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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.txt index f74adcc0be..15b954ca4b 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.txt @@ -18,10 +18,13 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * A third-party tool "git subtree" is distributed in contrib/ + * A remote helper that acts as a proxy and caches ssl session for the + https:// transport is added to the contrib/ area. + * Error messages given when @{u} is used for a branch without its - upstream configured have been clatified. + upstream configured have been clarified. - * Even with "-q"uiet option, "checkout" used to report setting up + * Even with the "-q"uiet option, "checkout" used to report setting up tracking. Also "branch" learned the "-q"uiet option to squelch informational message. @@ -37,8 +40,8 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * "git am" learned the "--include" option, which is an opposite of existing the "--exclude" option. - * When "git am -3" needs to fall back to an application to a - synthesized preimage followed by a 3-way merge, the paths that + * When "git am -3" needs to fall back to an application of the patch + to a synthesized preimage followed by a 3-way merge, the paths that needed such treatment are now reported to the end user, so that the result in them can be eyeballed with extra care. @@ -50,8 +53,9 @@ UI, Workflows & Features after populating two temporary directories, instead of running an instance of the external tool once per a file pair. - * The "fmt-merge-msg" command learns to list the primary contributors - involved in the side topic you are merging. + * The "fmt-merge-msg" command learned to list the primary contributors + involved in the side topic you are merging in a comment in the merge + commit template. * "git rebase" learned to optionally keep commits that do not introduce any change in the original history. @@ -67,15 +71,15 @@ UI, Workflows & Features Foreign Interface - * "git svn" used to die with unwanted SIGPIPE when talking with HTTP + * "git svn" used to die with unwanted SIGPIPE when talking with an HTTP server that uses keep-alive. * "git svn" learned to use platform specific authentication providers, e.g. gnome-keyring, kwallet, etc. - * "git p4" has been moved out of contrib/ area and has seen more work - on importing labels as tags from (and exporting tags as labels to) - p4. + * "git p4" has been moved out of the contrib/ area and has seen more + work on importing labels as tags from (and exporting tags as labels + to) p4. Performance and Internal Implementation (please report possible regressions) @@ -113,8 +117,8 @@ Performance and Internal Implementation (please report possible regressions) systems, run-command API now uses SHELL_PATH, not /bin/sh, when spawning an external command (not applicable to Windows port). - * The API to iterate over refs/ hierarchy has been tweaked to allow - walking only a subset of it more efficiently. + * The API to iterate over the refs/ hierarchy has been tweaked to + allow walking only a subset of it more efficiently. Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups. @@ -126,11 +130,6 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.7.10 in the maintenance releases are contained in this release (see release notes to them for details). - * "git rebase -p" used to pay attention to rebase.autosquash which - was wrong. "git rebase -p -i" should, but "git rebase -p" by - itself should not. - (cherry-pick 8a6dae1 vr/rebase-autosquash-does-not-imply-i later to maint). - * "git submodule init" used to report "registered for path ..." even for submodules that were registered earlier. (cherry-pick c1c259e jl/submodule-report-new-path-once later to maint). |