From: Junio C Hamano Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 06:04:59 +0000 (-0800) Subject: Update draft release notes for 1.5.5 X-Git-Tag: v1.5.5-rc0~78 X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2d3539e87a75b5f93f9e53bf13a60ef67a28ea62;p=git.git Update draft release notes for 1.5.5 Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.5.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.5.txt index 849b6b960..b57fa1eb1 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.5.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.5.txt @@ -4,6 +4,10 @@ GIT v1.5.5 Release Notes Updates since v1.5.4 -------------------- +(subsystems) + + * Comes with git-gui 0.9.3 + (performance) * On platforms with suboptimal qsort(3) implementation, there @@ -57,6 +61,8 @@ Updates since v1.5.4 * "git add -i" behaves better even before you make an initial commit. + * "git am" refused to run from a subdirectory without a good reason. + * After "git apply --whitespace=fix" fixes whitespace errors in a patch, a line before the fix can appear as a context or preimage line in a later patch, causing the patch not to apply. The command now knows to @@ -81,6 +87,8 @@ Updates since v1.5.4 inspect what is going to be committed and prepare the commit log message template to be edited. + * "git cvsimport" can now take more than one -M options. + * "git describe" learned to limit the tags to be used for naming with --match option. @@ -89,6 +97,12 @@ Updates since v1.5.4 * "git describe --exact-match" describes only commits that are tagged. + * "git describe --long" describes a tagged commit as $tag-0-$sha1, + instead of just showing the exact tagname. + + * "git describe" warns when using a tag whose name and path contradict + with each other. + * "git diff" learned "--relative" option to limit and output paths relative to the current directory when working in a subdirectory. @@ -98,6 +112,8 @@ Updates since v1.5.4 * "git format-patch" learned --cover-letter option to generate a cover letter template. + * "git gc" learned --quiet option. + * "git grep" now knows "--name-only" is a synonym for the "-l" option. * "git help " now reports "'git ' is alias to ", @@ -144,8 +160,18 @@ Fixes since v1.5.4 All of the fixes in v1.5.4 maintenance series are included in this release, unless otherwise noted. + * "git-daemon" did not send early errors to syslog. + + * "git-http-push" did not allow deletion of remote ref with the usual + "push :" syntax. + + * "git-log --merge" did not well work with --left-right option. + + * "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=v1.5.4.3-339-g7cf7f54 +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