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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.5.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.5.txt index 874dad9a4f..2932212488 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.5.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.5.txt @@ -6,7 +6,16 @@ Updates since v1.5.4 (subsystems) - * Comes with git-gui 0.9.3 + * Comes with git-gui 0.10.1 + +(portability) + + * We shouldn't ask for BSD group ownership semantics by setting g+s bit + on directories on older BSD systems that refuses chmod() by non root + users. BSD semantics is the default there anyway. + + * Bunch of portability improvement patches coming from an effort to port + to Solaris has been applied. (performance) @@ -27,6 +36,9 @@ Updates since v1.5.4 (usability, bells and whistles) + * Bash completion script (in contrib) are aware of more commands and + options. + * You can be warned when core.autocrlf conversion is applied in such a way that results in an irreversible conversion. @@ -54,11 +66,6 @@ Updates since v1.5.4 used to tell "git-fetch" and "git-push" to use different URL than what is given from the command line. - * "git push <somewhere> HEAD" and "git push <somewhere> +HEAD" works as - expected; they push the current branch (and only the current branch). - In addition, HEAD can be written as the value of "remote.<there>.push" - configuration variable. - * "git add -i" behaves better even before you make an initial commit. * "git am" refused to run from a subdirectory without a good reason. @@ -72,8 +79,9 @@ Updates since v1.5.4 * "git branch" (and "git checkout -b") to branch from a local branch can optionally set "branch.<name>.merge" to mark the new branch to build on the other local branch, when "branch.autosetupmerge" is set to - "always". By default, this does not happen when branching from a local - branch. + "always", or when passing the command line option "--track" (this option + was ignored when branching from local branches). By default, this does + not happen when branching from a local branch. * "git checkout" to switch to a branch that has "branch.<name>.merge" set (i.e. marked to build on another branch) reports how much the branch @@ -114,27 +122,52 @@ Updates since v1.5.4 * "git gc" learned --quiet option. + * "git gc" now automatically prunes unreachable objects that are two + weeks old or older. + + * "git gc --auto" can be disabled more easily by just setting gc.auto + to zero. It also tolerates more packfiles by default. + * "git grep" now knows "--name-only" is a synonym for the "-l" option. * "git help <alias>" now reports "'git <alias>' is alias to <what>", instead of saying "No manual entry for git-<alias>". + * "git help" can use different backends to show manual pages and this can + be configured using "man.viewer" configuration. + + * "gitk" does not restore window position from $HOME/.gitk anymore (it + still restores the size). + * "git log --grep=<what>" learned "--fixed-strings" option to look for <what> without treating it as a regular expression. * "git gui" learned an auto-spell checking. + * "git push <somewhere> HEAD" and "git push <somewhere> +HEAD" works as + expected; they push the current branch (and only the current branch). + In addition, HEAD can be written as the value of "remote.<there>.push" + configuration variable. + + * When the configuration variable "pack.threads" is set to 0, "git + repack" auto detects the number of CPUs and uses that many threads. + * "git send-email" learned to prompt for passwords interactively. * "git send-email" learned an easier way to suppress CC recipients. - * When the configuration variable "pack.threads" is set to 0, "git - repack" auto detects the number of CPUs and uses that many threads. + * "git stash" learned "pop" command, that applies the latest stash and + removes it from the stash, and "drop" command to discard the named + stash entry. + + * "git submodule" learned a new subcommand "summary" to show the + symmetric difference between the HEAD version and the work tree version + of the submodule commits. - * Various "git cvsimport", "git cvsexportcommit", "git svn" and - "git p4" improvements. + * Various "git cvsimport", "git cvsexportcommit", "git cvsserver", + "git svn" and "git p4" improvements. (internal) @@ -146,6 +179,8 @@ Updates since v1.5.4 * "git checkout" is rewritten in C. + * "git remote" is rewritten in C. + * Two conflict hunks that are separated by a very short span of common lines are now coalesced into one larger hunk, to make the result easier to read. @@ -153,6 +188,8 @@ Updates since v1.5.4 * Run-command API's use of file descriptors is documented clearer and is more consistent now. + * diff output can be sent to FILE * that is different from stdout. This + will help reimplementing more things in C. Fixes since v1.5.4 ------------------ @@ -166,8 +203,5 @@ this release, unless otherwise noted. * "git-rebase --abort" did not go back to the right location if "git-reset" was run during the "git-rebase" session. ---- -exec >/var/tmp/1 -O=v1.5.4.3-428-g6b48990 -echo O=`git describe refs/heads/master` -git shortlog --no-merges $O..refs/heads/master ^refs/heads/maint + * "git imap-send" without setting imap.host did not error out but + segfaulted. |