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diff --git a/RelNotes-1.5.3.txt b/RelNotes-1.5.3.txt index ef2f95b..e2e809e 100644 --- a/RelNotes-1.5.3.txt +++ b/RelNotes-1.5.3.txt
@@ -4,14 +4,16 @@ Updates since v1.5.2 -------------------- -* An initial interation of Porcelain level superproject support - started to take shape. +* The commit walkers other than http are officially deprecated, + but still supported for now. -* Thee are a handful pack-objects changes to help you cope better with - repositories with pathologically large blobs in them. +* The submodule support has Porcelain layer. + +* There are a handful pack-objects changes to help you cope better + with repositories with pathologically large blobs in them. * For people who need to import from Perforce, a front-end for - fast-import is in contrib/fast-import/ now. + fast-import is in contrib/fast-import/. * Comes with git-gui 0.8.0. @@ -19,10 +21,25 @@ * New commands and options. - - "git log" learned a new option '--follow', to follow + - "git stash" allows you to quickly save away your work in + progress and replay it later on an updated state. + + - "git rebase" learned an "interactive" mode that let you + pick and reorder which commits to rebuild. + + - "git fsck" can save its findings in $GIT_DIR/lost-found, + without a separate invocation of "git lost-found" command. + + - $GIT_WORK_TREE environment variable can be used together with + $GIT_DIR to work in a subdirectory of a working tree that is + not located at "$GIT_DIR/..". + + - "git log" learned a new option "--follow", to follow renaming history of a single file. - - "git-filter-branch" is a reborn cg-admin-rewritehist. + - "git-filter-branch" lets you rewrite the revision history of + the current branch, creating a new branch. You can specify a + number of filters to modify the commits, files and trees. - "git-cvsserver" learned new options (--base-path, --export-all, --strict-paths) inspired by git-daemon. @@ -58,11 +75,15 @@ - "git format-patch" learned --numbered-files option. This may be useful for MH users. + - "git format-patch" learned format.subjectprefix configuration + variable, which serves the same purpose as "--subject-prefix" + option. + - "git tag -n -l" shows tag annotations while listing tags. - "git cvsimport" can optionally use the separate-remote layout. - - "git blame" can be told to see through commits that changes + - "git blame" can be told to see through commits that change whitespaces and indentation levels with "-w" option. - "git send-email" can be told not to thread the messages when @@ -71,8 +92,18 @@ - "git config" learned NUL terminated output format via -z to help scripts. + - "git init -q" makes the command quieter. + * Updated behavior of existing commands. + - "git svn dcommit" retains local merge information. + + - "git config" to set values also honors type flags like --bool + and --int. + + - core.quotepath configuration can be used to make textual git + output to emit most of the characters in the path literally. + - "git mergetool" chooses its backend more wisely, taking notice of its environment such as use of X, Gnome/KDE, etc. @@ -84,7 +115,7 @@ $path/$project/.git are more useful. We use $project part in the filename, which we used to discard. - - "git cvsimort" creates lightweight tag; there is not any + - "git cvsimport" creates lightweight tags; there is no interesting information we can record in an annotated tag, and the handcrafted ones the old code created was not properly formed anyway. @@ -99,9 +130,9 @@ - "git-apply --whitespace=strip" removes blank lines added at the end of the file. - - "git-fetch" over git native protocols with -v shows connection - status, and the IP address of the other end, to help - diagnosing problems. + - "git-fetch" over git native protocols with "-v" option shows + connection status, and the IP address of the other end, to + help diagnosing problems. - We used to have core.legacyheaders configuration, when set to false, allowed git to write loose objects in a format @@ -124,8 +155,8 @@ .gitattributes. It does not attempt to deltify blobs that come from paths with delta attribute set to false. - - new-workdir script (in contrib) can now be used with a bare - repository. + - "new-workdir" script (in contrib) can now be used with a + bare repository. - "git-mergetool" learned to use gvimdiff. @@ -179,6 +210,6 @@ -- exec >/var/tmp/1 -O=v1.5.2.2-603-g7c85173 +O=v1.5.3-rc0 echo O=`git describe refs/heads/master` git shortlog --no-merges $O..refs/heads/master ^refs/heads/maint
