Update draft release notes for 1.5.5
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This commit is contained in:
parent
c817faabd7
commit
7092882c84
@ -6,7 +6,16 @@ Updates since v1.5.4
|
||||
|
||||
(subsystems)
|
||||
|
||||
* Comes with git-gui 0.9.3
|
||||
* Comes with git-gui 0.9.3.
|
||||
|
||||
(portability)
|
||||
|
||||
* We shouldn't ask for BSD group ownership semantics by setting g+s bit
|
||||
on directories on older BSD systems that refuses chmod() by non root
|
||||
users. BSD semantics is the default there anyway.
|
||||
|
||||
* Bunch of portability improvement patches coming from an effort to port
|
||||
to Solaris has been applied.
|
||||
|
||||
(performance)
|
||||
|
||||
@ -27,6 +36,9 @@ Updates since v1.5.4
|
||||
|
||||
(usability, bells and whistles)
|
||||
|
||||
* Bash completion script (in contrib) are aware of more commands and
|
||||
options.
|
||||
|
||||
* You can be warned when core.autocrlf conversion is applied in
|
||||
such a way that results in an irreversible conversion.
|
||||
|
||||
@ -54,11 +66,6 @@ Updates since v1.5.4
|
||||
used to tell "git-fetch" and "git-push" to use different URL than what
|
||||
is given from the command line.
|
||||
|
||||
* "git push <somewhere> HEAD" and "git push <somewhere> +HEAD" works as
|
||||
expected; they push the current branch (and only the current branch).
|
||||
In addition, HEAD can be written as the value of "remote.<there>.push"
|
||||
configuration variable.
|
||||
|
||||
* "git add -i" behaves better even before you make an initial commit.
|
||||
|
||||
* "git am" refused to run from a subdirectory without a good reason.
|
||||
@ -114,24 +121,46 @@ Updates since v1.5.4
|
||||
|
||||
* "git gc" learned --quiet option.
|
||||
|
||||
* "git gc" now automatically prunes unreachable objects that are two
|
||||
weeks old or older.
|
||||
|
||||
* "git grep" now knows "--name-only" is a synonym for the "-l" option.
|
||||
|
||||
* "git help <alias>" now reports "'git <alias>' is alias to <what>",
|
||||
instead of saying "No manual entry for git-<alias>".
|
||||
|
||||
* "git help" can use different backends to show manual pages and this can
|
||||
be configured using "man.viewer" configuration.
|
||||
|
||||
* "gitk" does not restore window position from $HOME/.gitk anymore (it
|
||||
still restores the size).
|
||||
|
||||
* "git log --grep=<what>" learned "--fixed-strings" option to look for
|
||||
<what> without treating it as a regular expression.
|
||||
|
||||
* "git gui" learned an auto-spell checking.
|
||||
|
||||
* "git push <somewhere> HEAD" and "git push <somewhere> +HEAD" works as
|
||||
expected; they push the current branch (and only the current branch).
|
||||
In addition, HEAD can be written as the value of "remote.<there>.push"
|
||||
configuration variable.
|
||||
|
||||
* When the configuration variable "pack.threads" is set to 0, "git
|
||||
repack" auto detects the number of CPUs and uses that many threads.
|
||||
|
||||
* "git send-email" learned to prompt for passwords
|
||||
interactively.
|
||||
|
||||
* "git send-email" learned an easier way to suppress CC
|
||||
recipients.
|
||||
|
||||
* When the configuration variable "pack.threads" is set to 0, "git
|
||||
repack" auto detects the number of CPUs and uses that many threads.
|
||||
* "git stash" learned "pop" command, that applies the latest stash and
|
||||
removes it from the stash, and "drop" command to discard the named
|
||||
stash entry.
|
||||
|
||||
* "git submodule" learned a new subcommand "summary" to show the
|
||||
symmetric difference between the HEAD version and the work tree version
|
||||
of the submodule commits.
|
||||
|
||||
* Various "git cvsimport", "git cvsexportcommit", "git svn" and
|
||||
"git p4" improvements.
|
||||
@ -146,6 +175,8 @@ Updates since v1.5.4
|
||||
|
||||
* "git checkout" is rewritten in C.
|
||||
|
||||
* "git remote" is rewritten in C.
|
||||
|
||||
* Two conflict hunks that are separated by a very short span of common
|
||||
lines are now coalesced into one larger hunk, to make the result easier
|
||||
to read.
|
||||
@ -153,6 +184,8 @@ Updates since v1.5.4
|
||||
* Run-command API's use of file descriptors is documented clearer and
|
||||
is more consistent now.
|
||||
|
||||
* diff output can be sent to FILE * that is different from stdout. This
|
||||
will help reimplementing more things in C.
|
||||
|
||||
Fixes since v1.5.4
|
||||
------------------
|
||||
@ -168,6 +201,6 @@ this release, unless otherwise noted.
|
||||
|
||||
---
|
||||
exec >/var/tmp/1
|
||||
O=v1.5.4.3-428-g6b48990
|
||||
O=v1.5.4.4-620-gc817faa
|
||||
echo O=`git describe refs/heads/master`
|
||||
git shortlog --no-merges $O..refs/heads/master ^refs/heads/maint
|
||||
|
Loading…
Reference in New Issue
Block a user