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 528b26f7c7a6f8476e261040dcffe08d10e331cc..c6953ea5153c77629734570f151aba01e65b4e8f 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.4.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.4.txt
@@ -91,6 +91,16 @@ Updates since v1.5.3
  * "git diff" Porcelain now respects diff.external configuration, which
    is another way to specify GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF.
 
+ * "git diff" can be told to use different prefixes other than
+   "a/" and "b/" e.g. "git diff --src-prefix=l/ --dst-prefix=k/".
+
+ * "git diff" sometimes did not quote paths with funny
+   characters properly.
+
+ * "git log" (and any revision traversal commands) misbehaved
+   when --diff-filter is given but was not asked to actually
+   produce diff.
+
  * HTTP proxy can be specified per remote repository using
    remote.*.httpproxy configuration, or global http.proxy configuration
    variable.
@@ -104,6 +114,9 @@ Updates since v1.5.3
 
  * "git reset" is now built-in and its output can be squelched with -q.
 
+ * "git reset --hard" does not make any sense in a bare
+   repository, but did not error out; fixed.
+
  * "git send-email" can optionally talk over ssmtp and use SMTP-AUTH.
 
  * "git rebase" learned --whitespace option.
@@ -208,6 +221,10 @@ Updates since v1.5.3
  * "git commit --amend" can amend a merge that does not change the tree
    from its first parent.
 
+ * "git commit" used to unconditionally strip comment lines that
+   began with '#' and removed excess blank lines.  This
+   behaviour has been made configurable.
+
  * "git commit" has been rewritten in C.
 
  * "git stash random-text" does not create a new stash anymore.  It was
@@ -251,6 +268,9 @@ Updates since v1.5.3
    reasonable usability fix and people's scripts shouldn't have been
    relying on the exact output from "git show" Porcelain anyway.
 
+ * "git cvsimport" did not notice errors from underlying "cvsps"
+   and produced a corrupt import silently.
+
  * "git cvsexportcommit" learned -w option to specify and switch to the
    CVS working directory.
 
@@ -327,6 +347,6 @@ series.
 
 --
 exec >/var/tmp/1
-O=v1.5.4-rc0-85-gdbedf97
+O=v1.5.4-rc2-37-ge0cd252
 echo O=`git describe refs/heads/master`
 git shortlog --no-merges $O..refs/heads/master ^refs/heads/maint