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author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2011-10-21 22:46:12 +0400 |
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committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2011-10-22 03:05:42 +0400 |
commit | e454a83fa2640166aba77ef3fe2bfb81949895b8 (patch) | |
tree | 2649d8690689b2b01dcdaff84c11ef20b47a3bd6 | |
parent | 9ee3d3774316f6a60c0618aa7a64fc7a59a8f338 (diff) |
Update draft release notes to 1.7.8
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.txt | 23 |
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.txt index 886dfbfaa5..d7b2c76c03 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.txt @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Git v1.7.8 Release Notes (draft) Updates since v1.7.7 -------------------- - * Some git-svn, git-gui and msysgit updates. + * Some git-svn, git-gui, git-p4 (in contrib) and msysgit updates. * Updates to bash completion scripts. @@ -31,6 +31,9 @@ Updates since v1.7.7 * Variants of "git cherry-pick" and "git revert" that take multiple commits learned to "--continue". + * "git daemon" gives more human readble error messages to clients + using ERR packets when appropriate. + * Errors at the network layer is logged by "git daemon". * "git diff" learned "--minimal" option to spend extra cycles to come @@ -39,6 +42,9 @@ Updates since v1.7.7 * "git diff" learned "--function-context" option to show the whole function as context that was affected by a change. + * "git difftool" can be told to skip launching the tool for a path by + answering 'n' to its prompt. + * "git fetch" learned to honor transfer.fsckobjects configuration to validate the objects that were received from the other end, just like "git receive-pack" (the receiving end of "git push") does. @@ -48,6 +54,10 @@ Updates since v1.7.7 "git receive-pack" (the receiving end of "git push") learned to do the same. + * "git fetch" learned that fetching/cloning from a regular file on the + filesystem is not necessarily a request to unpack a bundle file; the + file could be ".git" with "gitdir: <path>" in it. + * "git for-each-ref" learned "%(contents:subject)", "%(contents:body)" and "%(contents:signature)". The last one is useful for signed tags. @@ -72,6 +82,9 @@ Updates since v1.7.7 * "git merge" learned the "--edit" option to allow users to edit the merge commit log message. + * "git rebase -i" can be told to use special purpose editor suitable + only for its insn sheet via sequence.editor configuration variable. + * "git send-email" learned to respond to "-h"(elp) requests. * "git send-email" allows the value given to sendemail.aliasfile to begin @@ -126,6 +139,12 @@ included in this release. credentials. (merge deba493 jk/http-auth later to maint). + * "git branch -m/-M" advertised to update RENAME_REF ref in the + commit log message that introduced the feature but not anywhere in + the documentation, and never did update such a ref anyway. This + undocumented misfeature that did not exist has been excised. + (merge b0eab01 jc/maint-remove-renamed-ref later to maint). + * Adding many refs to the local repository in one go (e.g. "git fetch" that fetches many tags) and looking up a ref by name in a repository with too many refs were unnecessarily slow. @@ -181,7 +200,7 @@ included in this release. --- exec >/var/tmp/1 -O=v1.7.7-418-g40d6987 +O=v1.7.7-485-g9ee3d37 echo O=$(git describe --always master) git log --first-parent --oneline --reverse ^$O master echo |