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-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.txt16
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.txt
index 614a3be945..e524d80fbf 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.txt
@@ -142,6 +142,10 @@ Updates since v1.5.6
* git-archive uses the zlib default compression level when creating
zip archive.
+* git-archive's command line options --exec and --remote can take their
+ parameters as separate command line arguments, similar to other commands.
+ IOW, both "--exec=path" and "--exec path" are now supported.
+
* With -v option, git-branch describes the remote tracking statistics
similar to the way git-checkout reports by how many commits your branch
is ahead/behind.
@@ -161,10 +165,16 @@ Updates since v1.5.6
* git-clone can clone from a remote whose URL would be rewritten by
configuration stored in $HOME/.gitconfig now.
+* "git-clone --mirror" is a handy way to set up a bare mirror repository.
+
* git-cvsserver learned to respond to "cvs co -c".
* git-diff --check now checks leftover merge conflict markers.
+* "git-diff -p" learned to grab a better hunk header lines in
+ Pascal/Delphi and Ruby source files, and also pays attention to
+ chapter and part boundary in TeX documents.
+
* When remote side used to have branch 'foo' and git-fetch finds that now
it has branch 'foo/bar', it refuses to lose the existing remote tracking
branch and its reflog. The error message has been improved to suggest
@@ -176,6 +186,10 @@ Updates since v1.5.6
* fast-import and fast-export learned to export and import gitlinks.
+* "gitk" left background process behind after begin asked to dig very deep
+ history and the user killed the UI; the process is killed when the UI goes
+ away now.
+
* git-rebase records the original tip of branch in ORIG_HEAD before it is
rewound.
@@ -234,6 +248,6 @@ this release, unless otherwise noted.
---
exec >/var/tmp/1
-O=v1.6.0-rc0-104-g81dc230
+O=v1.6.0-rc1-113-gf44bc33
echo O=$(git describe refs/heads/master)
git shortlog --no-merges $O..refs/heads/master ^refs/heads/maint