api-run-command.txt: talk about run_hook()

[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..e143d8d61be1bb2fac024b5d5f270b33f4f898d4 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.6.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.6.txt
@@ -18,6 +18,16 @@ 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.
 

+* cpio is no longer used; neither "curl" binary (libcurl is still used).
+
+(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 +72,9 @@ 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 +96,8 @@ 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)


@@ -98,9 +112,4 @@ Fixes since v1.5.5
 All of the fixes in v1.5.5 maintenance series are included in
 this release, unless otherwise noted.
 
 All of the fixes in v1.5.5 maintenance series are included in
 this release, unless otherwise noted.
 

-
---
-exec >/var/tmp/1
-O=v1.5.6-rc0
-echo O=`git describe refs/heads/master`
-git shortlog --no-merges $O..refs/heads/master ^refs/heads/maint
+And there are too numerous small fixes to otherwise note here ;-)