v1.5.0 release notes draft updates.

index 69631ad236..535c45eae5 100644 --- a/v1.5.0.txt +++ b/v1.5.0.txt @@ -215,3 +215,27 @@ Updates in v1.5.0 since v1.4.4 series - Better error messages for often used Porcelainish commands. + +* Shallow clones + + - There is a partial support for 'shallow' repositories that + keeps only recent history now. A 'shallow clone' is created + by specifying how deep that truncated history should be. + + Currently a shallow repository has number of limitations: + + - Cloning and fetching _from_ a shallow clone are not + supported (nor tested -- so they might work by accident but + they are not expected to). + + - Pushing from nor into a shallow clone are not expected to + work. + + - Merging inside a shallow repository would work as long as a + merge base is found in the recent history, but otherwise it + will be like merging unrelated histories and may result in + huge conflicts. + + but this would be more than adequate for people who want to + look at near the tip of a big project with a deep history and + send patches in e-mail format.