Re: GIT v1.5.1-rc1

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Mar 20, 2007, 01:04 UTC
Message-ID: <7vd534d8tq.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0703191459440.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

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> On Mon, 19 Mar 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>>   - "git diff --pretty=format:<string>" to allow more flexible
>>     custom log output.
>
> You mean "git log" there, not "git diff", correct?

Of course you are right.  Any other typos?

I could not parse the --reverse description so I rewrote it while I was at it, and also I found we did not mention ':/<message>' so I added it.

diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.1.txt
index f78cf56..215159f 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.1.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.1.txt
@@ -10,11 +10,15 @@ Updates since v1.5.0
 
 * New commands and options.
 
-  - "git log" and friends take --reverse.  This makes output
-    that typically goes reverse order in chronological order.
-    "git shortlog" usually lists commits in chronological order,
-    but with "--reverse", they are shown in reverse
-    chronological order.
+  - "git log" and friends take --reverse, which instructs them
+    to give their output in the order opposite from their usual.
+    They typically output from new to old, but with this option
+    their output would read from old to new.  "git shortlog"
+    usually lists older commits first, but with this option,
+    they are shown from new to old.
+
+  - "git log --pretty=format:<string>" to allow more flexible
+    custom log output.
 
   - "git diff" learned --ignore-space-at-eol.  This is a weaker
     form of --ignore-space-change.
@@ -22,9 +26,6 @@ Updates since v1.5.0
   - "git diff --no-index pathA pathB" can be used as diff
     replacement with git specific enhancements.
 
-  - "git diff --pretty=format:<string>" to allow more flexible
-    custom log output.
-
   - "git diff --no-index" can read from '-' (standard input).
 
   - "git diff" also learned --exit-code to exit with non-zero
@@ -61,6 +62,15 @@ Updates since v1.5.0
     symlinks on filesystems that do not support them; they are
     checked out as regular files instead.
 
+  - You can name a commit object with its first line of the
+    message.  The syntax to use is ':/message text'.  E.g. 
+    
+    $ git show ":/object name: introduce ':/<oneline prefix>' notation"
+
+    means the same thing as:
+
+    $ git show 28a4d940443806412effa246ecc7768a21553ec7
+
 
 * Updated behaviour of existing commands.
 
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile