Merge branch 'maint' to synchronize with 1.5.3.6

[git.git] / Documentation / RelNotes-1.5.4.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.4.txt
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--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.4.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.4.txt
@@ -4,7 +4,12 @@ GIT v1.5.4 Release Notes
 Updates since v1.5.3
 --------------------
 
- * git-reset is now built-in.
+ * Comes with much improved gitk.
+
+ * "progress display" from many commands are a lot nicer to the
+   eye.  Transfer commands show throughput data.
+
+ * git-reset is now built-in and its output can be squelched with -q.
 
  * git-send-email can optionally talk over ssmtp and use SMTP-AUTH.
 
@@ -19,17 +24,89 @@ Updates since v1.5.3
  * git-archive can optionally substitute keywords in files marked with
    export-subst attribute.
 
+ * git-for-each-ref learned %(xxxdate:<dateformat>) syntax to
+   show the various date fields in different formats.
+
+ * git-gc --auto is a low-impact way to automatically run a
+   variant of git-repack that does not lose unreferenced objects
+   (read: safer than the usual one) after the user accumulates
+   too many loose objects.
+
+ * You need to explicitly set clean.requireForce to true to allow
+   git-clean to do any damage now (the configuration variable used
+   to default to false).
+
+ * git-push has been rewritten in C.
+
+ * git-push learned --dry-run option to show what would happen
+   if a push is run.
+
+ * git-remote learned "rm" subcommand.
+
+ * git-rebase --interactive mode can now work on detached HEAD.
+
+ * git-cvsserver can be run via git-shell.
+
+ * git-am and git-rebase are far less verbose.
+
+ * git-pull learned to pass --[no-]ff option to underlying git-merge.
+
  * Various Perforce importer updates.
 
+ * git-lost-found was deprecated in favor of git-fsck's --lost-found
+   option.
+
+ * git-svnimport was removed in favor of git-svn.
+
+ * git-bisect learned "skip" action to mark untestable commits.
+
+ * git-format-patch learned "format.numbered" configuration variable
+   to automatically turn --numbered option on when more than one
+   commits are formatted.
+
+ * git-ls-files learned "--exclude-standard" to use the canned
+   set of exclude files.
+
+ * git-rebase now detaches head during its operation, so after a
+   successful "git rebase" operation, the reflog entry branch@{1}
+   for the current branch points at the commit before the rebase
+   was started.
+
+ * "git-tag -a -f existing" begins the editor session using the
+   existing annotation message.
+
+ * "git cvsexportcommit" learned -w option to specify and switch
+   to the CVS working directory.
+
+ * Output processing for '--pretty=format:<user format>' has
+   been optimized.
+
+ * Rename detection diff family, while detecting exact matches,
+   has been greatly optimized.
+
+ * Example update and post-receive hooks have been improved.
+
+ * In addition there are quite a few internal clean-ups. Notably
+
+   - many fork/exec have been replaced with run-command API,
+     brought from the msysgit effort.
+
+   - introduction and more use of the option parser API.
+
+   - enhancement and more use of the strbuf API.
+
+
 Fixes since v1.5.3
 ------------------
 
 All of the fixes in v1.5.3 maintenance series are included in
 this release, unless otherwise noted.
 
+ * git-svn talking with the SVN over http will correctly quote branch
+   and project names.
+
 --
 exec >/var/tmp/1
-O=v1.5.3.2-99-ge4b2890
+O=v1.5.3.5-736-geb9d2b9
 echo O=`git describe refs/heads/master`
 git shortlog --no-merges $O..refs/heads/master ^refs/heads/maint
-