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Update draft Release Notes for 1.5.3

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Junio C Hamano 18 years ago
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@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ Lars Doelle <lars.doelle@on-line.de> @@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ Lars Doelle <lars.doelle@on-line.de>
Lukas Sandström <lukass@etek.chalmers.se>
Martin Langhoff <martin@catalyst.net.nz>
Michele Ballabio <barra_cuda@katamail.com>
Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@bluebottle.com>
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Ramsay Allan Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
René Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>

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@ -4,14 +4,16 @@ GIT v1.5.3 Release Notes @@ -4,14 +4,16 @@ GIT v1.5.3 Release Notes
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 @@ Updates since v1.5.2 @@ -19,10 +21,25 @@ Updates since v1.5.2

* 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 @@ Updates since v1.5.2 @@ -58,11 +75,15 @@ Updates since v1.5.2
- "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 @@ Updates since v1.5.2 @@ -71,8 +92,18 @@ Updates since v1.5.2
- "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 @@ Updates since v1.5.2 @@ -84,7 +115,7 @@ Updates since v1.5.2
$path/$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 @@ Updates since v1.5.2 @@ -99,9 +130,9 @@ Updates since v1.5.2
- "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 @@ Updates since v1.5.2 @@ -124,8 +155,8 @@ Updates since v1.5.2
.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 @@ this release, unless otherwise noted. @@ -179,6 +210,6 @@ this release, unless otherwise noted.

--
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

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