* "git init" now autodetects the case sensitivity of the filesystem and
sets core.ignorecase accordingly.
+* cpio is no longer used; neither "curl" binary (libcurl is still used).
+
+(documentation)
+
+* Many freestanding documentation pages have been converted and made
+ available to "git help" (aka "man git<something>") as section 7 of
+ the manual pages. This means bookmarks to some HTML documentation
+ files may need to be updated (eg "tutorial.html" became
+ "gittutorial.html").
+
(performance)
* "git clone" was rewritten in C. This will hopefully help cloning a
changes (i.e. cannot be used to propagate the whole changes) meant only
for reviewing.
-* "git gc --auto" honors a new pre-aut-gc hook to temporarily disable it.
+* "git init --bare" is a synonym for "git --bare init" now.
+
+* "git gc --auto" honors a new pre-auto-gc hook to temporarily disable it.
* "git log --pretty=tformat:<custom format>" gives a LF after each entry,
instead of giving a LF between each pair of entries which is how
* "git svn" learned --add-author-from option to propagate the authorship
by munging the commit log message.
+* new object creation and looking up in "git svn" has been optimized.
+
* "gitweb" can read from a system-wide configuration file.
(internal)
All of the fixes in v1.5.5 maintenance series are included in
this release, unless otherwise noted.
-
---
-exec >/var/tmp/1
-O=v1.5.6-rc0
-echo O=`git describe refs/heads/master`
-git shortlog --no-merges $O..refs/heads/master ^refs/heads/maint
+And there are too numerous small fixes to otherwise note here ;-)