Update draft Release Notes for 1.5.3

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.3.txt
index d111661a7b1fe8f5089d59cfc2b88ae7305b1eef..ef2f95b3c5f7803f1ae93d454d13e19730201e48 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.3.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.3.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-GIT v1.5.3 Release Notes (draft)
+GIT v1.5.3 Release Notes

 ========================
 
 Updates since v1.5.2
 ========================
 
 Updates since v1.5.2


@@ -10,8 +10,23 @@ Updates since v1.5.2
 * Thee are a handful pack-objects changes to help you cope better with
   repositories with pathologically large blobs in them.
 
 * Thee are a handful pack-objects changes to help you cope better with
   repositories with pathologically large blobs in them.
 

+* For people who need to import from Perforce, a front-end for
+  fast-import is in contrib/fast-import/ now.
+
+* Comes with git-gui 0.8.0.
+
+* Comes with updated gitk.
+

 * New commands and options.
 
 * New commands and options.
 

+  - "git log" learned a new option '--follow', to follow
+    renaming history of a single file.
+
+  - "git-filter-branch" is a reborn cg-admin-rewritehist.
+
+  - "git-cvsserver" learned new options (--base-path, --export-all,
+    --strict-paths) inspired by git-daemon.
+

   - "git-submodule" command helps you manage the projects from
     the superproject that contain them.
 
   - "git-submodule" command helps you manage the projects from
     the superproject that contain them.
 


@@ -36,9 +51,45 @@ Updates since v1.5.2
   - "git repack" can be told to split resulting packs to avoid
     exceeding limit specified with "--max-pack-size".
 
   - "git repack" can be told to split resulting packs to avoid
     exceeding limit specified with "--max-pack-size".
 

+  - "git fsck" gained --verbose option.  This is really really
+    verbose but it might help you identify exact commit that is
+    corrupt in your repository.
+
+  - "git format-patch" learned --numbered-files option.  This
+    may be useful for MH users.
+
+  - "git tag -n -l" shows tag annotations while listing tags.
+
+  - "git cvsimport" can optionally use the separate-remote layout.
+
+  - "git blame" can be told to see through commits that changes
+    whitespaces and indentation levels with "-w" option.
+
+  - "git send-email" can be told not to thread the messages when
+    sending out more than one patches.
+
+  - "git config" learned NUL terminated output format via -z to
+    help scripts.
+

 * Updated behavior of existing commands.
 
 * Updated behavior of existing commands.
 

-  - "git push" pretends that you immediately fetched back from
+  - "git mergetool" chooses its backend more wisely, taking
+    notice of its environment such as use of X, Gnome/KDE, etc.
+
+  - "gitweb" shows merge commits a lot nicer than before.  The
+    default view uses more compact --cc format, while the UI
+    allows to choose normal diff with any parent.
+
+  - snapshot files "gitweb" creates from a repository at
+    $path/$project/.git are more useful.  We use $project part
+    in the filename, which we used to discard.
+
+  - "git cvsimort" creates lightweight tag; there is not any
+    interesting information we can record in an annotated tag,
+    and the handcrafted ones the old code created was not
+    properly formed anyway.
+
+  - "git-push" pretends that you immediately fetched back from

     the remote by updating corresponding remote tracking
     branches if you have any.
 
     the remote by updating corresponding remote tracking
     branches if you have any.
 


@@ -48,17 +99,25 @@ Updates since v1.5.2
   - "git-apply --whitespace=strip" removes blank lines added at
     the end of the file.
 
   - "git-apply --whitespace=strip" removes blank lines added at
     the end of the file.
 

-  - fetch over git native protocols with -v shows connection
+  - "git-fetch" over git native protocols with -v shows connection

     status, and the IP address of the other end, to help
     diagnosing problems.
 
     status, and the IP address of the other end, to help
     diagnosing problems.
 

-  - core.legacyheaders is no more, although we still can read
-    objects created in a new loose object format.
+  - We used to have core.legacyheaders configuration, when
+    set to false, allowed git to write loose objects in a format
+    that mimicks the format used by objects stored in packs.  It
+    turns out that this was not so useful.  Although we will
+    continue to read objects written in that format, we do not
+    honor that configuration anymore and create loose objects in
+    the legacy/traditional format.
+
+  - "--find-copies-harder" option to diff family can now be
+    spelled as "-C -C" for brevity.

 
   - "git-mailsplit" (hence "git-am") can read from Maildir
     formatted mailboxes.
 
 
   - "git-mailsplit" (hence "git-am") can read from Maildir
     formatted mailboxes.
 

-  - "git cvsserver" does not barf upon seeing "cvs login"
+  - "git-cvsserver" does not barf upon seeing "cvs login"

     request.
 
   - "pack-objects" honors "delta" attribute set in
     request.
 
   - "pack-objects" honors "delta" attribute set in


@@ -68,10 +127,25 @@ Updates since v1.5.2
   - new-workdir script (in contrib) can now be used with a bare
     repository.
 
   - new-workdir script (in contrib) can now be used with a bare
     repository.
 

+  - "git-mergetool" learned to use gvimdiff.
+
+  - "gitview" (in contrib) has a better blame interface.
+
+  - "git log" and friends did not handle a commit log message
+    that is larger than 16kB; they do now.
+
+  - "--pretty=oneline" output format for "git log" and friends
+    deals with "malformed" commit log messages that have more
+    than one lines in the first paragraph better.  We used to
+    show the first line, cutting the title at mid-sentence; we
+    concatenate them into a single line and treat the result as
+    "oneline".

 
 * Builds
 
 
 * Builds
 

-  -
+  - old-style function definitions (most notably, a function
+    without parameter defined with "func()", not "func(void)")
+    have been eradicated.

 
 * Performance Tweaks
 
 
 * Performance Tweaks
 


@@ -88,6 +162,10 @@ Updates since v1.5.2
     the object requested the last time, which exploits the
     locality of references.
 
     the object requested the last time, which exploits the
     locality of references.
 

+  - verifying pack contents done by "git fsck --full" got boost
+    by carefully choosing the order to verify objects in them.
+
+

 Fixes since v1.5.2
 ------------------
 
 Fixes since v1.5.2
 ------------------
 


@@ -96,14 +174,11 @@ this release, unless otherwise noted.
 
 * Bugfixes
 
 
 * Bugfixes
 

-  - ....  This has not
-    been backported to 1.5.2.x series, as it is rather an
-    intrusive change.
-
+  - "gitweb" had trouble handling non UTF-8 text with older
+    Encode.pm Perl module.

 
 --
 exec >/var/tmp/1
 
 --
 exec >/var/tmp/1

-O=v1.5.2-45-ged82edc
-O=v1.5.2-172-g1a8b769
+O=v1.5.2.2-603-g7c85173

 echo O=`git describe refs/heads/master`
 git shortlog --no-merges $O..refs/heads/master ^refs/heads/maint
 echo O=`git describe refs/heads/master`
 git shortlog --no-merges $O..refs/heads/master ^refs/heads/maint