[ANNOUNCE] qgit-1.5.4

This is mostly a bug fix release. Plus a (big) performance increase when loading a repository (warm cache case).

Data exchange with 'git rev-list' is now based on temporary files instead of Qt QProcess class, this leads to a 40% increase under Linux with a tmpfs filesystem mounted under /tmp, as is common with most distributions. In case of portability issues it is possible to fallback on a standard QProcess based interface. To do this uncomment USE_QPROCESS define in 'src/dataloader.h' before to compile.

NOTE: qgit now uses faster 'git show-ref' instead of 'git peek-remote'
to read the tags so git v1.4.4 or later is required.

NOTE2: qgit is now compiled with -frepo option to remove redundant
template instantations, this leads to a little longer compile time and
some messages from 'collect' tool at the end of compilation. Don't
worry, it's all ok ;-)

Many thanks as usual to Pavel Roskin for help and patches.

Download tarball from http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/qgit or directly from git public repository git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/qgit/qgit.git

Please refer to http://digilander.libero.it/mcostalba/ for additional information.

	Marco

ChangeLog from 1.5.3

- improve load speed of 40% using a temporary file to read from 'git rev-list'

- fix many typos found by aspell, mostly in the comments (Pavel Roskin)

- increase to seven the number of recent repos menu entries

- fix a possible NULL dereferencing spotted by Klockwork K7.5

- fix a warning on 64-bit systems (Pavel Roskin)

- show also load speed as MB/s in status bar

- read file names cache after repository has been loaded. Good speedup 'feeling'

- allow to tag the same revision more then once

- mark with light green tag only current branch

- remove current HEAD from startup tag list. Spotted by Toralf Foerster

- use faster 'git show-ref' instead of 'git peek-remote'. Requires git v1.4.4

- complete rewrite references reading and handling: speedup and cleaner code

- be more user friendly when creating a new action

- quit if unable to parse command line arguments

- fix display issue when commit title length is less then 4

- increase file history list browsing speed

- resolve links also for an abbreviated sha in revision description pane

- fix tree view not correctly updated in rare cases

- fix an issue in file history with revisions that delete a file

- hide tag marker for HEAD also when is under refs/remotes

- compile with -frepo flag to remove duplicated template instances