GIT 1.5.1-rc2
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.1.txt
index f78cf56..8461fb4 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.1.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.1.txt
@@ -10,11 +10,15 @@
* New commands and options.
- - "git log" and friends take --reverse. This makes output
- that typically goes reverse order in chronological order.
- "git shortlog" usually lists commits in chronological order,
- but with "--reverse", they are shown in reverse
- chronological order.
+ - "git log" and friends take --reverse, which instructs them
+ to give their output in the order opposite from their usual.
+ They typically output from new to old, but with this option
+ their output would read from old to new. "git shortlog"
+ usually lists older commits first, but with this option,
+ they are shown from new to old.
+
+ - "git log --pretty=format:<string>" to allow more flexible
+ custom log output.
- "git diff" learned --ignore-space-at-eol. This is a weaker
form of --ignore-space-change.
@@ -22,9 +26,6 @@
- "git diff --no-index pathA pathB" can be used as diff
replacement with git specific enhancements.
- - "git diff --pretty=format:<string>" to allow more flexible
- custom log output.
-
- "git diff --no-index" can read from '-' (standard input).
- "git diff" also learned --exit-code to exit with non-zero
@@ -33,6 +34,17 @@
backward incompatible change; it will stay as an option for
now.
+ - "git diff --quiet" is --exit-code with output turned off,
+ meant for scripted use to quickly determine if there is any
+ tree-level difference.
+
+ - Textual patch generation with "git diff" without -w/-b
+ option has been significantly optimized. "git blame" got
+ faster because of the same change.
+
+ - "git log" and "git rev-list" has been optimized
+ significantly when they are used with pathspecs.
+
- "git branch --track" can be used to set up configuration
variables to help it easier to base your work on branches
you track from a remote site.
@@ -61,6 +73,19 @@
symlinks on filesystems that do not support them; they are
checked out as regular files instead.
+ - You can name a commit object with its first line of the
+ message. The syntax to use is ':/message text'. E.g.
+
+ $ git show ":/object name: introduce ':/<oneline prefix>' notation"
+
+ means the same thing as:
+
+ $ git show 28a4d940443806412effa246ecc7768a21553ec7
+
+ - "git bisect" learned a new command "run" that takes a script
+ to run after each revision is checked out to determine if it
+ is good or bad, to automate the bisection process.
+
* Updated behaviour of existing commands.
@@ -133,6 +158,9 @@
- send-email learned configurable bcc and chain-reply-to.
+ - "git remote show $remote" also talks about branches that
+ would be pushed if you run "git push remote".
+
- Using objects from packs is now seriouly optimized by clever
use of a cache. This should be most noticeable in git-log
family of commands that involve reading many tree objects.
@@ -143,10 +171,9 @@
* Hooks
- - The sample update hook to show how to send out notification
- e-mail was updated to show only new commits that appeared in
- the repository. Earlier, it showed new commits that appeared
- on the branch.
+ - The part to send out notification e-mails was removed from
+ the sample update hook, as it was not an appropriate place
+ to do so.
* Others
@@ -156,7 +183,7 @@
--
exec >/var/tmp/1
-O=v1.5.0.5-446-g5d86501
+O=v1.5.1-rc1-63-g12d6697
echo O=`git describe master`
git shortlog --no-merges $O..master ^maint
diff --git a/GIT-VERSION-GEN b/GIT-VERSION-GEN
index 39ba8d1..551c391 100755
--- a/GIT-VERSION-GEN
+++ b/GIT-VERSION-GEN
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
#!/bin/sh
GVF=GIT-VERSION-FILE
-DEF_VER=v1.5.1-rc1.GIT
+DEF_VER=v1.5.1-rc2.GIT
LF='
'
