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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.5.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.5.txt index b917d0bcf0..24f5d8c4a4 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.5.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.5.txt @@ -15,6 +15,9 @@ Updates since v1.7.4 * The codebase is getting prepared for i18n/l10n; no translated/translatable strings in the code yet. + * The bash completion script can now complete symmetric difference + for "git diff" command, e.g. "git diff ...bra<TAB>". + * "git apply -v" reports offset lines when the patch does not apply at the exact location recorded in the diff output. @@ -43,6 +46,11 @@ Updates since v1.7.4 reached, without spewing unnecessary error messages that complain about the server response it never got. + * "git fetch" vs "git upload-pack" transfer learned 'no-done' + protocol extension to save one round-trip after the content + negotiation is done. This saves one HTTP RPC, reducing the overall + latency for a trivial fetch. + * "git grep -f <filename>" learned to treat "-" as "read from the standard input stream". @@ -52,6 +60,11 @@ Updates since v1.7.4 * "git log" type commands now understand globbing pathspecs. You can say "git log -- '*.txt'" for example. + * "git log" family of commands learned --cherry and --cherry-mark + options that can be used to view two diverged branches while omitting + or highlighting equivalent changes that appear on both sides of a + symmetric difference (e.g. "log --cherry A...B"). + * "git mergetool" learned how to drive "beyond compare 3" as well. * "git rerere forget" without pathspec used to forget all the saved @@ -93,8 +106,22 @@ release, unless otherwise noted. in the working tree that are in the way in order to check out paths under it from the named branch (js/checkout-untracked-symlink). + * "git fetch" from a client that is mostly following the remote + needlessly told all of its refs to the server for both sides to + compute the set of objects that need to be transferred efficiently, + instead of stopping when the server heard enough. In a project with + many tags, this turns out to be extremely wasteful, especially over + the smart HTTP transport (sp/maint-{upload,fetch}-pack-stop-early~1). + + * "git fetch" run from a repository that uses the same repository as + its alternate object store as the repository it is fetching from + did not tell the server that it already has access to objects + reachable from the refs in their common alternate object store, + causing it to fetch unnecessary objects (jc/maint-fetch-alt). + --- exec >/var/tmp/1 O=v1.7.4.1-352-gcdc3466 +O=v1.7.4.1-414-gaeb2aaa echo O=$(git describe 'master') git shortlog --no-merges ^maint ^$O master |