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author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2011-05-05 03:02:17 +0400 |
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committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2011-05-05 03:02:17 +0400 |
commit | 505a138cbd5c45d890d180383c8bd808ee8105aa (patch) | |
tree | 499f3c5df0c1c193e18eb6c7444ed61c57d84c9b /Documentation | |
parent | 34d87985d5bfd5df5fae1a3fd38fea5a65be6310 (diff) |
Update draft release notes to 1.7.6
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.6.txt | 40 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 27 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.6.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.6.txt index fbbc5b447e..9945ac9ef2 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.6.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.6.txt @@ -9,18 +9,9 @@ Updates since v1.7.5 * Clean-up of the C part of i18n (but not l10n---please wait) continues. - * When an object "$tree:$path" does not exist, if $path does exist in the - subtree of $tree that corresponds to the subdirectory the user is in, - git now suggests using "$tree:./$path" in addition to the advice to use - the full path from the root of the working tree. - * "git blame" learned "--abbrev[=<n>]" option to control the minimum number of hexdigits shown for commit object names. - * "git clean" used to fail on an empty directory that is not readable, - even though rmdir(2) could remove such a directory. Now we attempt it - as the last resort. - * "git diff -C -C" used to disable the rename detection entirely when there are too many copy candidate paths in the tree; now it falls back to "-C" when doing so would keep the copy candidate paths @@ -36,19 +27,15 @@ Updates since v1.7.5 * "git merge" learned "-" as a short-hand for "the previous branch", just like the way "git checkout -" works. - * "git pack-object" now takes core.bigfilethreashold into account, just - like fast-imoprt does. - - * "git reflog" allows options like "--format=.." to be given. - - * "git stash apply" can now apply to a working tree with changes as long - as there is no overlapping change as the stash being applied. + * "git rev-list --count" used with "--cherry-mark" counts the cherry-picked + commits separately, producing more a useful output. * "git submodule update" learned "--force" option to get rid of local changes in submodules and replace them with the up-to-date version. - * "git stash apply @{99999}" now is diagnosed as an error, unless you - really have that many stash entries. + * Compressed tarball gitweb generates is made without the timestamp of + the tarball generation; snapshot from the same tree should result in + a same tarball. Also contains various documentation updates. @@ -62,15 +49,6 @@ included in this release. * "git config" used to choke with an insanely long line. (merge ef/maint-strbuf-init later) - * The "--dirstat" option of "diff" family of commands used to totally - ignore a change that only rearranged lines within a file. Such a - change now counts as at least a minimum but non zero change. - - * The "--dirstat" option of "diff" family of commands used to use the - pathname in the original, instead of the pathname in the result, - when renames are involved. - (merge jh/dirstat for the above two later) - * "diff -M --cached" used to use unmerged path as a possible rename source candidate, which made no sense. (merge mz/maint-rename-unmerged later) @@ -79,6 +57,14 @@ included in this release. nonsense result that consists of alternating empty output. (merge early part of cn/format-patch-quiet later) + * "git format-patch" did not quote RFC822 special characters in the + email address (e.g From: Junio C. Hamano <jch@example.com>, not + From: "Junio C. Hamano" <jch@example.com>). + (merge jk/format-patch-quote-special-in-from later) + + * "git mergetool" did not handle conflicted submoudules gracefully. + (merge jm/mergetool-submodules later) + * "git stash -p --no-keep-index" and "git stash --no-keep-index -p" now mean the same thing. (merge dm/stash-k-i-p later) |