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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.6.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.6.txt index f3256fb82c..32af18b572 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.6.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.6.txt @@ -6,16 +6,30 @@ Updates since v1.5.5 (subsystems) +* Comes with updated gitk and git-gui. (portability) +* git will build on AIX better than before now. + +* core.ignorecase configuration variable can be used to work better on + filesystems that are not case sensitive. + +* "git init" now autodetects the case sensitivity of the filesystem and + sets core.ignorecase accordingly. (performance) +* "git clone" was rewritten in C. This will hopefully help cloning a + repository with insane number of refs. + * "git rebase --onto $there $from $branch" used to switch to the tip of $branch only to immediately reset back to $from, smudging work tree files unnecessarily. This has been optimized. +* Object creation codepath in "git-svn" has been optimized by enhancing + plumbing commands git-cat-file and git-hash-object. + (usability, bells and whistles) * "git add -p" (and the "patch" subcommand of "git add -i") can choose to @@ -23,20 +37,53 @@ Updates since v1.5.5 * "git bisect help" gives longer and more helpful usage information. +* "git bisect" does not use a special branch "bisect" anymore; instead, it + does its work on a detached HEAD. + +* "git branch" (and "git checkout -b") can be told to set up + branch.<name>.rebase automatically, so that later you can say "git pull" + and magically cause "git pull --rebase" to happen. + +* "git branch --merged" and "git branch --no-merged" can be used to list + branches that have already been merged (or not yet merged) to the + current branch. + +* "git cherry-pick" and "git revert" can add a sign-off. + +* "git commit" mentions the author identity when you are committing + somebody else's changes. + * "git diff/log --dirstat" output is consistent between binary and textual changes. +* "git filter-branch" rewrites signed tags by demoting them to annotated. + +* "git format-patch --no-binary" can produce a patch that lack binary + changes (i.e. cannot be used to propagate the whole changes) meant only + for reviewing. + * "git gc --auto" honors a new pre-aut-gc hook to temporarily disable it. * "git log --pretty=tformat:<custom format>" gives a LF after each entry, instead of giving a LF between each pair of entries which is how "git log --pretty=format:<custom format>" works. +* "git log" and friends learned the "--graph" option to show the ancestry + graph at the left margin of the output. + +* "git log" and friends can be told to use date format that is different + from the default via 'log.date' configuration variable. + * "git send-email" now can send out messages outside a git repository. +* "git send-email --compose" was made aware of rfc2047 quoting. + * "git status" can optionally include output from "git submodule summary". +* "git svn" learned --add-author-from option to propagate the authorship + by munging the commit log message. + * "gitweb" can read from a system-wide configuration file. (internal) @@ -54,6 +101,6 @@ this release, unless otherwise noted. -- exec >/var/tmp/1 -O=v1.5.5-56-g5f0734f +O=v1.5.6-rc0 echo O=`git describe refs/heads/master` git shortlog --no-merges $O..refs/heads/master ^refs/heads/maint |