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authorJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2009-07-18 13:01:49 -0700
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2009-07-18 17:21:35 -0700
commit77acc32b29990a76ac6a63d3211b7c70adcef64d (patch)
tree6189f2e88f848d63d2e2732506f32ae3cfa4d046
parentbba0fd22ad654460a81c4b35462b600d9432a869 (diff)
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Updates to draft release notes to 1.6.4
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.4.txt57
1 files changed, 47 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.4.txt
index af68297af..f578b8186 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.4.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.4.txt
@@ -22,13 +22,6 @@ branch pointed at by its HEAD, gets a large warning. You can choose what
should happen upon such a push by setting the configuration variable
receive.denyDeleteCurrent in the receiving repository.
-When the user does not tell "git push" what to push, it has always
-pushed matching refs. For some people it is unexpected, and a new
-configuration variable push.default has been introduced to allow
-changing a different default behaviour. To advertise the new feature,
-a big warning is issued if this is not configured and a git push without
-arguments is attempted.
-
Updates since v1.6.3
--------------------
@@ -38,26 +31,60 @@ Updates since v1.6.3
* gitweb Perl style clean-up.
* git-svn updates, including a new --authors-prog option to map author
- names by invoking an external program.
+ names by invoking an external program, 'git svn reset' to unwind
+ 'git svn fetch', support for more than one branches, etc.
(portability)
* We feed iconv with "UTF-8" instead of "utf8"; the former is
- understood more widely.
+ understood more widely. Similarly updated test scripts to use
+ encoding names more widely understood (e.g. use "ISO8850-1" instead
+ of "ISO-8859-1").
+
+ * Various portability fixes/workarounds for different vintages of
+ SunOS, IRIX, and Windows.
+
+ * Git-over-ssh transport on Windows supports PuTTY plink and TortoisePlink.
(performance)
+ * Many repeated use of lstat() are optimized out in "checkout" codepath.
+
+ * git-status (and underlying git-diff-index --cached) are optimized
+ to take advantage of cache-tree information in the index.
+
(usability, bells and whistles)
* "git add --edit" lets users edit the whole patch text to fine-tune what
is added to the index.
+ * "git am" accepts StGIT series file as its input.
+
+ * "git bisect skip" skips to a more randomly chosen place in the hope
+ to avoid testing a commit that is too close to a commit that is
+ already known to be untestable.
+
+ * "git cvsexportcommit" learned -k option to stop CVS keywords expansion
+
+ * "git grep" learned -p option to show the location of the match using the
+ same context hunk marker "git diff" uses.
+
+ * https transport can optionally be told that the used client
+ certificate is password protected, in which case it asks the
+ password only once.
+
+ * "git imap-send" is IPv6 aware.
+
* "git log --graph" draws graphs more compactly by using horizonal lines
when able.
* "git log --decorate" shows shorter refnames by stripping well-known
refs/* prefix.
+ * "git push $name" honors remote.$name.pushurl if present before
+ using remote.$name.url. In other words, the URL used for fetching
+ and pushing can be different.
+
* "git send-email" understands quoted aliases in .mailrc files (might
have to be backported to 1.6.3.X).
@@ -69,6 +96,11 @@ Updates since v1.6.3
* "add" and "update" subcommands to "git submodule" learned --reference
option to use local clone with references.
+ * "git submodule update" learned --rebase option to update checked
+ out submodules by rebasing the local changes.
+
+ * "gitweb" can optionally use gravatar to adorn author/committer names.
+
(developers)
* A major part of the "git bisect" wrapper has moved to C.
@@ -82,6 +114,11 @@ release, unless otherwise noted.
Here are fixes that this release has, but have not been backported to
v1.6.3.X series.
+ * "git diff-tree -r -t" used to omit new or removed directories from
+ the output. df533f3 (diff-tree -r -t: include added/removed
+ directories in the output, 2009-06-13) may need to be cherry-picked
+ to backport this fix.
+
* The way Git.pm sets up a Repository object was not friendly to callers
that chdir around. It now internally records the repository location
as an absolute path when autodetected.
@@ -89,5 +126,5 @@ v1.6.3.X series.
---
exec >/var/tmp/1
echo O=$(git describe master)
-O=v1.6.3.1-168-g23807fa
+O=v1.6.4-rc1-7-gbba0fd2
git shortlog --no-merges $O..master ^maint