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authorJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>2007-04-17 18:03:00 -0700
committerJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>2007-04-17 18:03:00 -0700
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parent86da9dec0af55d8212b37337911cd93214b8f00f (diff)
downloadgit-2c7801bdd194f33879d32bd109031ee3bf7eb632.tar.gz
Update draft release notes for 1.5.2 with accumulated changes.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.2.txt
index 2e3c7bc4f1..d93da608c7 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.2.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.2.txt
@@ -9,6 +9,14 @@ Updates since v1.5.1
- "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]".
+
* Updated behavior of existing commands.
- "git diff --stat" shows size of preimage and postimage blobs
@@ -27,6 +35,12 @@ Updates since v1.5.1
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".
+
* Builds
- git-p4import has never been installed; now there is an
@@ -55,8 +69,30 @@ 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.
+
* 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
@@ -67,10 +103,17 @@ The following are all in v1.5.1.x series, unless otherwise noted.
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.
+
* Performance Tweaks
--
exec >/var/tmp/1
-O=v1.5.1-91-g640ee0d
+O=v1.5.1.1-158-g86da9de
echo O=`git describe refs/heads/master`
git shortlog --no-merges $O..refs/heads/master ^refs/heads/maint