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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.2.txt index 3151c85d88..6ed31595ba 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.2.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.2.txt @@ -1,6 +1,20 @@ GIT v1.6.2 Release Notes ======================== +With the next major release, "git push" into a branch that is +currently checked out will be refused by default. You can choose +what should happen upon such a push by setting the configuration +variable receive.denyCurrentBranch in the receiving repository. + +To ease the transition plan, the receiving repository of such a +push running this release will issue a big warning when the +configuration variable is missing. Please refer to: + + http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/107758/focus=108007 + +for more details on the transition plan. + + Updates since v1.6.1 -------------------- @@ -11,7 +25,9 @@ Updates since v1.6.1 * gitweb updates, including a new patch view and RSS/Atom feed improvements. -(portability) +* (contrib/emacs) git.el now has commands for checking out a branch, + creating a branch, cherry-picking and reverting commits; vc-git.el + is not shipped with git anymore (it is part of official Emacs). (performance) @@ -29,12 +45,22 @@ Updates since v1.6.1 * "git add -p" learned 'g'oto action to jump directly to a hunk. +* "git add -p" learned to find a hunk with given text with '/'. + +* "git add -p" optionally can be told to work with just the command letter + without Enter. + * when "git am" stops upon a patch that does not apply, it shows the title of the offending patch. * "git am --directory=<dir>" and "git am --reject" passes these options to underlying "git apply". +* "git am" learned --ignore-date option. + +* "git blame" aligns author names better when they are spelled in + non US-ASCII encoding. + * "git clone" now makes its best effort when cloning from an empty repository to set up configuration variables to refer to the remote repository. @@ -48,6 +74,9 @@ Updates since v1.6.1 the commit log message it serves via gitcvs.commitmsgannotation configuration. +* "git cvsserver" learned to handle 'noop' command some CVS clients seem + to expect to work. + * "git diff" learned a new option --inter-hunk-context to coalesce close hunks together and show context between them. @@ -56,20 +85,13 @@ Updates since v1.6.1 * "git diff" learned --patience to run "patience diff" algorithm. -* Some combinations of -b/-w/--ignore-space-at-eol to "git diff" did - not work as expected. - * "git filter-branch" learned --prune-empty option that discards commits that do not change the contents. -* "git grep -w" and "git grep" for fixed strings have been optimized. - -* "git log" and friends include HEAD to the set of starting points - when --all is given. This makes a difference when you are not on - any branch. +* "git fsck" now checks loose objects in alternate object stores, instead + of misreporting them as missing. -* "git ls-tree" learned --full-tree option that shows the path in full - regardless of where in the work tree hierarchy the command was started. +* "git grep -w" and "git grep" for fixed strings have been optimized. * "git mergetool" learned -y(--no-prompt) option to disable prompting. @@ -80,7 +102,8 @@ Updates since v1.6.1 "git checkout" switches branches, taking the local changes while switching to another commit. -(internal) +* "git tag" learned --contains that works the same way as the same option + from "git branch". Fixes since v1.6.1 @@ -89,18 +112,34 @@ Fixes since v1.6.1 All of the fixes in v1.6.1.X maintenance series are included in this release, unless otherwise noted. +Here are fixes that this release has, but have not been backported to +v1.6.1.X series. + * "git-add sub/file" when sub is a submodule incorrectly added the path to the superproject. -* git-bundle did not exclude annotated tags even when a range given from the - command line wanted to. +* "git bundle" did not exclude annotated tags even when a range given + from the command line wanted to. + +* "git filter-branch" unnecessarily refused to work when you had + checked out a different commit from what is recorded in the superproject + index in a submodule. + +* "git filter-branch" incorrectly tried to update a nonexistent work tree + at the end when it is run in a bare repository. + +* "git mergetool" used to ignore autocrlf and other attributes + based content rewriting. * branch switching and merges had a silly bug that did not validate the correct directory when making sure an existing subdirectory is clean. +* "git -p cmd" when cmd is not a built-in one left the display in funny state + when killed in the middle. + -- exec >/var/tmp/1 -O=v1.6.1.2-252-g8c95d3c +O=v1.6.1.3-371-gc19923a echo O=$(git describe master) git shortlog --no-merges $O..master ^maint |