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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.txt | 30 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.txt index a8bda44961..e1f013bd3b 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.txt @@ -28,6 +28,8 @@ actually affected all git commands, now only affects "git config". GIT_LOCAL_CONFIG, also only documented as affecting "git config" and not different from GIT_CONFIG in a useful way, is removed. +An ancient merge strategy "stupid" has been removed. + Updates since v1.5.6 -------------------- @@ -37,8 +39,13 @@ Updates since v1.5.6 * git-p4 in contrib learned "allowSubmit" configuration to control on which branch to allow "submit" subcommand. +* git-gui learned to stage changes per-line. + (portability) +* Changes for MinGW port have been merged, thanks to Johannes Sixt and + gangs. + * Sample hook scripts shipped in templates/ are now suffixed with *.sample. We used to prevent them from triggering by default by relying on the fact that we install them as unexecutable, but on @@ -53,7 +60,8 @@ Updates since v1.5.6 * Updated howto/update-hook-example -* Got rid of usage of "git-foo" from the tutorial. +* Got rid of usage of "git-foo" from the tutorial and made typography + more consistent. * Disambiguating "--" between revs and paths is finally documented. @@ -84,6 +92,11 @@ Updates since v1.5.6 (usability, bells and whistles) +* A new environment variable GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES can be used to stop + the discovery process of the toplevel of working tree; this may be useful + when you are working in a slow network disk and are outside any working tree, + as bash-completion and "git help" may still need to run in these places. + * git-apply can handle a patch that touches the same path more than once much better than before. @@ -107,13 +120,16 @@ Updates since v1.5.6 * fast-export learned to export and import marks file; this can be used to interface with fast-import incrementally. -* Original SHA-1 value for "update-ref -d" is optional now. +* "git rerere" can be told to update the index with auto-reused resolution + with rerere.autoupdate configuration variable. * git-send-mail can talk not just over SSL but over TLS now. * You can tell "git status -u" to even more aggressively omit checking untracked files with --untracked-files=no. +* Original SHA-1 value for "update-ref -d" is optional now. + * Error codes from gitweb are made more descriptive where possible, rather than "403 forbidden" as we used to issue everywhere. @@ -126,14 +142,12 @@ Fixes since v1.5.6 All of the fixes in v1.5.6 maintenance series are included in this release, unless otherwise noted. - * diff -c/--cc showed unnecessary "deletion" lines at the context - boundary (needs backmerge to maint). - - * "git-clone <src> <dst>" did not create leading directories for <dst> - like the scripted version used to do (needs backport to maint). + * "git fetch" into an empty repository used to remind the fetch will + be huge by saying "no common commits", but it is already known by + the user anyway (need to backport 8cb560f to 'maint'). --- exec >/var/tmp/1 -O=v1.5.6.1-155-gaa0c1f2 +O=v1.5.6.2-246-g86d7244 echo O=$(git describe refs/heads/master) git shortlog --no-merges $O..refs/heads/master ^refs/heads/maint |