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Update Release Notes to 1.6.5

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Junio C Hamano 15 years ago
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      Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.5.txt

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Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.5.txt

@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ Updates since v1.6.4 @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ Updates since v1.6.4

(subsystems)

* various updates to git-svn and gitweb.
* various updates to gitk, git-svn and gitweb.

(portability)

@ -41,12 +41,14 @@ Updates since v1.6.4 @@ -41,12 +41,14 @@ Updates since v1.6.4
* mingw will also give FRSX as the default value for the LESS
environment variable when the user does not have one.

* initial support to compile git on Windows with MSVC.

(performance)

* On major platforms, the system can be compiled to use with Linus's
block-sha1 implementation of the SHA-1 hash algorithm, which
outperforms the default fallback implementation we borrowed from
Mozzilla.
Mozilla.

* Unnecessary inefficiency in deepening of a shallow repository has
been removed.
@ -84,12 +86,21 @@ Updates since v1.6.4 @@ -84,12 +86,21 @@ Updates since v1.6.4
* "git am" learned "--scissors" option to allow you to discard early part
of an incoming e-mail.

* "git archive -o output.zip" works without being told what format to
use with an explicit "--format=zip".option.

* "git checkout", "git reset" and "git stash" learned to pick and
choose to use selected changes you made, similar to "git add -p".

* "git clone" learned a "-b" option to pick a HEAD to check out
different from the remote's default branch.

* "git clone" learned --recursive option.

* "git clone" from a local repository on a different filesystem used to
copy individual object files without preserving the old timestamp, giving
them extra lifetime in the new repository until they gc'ed.

* "git commit --dry-run $args" is a new recommended way to ask "what would
happen if I try to commit with these arguments."

@ -155,7 +166,6 @@ Fixes since v1.6.4 @@ -155,7 +166,6 @@ Fixes since v1.6.4

--
exec >/var/tmp/1
O=v1.6.4.2-298-gdf01e7c
O=v1.6.5-rc0-49-g5f2b1e6
O=v1.6.5-rc1-44-ga16753d
echo O=$(git describe master)
git shortlog --no-merges $O..master --not maint

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