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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.4.txt index b70ec11c26..af68297af5 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.4.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.4.txt @@ -35,12 +35,43 @@ Updates since v1.6.3 (subsystems) + * gitweb Perl style clean-up. + + * git-svn updates, including a new --authors-prog option to map author + names by invoking an external program. + +(portability) + + * We feed iconv with "UTF-8" instead of "utf8"; the former is + understood more widely. + (performance) (usability, bells and whistles) + * "git add --edit" lets users edit the whole patch text to fine-tune what + is added to the index. + + * "git log --graph" draws graphs more compactly by using horizonal lines + when able. + + * "git log --decorate" shows shorter refnames by stripping well-known + refs/* prefix. + + * "git send-email" understands quoted aliases in .mailrc files (might + have to be backported to 1.6.3.X). + + * "git send-email" can fetch the sender address from the configuration + variable "sendmail.from" (and "sendmail.<identity>.from"). + + * "git show-branch" can color its output. + + * "add" and "update" subcommands to "git submodule" learned --reference + option to use local clone with references. + (developers) + * A major part of the "git bisect" wrapper has moved to C. Fixes since v1.6.3 ------------------ @@ -51,9 +82,12 @@ release, unless otherwise noted. Here are fixes that this release has, but have not been backported to v1.6.3.X series. + * The way Git.pm sets up a Repository object was not friendly to callers + that chdir around. It now internally records the repository location + as an absolute path when autodetected. --- exec >/var/tmp/1 echo O=$(git describe master) -O=v1.6.3 +O=v1.6.3.1-168-g23807fa git shortlog --no-merges $O..master ^maint |