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Update draft release notes for 1.5.5

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Junio C Hamano 17 years ago
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      Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.5.txt

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@ -26,21 +26,85 @@ Updates since v1.5.4 @@ -26,21 +26,85 @@ Updates since v1.5.4
* You can be warned when core.autocrlf conversion is applied in
such a way that results in an irreversible conversion.

* A catch-all "color.ui" configuration variable can be used to
enable coloring of all color-capable commands, instead of
individual ones such as "color.status" and "color.branch".

* The commands refused to take absolute pathnames where they
require pathnames relative to the work tree or the current
subdirectory. They now can take absolute pathnames in such a
case as long as the pathnames do not refer outside of the
work tree. E.g. "git add $(pwd)/foo" now works.

* Error messages used to be sent to stderr, only to get hidden,
when $PAGER was in use. They now are sent to stdout along
with the command output to be shown in the $PAGER.

* A pattern "foo/" in .gitignore file now matches a directory
"foo". Pattern "foo" also matches as before.

* bash completion's prompt helper function can talk about
operation in-progress (e.g. merge, rebase, etc.).

* Configuration variables "url.<usethis>.insteadof = <otherurl>" can be
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.

* After "git apply --whitespace=fix" fixes whitespace errors in a patch,
a line before the fix can appear as a context or preimage line in a
later patch, causing the patch not to apply. The command now knows to
see through whitespace fixes done to context lines to successfully
apply such a patch series.

* "git branch" (and "git checkout -b") to branch from a local branch can
optionally set "branch.<name>.merge" to mark the new branch to build on
the other local branch, when "branch.autosetupmerge" is set to
"always". By default, this does not happen when branching from a local
branch.

* "git checkout" to switch to a branch that has "branch.<name>.merge" set
(i.e. marked to build on another branch) reports how much the branch
and the other branch diverged.

* When "git checkout" has to update a lot of paths, it used to be silent
for 4 seconds before it showed any progress report. It is now a bit
more impatient and starts showing progress report early.

* "git commit" learned a new hook "prepare-commit-msg" that can
inspect what is going to be committed and prepare the commit
log message template to be edited.

* "git describe" learned to limit the tags to be used for
naming with --match option.

* "git describe --contains" now barfs when the named commit
cannot be described.

* bash completion's prompt helper function can talk about
operation in-progress (e.g. merge, rebase, etc.).
* "git describe --exact-match" describes only commits that are tagged.

* "git commit" learned a new hook "prepare-commit-msg" that can
inspect what is going to be committed and prepare the commit
log message template to be edited.
* "git diff" learned "--relative" option to limit and output paths
relative to the current directory when working in a subdirectory.

* "git diff" learned "--dirstat" option to show birds-eye-summary of
changes more concisely than "--diffstat".

* "git format-patch" learned --cover-letter option to generate a cover
letter template.

* "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 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.

@ -50,6 +114,9 @@ Updates since v1.5.4 @@ -50,6 +114,9 @@ Updates since v1.5.4
* "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.

* Various "git cvsimport", "git cvsexportcommit", "git svn" and
"git p4" improvements.

@ -61,6 +128,15 @@ Updates since v1.5.4 @@ -61,6 +128,15 @@ Updates since v1.5.4
* It is now easier to write test scripts that records known
breakages.

* "git checkout" 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.

* Run-command API's use of file descriptors is documented clearer and
is more consistent now.


Fixes since v1.5.4
------------------
@ -68,11 +144,8 @@ Fixes since v1.5.4 @@ -68,11 +144,8 @@ Fixes since v1.5.4
All of the fixes in v1.5.4 maintenance series are included in
this release, unless otherwise noted.


---
exec >/var/tmp/1
O=v1.5.4
O=v1.5.4.2-122-g7cb97da
O=v1.5.4.3-339-g7cf7f54
echo O=`git describe refs/heads/master`
git shortlog --no-merges $O..refs/heads/master ^refs/heads/maint


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