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authorLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2012-11-28 13:49:10 -0800
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2012-11-28 13:49:10 -0800
commit8f8af9f4d1535d84e75cb3686f4b54725ea1e19f (patch)
tree0d029aa54be66c7915ecb045bf2ef96c9454fc60 /Documentation/RelNotes
parentMerge branch 'fc/zsh-completion' (diff)
downloadtgif-8f8af9f4d1535d84e75cb3686f4b54725ea1e19f.tar.xz
Update draft release notes to 1.8.1
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.1.txt
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ Updates since v1.8.0
UI, Workflows & Features
- * Command-line completion for tcsh has been added.
+ * Command-line completion scripts for tcsh and zsh have been added.
* We used to have a workaround for a bug in ancient "less" that
causes it to exit without any output when the terminal is resized.
@@ -44,6 +44,11 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
give the default number of context lines in the patch output, to
override the hardcoded default of 3 lines.
+ * When "git checkout" checks out a branch, it tells the user how far
+ behind (or ahead) the new branch is relative to the remote tracking
+ branch it builds upon. The message now also advises how to sync
+ them up by pushing or pulling.
+
* "git config --get" used to diagnose presence of multiple
definitions of the same variable in the same configuration file as
an error, but it now applies the "last one wins" rule used by the
@@ -51,6 +56,10 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
API regression but it is expected that nobody will notice it in
practice.
+ * "git log -p -S<string>" now looks for the <string> after applying
+ the textconv filter (if defined); earlier it inspected the contents
+ of the blobs without filtering.
+
* "git format-patch" learned the "--notes=<ref>" option to give
notes for the commit after the three-dash lines in its output.