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Update draft release notes for 1.5.5

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Junio C Hamano committed Feb 27, 2008 at 23:39 UTC 97b97c58e609a1cd23b3c2514f41cdb0405870ee
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Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.5.txt
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@@ -26,21 +26,85 @@ Updates since v1.5.4
26 * You can be warned when core.autocrlf conversion is applied in
27 such a way that results in an irreversible conversion.
28
29 + * A catch-all "color.ui" configuration variable can be used to
30 + enable coloring of all color-capable commands, instead of
31 + individual ones such as "color.status" and "color.branch".
32 +
33 + * The commands refused to take absolute pathnames where they
34 + require pathnames relative to the work tree or the current
35 + subdirectory. They now can take absolute pathnames in such a
36 + case as long as the pathnames do not refer outside of the
37 + work tree. E.g. "git add $(pwd)/foo" now works.
38 +
39 + * Error messages used to be sent to stderr, only to get hidden,
40 + when $PAGER was in use. They now are sent to stdout along
41 + with the command output to be shown in the $PAGER.
42 +
43 * A pattern "foo/" in .gitignore file now matches a directory
44 "foo". Pattern "foo" also matches as before.
45
46 + * bash completion's prompt helper function can talk about
47 + operation in-progress (e.g. merge, rebase, etc.).
48 +
49 + * Configuration variables "url.<usethis>.insteadof = <otherurl>" can be
50 + used to tell "git-fetch" and "git-push" to use different URL than what
51 + is given from the command line.
52 +
53 + * "git push <somewhere> HEAD" and "git push <somewhere> +HEAD" works as
54 + expected; they push the current branch (and only the current branch).
55 + In addition, HEAD can be written as the value of "remote.<there>.push"
56 + configuration variable.
57 +
58 + * "git add -i" behaves better even before you make an initial commit.
59 +
60 + * After "git apply --whitespace=fix" fixes whitespace errors in a patch,
61 + a line before the fix can appear as a context or preimage line in a
62 + later patch, causing the patch not to apply. The command now knows to
63 + see through whitespace fixes done to context lines to successfully
64 + apply such a patch series.
65 +
66 + * "git branch" (and "git checkout -b") to branch from a local branch can
67 + optionally set "branch.<name>.merge" to mark the new branch to build on
68 + the other local branch, when "branch.autosetupmerge" is set to
69 + "always". By default, this does not happen when branching from a local
70 + branch.
71 +
72 + * "git checkout" to switch to a branch that has "branch.<name>.merge" set
73 + (i.e. marked to build on another branch) reports how much the branch
74 + and the other branch diverged.
75 +
76 + * When "git checkout" has to update a lot of paths, it used to be silent
77 + for 4 seconds before it showed any progress report. It is now a bit
78 + more impatient and starts showing progress report early.
79 +
80 + * "git commit" learned a new hook "prepare-commit-msg" that can
81 + inspect what is going to be committed and prepare the commit
82 + log message template to be edited.
83 +
84 * "git describe" learned to limit the tags to be used for
85 naming with --match option.
86
87 * "git describe --contains" now barfs when the named commit
88 cannot be described.
89
38 - * bash completion's prompt helper function can talk about
39 - operation in-progress (e.g. merge, rebase, etc.).
90 + * "git describe --exact-match" describes only commits that are tagged.
91
41 - * "git commit" learned a new hook "prepare-commit-msg" that can
42 - inspect what is going to be committed and prepare the commit
43 - log message template to be edited.
92 + * "git diff" learned "--relative" option to limit and output paths
93 + relative to the current directory when working in a subdirectory.
94 +
95 + * "git diff" learned "--dirstat" option to show birds-eye-summary of
96 + changes more concisely than "--diffstat".
97 +
98 + * "git format-patch" learned --cover-letter option to generate a cover
99 + letter template.
100 +
101 + * "git grep" now knows "--name-only" is a synonym for the "-l" option.
102 +
103 + * "git help <alias>" now reports "'git <alias>' is alias to <what>",
104 + instead of saying "No manual entry for git-<alias>".
105 +
106 + * "git log --grep=<what>" learned "--fixed-strings" option to look for
107 + <what> without treating it as a regular expression.
108
109 * "git gui" learned an auto-spell checking.
110
@@ -50,6 +114,9 @@ Updates since v1.5.4
114 * "git send-email" learned an easier way to suppress CC
115 recipients.
116
117 + * When the configuration variable "pack.threads" is set to 0, "git
118 + repack" auto detects the number of CPUs and uses that many threads.
119 +
120 * Various "git cvsimport", "git cvsexportcommit", "git svn" and
121 "git p4" improvements.
122
@@ -61,6 +128,15 @@ Updates since v1.5.4
128 * It is now easier to write test scripts that records known
129 breakages.
130
131 + * "git checkout" is rewritten in C.
132 +
133 + * Two conflict hunks that are separated by a very short span of common
134 + lines are now coalesced into one larger hunk, to make the result easier
135 + to read.
136 +
137 + * Run-command API's use of file descriptors is documented clearer and
138 + is more consistent now.
139 +
140
141 Fixes since v1.5.4
142 ------------------
@@ -68,11 +144,8 @@ Fixes since v1.5.4
144 All of the fixes in v1.5.4 maintenance series are included in
145 this release, unless otherwise noted.
146
71 -
147 ---
148 exec >/var/tmp/1
74 -O=v1.5.4
75 -O=v1.5.4.2-122-g7cb97da
149 +O=v1.5.4.3-339-g7cf7f54
150 echo O=`git describe refs/heads/master`
151 git shortlog --no-merges $O..refs/heads/master ^refs/heads/maint
78 -