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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.4.txt index ace061f5fe..375fea1935 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.4.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.4.txt @@ -8,12 +8,11 @@ Updates since v1.7.3 docbook-xsl >= 1.73. If you have older versions, you can set ASCIIDOC7 and ASCIIDOC_ROFF, respectively. - * The option parsers of various commands that create new branch (or + * The option parsers of various commands that create new branches (or rename existing ones to a new name) were too loose and users were - allowed to call a branch with a name that begins with a dash by - creative abuse of their command line options, which only lead to - burn themselves. The name of a branch cannot begin with a dash - now. + allowed to give a branch a name that begins with a dash by creative + abuse of their command line options, which only led to burning + themselves. The name of a branch cannot begin with a dash now. * System-wide fallback default attributes can be stored in /etc/gitattributes; core.attributesfile configuration variable can @@ -26,8 +25,9 @@ Updates since v1.7.3 cover letter of the previous series; this has been changed to make the patches in the new series replies to the new cover letter. - * Bash completion script in contrib/ has been adjusted to be also - usable by zsh. + * Bash completion script in contrib/ has been adjusted to be usable with + Bash 4 (options with '=value' didn't complete) It has been also made + usable with zsh. * Different pagers can be chosen depending on which subcommand is being run under the pager, using "pager.<subcommand>" variable. @@ -76,8 +76,8 @@ Updates since v1.7.3 use the new --empty option to be more explicit instead. * "git repack -f" does not spend cycles to recompress objects in the - non-delta representation anymore (use -F if you really mean it when - e.g. you changed the compression level). + non-delta representation anymore (use -F if you really mean it + e.g. after you changed the core.compression variable setting). * "git merge --log" used to limit the resulting merge log to 20 entries; this is now customizable by giving e.g. "--log=47". @@ -91,8 +91,9 @@ Updates since v1.7.3 * The default "recursive" merge strategy learned --rename-threshold option to influence the rename detection, similar to the -M option - of "git diff". E.g. "git merge -Xrename-threshold=50% ..." to use - this. + of "git diff". From "git merge" frontend, "-X<strategy option>" + interface, e.g. "git merge -Xrename-threshold=50% ...", can be used + to trigger this. * The "recursive" strategy also learned to ignore various whitespace changes; the most notable is -Xignore-space-at-eol. @@ -130,9 +131,6 @@ release, unless otherwise noted. me or by her; instead it looked for commits written by me and by her, which is impossible. - * "git merge" into an unborn branch removed an untracked file "foo" - from the working tree when merged branch had "foo" (2caf20c..172b642). - * "git push --progress" shows progress indicators now. * "git repack" places its temporary packs under $GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY/pack @@ -143,6 +141,6 @@ release, unless otherwise noted. --- exec >/var/tmp/1 -O=v1.7.3.4-567-g38a5932 +O=v1.7.3.4-687-g2cd900f echo O=$(git describe master) git shortlog --no-merges ^maint ^$O master |