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Update draft release notes for 1.5.4
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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‎Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.4.txt‎

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GIT v1.5.4 Release Notes
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Removal
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* "git svnimport" was removed in favor of "git svn".
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Deprecation notices
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limitation of the latter. Use of post-update hook will be deprecated
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in future versions of git, perhaps in v1.5.5.
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* "git lost-found" was deprecated in favor of "git fsck"'s --lost-found
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option, and will be removed in the future.
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* "git peek-remote" is deprecated, as "git ls-remote" was written in C
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and works for all transports, and will be removed in the future.
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Updates since v1.5.3
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* Comes with much improved gitk.
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* Comes with git-gui 0.9.0 with i18n.
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* Comes with "git gui" 0.9.0 with i18n.
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* git-lost-found was deprecated in favor of git-fsck's --lost-found
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option.
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* progress display from many commands are a lot nicer to the eye.
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Transfer commands show throughput data.
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* git-peek-remote is deprecated, as git-ls-remote was written in C and
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works for all transports.
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* many commands that pay attention to per-directory .gitignore now do
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so lazily, which makes the usual case go much faster.
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* git-cherry-pick made a misguided attempt to repeat the original
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command line in the generated log message, when told to cherry-pick a
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commit by naming a tag that points at it. It does not anymore.
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* Output processing for '--pretty=format:<user format>' has been
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optimized.
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* "progress display" from many commands are a lot nicer to the
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eye. Transfer commands show throughput data.
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* Rename detection of diff family, while detecting exact matches, has
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been greatly optimized.
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* many commands that pay attention to per-directory .gitignore now do
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so lazily, which makes the usual case go much faster.
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* Rename detection of diff family tries to make more naturally looking
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pairing. Earlier if more than one identical rename sources were
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found in the preimage, they were picked pretty much at random.
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* git-reset is now built-in and its output can be squelched with -q.
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* "git reset" is now built-in and its output can be squelched with -q.
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* git-send-email can optionally talk over ssmtp and use SMTP-AUTH.
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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 rebase" learned --whitespace option.
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* In git-rebase, when you decide not to replay a particular change
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after the command stopped with a conflict, you can say "git-rebase
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* In "git rebase", when you decide not to replay a particular change
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after the command stopped with a conflict, you can say "git rebase
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--skip" without first running "git reset --hard", as the command now
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runs it for you.
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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-merge can call the "post-merge" hook.
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* "git pack-objects" can optionally run deltification with multiple
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threads.
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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
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* "git archive" can optionally substitute keywords in files marked with
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export-subst attribute.
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* git-for-each-ref learned %(xxxdate:<dateformat>) syntax to
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show the various date fields in different formats.
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* "git cherry-pick" made a misguided attempt to repeat the original
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command line in the generated log message, when told to cherry-pick a
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commit by naming a tag that points at it. It does not anymore.
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* git-gc --auto is a low-impact way to automatically run a
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variant of git-repack that does not lose unreferenced objects
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(read: safer than the usual one) after the user accumulates
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too many loose objects.
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* "git for-each-ref" learned %(xxxdate:<dateformat>) syntax to show the
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various date fields in different formats.
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* You need to explicitly set clean.requireForce to "false" to allow
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git-clean without -f to do any damage (lack of the configuration
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variable used to mean "do not require", but we now use the safer
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default).
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* "git gc --auto" is a low-impact way to automatically run a variant of
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"git repack" that does not lose unreferenced objects (read: safer
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than the usual one) after the user accumulates too many loose
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objects.
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* git-clean has been rewritten in C.
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* You need to explicitly set clean.requireForce to "false" to allow
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"git clean" without -f to do any damage (lack of the configuration
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variable used to mean "do not require -f option to lose untracked
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files", but we now use the safer default).
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* git-push has been rewritten in C.
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* "git clean" has been rewritten in C.
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* git-push learned --dry-run option to show what would happen
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if a push is run.
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* "git push" learned --dry-run option to show what would happen if a
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push is run.
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* git-push does not update a tracking ref on the pushing side when the
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* "git push" does not update a tracking ref on the local side when the
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* git-push learned --mirror option. This is to push the local refs
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* "git push" learned --mirror option. This is to push the local refs
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one-to-one to the remote, and deletes refs from the remote that do
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* git-remote learned "rm" subcommand.
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* "git remote" knows --mirror mode. This is to set up configuration to
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push into a remote repository to store local branch heads to the same
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branch on the remote side, and remove branch heads locally removed
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from local repository at the same time. Suitable for pushing into a
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back-up repository.
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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 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 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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* "git pull" learned to pass --[no-]ff option to underlying "git
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* "git log" learned --early-output option to help interactive
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GUI implementations.
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* "git log" learned --early-output option to help interactive GUI
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* "git bisect" learned "skip" action to mark untestable commits.
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* "git format-patch" learned "format.numbered" configuration variable
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to automatically turn --numbered option on when more than one commits
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commits are formatted.
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* "git ls-files" learned "--exclude-standard" to use the canned set of
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set of exclude files.
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* "git rebase" now detaches head during its operation, so after a
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successful "git rebase" operation, the reflog entry branch@{1} for
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successful "git rebase" operation, the reflog entry branch@{1}
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* "git tag -a -f existing" begins the editor session using the existing
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* "git-tag -a -f existing" begins the editor session using the
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existing annotation message.
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* "git tag -m one -m bar" (multiple -m options) behaves similarly to
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"git commit"; the parameters to -m options are formatted as separate
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* "git cvsexportcommit" learned -w option to specify and switch to the
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without cd'ing up.
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* "git checkout" from a subdirectory learned to use "../path" to allow
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checking out a path outside the current directory without cd'ing up.
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