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