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Update draft release notes for 1.5.4

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Junio C Hamano 18 years ago
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Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.4.txt

@ -4,7 +4,8 @@ GIT v1.5.4 Release Notes @@ -4,7 +4,8 @@ GIT v1.5.4 Release Notes
Removal
-------

* "git svnimport" was removed in favor of "git svn".
* "git svnimport" was removed in favor of "git svn". It is still there
in the source tree (contrib/examples) but unsupported.


Deprecation notices
@ -48,7 +49,10 @@ Updates since v1.5.3 @@ -48,7 +49,10 @@ Updates since v1.5.3

* Comes with much improved gitk.

* Comes with "git gui" 0.9.0 with i18n.
* Comes with "git gui" 0.9.1 with i18n.

* gitk is now merged as a subdirectory of git.git project, in
preparation for its i18n.

* progress display from many commands are a lot nicer to the eye.
Transfer commands show throughput data.
@ -66,6 +70,21 @@ Updates since v1.5.3 @@ -66,6 +70,21 @@ Updates since v1.5.3
pairing. Earlier if more than one identical rename sources were
found in the preimage, they were picked pretty much at random.

* Value "true" for color.diff and color.status configuration used to
mean "always" (even when the output is not going to a terminal).
This has been corrected to mean the same thing as "auto".

* HTTP proxy can be specified per remote repository using
remote.*.httpproxy configuration, or global http.proxy configuration
variable.

* Various Perforce importer updates.

* Example update and post-receive hooks have been improved.

* Any command that wants to take a commit object name can now use
":/string" syntax to name a commit.

* "git reset" is now built-in and its output can be squelched with -q.

* "git send-email" can optionally talk over ssmtp and use SMTP-AUTH.
@ -77,6 +96,15 @@ Updates since v1.5.3 @@ -77,6 +96,15 @@ Updates since v1.5.3
--skip" without first running "git reset --hard", as the command now
runs it for you.

* "git rebase --interactive" mode can now work on detached HEAD.

* "git rebase" now detaches head during its operation, so after a
successful "git rebase" operation, the reflog entry branch@{1} for
the current branch points at the commit before the rebase was
started.

* "git rebase -i" also triggers rerere to help your repeated merges.

* "git merge" can call the "post-merge" hook.

* "git pack-objects" can optionally run deltification with multiple
@ -97,13 +125,13 @@ Updates since v1.5.3 @@ -97,13 +125,13 @@ Updates since v1.5.3
than the usual one) after the user accumulates too many loose
objects.

* "git clean" has been rewritten in C.

* You need to explicitly set clean.requireForce to "false" to allow
"git clean" without -f to do any damage (lack of the configuration
variable used to mean "do not require -f option to lose untracked
files", but we now use the safer default).

* "git clean" has been rewritten in C.

* "git push" learned --dry-run option to show what would happen if a
push is run.

@ -114,6 +142,9 @@ Updates since v1.5.3 @@ -114,6 +142,9 @@ Updates since v1.5.3
one-to-one to the remote, and deletes refs from the remote that do
not exist anymore in the repository on the pushing side.

* "git push" can remove a corrupt ref at the remote site with the usual
":ref" refspec.

* "git remote" knows --mirror mode. This is to set up configuration to
push into a remote repository to store local branch heads to the same
branch on the remote side, and remove branch heads locally removed
@ -122,8 +153,6 @@ Updates since v1.5.3 @@ -122,8 +153,6 @@ Updates since v1.5.3

* "git remote" learned "rm" subcommand.

* "git rebase --interactive" mode can now work on detached HEAD.

* "git cvsserver" can be run via "git shell".

* "git am" and "git rebase" are far less verbose.
@ -131,7 +160,28 @@ Updates since v1.5.3 @@ -131,7 +160,28 @@ Updates since v1.5.3
* "git pull" learned to pass --[no-]ff option to underlying "git
merge".

* Various Perforce importer updates.
* "git pull --rebase" is a different way to integrate what you fetched
into your current branch.

* "git fast-export" produces datastream that can be fed to fast-import
to reproduce the history recorded in a git repository.

* "git commit --allow-empty" allows you to create a single-parent
commit that records the same tree as its parent, overriding the usual
safety valve.

* "git commit --amend" can amend a merge that does not change the tree
from its first parent.

* "git stash random-text" does not create a new stash anymore. It was
a UI mistake. Use "git stash save random-text", or "git stash"
(without extra args) for that.

* "git prune --expire <time>" can exempt young loose objects from
getting pruned.

* "git branch --contains <commit>" can list branches that are
descendants of a given commit.

* "git log" learned --early-output option to help interactive GUI
implementations.
@ -145,11 +195,6 @@ Updates since v1.5.3 @@ -145,11 +195,6 @@ Updates since v1.5.3
* "git ls-files" learned "--exclude-standard" to use the canned set of
exclude files.

* "git rebase" now detaches head during its operation, so after a
successful "git rebase" operation, the reflog entry branch@{1} for
the current branch points at the commit before the rebase was
started.

* "git tag -a -f existing" begins the editor session using the existing
annotation message.

@ -182,14 +227,6 @@ Updates since v1.5.3 @@ -182,14 +227,6 @@ Updates since v1.5.3
* "git checkout" from and to detached HEAD leaves a bit more
information in the reflog.

* "git branch" learned --contains option, to show only branches that
can reach a given commit.

* Example update and post-receive hooks have been improved.

* "git push" can remove a corrupt ref at the remote site with the usual
":ref" refspec.

* In addition there are quite a few internal clean-ups. Notably

- many fork/exec have been replaced with run-command API,
@ -214,6 +251,6 @@ series. @@ -214,6 +251,6 @@ series.

--
exec >/var/tmp/1
O=v1.5.3.7-966-g6bda21b
O=v1.5.3.7-1003-gf38ca7c
echo O=`git describe refs/heads/master`
git shortlog --no-merges $O..refs/heads/master ^refs/heads/maint

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