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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.1.txt index 7fdf83f604..adb7ccab0a 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.1.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.1.txt @@ -20,6 +20,8 @@ on. * Various gitweb updates from repo.or.cz installation. +* Updates to emacs bindings. + (portability) * A few test scripts used nonportable "grep" that did not work well on @@ -31,6 +33,11 @@ on. (performance) +* Many operations that are lstat(3) heavy can be told to pre-execute + necessary lstat(3) in parallel before their main operations, which + potentially gives much improved performance for cold-cache cases or in + environments with weak metadata caching (e.g. NFS). + * The underlying diff machinery to produce textual output has been optimized, which would result in faster "git blame" processing. @@ -55,19 +62,25 @@ on. to a non-zero value to accept the suggestion when git can uniquely guess. -* The packfile machinery hopefully is more robust when dealilng with +* The packfile machinery hopefully is more robust when dealing with corrupt packs if redundant objects involved in the corruption are - available elsehwere. + available elsewhere. * "git add -N path..." adds the named paths as an empty blob, so that subsequent "git diff" will show a diff as if they are creation events. +* "git add" gained a built-in synonym for people who want to say "stage + changes" instead of "add contents to the staging area" which amounts + to the same thing. + * "git apply" learned --include=paths option, similar to the existing --exclude=paths option. * "git bisect" is careful about a user mistake and suggests testing of merge base first when good is not a strict ancestor of bad. +* "git bisect skip" can take a range of commits. + * "git blame" re-encodes the commit metainfo to UTF-8 from i18n.commitEncoding by default. @@ -122,16 +135,10 @@ on. cannot produce a patch that can be applied, so this is disabled in format-patch among other things). -* "git diff" hunk header pattern for ObjC has been added. - * "--cached" option to "git diff has an easier to remember synonym "--staged", to ask "what is the difference between the given commit and the contents staged in the index?" -* a "textconv" filter that makes binary files textual form for human - consumption can be specified as an attribute for paths; "git diff" - learnt to make use of it. - * "git for-each-ref" learned "refname:short" token that gives an unambiguously abbreviated refname. @@ -157,7 +164,7 @@ on. * "git log" learned "--source" to show what ref each commit was reached from. -* "git log" also learned "--simplify-by-decration" to show the +* "git log" also learned "--simplify-by-decoration" to show the birds-eye-view of the topology of the history. * "git log --pretty=format:" learned "%d" format element that inserts @@ -169,6 +176,9 @@ on. * "git merge -s $strategy" can use a custom built strategy if you have a command "git-merge-$strategy" on your $PATH. +* "git pull" (and "git fetch") can be told to operate "-v"erbosely or + "-q"uietly. + * "git push" can be told to reject deletion of refs with receive.denyDeletes configuration. @@ -181,8 +191,9 @@ on. * "git remote show $remote" lists remote branches one-per-line now. -* when giving up resolving a conflicted merge, "git reset --hard" failed - to remove new paths from the working tree. [cherry-pick to 'maint'?] +* "git send-email" can be given revision range instead of files and + maildirs on the command line, and automatically runs format-patch to + generate patches for the given revision range. * "git submodule foreach" subcommand allows you to iterate over checked out submodules. @@ -219,24 +230,44 @@ Fixes since v1.6.0 All of the fixes in v1.6.0.X maintenance series are included in this release, unless otherwise noted. +* Porcelains implemented as shell scripts were utterly confused when you + entered to a subdirectory of a work tree from sideways, following a + symbolic link (this may need to be backported to older releases later). + +* Tracking symbolic links would work better on filesystems whose lstat() + returns incorrect st_size value for them. + * "git add" and "git update-index" incorrectly allowed adding S/F when S is a tracked symlink that points at a directory D that has a path F in it (we still need to fix a similar nonsense when S is a submodule and F is a path in it). +* "git am" after stopping at a broken patch lost --whitespace, -C, -p and + --3way options given from the command line initially. + * "git diff --stdin" used to take two trees on a line and compared them, but we dropped support for such a use case long time ago. This has been resurrected. -* Giving 3 or more tree-ish to "git diff" is supposed to show the combined - diff from second and subsequent trees to the first one. b75271d ("git - diff <tree>{3,}": do not reverse order of arguments, 2008-10-10) needs - to be cherry-picked to 'maint'. - * "git filter-branch" failed to rewrite a tag name with slashes in it. -* "git repack" used to grab objects out of packs marked with .keep - into a new pack (fix scheduled to be further downmerged to maint). +* "git http-push" did not understand URI scheme other than opaquelocktoken + when acquiring a lock from the server (this may need to be backported to + older releases later). + +* After "git rebase -p" stopped with conflicts while replaying a merge, + "git rebase --continue" did not work (may need to be backported to older + releases). + +* "git revert" records relative to which parent a revert was made when + reverting a merge. Together with new documentation that explains issues + around reverting a merge and merging from the updated branch later, this + hopefully will reduce user confusion (this may need to be backported to + older releases later). + +* "git rm --cached" used to allow an empty blob that was added earlier to + be removed without --force, even when the file in the work tree has + since been modified. * "git push --tags --all $there" failed with generic usage message without telling saying these two options are incompatible. @@ -245,15 +276,11 @@ release, unless otherwise noted. timestamp part, exposing internal implementation detail. Also these did not work with --fixed-strings match at all. -* "git tag" did not complain about incompatible combination of options - e.g. "tag -l -d" (fix scheduled to be further downmerged to maint). - -* Internal diff machinery had a corner case performance bug that choked on a - large file with many repeated contents (fix scheduled to be further cherry- - picked to maint). +* "gitweb" did not mark non-ASCII characters imported from external HTML fragments + correctly. -- exec >/var/tmp/1 -O=v1.6.0.4-697-g168d5bd +O=v1.6.1-rc3-74-gf66bc5f echo O=$(git describe master) git shortlog --no-merges $O..master ^maint |