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authorLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2009-04-02 13:42:24 -0700
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2009-04-02 13:42:24 -0700
commite96f3689ecd95997a2a474c2b7f21b0a67f138b1 (patch)
tree76928c8b7101562b0c88856340ab768e762904ba /Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.3.txt
parentSync with 1.6.2.2 (diff)
downloadtgif-e96f3689ecd95997a2a474c2b7f21b0a67f138b1.tar.xz
Update draft release notes to 1.6.3
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.3.txt
index bcbd7c5a21..db6956205d 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.3.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.3.txt
@@ -62,6 +62,10 @@ Updates since v1.6.2
with the 'edit' action in git-add -i/-p, you can abort the editor to
tell git not to apply it.
+* The number of commits shown in "you are ahead/behind your upstream"
+ messages given by "git checkout" and "git status" used to count merge
+ commits; now it doesn't.
+
* git-archive learned --output=<file> option.
* git-bisect shows not just the number of remaining commits whose goodness
@@ -77,11 +81,17 @@ Updates since v1.6.2
* git-clone runs post-checkout hook when run without --no-checkout.
+* git-fast-export choked when seeing a tag that does not point at commit.
+
* git-format-patch can be told to use attachment with a new configuration,
format.attach.
* git-format-patch can be told to produce deep or shallow message threads.
+* 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-grep learned to highlight the found substrings in color.
* git-imap-send learned to work around Thunderbird's inability to easily
@@ -95,6 +105,11 @@ Updates since v1.6.2
* Output from git-remote command has been vastly improved.
+* git-repack (invoked from git-gc) did not work as nicely as it should in
+ a repository that borrows objects from neighbours via alternates
+ mechanism especially when some packs are marked with the ".keep" flag
+ to prevent them from being repacked.
+
* git-send-email learned --confirm option to review the Cc: list before
sending the messages out.
@@ -110,7 +125,9 @@ Updates since v1.6.2
* Building the manpages with docbook-xsl between 1.69.1 and 1.71.1 now
requires setting DOCBOOK_SUPPRESS_SP to work around a docbook-xsl bug.
This workaround used to be enabled by default, but causes problems
- with newer versions of docbook-xsl.
+ with newer versions of docbook-xsl. In addition, there are a few more
+ knobs you can tweak to work around issues with various versions of the
+ docbook-xsl package. See comments in Documentation/Makefile for details.
Fixes since v1.6.2
------------------
@@ -129,6 +146,6 @@ v1.6.2.X series.
---
exec >/var/tmp/1
-O=v1.6.2.1-399-gaa72a14
+O=v1.6.2.2-403-g8130949
echo O=$(git describe master)
git shortlog --no-merges $O..master ^maint