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author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2009-04-09 00:04:17 -0700 |
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committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2009-04-09 00:04:55 -0700 |
commit | e37347bba651f051998f23a3701b555f1a194557 (patch) | |
tree | 3f996c22da3fd90613f1831f7fe3d682d08cf75a | |
parent | Merge branch 'maint' (diff) | |
download | tgif-e37347bba651f051998f23a3701b555f1a194557.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 | 29 |
1 files changed, 27 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.3.txt index 517c783b5d..9aa143b199 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.3.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.3.txt @@ -40,6 +40,9 @@ Updates since v1.6.2 * many uses of lstat(2) in the codepath for "git checkout" have been optimized out. +* pruning reflog entries that are unreachable from the tip of the ref + during "git reflog prune" (hence "git gc") was very inefficient. + (usability, bells and whistles) * rsync:/path/to/repo can be used to run git over rsync for local @@ -56,7 +59,7 @@ Updates since v1.6.2 spelled as "--format=<style>". In addition, --format=%formatstring is a short-hand for --pretty=tformat:%formatstring. -* "--oneline" is a synonym for "--pretty=oneline --abbrev=commit". +* "--oneline" is a synonym for "--pretty=oneline --abbrev-commit". * 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 @@ -66,6 +69,10 @@ Updates since v1.6.2 messages given by "git checkout" and "git status" used to count merge commits; now it doesn't. +* @{-1} is a new way to refer to the last branch you were on introduced in + 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-archive learned --output=<file> option. * git-bisect shows not just the number of remaining commits whose goodness @@ -88,10 +95,16 @@ Updates since v1.6.2 * git-format-patch can be told to produce deep or shallow message threads. +* git-format-patch can be told to always add sign-off with a configuration + variable. + * git-format-patch learned format.headers configuration to add extra header fields to the output. This behaviour is similar to the existing --add-header=<header> option of the command. +* git-format-patch gives human readable names to the attached files, when + told to send patches as attachments. + * git-grep learned to highlight the found substrings in color. * git-imap-send learned to work around Thunderbird's inability to easily @@ -136,11 +149,23 @@ v1.6.2.X series. * 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=v1.6.2.2-403-g8130949 +O=v1.6.2.2-484-g796b137 echo O=$(git describe master) git shortlog --no-merges $O..master ^maint |