@ -9,6 +9,14 @@ Updates since v1.5.1
@@ -9,6 +9,14 @@ Updates since v1.5.1
- "git bisect start" can optionally take a single bad commit and
zero or more good commits on the command line.
- "git shortlog" can optionally be told to wrap its output.
- "subtree" merge strategy allows another project to be merged in as
your subdirectory.
- "git format-patch" learned a new --subject-prefix=<string>
option, to override the built-in "[PATCH]".
* Updated behavior of existing commands.
- "git diff --stat" shows size of preimage and postimage blobs
@ -27,6 +35,12 @@ Updates since v1.5.1
@@ -27,6 +35,12 @@ Updates since v1.5.1
the root commit). We used to refuse to operate without a
good and a bad commit.
- "git push", when pushing into more than one repository, does
not stop at the first error.
- "git archive" does not insist you to give --format parameter
anymore; it defaults to "tar".
* Builds
- git-p4import has never been installed; now there is an
@ -55,8 +69,30 @@ The following are all in v1.5.1.x series, unless otherwise noted.
@@ -55,8 +69,30 @@ The following are all in v1.5.1.x series, unless otherwise noted.
* Documentation updates
- Various documentation updates from J. Bruce Fields, Frank
Lichtenheld, Alex Riesen and others. Andrew Ruder started a
war on undocumented options.
* Bugfixes
- "git diff a/ b/" incorrectly fell in "diff between two
filesystem objects" codepath, when the user most likely
wanted to limit the extent of output to two tracked
directories.
- git-quiltimport had the same bug as we fixed for
git-applymbox in v1.5.1.1 -- it gave an alarming "did not
have any patch" message (but did not actually fail and was
harmless).
- various git-svn fixes.
- Sample update hook incorrectly always refused requests to
delete branches through push.
- git-blame on a very long working tree path had buffer
overrun problem.
- Switching branches with "git checkout" refused to work when
a path changes from a file to a directory between the
current branch and the new branch, in order not to lose
@ -67,10 +103,17 @@ The following are all in v1.5.1.x series, unless otherwise noted.
@@ -67,10 +103,17 @@ The following are all in v1.5.1.x series, unless otherwise noted.
been backported to 1.5.1.x series, as it is rather an
intrusive change.
- Merging branches that have a file in one and a directory in
another at the same path used to get quite confused. We
handle such a case a bit more carefully, even though that is
still left as a conflict for the user to sort out. This
will not be backported to 1.5.1.x series, as it is rather an