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author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2012-08-24 13:13:53 -0700 |
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committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2012-08-24 13:13:53 -0700 |
commit | efa646213a7d65955fbf897f57139ec3737d62f8 (patch) | |
tree | 49a6086eaa08e43de8932f6a1be54f402e82aec8 /Documentation | |
parent | Kick off cycle towards 1.8.0 (diff) | |
parent | Merge branch 'maint-1.7.11' into maint (diff) | |
download | tgif-efa646213a7d65955fbf897f57139ec3737d62f8.tar.xz |
Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
Prepare for 1.7.11.6
Make the ciabot scripts completely self-configuring in the normal case.
Improved documentation for the ciabot scripts.
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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.6.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.6.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..e548a59824 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.6.txt @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +Git v1.7.11.6 Release Notes +=========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.11.5 +--------------------- + +This is primarily documentation and low-impact code clarification. + + - "ciabot" script (in contrib/) has been updated with extensive + documentation. + + - The "--rebase" option to "git pull" can be abbreviated to "-r", + but we didn't document it. + + - It was generally understood that "--long-option"s to many of our + subcommands can be abbreviated to the unique prefix, but it was not + easy to find it described for new readers of the documentation set. + + - The "--topo-order", "--date-order" (and the lack of either means + the default order) options to "rev-list" and "log" family of + commands were poorly described in the documentation. + + - Older parts of the documentation described as if having a regular + file in .git/refs/ hierarchy were the only way to have branches and + tags, which is not true for quite some time. + + - A utility shell function test_seq has been added as a replacement + for the 'seq' utility found on some platforms. + + - Fallback 'getpass' implementation made unportable use of stdio API. + + - "git commit --amend" let the user edit the log message and then + died when the human-readable committer name was given + insufficiently by getpwent(3). |