Update draft release notes for 1.5.4

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

diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.4.txt
index 133fa64d226d3e1265144c3504c06d6e3f9e8c33..96ec55eb1c2b931b9be174a484e5e8063fa5c34f 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.4.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.4.txt
@@ -6,7 +6,10 @@ Updates since v1.5.3
 
  * Comes with much improved gitk.
 
- * git-reset is now built-in.
+ * "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.
 
@@ -29,6 +32,10 @@ Updates since v1.5.3
    (read: safer than the usual one) after the user accumulates
    too many loose objects.
 
+ * You need to explicitly set clean.requireForce to "false" to allow
+   git-clean to do any damage (lack of the configuration variable
+   used to mean "do not require", but we now use the safer default).
+
  * git-push has been rewritten in C.
 
  * git-push learned --dry-run option to show what would happen
@@ -46,14 +53,71 @@ Updates since v1.5.3
 
  * Various Perforce importer updates.
 
+ * git-lost-found was deprecated in favor of git-fsck's --lost-found
+   option.
+
+ * "git log" learned --early-output option to help interactive
+   GUI implementations.
+
+ * 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.
+
+ * "git checkout" from a subdirectory learned to use "../path"
+   to allow checking out a path outside the current directory
+   without cd'ing up.
+
+ * 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.
+
+ * "git rev-list --objects A..B" choked when the lower boundary
+   of the range involved a subproject.  This fix is also queued
+   for 'maint' (but not in there yet).
+
 --
 exec >/var/tmp/1
-O=v1.5.3.4-450-g952a9e5
+O=v1.5.3.6-727-g5d3d1ca
 echo O=`git describe refs/heads/master`
 git shortlog --no-merges $O..refs/heads/master ^refs/heads/maint