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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.0.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 0bb8c0b2a2..0000000000 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.0.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,214 +0,0 @@ -Git v1.7.0 Release Notes -======================== - -Notes on behaviour change -------------------------- - - * "git push" into a branch that is currently checked out (i.e. pointed at by - HEAD in a repository that is not bare) is refused by default. - - Similarly, "git push $there :$killed" to delete the branch $killed - in a remote repository $there, when $killed branch is the current - branch pointed at by its HEAD, will be refused by default. - - Setting the configuration variables receive.denyCurrentBranch and - receive.denyDeleteCurrent to 'ignore' in the receiving repository - can be used to override these safety features. - - * "git send-email" does not make deep threads by default when sending a - patch series with more than two messages. All messages will be sent - as a reply to the first message, i.e. cover letter. - - It has been possible already to configure send-email to send "shallow thread" - by setting sendemail.chainreplyto configuration variable to false. The - only thing this release does is to change the default when you haven't - configured that variable. - - * "git status" is not "git commit --dry-run" anymore. This change does - not affect you if you run the command without argument. - - * "git diff" traditionally treated various "ignore whitespace" options - only as a way to filter the patch output. "git diff --exit-code -b" - exited with non-zero status even if all changes were about changing the - amount of whitespace and nothing else; and "git diff -b" showed the - "diff --git" header line for such a change without patch text. - - In this release, the "ignore whitespaces" options affect the semantics - of the diff operation. A change that does not affect anything but - whitespaces is reported with zero exit status when run with - --exit-code, and there is no "diff --git" header for such a change. - - * External diff and textconv helpers are now executed using the shell. - This makes them consistent with other programs executed by git, and - allows you to pass command-line parameters to the helpers. Any helper - paths containing spaces or other metacharacters now need to be - shell-quoted. The affected helpers are GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF in the - environment, and diff.*.command and diff.*.textconv in the config - file. - - * The --max-pack-size argument to 'git repack', 'git pack-objects', and - 'git fast-import' was assuming the provided size to be expressed in MiB, - unlike the corresponding config variable and other similar options accepting - a size value. It is now expecting a size expressed in bytes, with a possible - unit suffix of 'k', 'm', or 'g'. - -Updates since v1.6.6 --------------------- - -(subsystems) - - * "git fast-import" updates; adds "option" and "feature" to detect the - mismatch between fast-import and the frontends that produce the input - stream. - - * "git svn" support of subversion "merge tickets" and miscellaneous fixes. - - * "gitk" and "git gui" translation updates. - - * "gitweb" updates (code clean-up, load checking etc.) - -(portability) - - * Some more MSVC portability patches for msysgit port. - - * Minimum Pthreads emulation for msysgit port. - -(performance) - - * More performance improvement patches for msysgit port. - -(usability, bells and whistles) - - * More commands learned "--quiet" and "--[no-]progress" options. - - * Various commands given by the end user (e.g. diff.type.textconv, - and GIT_EDITOR) can be specified with command line arguments. E.g. it - is now possible to say "[diff "utf8doc"] textconv = nkf -w". - - * "sparse checkout" feature allows only part of the work tree to be - checked out. - - * HTTP transfer can use authentication scheme other than basic - (i.e./e.g. digest). - - * Switching from a version of superproject that used to have a submodule - to another version of superproject that no longer has it did not remove - the submodule directory when it should (namely, when you are not - interested in the submodule at all and didn't clone/checkout). - - * A new attribute conflict-marker-size can be used to change the size of - the conflict markers from the default 7; this is useful when tracked - contents (e.g. git-merge documentation) have strings that resemble the - conflict markers. - - * A new syntax "<branch>@{upstream}" can be used on the command line to - substitute the name of the "upstream" of the branch. Missing branch - defaults to the current branch, so "git fetch && git merge @{upstream}" - will be equivalent to "git pull". - - * "git am --resolved" has a synonym "git am --continue". - - * "git branch --set-upstream" can be used to update the (surprise!) upstream, - i.e. where the branch is supposed to pull and merge from (or rebase onto). - - * "git checkout A...B" is a way to detach HEAD at the merge base between - A and B. - - * "git checkout -m path" to reset the work tree file back into the - conflicted state works even when you already ran "git add path" and - resolved the conflicts. - - * "git commit --date='<date>'" can be used to override the author date - just like "git commit --author='<name> <email>'" can be used to - override the author identity. - - * "git commit --no-status" can be used to omit the listing of the index - and the work tree status in the editor used to prepare the log message. - - * "git commit" warns a bit more aggressively until you configure user.email, - whose default value almost always is not (and fundamentally cannot be) - what you want. - - * "git difftool" has been extended to make it easier to integrate it - with gitk. - - * "git fetch --all" can now be used in place of "git remote update". - - * "git grep" does not rely on external grep anymore. It can use more than - one thread to accelerate the operation. - - * "git grep" learned "--quiet" option. - - * "git log" and friends learned "--glob=heads/*" syntax that is a more - flexible way to complement "--branches/--tags/--remotes". - - * "git merge" learned to pass options specific to strategy-backends. E.g. - - - "git merge -Xsubtree=path/to/directory" can be used to tell the subtree - strategy how much to shift the trees explicitly. - - - "git merge -Xtheirs" can be used to auto-merge as much as possible, - while discarding your own changes and taking merged version in - conflicted regions. - - * "git push" learned "git push origin --delete branch", a syntactic sugar - for "git push origin :branch". - - * "git push" learned "git push --set-upstream origin forker:forkee" that - lets you configure your "forker" branch to later pull from "forkee" - branch at "origin". - - * "git rebase --onto A...B" means the history is replayed on top of the - merge base between A and B. - - * "git rebase -i" learned new action "fixup" that squashes the change - but does not affect existing log message. - - * "git rebase -i" also learned --autosquash option that is useful - together with the new "fixup" action. - - * "git remote" learned set-url subcommand that updates (surprise!) url - for an existing remote nickname. - - * "git rerere" learned "forget path" subcommand. Together with "git - checkout -m path" it will be useful when you recorded a wrong - resolution. - - * Use of "git reset --merge" has become easier when resetting away a - conflicted mess left in the work tree. - - * "git rerere" had rerere.autoupdate configuration but there was no way - to countermand it from the command line; --no-rerere-autoupdate option - given to "merge", "revert", etc. fixes this. - - * "git status" learned "-s(hort)" output format. - -(developers) - - * The infrastructure to build foreign SCM interface has been updated. - - * Many more commands are now built-in. - - * THREADED_DELTA_SEARCH is no more. If you build with threads, delta - compression will always take advantage of it. - -Fixes since v1.6.6 ------------------- - -All of the fixes in v1.6.6.X maintenance series are included in this -release, unless otherwise noted. - - * "git branch -d branch" used to refuse deleting the branch even when - the branch is fully merged to its upstream branch if it is not merged - to the current branch. It now deletes it in such a case. - - * "filter-branch" command incorrectly said --prune-empty and --filter-commit - were incompatible; the latter should be read as --commit-filter. - - * When using "git status" or asking "git diff" to compare the work tree - with something, they used to consider that a checked-out submodule with - uncommitted changes is not modified; this could cause people to forget - committing these changes in the submodule before committing in the - superproject. They now consider such a change as a modification and - "git diff" will append a "-dirty" to the work tree side when generating - patch output or when used with the --submodule option. |