GIT 1.6.0-rc3

[git.git] / Documentation / RelNotes-1.6.0.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.txt
index e524d80fbff33a9403b3539cbaedefecf2b1bd9e..9e2e417ef7666eac1e0bbd518d2b22634969048a 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.txt
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ User visible changes
 --------------------
 
 With the default Makefile settings, most of the programs are now
-installed outside your $PATH, except for "git", "gitk", "git-gui" and
+installed outside your $PATH, except for "git", "gitk" and
 some server side programs that need to be accessible for technical
 reasons.  Invoking a git subcommand as "git-xyzzy" from the command
 line has been deprecated since early 2006 (and officially announced in
@@ -28,6 +28,16 @@ introduced in v1.5.2 and v1.4.4.5.  If you want to keep your repositories
 backwards compatible past these versions, set repack.useDeltaBaseOffset
 to false or pack.indexVersion to 1, respectively.
 
+We used to prevent sample hook scripts shipped in templates/ from
+triggering by default by relying on the fact that we install them as
+unexecutable, but on some filesystems, this approach does not work.
+They are now shipped with ".sample" suffix.  If you want to activate
+any of these samples as-is, rename them to drop the ".sample" suffix,
+instead of running "chmod +x" on them.  For example, you can rename
+hooks/post-update.sample to hooks/post-update to enable the sample
+hook that runs update-server-info, in order to make repositories
+friendly to dumb protocols (i.e. HTTP).
+
 GIT_CONFIG, which was only documented as affecting "git config", but
 actually affected all git commands, now only affects "git config".
 GIT_LOCAL_CONFIG, also only documented as affecting "git config" and
@@ -56,11 +66,7 @@ Updates since v1.5.6
   gangs.
 
 * Sample hook scripts shipped in templates/ are now suffixed with
-  *.sample.  We used to prevent them from triggering by default by
-  relying on the fact that we install them as unexecutable, but on
-  some filesystems this approach does not work.  Instead of running
-  "chmod +x" on them, the users who want to activate these samples
-  as-is can now rename them dropping *.sample suffix.
+  *.sample.
 
 * perl's in-place edit (-i) does not work well without backup files on Windows;
   some tests are rewritten to cope with this.
@@ -172,7 +178,7 @@ Updates since v1.5.6
 * git-diff --check now checks leftover merge conflict markers.
 
 * "git-diff -p" learned to grab a better hunk header lines in
-  Pascal/Delphi and Ruby source files, and also pays attention to
+  BibTex, Pascal/Delphi, and Ruby files and also pays attention to
   chapter and part boundary in TeX documents.
 
 * When remote side used to have branch 'foo' and git-fetch finds that now
@@ -186,7 +192,7 @@ Updates since v1.5.6
 
 * fast-import and fast-export learned to export and import gitlinks.
 
-* "gitk" left background process behind after begin asked to dig very deep
+* "gitk" left background process behind after being asked to dig very deep
   history and the user killed the UI; the process is killed when the UI goes
   away now.
 
@@ -248,6 +254,6 @@ this release, unless otherwise noted.
 
 ---
 exec >/var/tmp/1
-O=v1.6.0-rc1-113-gf44bc33
+O=v1.6.0-rc3
 echo O=$(git describe refs/heads/master)
 git shortlog --no-merges $O..refs/heads/master ^refs/heads/maint