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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.2.txt index d93da60..abecac6 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.2.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.2.txt @@ -4,6 +4,38 @@ GIT v1.5.2 Release Notes (draft) Updates since v1.5.1 -------------------- +* Plumbing level subproject support. + + You can include a subdirectory that has an independent git + repository in your index and tree objects as a + "subproject". This plumbing (i.e. "core") level subproject + support explicitly excludes recursive behaviour. + + The "subproject" entries in the index and trees are + incompatible with older versions of git. Experimenting with + the plumbing level support is encouraged, but be warned that + unless everybody in your project updates to this release or + later, using this feature would make your project + inaccessible by people with older versions of git. + +* Plumbing level gitattributes support. + + The gitattributes mechanism allows you to add 'attributes' to + paths in your project, and affect the way certain git + operations work. Currently you can influence if a path is + considered a binary or text (the former would be treated by + 'git diff' not to produce textual output; the latter can go + through the line endings conversion process in repositories + with core.autocrlf set), and specify a custom 3-way merge + driver. + +* The packfile format now optionally suports 64-bit index. + + This release supports the "version 2" format of the .idx + file. This is automatically enabled when a huge packfile + needs more than 32-bit to express offsets of objects in the + pack + * New commands and options. - "git bisect start" can optionally take a single bad commit and @@ -17,6 +49,10 @@ Updates since v1.5.1 - "git format-patch" learned a new --subject-prefix=<string> option, to override the built-in "[PATCH]". + - "git add -u" is a quick way to do the first stage of "git + commit -a" (i.e. update the index to match the working + tree); it obviously does not make a commit. + * Updated behavior of existing commands. - "git diff --stat" shows size of preimage and postimage blobs @@ -41,6 +77,16 @@ Updates since v1.5.1 - "git archive" does not insist you to give --format parameter anymore; it defaults to "tar". + - "git cvsserver" can use backends other than sqlite. + + - "gitview" (in contrib/ section) learned to better support + "git-annotate". + + - Local "git fetch" from a repository whose object store is + one of the alternates (e.g. fetching from the origin in a + repository created with "git clone -l -s") avoids + downloading objects unnecessary. + * Builds - git-p4import has never been installed; now there is an @@ -65,34 +111,11 @@ Updates since v1.5.1 Fixes since v1.5.1 ------------------ -The following are all in v1.5.1.x series, unless otherwise noted. - -* Documentation updates - - - Various documentation updates from J. Bruce Fields, Frank - Lichtenheld, Alex Riesen and others. Andrew Ruder started a - war on undocumented options. +All of the fixes in v1.5.1 maintenance series are included in +this release, unless otherwise noted. * Bugfixes - - "git diff a/ b/" incorrectly fell in "diff between two - filesystem objects" codepath, when the user most likely - wanted to limit the extent of output to two tracked - directories. - - - git-quiltimport had the same bug as we fixed for - git-applymbox in v1.5.1.1 -- it gave an alarming "did not - have any patch" message (but did not actually fail and was - harmless). - - - various git-svn fixes. - - - Sample update hook incorrectly always refused requests to - delete branches through push. - - - git-blame on a very long working tree path had buffer - overrun problem. - - Switching branches with "git checkout" refused to work when a path changes from a file to a directory between the current branch and the new branch, in order not to lose @@ -110,10 +133,12 @@ The following are all in v1.5.1.x series, unless otherwise noted. will not be backported to 1.5.1.x series, as it is rather an intrusive change. +* Documentation updates + * Performance Tweaks -- exec >/var/tmp/1 -O=v1.5.1.1-158-g86da9de +O=v1.5.1.2-242-g2d76548 echo O=`git describe refs/heads/master` git shortlog --no-merges $O..refs/heads/master ^refs/heads/maint |