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authorJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2009-03-28 00:55:52 -0700
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2009-03-28 00:55:52 -0700
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Update draft release notes to 1.6.3
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.3.txt
index 0d8260a84..f0a2e41c7 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.3.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.3.txt
@@ -22,12 +22,12 @@ 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.
-In a future release, the default of "git push" without further
-arguments might be changed. Currently, it will push all matching
-refspecs to the current remote. A configuration variable push.default
-has been introduced to select the default behaviour. To ease the
-transition, a big warning is issued if this is not configured and a
-git push without arguments is attempted.
+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 v1.6.2
@@ -46,6 +46,9 @@ Updates since v1.6.2
repositories. It may not be useful in practice; meant primarily for
testing.
+* http transport learned to prompt and use password when fetching from or
+ pushing to http://user@host.xz/ URL.
+
* (msysgit) progress output that is sent over the sideband protocol can
be handled appropriately in Windows console.
@@ -99,6 +102,8 @@ Updates since v1.6.2
* Test scripts can be run under valgrind.
+* Test scripts can be run with installed git.
+
* Makefile learned 'coverage' option to run the test suites with
coverage tracking enabled.
@@ -111,11 +116,20 @@ release, unless otherwise noted.
Here are fixes that this release has, but have not been backported to
v1.6.2.X series.
+* "git-blame -S" did not quite work near the commits that were given
+ on the command line correctly (jc/maint-1.6.0-blame-s).
+
+* The initial checkout did not read the attributes from the .gitattribute
+ file that is being checked out.
+
+* git-diff feeds files in work-tree representation to external diff and
+ textconv (js/maint-diff-temp-smudge).
+
* git-gc spent excessive amount of time to decide if an object appears
in a locally existing pack (if needed, backport by merging 69e020a).
---
exec >/var/tmp/1
-O=v1.6.2.1-213-g7d4e3a7
+O=v1.6.2.1-399-gaa72a14
echo O=$(git describe master)
git shortlog --no-merges $O..master ^maint