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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.3.txt | 36 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.3.txt index 896ff1d95a..785bd38455 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.3.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.3.txt @@ -32,8 +32,9 @@ Updates since v1.5.2 - "git rebase" learned an "interactive" mode that let you pick and reorder which commits to rebuild. - - "git fsck" can save its findings in $GIT_DIR/lost-found, - without a separate invocation of "git lost-found" command. + - "git fsck" can save its findings in $GIT_DIR/lost-found, without a + separate invocation of "git lost-found" command. The blobs stored by + lost-found are stored in plain format to allow you to grep in them. - $GIT_WORK_TREE environment variable can be used together with $GIT_DIR to work in a subdirectory of a working tree that is @@ -49,6 +50,10 @@ Updates since v1.5.2 - "git-cvsserver" learned new options (--base-path, --export-all, --strict-paths) inspired by git-daemon. + - "git-commit" can use "-t templatefile" option and commit.template + configuration variable to prime the commit message given to you in the + editor. + - "git-submodule" command helps you manage the projects from the superproject that contain them. @@ -105,9 +110,30 @@ Updates since v1.5.2 * Updated behavior of existing commands. + - "gitweb" can offer multiple snapshot formats. + + ***NOTE*** Unfortunately, this changes the format of the + $feature{snapshot}{default} entry in the per-site + configuration file 'gitweb_config.perl'. It used to be a + three-element tuple that describe a single format; with the + new configuration item format, you only have to say the name + of the format ('tgz', 'tbz2' or 'zip'). Please update the + your configuration file accordingly. + + - The editor to use with many interactive commands can be + overridden with GIT_EDITOR environment variable, or if it + does not exist, with core.editor configuration variable. As + before, if you have neither, environment variables VISUAL + and EDITOR are consulted in this order, and then finally we + fall back on "vi". + - "git rm --cached" does not complain when removing a newly added file from the index anymore. + - Options to "git log" to affect how --grep/--author options look for + given strings now have shorter abbreviations. -i is for ignore case, + and -E is for extended regexp. + - "git svn dcommit" retains local merge information. - "git config" to set values also honors type flags like --bool @@ -189,6 +215,10 @@ Updates since v1.5.2 git-fast-import (also in contrib). The man page and p4 rpm have been removed as well. + - "git mailinfo" (hence "am") now tries to see if the message + is in utf-8 first, instead of assuming iso-8859-1, if + incoming e-mail does not say what encoding it is in. + * Builds - old-style function definitions (most notably, a function @@ -232,6 +262,6 @@ this release, unless otherwise noted. -- exec >/var/tmp/1 -O=v1.5.3-rc2 +O=v1.5.3-rc3 echo O=`git describe refs/heads/master` git shortlog --no-merges $O..refs/heads/master ^refs/heads/maint |