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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.1.txt index f374e1c2c7..f78cf56bc8 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.1.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.1.txt @@ -25,6 +25,21 @@ Updates since v1.5.0 - "git diff --pretty=format:<string>" to allow more flexible custom log output. + - "git diff --no-index" can read from '-' (standard input). + + - "git diff" also learned --exit-code to exit with non-zero + status when it found differences. In the future we might + want to make this the default but that would be a rather big + backward incompatible change; it will stay as an option for + now. + + - "git branch --track" can be used to set up configuration + variables to help it easier to base your work on branches + you track from a remote site. + + - "git format-patch --attach" now emits attachments. Use + --inline to get an inlined multipart/mixed. + - "git name-rev" learned --refs=<pattern>, to limit the tags used for naming the given revisions only to the ones matching the given pattern. @@ -39,6 +54,9 @@ Updates since v1.5.0 - "git bundle" can help sneaker-netting your changes between repositories. + - "git mergetool" can help 3-way file-level conflict + resolution with your favorite graphical merge tools. + - A new configuration "core.symlinks" can be used to disable symlinks on filesystems that do not support them; they are checked out as regular files instead. @@ -46,6 +64,11 @@ Updates since v1.5.0 * Updated behaviour of existing commands. + - "git fsck" does not barf on corrupt loose objects. + + - "git archimport" allows remapping when coming up with git + branch names from arch names. + - git-svn got almost a rewrite. - core.autocrlf configuration, when set to 'true', makes git @@ -99,6 +122,25 @@ Updates since v1.5.0 - "git fetch" (hence "git clone" and "git pull") are less noisy when the output does not go to tty. + - "git fetch" between repositories with many refs were slow + even when there are not many changes that needed + transferring. This has been sped up by partially rewriting + 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. + + - send-email learned configurable bcc and chain-reply-to. + + - Using objects from packs is now seriouly 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 + with pathspecs is made faster by terminating the comparison + between the trees as early as possible. + + * Hooks - The sample update hook to show how to send out notification @@ -106,9 +148,15 @@ Updates since v1.5.0 the repository. Earlier, it showed new commits that appeared on the branch. + +* Others + + - git-revert, git-gc and git-cherry-pick are now built-ins. + + -- exec >/var/tmp/1 -O=v1.5.0.3-268-g3ddad98 +O=v1.5.0.5-446-g5d86501 echo O=`git describe master` git shortlog --no-merges $O..master ^maint |