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authorJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2011-05-06 11:13:08 -0700
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2011-05-06 11:13:08 -0700
commit4e3aa87d13b339fa678cd3cb7f23664d3a48fb21 (patch)
tree22b899c71d4e423201be7333c4f7126117daaccc
parent3970fc5512ac52e798579cf734957a2fac852cfd (diff)
downloadgit-4e3aa87d13b339fa678cd3cb7f23664d3a48fb21.tar.gz
Update draft release notes to 1.7.6
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.6.txt32
1 files changed, 29 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.6.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.6.txt
index 9945ac9ef2..8554918cf4 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.6.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.6.txt
@@ -9,9 +9,16 @@ Updates since v1.7.5
* Clean-up of the C part of i18n (but not l10n---please wait)
continues.
+ * Processes spawned by "[alias] <name> = !process" in the configuration
+ can inspect GIT_PREFIX environment variable to learn where in the
+ working tree the original command was invoked.
+
* "git blame" learned "--abbrev[=<n>]" option to control the minimum
number of hexdigits shown for commit object names.
+ * "git cvsimport" learned that CVSNT stores its password file in a
+ location different from the traditional CVS.
+
* "git diff -C -C" used to disable the rename detection entirely when
there are too many copy candidate paths in the tree; now it falls
back to "-C" when doing so would keep the copy candidate paths
@@ -20,6 +27,10 @@ Updates since v1.7.5
* "git format-patch" learned "--quiet" option to suppress the output of
the names of generated files.
+ * "git format-patch" quotes people's names when it has RFC822 special
+ characters in it, e.g. "Junio C. Hamano" <jch@example.com>. Earlier
+ it was up to the user to do this when using its output.
+
* "git log" and friends learned a new "--notes" option to replace the
"--show-notes" option. Unlike "--show-notes", "--notes=<ref>" does
not imply showing the default notes.
@@ -27,6 +38,9 @@ Updates since v1.7.5
* "git merge" learned "-" as a short-hand for "the previous branch", just
like the way "git checkout -" works.
+ * "git merge-one-file" learned to honor GIT_WORK_TREE settings when
+ handling "both sides added, differently" conflict.
+
* "git rev-list --count" used with "--cherry-mark" counts the cherry-picked
commits separately, producing more a useful output.
@@ -37,7 +51,11 @@ Updates since v1.7.5
the tarball generation; snapshot from the same tree should result in
a same tarball.
-Also contains various documentation updates.
+ * "git-p4" (in contrib) learned to merge a file that was added on both
+ branches differently by using 2-way merge.
+
+Also contains various documentation updates and minor miscellaneous
+changes.
Fixes since v1.7.5
@@ -49,7 +67,11 @@ included in this release.
* "git config" used to choke with an insanely long line.
(merge ef/maint-strbuf-init later)
- * "diff -M --cached" used to use unmerged path as a possible rename
+ * "git diff-files" did not show the mode information from the working
+ tree side of an unmerged path correctly.
+ (merge jc/fix-diff-files-unmerged later)
+
+ * "git diff -M --cached" used to use unmerged path as a possible rename
source candidate, which made no sense.
(merge mz/maint-rename-unmerged later)
@@ -65,6 +87,10 @@ included in this release.
* "git mergetool" did not handle conflicted submoudules gracefully.
(merge jm/mergetool-submodules later)
+ * "git rebase -i -p" failed to preserve the history when there is a
+ redundant merge created with the --no-ff option.
+ (merge aw/maint-rebase-i-p-no-ff later)
+
* "git stash -p --no-keep-index" and "git stash --no-keep-index -p" now
mean the same thing.
(merge dm/stash-k-i-p later)
@@ -76,5 +102,5 @@ included in this release.
---
exec >/var/tmp/1
echo O=$(git describe master)
-O=v1.7.5-184-g23f536c
+O=v1.7.5.1-216-g3970fc5
git shortlog --no-merges ^maint ^$O master