Documentation: RelNotes-1.5.6: talk about renamed HTML files

[git.git] / Documentation / RelNotes-1.5.6.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.6.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.6.txt
index 32af18b5723a445b7532d1321bbb79df8b530bf6..b22bfa89a8f1f26e6cd469e84b7715fffae58080 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.6.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.6.txt
@@ -18,6 +18,14 @@ Updates since v1.5.5
 * "git init" now autodetects the case sensitivity of the filesystem and
   sets core.ignorecase accordingly.
 
 * "git init" now autodetects the case sensitivity of the filesystem and
   sets core.ignorecase accordingly.
 

+(documentation)
+
+* Many freestanding documentation pages have been converted and made
+  available to "git help" (aka "man git<something>") as section 7 of
+  the manual pages. This means bookmarks to some HTML documentation
+  files may need to be updated (eg "tutorial.html" became
+  "gittutorial.html").
+

 (performance)
 
 * "git clone" was rewritten in C.  This will hopefully help cloning a
 (performance)
 
 * "git clone" was rewritten in C.  This will hopefully help cloning a


@@ -62,7 +70,9 @@ Updates since v1.5.5
   changes (i.e. cannot be used to propagate the whole changes) meant only
   for reviewing.
 
   changes (i.e. cannot be used to propagate the whole changes) meant only
   for reviewing.
 

-* "git gc --auto" honors a new pre-aut-gc hook to temporarily disable it.
+* "git init --bare" is a synonym for "git --bare init" now.
+
+* "git gc --auto" honors a new pre-auto-gc hook to temporarily disable it.

 
 * "git log --pretty=tformat:<custom format>" gives a LF after each entry,
   instead of giving a LF between each pair of entries which is how
 
 * "git log --pretty=tformat:<custom format>" gives a LF after each entry,
   instead of giving a LF between each pair of entries which is how


@@ -84,6 +94,8 @@ Updates since v1.5.5
 * "git svn" learned --add-author-from option to propagate the authorship
   by munging the commit log message.
 
 * "git svn" learned --add-author-from option to propagate the authorship
   by munging the commit log message.
 

+* new object creation and looking up in "git svn" has been optimized.
+

 * "gitweb" can read from a system-wide configuration file.
 
 (internal)
 * "gitweb" can read from a system-wide configuration file.
 
 (internal)


@@ -101,6 +113,6 @@ this release, unless otherwise noted.
 
 --
 exec >/var/tmp/1
 
 --
 exec >/var/tmp/1

-O=v1.5.6-rc0
+O=v1.5.6-rc3

 echo O=`git describe refs/heads/master`
 git shortlog --no-merges $O..refs/heads/master ^refs/heads/maint
 echo O=`git describe refs/heads/master`
 git shortlog --no-merges $O..refs/heads/master ^refs/heads/maint