(subsystems)
+* Comes with updated gitk and git-gui.
(portability)
+* git will build on AIX better than before now.
+
+* core.ignorecase configuration variable can be used to work better on
+ filesystems that are not case sensitive.
+
+* "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
+ repository with insane number of refs.
+
* "git rebase --onto $there $from $branch" used to switch to the tip of
$branch only to immediately reset back to $from, smudging work tree
files unnecessarily. This has been optimized.
+* Object creation codepath in "git-svn" has been optimized by enhancing
+ plumbing commands git-cat-file and git-hash-object.
+
(usability, bells and whistles)
* "git add -p" (and the "patch" subcommand of "git add -i") can choose to
* "git bisect help" gives longer and more helpful usage information.
+* "git bisect" does not use a special branch "bisect" anymore; instead, it
+ does its work on a detached HEAD.
+
+* "git branch" (and "git checkout -b") can be told to set up
+ branch.<name>.rebase automatically, so that later you can say "git pull"
+ and magically cause "git pull --rebase" to happen.
+
+* "git branch --merged" and "git branch --no-merged" can be used to list
+ branches that have already been merged (or not yet merged) to the
+ current branch.
+
+* "git cherry-pick" and "git revert" can add a sign-off.
+
+* "git commit" mentions the author identity when you are committing
+ somebody else's changes.
+
* "git diff/log --dirstat" output is consistent between binary and textual
changes.
-* "git gc --auto" honors a new pre-aut-gc hook to temporarily disable it.
+* "git filter-branch" rewrites signed tags by demoting them to annotated.
+
+* "git format-patch --no-binary" can produce a patch that lack binary
+ changes (i.e. cannot be used to propagate the whole changes) meant only
+ for reviewing.
+
+* "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 log --pretty=format:<custom format>" works.
+* "git log" and friends learned the "--graph" option to show the ancestry
+ graph at the left margin of the output.
+
+* "git log" and friends can be told to use date format that is different
+ from the default via 'log.date' configuration variable.
+
* "git send-email" now can send out messages outside a git repository.
+* "git send-email --compose" was made aware of rfc2047 quoting.
+
* "git status" can optionally include output from "git submodule
summary".
+* "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=v1.5.5-56-g5f0734f
-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 ;-)
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