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* "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
* "git init --bare" is a synonym for "git --bare init" now.
* "git init --bare" is a synonym for "git --bare init" now.
-* "git gc --auto" honors a new pre-aut-gc hook to temporarily disable it.
+* "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
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-rc1
-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 ;-)