* "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-<command>") as section 7 of the
- manual pages.
+ 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 init --bare" is a synonym for "git --bare init" now.
-* "git gc --auto" honors a new pre-aut-gc hook to temporarily disable it.
+* "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
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-rc1
-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 ;-)