From: Jeff King Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 12:11:25 +0000 (-0500) Subject: clean up 1.5.4 release notes X-Git-Tag: v1.5.4-rc2~25 X-Git-Url: https://asedeno.scripts.mit.edu/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6a7f14c4651f9773eb5e7e8111721a979ce2a64c;p=git.git clean up 1.5.4 release notes Mostly typo and small grammatical fixes with one or two rewordings for clarity. But note the important fix for status.relativepaths. Signed-off-by: Jeff King Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.4.txt index fb521c3fa..528b26f7c 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.4.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.4.txt @@ -14,28 +14,28 @@ Removal Deprecation notices ------------------- - * Next feature release of git (this change is scheduled for v1.6.0) + * The next feature release of git (this change is scheduled for v1.6.0) will by default install dashed form of commands (e.g. "git-commit") outside of users' normal $PATH, and will install only selected commands ("git" itself, and "gitk") in $PATH. This implies: - - Using dashed form of git commands (e.g. "git-commit") from the + - Using dashed forms of git commands (e.g. "git-commit") from the command line has been informally deprecated since early 2006, but now it officially is, and will be removed in the future. Use - dashless form (e.g. "git commit") instead. + dashless forms (e.g. "git commit") instead. - - Using dashed from from your scripts, without first prepending the + - Using dashed forms from your scripts, without first prepending the return value from "git --exec-path" to the scripts' PATH, has been informally deprecated since early 2006, but now it officially is. - - Use of dashed form with "PATH=$(git --exec-path):$PATH; export + - Use of dashed forms with "PATH=$(git --exec-path):$PATH; export PATH" early in your script is not deprecated with this change. Users are strongly encouraged to adjust their habits and scripts now to prepare for this. * The post-receive hook was introduced in March 2007 to supersede - post-update hook, primarily to overcome the command line length + the post-update hook, primarily to overcome the command line length limitation of the latter. Use of post-update hook will be deprecated in future versions of git, starting from v1.6.0. @@ -43,10 +43,11 @@ Deprecation notices option, and will be removed in the future. * "git peek-remote" is deprecated, as "git ls-remote" was written in C - and works for all transports, and will be removed in the future. + and works for all transports; "git peek-remote" will be removed in + the future. * From v1.6.0, the repack.usedeltabaseoffset config option will default - to true, which will give denser packfile (i.e. more efficient storage). + to true, which will give denser packfiles (i.e. more efficient storage). The downside is that git older than version 1.4.4 will not be able to directly use a repository packed using this setting. @@ -67,7 +68,7 @@ Updates since v1.5.3 * gitk is now merged as a subdirectory of git.git project, in preparation for its i18n. - * progress display from many commands are a lot nicer to the eye. + * progress displays from many commands are a lot nicer to the eye. Transfer commands show throughput data. * many commands that pay attention to per-directory .gitignore now do @@ -76,12 +77,12 @@ Updates since v1.5.3 * Output processing for '--pretty=format:' has been optimized. - * Rename detection of diff family, while detecting exact matches, has + * Rename detection of diff family while detecting exact matches has been greatly optimized. - * Rename detection of diff family tries to make more naturally looking - pairing. Earlier if more than one identical rename sources were - found in the preimage, they were picked pretty much at random. + * Rename detection of diff family tries to make more natural looking + pairing. Earlier, if multiple identical rename sources were + found in the preimage, the source used was picked pretty much at random. * Value "true" for color.diff and color.status configuration used to mean "always" (even when the output is not going to a terminal). @@ -114,7 +115,7 @@ Updates since v1.5.3 * "git rebase --interactive" mode can now work on detached HEAD. - * Other minor to serious bugs in "git rebase -i" has been fixed. + * Other minor to serious bugs in "git rebase -i" have been fixed. * "git rebase" now detaches head during its operation, so after a successful "git rebase" operation, the reflog entry branch@{1} for @@ -247,7 +248,7 @@ Updates since v1.5.3 * The format "git show" outputs an annotated tag has been updated to include "Tagger: " and "Date: " lines from the tag itself. Strictly speaking this is a backward incompatible change, but this is a - reasonable usability fix and people's script shouldn't have been + reasonable usability fix and people's scripts shouldn't have been relying on the exact output from "git show" Porcelain anyway. * "git cvsexportcommit" learned -w option to specify and switch to the @@ -283,7 +284,7 @@ Updates since v1.5.3 makes copy-and-pasting for git-checkout/git-add/git-rm easier. The traditional behaviour to show the full path relative to the top of the work tree can be had by setting status.relativepaths - configuration variable to true. + configuration variable to false. * "git blame" kept text for each annotated revision in core needlessly; this has been corrected.