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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.3.txt index 5860b515f5..db6956205d 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.3.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.3.txt @@ -22,6 +22,13 @@ branch pointed at by its HEAD, gets a large warning. You can choose what should happen upon such a push by setting the configuration variable receive.denyDeleteCurrent in the receiving repository. +When the user does not tell "git push" what to push, it has always +pushed matching refs. For some people it is unexpected, and a new +configuration variable push.default has been introduced to allow +changing a different default behaviour. To advertise the new feature, +a big warning is issued if this is not configured and a git push without +arguments is attempted. + Updates since v1.6.2 -------------------- @@ -39,6 +46,9 @@ Updates since v1.6.2 repositories. It may not be useful in practice; meant primarily for testing. +* http transport learned to prompt and use password when fetching from or + pushing to http://user@host.xz/ URL. + * (msysgit) progress output that is sent over the sideband protocol can be handled appropriately in Windows console. @@ -52,6 +62,10 @@ Updates since v1.6.2 with the 'edit' action in git-add -i/-p, you can abort the editor to tell git not to apply it. +* The number of commits shown in "you are ahead/behind your upstream" + messages given by "git checkout" and "git status" used to count merge + commits; now it doesn't. + * git-archive learned --output=<file> option. * git-bisect shows not just the number of remaining commits whose goodness @@ -67,11 +81,17 @@ Updates since v1.6.2 * git-clone runs post-checkout hook when run without --no-checkout. +* git-fast-export choked when seeing a tag that does not point at commit. + * git-format-patch can be told to use attachment with a new configuration, format.attach. * git-format-patch can be told to produce deep or shallow message threads. +* git-format-patch learned format.headers configuration to add extra + header fields to the output. This behaviour is similar to the existing + --add-header=<header> option of the command. + * git-grep learned to highlight the found substrings in color. * git-imap-send learned to work around Thunderbird's inability to easily @@ -85,6 +105,11 @@ Updates since v1.6.2 * Output from git-remote command has been vastly improved. +* git-repack (invoked from git-gc) did not work as nicely as it should in + a repository that borrows objects from neighbours via alternates + mechanism especially when some packs are marked with the ".keep" flag + to prevent them from being repacked. + * git-send-email learned --confirm option to review the Cc: list before sending the messages out. @@ -92,9 +117,18 @@ Updates since v1.6.2 * Test scripts can be run under valgrind. +* Test scripts can be run with installed git. + * Makefile learned 'coverage' option to run the test suites with coverage tracking enabled. +* Building the manpages with docbook-xsl between 1.69.1 and 1.71.1 now + requires setting DOCBOOK_SUPPRESS_SP to work around a docbook-xsl bug. + This workaround used to be enabled by default, but causes problems + with newer versions of docbook-xsl. In addition, there are a few more + knobs you can tweak to work around issues with various versions of the + docbook-xsl package. See comments in Documentation/Makefile for details. + Fixes since v1.6.2 ------------------ @@ -104,11 +138,14 @@ release, unless otherwise noted. Here are fixes that this release has, but have not been backported to v1.6.2.X series. +* The initial checkout did not read the attributes from the .gitattribute + file that is being checked out. + * git-gc spent excessive amount of time to decide if an object appears in a locally existing pack (if needed, backport by merging 69e020a). --- exec >/var/tmp/1 -O=v1.6.2.1-213-g7d4e3a7 +O=v1.6.2.2-403-g8130949 echo O=$(git describe master) git shortlog --no-merges $O..master ^maint |