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-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.1.txt23
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.1.txt
index f48d816c7b..a5d2dd32ff 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.1.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.1.txt
@@ -90,7 +90,11 @@ Updates since v1.5.0
which does what the name suggests.
-* Updated behaviour of existing commands.
+* Updated behavior of existing commands.
+
+ - "git-merge-recursive" used to barf when there are more than
+ one common ancestors for the merge, and merging them had a
+ rename/rename conflict. This has been fixed.
- "git fsck" does not barf on corrupt loose objects.
@@ -113,10 +117,10 @@ Updates since v1.5.0
allow users to explicitly override this heuristic based on
paths.
- - The behaviour of 'git-apply', when run in a subdirectory,
+ - The behavior of 'git-apply', when run in a subdirectory,
without --index nor --cached were inconsistent with that of
the command with these options. This was fixed to match the
- behaviour with --index. A patch that is meant to be applied
+ behavior with --index. A patch that is meant to be applied
with -p1 from the toplevel of the project tree can be
applied with any custom -p<n> option. A patch that is not
relative to the toplevel needs to be applied with -p<n>
@@ -158,15 +162,17 @@ Updates since v1.5.0
the heaviest parts in C.
- "git mailinfo" which splits an e-mail into a patch and the
- metainformation was rewritten, thanks to Don Zickus. It
- handles nested multipart better.
+ meta-information was rewritten, thanks to Don Zickus. It
+ handles nested multipart better. The command was broken for
+ a brief period on 'master' branch since 1.5.0 but the
+ breakage is fixed now.
- send-email learned configurable bcc and chain-reply-to.
- "git remote show $remote" also talks about branches that
would be pushed if you run "git push remote".
- - Using objects from packs is now seriouly optimized by clever
+ - Using objects from packs is now seriously optimized by clever
use of a cache. This should be most noticeable in git-log
family of commands that involve reading many tree objects.
In addition, traversing revisions while filtering changes
@@ -178,7 +184,8 @@ Updates since v1.5.0
- The part to send out notification e-mails was removed from
the sample update hook, as it was not an appropriate place
- to do so.
+ to do so. The proper place to do this is the new post-receive
+ hook. An example hook has been added to contrib/hooks/.
* Others
@@ -188,7 +195,7 @@ Updates since v1.5.0
--
exec >/var/tmp/1
-O=v1.5.1-rc3-18-ge881192
+O=v1.5.1-rc3-29-gd8b6a1a
echo O=`git describe master`
git shortlog --no-merges $O..master ^maint