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 229d773423f9a88a9aefb6594e69b510d054d1bc..96ec55eb1c2b931b9be174a484e5e8063fa5c34f 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.4.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.4.txt
@@ -32,9 +32,9 @@ 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 true to allow
-   git-clean to do any damage now (the configuration variable used
-   to default to false).
+ * 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.
 
@@ -56,6 +56,9 @@ Updates since v1.5.3
  * 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.
@@ -78,6 +81,10 @@ Updates since v1.5.3
  * "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.
 
@@ -105,8 +112,12 @@ 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=v1.5.3.5-736-geb9d2b9
+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