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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.2.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000..abecac6de --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.2.txt @@ -0,0 +1,144 @@ +GIT v1.5.2 Release Notes (draft) +======================== + +Updates since v1.5.1 +-------------------- + +* Plumbing level subproject support. + + You can include a subdirectory that has an independent git + repository in your index and tree objects as a + "subproject". This plumbing (i.e. "core") level subproject + support explicitly excludes recursive behaviour. + + The "subproject" entries in the index and trees are + incompatible with older versions of git. Experimenting with + the plumbing level support is encouraged, but be warned that + unless everybody in your project updates to this release or + later, using this feature would make your project + inaccessible by people with older versions of git. + +* Plumbing level gitattributes support. + + The gitattributes mechanism allows you to add 'attributes' to + paths in your project, and affect the way certain git + operations work. Currently you can influence if a path is + considered a binary or text (the former would be treated by + 'git diff' not to produce textual output; the latter can go + through the line endings conversion process in repositories + with core.autocrlf set), and specify a custom 3-way merge + driver. + +* The packfile format now optionally suports 64-bit index. + + This release supports the "version 2" format of the .idx + file. This is automatically enabled when a huge packfile + needs more than 32-bit to express offsets of objects in the + pack + +* New commands and options. + + - "git bisect start" can optionally take a single bad commit and + zero or more good commits on the command line. + + - "git shortlog" can optionally be told to wrap its output. + + - "subtree" merge strategy allows another project to be merged in as + your subdirectory. + + - "git format-patch" learned a new --subject-prefix=<string> + option, to override the built-in "[PATCH]". + + - "git add -u" is a quick way to do the first stage of "git + commit -a" (i.e. update the index to match the working + tree); it obviously does not make a commit. + +* Updated behavior of existing commands. + + - "git diff --stat" shows size of preimage and postimage blobs + for binary contents. Earlier it only said "Bin". + + - "git lost-found" shows stuff that are unreachable except + from reflogs. + + - "git checkout branch^0" now detaches HEAD at the tip commit + on the named branch, instead of just switching to the + branch (use "git checkout branch" to switch to the branch, + as before). + + - "git bisect next" can be used after giving only a bad commit + without giving a good one (this starts bisection half-way to + the root commit). We used to refuse to operate without a + good and a bad commit. + + - "git push", when pushing into more than one repository, does + not stop at the first error. + + - "git archive" does not insist you to give --format parameter + anymore; it defaults to "tar". + + - "git cvsserver" can use backends other than sqlite. + + - "gitview" (in contrib/ section) learned to better support + "git-annotate". + + - Local "git fetch" from a repository whose object store is + one of the alternates (e.g. fetching from the origin in a + repository created with "git clone -l -s") avoids + downloading objects unnecessary. + +* Builds + + - git-p4import has never been installed; now there is an + installation option to do so. + + - gitk and git-gui can be configured out. + + - Generated documentation pages automatically get version + information from GIT_VERSION + + - Parallel build with "make -j" descending into subdirectory + was fixed. + +* Performance Tweaks + + - optimized "git-rev-list --bisect" (hence "git-bisect"). + + - optimized "git-add $path" in a large directory, most of + whose contents are ignored. + + +Fixes since v1.5.1 +------------------ + +All of the fixes in v1.5.1 maintenance series are included in +this release, unless otherwise noted. + +* Bugfixes + + - Switching branches with "git checkout" refused to work when + a path changes from a file to a directory between the + current branch and the new branch, in order not to lose + possible local changes in the directory that is being turned + into a file with the switch. We now allow such a branch + switch after making sure that there is no locally modified + file nor un-ignored file in the directory. This has not + been backported to 1.5.1.x series, as it is rather an + intrusive change. + + - Merging branches that have a file in one and a directory in + another at the same path used to get quite confused. We + handle such a case a bit more carefully, even though that is + still left as a conflict for the user to sort out. This + will not be backported to 1.5.1.x series, as it is rather an + intrusive change. + +* Documentation updates + +* Performance Tweaks + +-- +exec >/var/tmp/1 +O=v1.5.1.2-242-g2d76548 +echo O=`git describe refs/heads/master` +git shortlog --no-merges $O..refs/heads/master ^refs/heads/maint |