From e599e7ff1f89fc3d46a6e3b5fe04976402e12a49 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Junio C Hamano Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 22:47:15 -0800 Subject: Update draft release notes to 1.6.1 A large number of topics are merged to prepare for -rc0 now. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.1.txt | 34 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 33 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.1.txt index d0e30e95d4..7fdf83f604 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.1.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.1.txt @@ -27,6 +27,8 @@ on. * Sample pre-auto-gc script has OS X support. +* Makefile has support for (ancient) FreeBSD 4.9. + (performance) * The underlying diff machinery to produce textual output has been @@ -53,6 +55,10 @@ on. to a non-zero value to accept the suggestion when git can uniquely guess. +* The packfile machinery hopefully is more robust when dealilng with + corrupt packs if redundant objects involved in the corruption are + available elsehwere. + * "git add -N path..." adds the named paths as an empty blob, so that subsequent "git diff" will show a diff as if they are creation events. @@ -110,8 +116,18 @@ on. * "git diff" learned --dirstat-by-file to count changed files, not number of lines, when summarizing the global picture. +* "git diff" learned "textconv" filters --- a binary or hard-to-read + contents can be munged into human readable form and the difference + between the results of the conversion can be viewed (obviously this + cannot produce a patch that can be applied, so this is disabled in + format-patch among other things). + * "git diff" hunk header pattern for ObjC has been added. +* "--cached" option to "git diff has an easier to remember synonym "--staged", + to ask "what is the difference between the given commit and the + contents staged in the index?" + * a "textconv" filter that makes binary files textual form for human consumption can be specified as an attribute for paths; "git diff" learnt to make use of it. @@ -138,6 +154,12 @@ on. * "git log" learned --simplify-merges, a milder variant of --full-history; "gitk --simplify-merges" is easier to view than with --full-history. +* "git log" learned "--source" to show what ref each commit was reached + from. + +* "git log" also learned "--simplify-by-decration" to show the + birds-eye-view of the topology of the history. + * "git log --pretty=format:" learned "%d" format element that inserts names of tags that point at the commit. @@ -213,6 +235,9 @@ release, unless otherwise noted. * "git filter-branch" failed to rewrite a tag name with slashes in it. +* "git repack" used to grab objects out of packs marked with .keep + into a new pack (fix scheduled to be further downmerged to maint). + * "git push --tags --all $there" failed with generic usage message without telling saying these two options are incompatible. @@ -220,8 +245,15 @@ release, unless otherwise noted. timestamp part, exposing internal implementation detail. Also these did not work with --fixed-strings match at all. +* "git tag" did not complain about incompatible combination of options + e.g. "tag -l -d" (fix scheduled to be further downmerged to maint). + +* Internal diff machinery had a corner case performance bug that choked on a + large file with many repeated contents (fix scheduled to be further cherry- + picked to maint). + -- exec >/var/tmp/1 -O=v1.6.0.3-639-ga1a846a +O=v1.6.0.4-697-g168d5bd echo O=$(git describe master) git shortlog --no-merges $O..master ^maint -- cgit v1.2.3