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author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2009-04-18 14:32:02 -0700 |
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committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2009-04-18 14:47:22 -0700 |
commit | 77b96d6dbf65f736a63b8a0bb5f810edbf895a09 (patch) | |
tree | e246e864885151ab5f44bc1d1c0148c85f74a05d | |
parent | Merge branch 'lt/bool-on-off' (diff) | |
download | tgif-77b96d6dbf65f736a63b8a0bb5f810edbf895a09.tar.xz |
Update draft release notes to 1.6.3
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.3.txt | 34 |
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.3.txt index 839498c38a..ca38decb37 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.3.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.3.txt @@ -47,6 +47,8 @@ Updates since v1.6.2 (usability, bells and whistles) +* Boolean configuration variable yes/no can be written as on/off. + * rsync:/path/to/repo can be used to run git over rsync for local repositories. It may not be useful in practice; meant primarily for testing. @@ -63,6 +65,9 @@ Updates since v1.6.2 * "--oneline" is a synonym for "--pretty=oneline --abbrev-commit". +* "--graph" to the "git log" family can draw the commit ancestry graph + in colors. + * If you realize that you botched the patch when you are editing hunks with the 'edit' action in git-add -i/-p, you can abort the editor to tell git not to apply it. @@ -75,8 +80,16 @@ Updates since v1.6.2 1.6.2, but the initial implementation did not teach this to a few commands. Now the syntax works with "branch -m @{-1} newname". +* "git-add -p" now supports "q"uit action. + * git-archive learned --output=<file> option. +* git-archive takes attributes from the tree being archived; strictly + speaking, this is an incompatible behaviour change, but is a good one. + Use --worktree-attributes option to allow it to read attributes from + the work tree as before (deprecated git-tar tree command always reads + attributes from the work tree). + * git-bisect shows not just the number of remaining commits whose goodness is unknown, but also shows the estimated number of remaining rounds. @@ -93,6 +106,9 @@ Updates since v1.6.2 * git-clone runs post-checkout hook when run without --no-checkout. +* git-difftool is now part of the officially supported command, primarily + maintained by David Aguilar. + * git-fast-export choked when seeing a tag that does not point at commit. * git-for-each-ref learned a new "upstream" token. @@ -156,26 +172,18 @@ release, unless otherwise noted. Here are fixes that this release has, but have not been backported to v1.6.2.X series. +* "git-apply" rejected a patch that swaps two files (i.e. renames A to B + and B to A at the same time). May need to be backported by cherry + picking d8c81df and then 7fac0ee). + * The initial checkout did not read the attributes from the .gitattribute file that is being checked out. -* "git-checkout <tree-ish> <submodule>" did not update the index entry at - the named path; it now does. - * git-gc spent excessive amount of time to decide if an object appears in a locally existing pack (if needed, backport by merging 69e020a). -* "git-ls-tree" and "git-diff-tree" used a pathspec correctly when - deciding to descend into a subdirectory but they did not match the - individual paths correctly. This caused pathspecs "abc/d ab" to match - "abc/0" ("abc/d" made them decide to descend into the directory "abc/", - and then "ab" incorrectly matched "abc/0" when it shouldn't). - -* "git-merge-recursive" was broken when a submodule entry was involved in - a criss-cross merge situation. - --- exec >/var/tmp/1 -O=v1.6.2.3-497-g54a4749 +O=v1.6.3-rc0-74-g9824a38 echo O=$(git describe master) git shortlog --no-merges $O..master ^maint |