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v1.5.0.txt update (suggestions from Carl Worth)

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@ -10,11 +10,11 @@ happened before the current v1.4.4 release, they are summarized
here in the v1.5.0 release notes for people who skipped earlier
versions.
In general, you should not have to worry about incompatibility,
and there is no need to perform "repository conversion" if you
are updating to v1.5.0. However, some of the changes are
one-way street upgrades; once you use them your repository
can no longer be used with ancient git.
As of git v1.5.0 there are some optional features that changes
the repository to allow data to be stored and transferred more
efficiently. These features are not enabled by default, as they
will make the repository unusable with older versions of git.
Specifically, the available options are:
- There is a configuration variable core.legacyheaders that
changes the format of loose objects so that they are more
@ -93,7 +93,9 @@ Updates in v1.5.0 since v1.4.4 series
- git-reset <tree> <paths>... can be used to revert index
entries for selected paths.
- git-update-index is much less visible.
- git-update-index is much less visible. Many suggestions to
use the command in git output and documentation have now been
replaced by simpler commands such as "git add" or "git rm".
* Repository layout and objects transfer
@ -200,14 +202,17 @@ Updates in v1.5.0 since v1.4.4 series
- There is a toplevel garbage collector script, 'git-gc', that
runs periodic cleanup functions, including 'git-repack -a -d',
'git-reflog expire', 'git-pack-refs --prune', and 'git-rerere gc'.
'git-reflog expire', 'git-pack-refs --prune', and 'git-rerere
gc'.
* Detached HEAD
- You can give non-branch to "git checkout" now. This will
dissociate your HEAD from any of your branches. A typical
use of this feature is to "look around". E.g.
- You can use 'git-checkout' to check out an arbitrary revision
or a tag as well, instead of named branches. This will
dissociate your HEAD from the branch you are currently on.
A typical use of this feature is to "look around". E.g.
$ git checkout v2.6.16
... compile, test, etc.
@ -238,7 +243,7 @@ Updates in v1.5.0 since v1.4.4 series
overhead, both in storage and in runtime, due to the
traditional one-ref-per-file format. A new command,
git-pack-refs, can be used to "pack" them in more efficient
representation.
representation (you can let git-gc do this for you).
- Clones and fetches over dumb transports are now aware of
packed refs and can download from repositories that use
@ -343,7 +348,8 @@ Updates in v1.5.0 since v1.4.4 series
- There is a partial support for 'shallow' repositories that
keeps only recent history. A 'shallow clone' is created by
specifying how deep that truncated history should be.
specifying how deep that truncated history should be
(e.g. "git clone --depth=5 git://some.where/repo.git").
Currently a shallow repository has number of limitations: