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author | Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net> | 2010-09-06 20:29:57 -0400 |
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committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2010-09-06 17:41:18 -0700 |
commit | 761e742d69296393804e9a942263e86ece369257 (patch) | |
tree | 024ef23b84b09f8e5b59ec28731fffea4ba2130b /Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.2.txt | |
parent | 7505ae272bad53c6451f34ff5f04ad24f29b6dd9 (diff) | |
download | git-761e742d69296393804e9a942263e86ece369257.tar.gz |
Documentation: move RelNotes into a directory of their own
There are 108 of them already. That's a bit more than one third of
all the files in the Documentation directory already, and still growing.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.2.txt deleted file mode 100644 index e8328d090a..0000000000 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.2.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,197 +0,0 @@ -GIT v1.5.2 Release Notes -======================== - -Updates since v1.5.1 --------------------- - -* Plumbing level superproject support. - - You can include a subdirectory that has an independent git - repository in your index and tree objects of your project - ("superproject"). This plumbing (i.e. "core") level - superproject support explicitly excludes recursive behaviour. - - The "subproject" entries in the index and trees of a superproject - 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), expand and unexpand '$Id$' keyword - with blob object name, specify a custom 3-way merge driver, - and specify a custom diff driver. You can also apply - arbitrary filter to contents on check-in/check-out codepath - but this feature is an extremely sharp-edged razor and needs - to be handled with caution (do not use it unless you - understand the earlier mailing list discussion on keyword - expansion). These conversions apply when checking files in - or out, and exporting via git-archive. - -* The packfile format now optionally supports 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. - -* Comes with an updated git-gui 0.7.1 - -* Updated gitweb: - - - can show combined diff for merges; - - uses font size of user's preference, not hardcoded in pixels; - - can now 'grep'; - -* New commands and options. - - - "git bisect start" can optionally take a single bad commit and - zero or more good commits on the command line. - - - "git shortlog" can optionally be told to wrap its output. - - - "subtree" merge strategy allows another project to be merged in as - your subdirectory. - - - "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. - - - "git clean" honors a new configuration, "clean.requireforce". When - set to true, this makes "git clean" a no-op, preventing you - from losing files by typing "git clean" when you meant to - say "make clean". You can still say "git clean -f" to - override this. - - - "git log" family of commands learned --date={local,relative,default} - option. --date=relative is synonym to the --relative-date. - --date=local gives the timestamp in local timezone. - -* Updated behavior of existing commands. - - - When $GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL or $GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL is not set - but $EMAIL is set, the latter is used as a substitute. - - - "git diff --stat" shows size of preimage and postimage blobs - for binary contents. Earlier it only said "Bin". - - - "git lost-found" shows stuff that are unreachable except - from reflogs. - - - "git checkout branch^0" now detaches HEAD at the tip commit - on the named branch, instead of just switching to the - branch (use "git checkout branch" to switch to the branch, - as before). - - - "git bisect next" can be used after giving only a bad commit - without giving a good one (this starts bisection half-way to - the root commit). We used to refuse to operate without a - good and a bad commit. - - - "git push", when pushing into more than one repository, does - not stop at the first error. - - - "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". - - - "git diff $commit1:$path2 $commit2:$path2" can now report - mode changes between the two blobs. - - - 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 unnecessarily. - - - "git blame" uses .mailmap to canonicalize the author name - just like "git shortlog" does. - - - "git pack-objects" pays attention to pack.depth - configuration variable. - - - "git cherry-pick" and "git revert" does not use .msg file in - the working tree to prepare commit message; instead it uses - $GIT_DIR/MERGE_MSG as other commands do. - -* Builds - - - git-p4import has never been installed; now there is an - installation option to do so. - - - gitk and git-gui can be configured out. - - - Generated documentation pages automatically get version - information from GIT_VERSION. - - - Parallel build with "make -j" descending into subdirectory - was fixed. - -* Performance Tweaks - - - Optimized "git-rev-list --bisect" (hence "git-bisect"). - - - Optimized "git-add $path" in a large directory, most of - whose contents are ignored. - - - Optimized "git-diff-tree" for reduced memory footprint. - - - The recursive merge strategy updated a worktree file that - was changed identically in two branches, when one of them - renamed it. We do not do that when there is no rename, so - match that behaviour. This avoids excessive rebuilds. - - - The default pack depth has been increased to 50, as the - recent addition of delta_base_cache makes deeper delta chains - much less expensive to access. Depending on the project, it was - reported that this reduces the resulting pack file by 10% - or so. - - -Fixes since v1.5.1 ------------------- - -All of the fixes in v1.5.1 maintenance series are included in -this release, unless otherwise noted. - -* Bugfixes - - - 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 - possible local changes in the directory that is being turned - into a file with the switch. We now allow such a branch - switch after making sure that there is no locally modified - file nor un-ignored file in the directory. This has not - been backported to 1.5.1.x series, as it is rather an - intrusive change. - - - Merging branches that have a file in one and a directory in - another at the same path used to get quite confused. We - handle such a case a bit more carefully, even though that is - still left as a conflict for the user to sort out. This - will not be backported to 1.5.1.x series, as it is rather an - intrusive change. - - - git-fetch had trouble with a remote with insanely large number - of refs. - - - "git clean -d -X" now does not remove non-excluded directories. - - - rebasing (without -m) a series that changes a symlink to a directory - in the middle of a path confused git-apply greatly and refused to - operate. |