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+GIT v1.5.5.2 Release Notes
+==========================
+
+Fixes since v1.5.5.1
+--------------------
+
+ * "git repack -n" was mistakenly made no-op earlier.
+
+ * "git imap-send" wanted to always have imap.host even when use of
+ imap.tunnel made it unnecessary.
+
+ * reflog syntax that uses time e.g. "HEAD@{10 seconds ago}:path" did not
+ stop parsing at the closing "}".
+
+ * "git rev-parse --symbolic-full-name ^master^2" printed solitary "^",
+ but it should print nothing.
+
+ * "git commit" did not detect when it failed to write tree objects.
+
+ * "git fetch" sometimes transferred too many objects unnecessarily.
+
+ * a path specification "a/b" in .gitattributes file should not match
+ "sub/a/b".
+
+ * various gitweb fixes.
+
+Also comes with various documentation updates.
(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
* "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)
--
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
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