concisely than "--diffstat". - - * "git format-patch" learned --cover-letter option to generate a cover - letter template. - - * "git gc" learned --quiet option. - - * "git gc" now automatically prunes unreachable objects that are two - weeks old or older. - - * "git gc --auto" can be disabled more easily by just setting gc.auto - to zero. It also tolerates more packfiles by default. - - * "git grep" now knows "--name-only" is a synonym for the "-l" option. - - * "git help <alias>" now reports "'git <alias>' is alias to <what>", - instead of saying "No manual entry for git-<alias>". - - * "git help" can use different backends to show manual pages and this can - be configured using "man.viewer" configuration. - - * "gitk" does not restore window position from $HOME/.gitk anymore (it - still restores the size). - - * "git log --grep=<what>" learned "--fixed-strings" option to look for - <what> without treating it as a regular expression. - - * "git gui" learned an auto-spell checking. - - * "git push <somewhere> HEAD" and "git push <somewhere> +HEAD" works as - expected; they push the current branch (and only the current branch). - In addition, HEAD can be written as the value of "remote.<there>.push" - configuration variable. - - * When the configuration variable "pack.threads" is set to 0, "git - repack" auto detects the number of CPUs and uses that many threads. - - * "git send-email" learned to prompt for passwords - interactively. - - * "git send-email" learned an easier way to suppress CC - recipients. - - * "git stash" learned "pop" command, that applies the latest stash and - removes it from the stash, and "drop" command to discard the named - stash entry. - - * "git submodule" learned a new subcommand "summary" to show the - symmetric difference between the HEAD version and the work tree version - of the submodule commits. - - * Various "git cvsimport", "git cvsexportcommit", "git cvsserver", - "git svn" and "git p4" improvements. - -(internal) - - * Duplicated code between git-help and git-instaweb that - launches user's preferred browser has been refactored. - - * It is now easier to write test scripts that records known - breakages. - - * "git checkout" is rewritten in C. - - * "git remote" is rewritten in C. - - * Two conflict hunks that are separated by a very short span of common - lines are now coalesced into one larger hunk, to make the result easier - to read. - - * Run-command API's use of file descriptors is documented clearer and - is more consistent now. - - * diff output can be sent to FILE * that is different from stdout. This - will help reimplementing more things in C. - -Fixes since v1.5.4 ------------------- - -All of the fixes in v1.5.4 maintenance series are included in -this release, unless otherwise noted. - - * "git-http-push" did not allow deletion of remote ref with the usual - "push <remote> :<branch>" syntax. - - * "git-rebase --abort" did not go back to the right location if - "git-reset" was run during the "git-rebase" session. - - * "git imap-send" without setting imap.host did not error out but - segfaulted. |