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+GIT v1.5.2 Release Notes (draft)
+========================
+
+Updates since v1.5.1
+--------------------
+
+* New commands and options.
+
+ - "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
+ for binary contents. Earlier it only said "Bin".
+
+ - "git lost-found" shows stuff that are unreachable except
+ from reflogs.
+
+ - "git checkout branch^0" now detaches HEAD at the tip commit
+ on the named branch, instead of just switching to the
+ branch (use "git checkout branch" to switch to the branch,
+ as before).
+
+ - "git bisect next" can be used after giving only a bad commit
+ without giving a good one (this starts bisection half-way to
+ 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
+ installation option to do so.
+
+ - gitk and git-gui can be configured out.
+
+ - Generated documentation pages automatically get version
+ information from GIT_VERSION
+
+ - Parallel build with "make -j" descending into subdirectory
+ was fixed.
+
+* Performance Tweaks
+
+ - optimized "git-rev-list --bisect" (hence "git-bisect").
+
+ - optimized "git-add $path" in a large directory, most of
+ whose contents are ignored.
+
+
+Fixes since v1.5.1
+------------------
+
+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
+ possible local changes in the directory that is being turned
+ into a file with the switch. We now allow such a branch
+ switch after making sure that there is no locally modified
+ file nor un-ignored file in the directory. This has not
+ 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
+ intrusive change.
+
+* Performance Tweaks
+
+--
+exec >/var/tmp/1
+O=v1.5.1.1-158-g86da9de
+echo O=`git describe refs/heads/master`
+git shortlog --no-merges $O..refs/heads/master ^refs/heads/maint