Update draft release notes to 1.7.2

[git.git] / Documentation / RelNotes-1.5.6.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.6.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.6.txt
index 32af18b5723a445b7532d1321bbb79df8b530bf6..e143d8d61be1bb2fac024b5d5f270b33f4f898d4 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.6.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.6.txt
@@ -18,6 +18,16 @@ Updates since v1.5.5
 * "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
@@ -62,7 +72,9 @@ Updates since v1.5.5
   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
@@ -84,6 +96,8 @@ Updates since v1.5.5
 * "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)
@@ -98,9 +112,4 @@ Fixes since v1.5.5
 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 ;-)