GIT v0.99.5 Many changes all over: - pulling from packed repository. - cvsimport. - documentation coverage. - usability. - terminology clarification. - hooks for updates and commits. - updated gitk. - multi-head push, fetch, pull, octopus merge. - faster merge-base. - git from subdirectories. - build procedure cleanups. -------------------------------------- Brad Roberts: fix null TZ problems on os/x Chris Wright: Make tools use DESTDIR as well (otherwise rpm build is broken). Daniel Barkalow: Fix parallel pull dependancy tracking. Also parse objects we already have Add function to read an index file from an arbitrary filename. Support packs in local-pull Greg Louis: use it's and its correctly in documentation David K?gedal: Fixed two bugs in git-cvsimport-script. James Bottomley: fix git-checkout-cache segfault on parisc Jason Riedy: Spell __attribute__ correctly in cache.h. Johannes Schindelin: Add "--sign" option to git-format-patch-script Make git-format-patch's signoff option more consistent When copying or renaming, keep the mode, please Also handle CVS branches with a '/' in their name Add GIT glossary Assorted changes to glossary Add Makefile target glossary.html Updates to glossary Josef Weidendorfer: Fixed/Extended example for update hook Junio C Hamano: Start preparing for 0.99.5 merge-base.c: pathological case fix. String comparison of test is done with '=', not '=='. Clean generated deb files. Update unpack-objects usage and documentation. fetch-pack: start multi-head pulling. Clean generated files a bit more, to cope with Debian build droppings. Make tools/ directory first-class citizen. Adjust binary packaging to dest=>DESTDIR change. Fix debianization: mark git-tk architecture neutral. Add --signoff and --verify option to git commit. Add SubmittingPatches Documentation updates. Alternate object pool mechanism updates. Add cheap local clone '-s' flag to git-clone-script Add git-show-branches-script Show which branch you are on in git-status output. Keep excellent tutorial for using topic branches by Tony Luck Audit rev-parse users. clean up git script Add documentation for git repack and git-prune-packed. Tentative fix to git-commit-script Fix local pull that uses packs. Reformat git-show-branches-script documentation. Add a bit more links to the commands to the main git(7) page. git-format-patch fixes. Use LF and allow comments in objects/info/alternates file. Teach applymbox to keep the Subject: line. Add --symbolic flag to git-rev-parse. Pass options to underlying git-rev-list from show-branches. git-commit: pass explicit path to git-diff-files. Fix git-commit without paths. Make sure alternates are carried over from the original repository. Make rebase script saner. Stupid typo fix for git rebase. Link the glossary document from the main manual. Also make git-rebase-script stricter about dirty working tree. Fix __attribute__ changes. Allow file removal when "git commit --all" is used. Add commit hook and make the verification customizable. Add hooks to tools/git-applypatch. Call prune-packed from "git prune" as well. Make sample pre-commit hook output Emacs friendly. git-resolve: dying is good, not showing help is bad. Create objects/info/ directory in init-db. sha1_name: do not accept .git/refs/snap/. Fix "git-diff-script A B" Add a new extended SHA1 syntax <name>~<num> Add 'git show-branch'. Clean-up output from "git show-branch" and document it. Introduce "reset type" flag to "git reset" Add placeholders for missing documents. Update git-diff-script. Tutorial updates. Try to find the optimum merge base while resolving. Link the tutorial from the main document. Generate pack info file after repack. Rationalize output selection in rev-parse. Audit rev-parse users again. Start adding the $GIT_DIR/remotes/ support. Multi-head fetch. Retire git-parse-remote. Infamous 'octopus merge' Make "git pull" and "git fetch" default to origin Use .git/remote/origin, not .git/branches/origin. "git fetch --force". Use git-octopus when pulling more than one heads. Allow "+remote:local" refspec to cause --force when fetching. Support +<src>:<dst> format in push as well. Documentation: multi-head fetch. Update tutorial to describe shared repository style a bit more. Fix markup minimally to get man pages built. Kalle Valo: Change git-branch to list branches Kris Shannon: Be consistent in naming of remote heads Linus Torvalds: Speed up git-merge-base a lot Make sure git-resolve-script always works on commits Make get_sha1_basic() more careful Make "git diff" work inside relative subdirectories Fix test failure due to overly strict .git directory tests Improve handling of "." and ".." in git-diff-* Export relative path handling "prefix_path()" function Make git-update-cache take relative pathnames git-applymbox: verify that index is clean Make "git-ls-files" work in subdirectories git-ls-files: generalized pathspecs Fix git-rev-parse --default and --flags handling Make "git-rev-list" work within subdirectories Fix silly pathspec bug in git-ls-files Marco Costalba: Let git-format-patch-script write on stdout Fix git-format-patch-script to handle empty messages Fix git-commit-script to output on stderr when -v fails Martin Langhoff: Add -k kill keyword expansion option to git-cvsimport - revised Add merge detection to git-cvsimport git-cvsimport - remove hardcoded reference to origin Matt Draisey: Make do_each_ref() follow symlinks. Matthias Urlichs: Debian packaging fixes. Debianization updates cvsgit fixes: spaces in filenames and CVS server dialog woes Paul Mackerras: Refine the update heuristic to improve responsiveness a bit. Add graft support. Allow graph lines to jump through hyperspace. Use the --parents flag to git-rev-list. Fix a bug where commits with no children weren't marked as on-screen. Save the maxwidth setting in the ~/.gitk file. Added re-read refs command, and display all refs. Display the contents of a tag when the user clicks on it. Pavel Roskin: Missing test_done Need to set PAGER in tests Trapping exit in tests, using return for errors Trapping exit in tests, using return for errors: further fixes. Make CFLAGS overridable from make command line. Fix "prefix" mixup in git-rev-list Petr Baudis: Use $DESTDIR instead of $dest Unify Makefile indentation Ryan Anderson: Add some simple howtos, culled from the mailing list. Sergey Vlasov: git-rev-list: avoid crash on broken repository Tony Luck: updates for Documentation/howto/using-topic-branches.txt Fix git-checkout-script exit status Yasushi SHOJI: plug memory leak in diff.c::diff_free_filepair() Run Ispell through git.txt possible memory leak in diff.c::diff_free_filepair()