From 4e3aa87d13b339fa678cd3cb7f23664d3a48fb21 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Junio C Hamano Date: Fri, 6 May 2011 11:13:08 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Update draft release notes to 1.7.6 Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.6.txt | 32 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.6.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.6.txt index 9945ac9ef2..8554918cf4 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.6.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.6.txt @@ -9,9 +9,16 @@ Updates since v1.7.5 * Clean-up of the C part of i18n (but not l10n---please wait) continues. + * Processes spawned by "[alias] = !process" in the configuration + can inspect GIT_PREFIX environment variable to learn where in the + working tree the original command was invoked. + * "git blame" learned "--abbrev[=]" option to control the minimum number of hexdigits shown for commit object names. + * "git cvsimport" learned that CVSNT stores its password file in a + location different from the traditional CVS. + * "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 @@ -20,6 +27,10 @@ Updates since v1.7.5 * "git format-patch" learned "--quiet" option to suppress the output of the names of generated files. + * "git format-patch" quotes people's names when it has RFC822 special + characters in it, e.g. "Junio C. Hamano" . Earlier + it was up to the user to do this when using its output. + * "git log" and friends learned a new "--notes" option to replace the "--show-notes" option. Unlike "--show-notes", "--notes=" does not imply showing the default notes. @@ -27,6 +38,9 @@ Updates since v1.7.5 * "git merge" learned "-" as a short-hand for "the previous branch", just like the way "git checkout -" works. + * "git merge-one-file" learned to honor GIT_WORK_TREE settings when + handling "both sides added, differently" conflict. + * "git rev-list --count" used with "--cherry-mark" counts the cherry-picked commits separately, producing more a useful output. @@ -37,7 +51,11 @@ Updates since v1.7.5 the tarball generation; snapshot from the same tree should result in a same tarball. -Also contains various documentation updates. + * "git-p4" (in contrib) learned to merge a file that was added on both + branches differently by using 2-way merge. + +Also contains various documentation updates and minor miscellaneous +changes. Fixes since v1.7.5 @@ -49,7 +67,11 @@ included in this release. * "git config" used to choke with an insanely long line. (merge ef/maint-strbuf-init later) - * "diff -M --cached" used to use unmerged path as a possible rename + * "git diff-files" did not show the mode information from the working + tree side of an unmerged path correctly. + (merge jc/fix-diff-files-unmerged later) + + * "git diff -M --cached" used to use unmerged path as a possible rename source candidate, which made no sense. (merge mz/maint-rename-unmerged later) @@ -65,6 +87,10 @@ included in this release. * "git mergetool" did not handle conflicted submoudules gracefully. (merge jm/mergetool-submodules later) + * "git rebase -i -p" failed to preserve the history when there is a + redundant merge created with the --no-ff option. + (merge aw/maint-rebase-i-p-no-ff 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) @@ -76,5 +102,5 @@ included in this release. --- exec >/var/tmp/1 echo O=$(git describe master) -O=v1.7.5-184-g23f536c +O=v1.7.5.1-216-g3970fc5 git shortlog --no-merges ^maint ^$O master