X-Git-Url: https://git.tokkee.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2FRelNotes-1.5.6.txt;h=e143d8d61be1bb2fac024b5d5f270b33f4f898d4;hb=934c042c9cf09a14762b3fa094f1ba15ec721161;hp=1855cf39231a7b8139b5a1c9fb7d3a2543abdf28;hpb=02c17196e323d64b2062eb90b661ff3c65de1a07;p=git.git diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.6.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.6.txt index 1855cf392..e143d8d61 100644 --- 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. +* 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") 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 @@ -64,7 +74,7 @@ Updates since v1.5.5 * "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:" gives a LF after each entry, instead of giving a LF between each pair of entries which is how @@ -102,9 +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. - --- -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 ;-)