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authorJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2011-05-23 10:54:54 -0700
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2011-05-23 10:54:54 -0700
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Update 1.7.6 draft release notes
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.6.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.6.txt
index f5faf280c..3d5ff4d9b 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.6.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.6.txt
@@ -14,13 +14,29 @@ Updates since v1.7.5
* Clean-up of the C part of i18n (but not l10n---please wait)
continues.
+ * The scripting part of the codebase is getting prepared for i18n/l10n.
+
* 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.
+ * A magic pathspec ":/" tells a command that limits its operation to
+ the current directory when ran from a subdirectory to work on the
+ entire working tree. In general, ":/path/to/file" would be relative
+ to the root of the working tree hierarchy.
+
+ After "git reset --hard; edit Makefile; cd t/", "git add -u" would
+ be a no-op, but "git add -u :/" would add the updated contents of
+ the Makefile at the top level. If you want to name a path in the
+ current subdirectory whose unusual name begins with ":/", you can
+ name it by "./:/that/path" or by "\:/that/path".
+
* "git blame" learned "--abbrev[=<n>]" option to control the minimum
number of hexdigits shown for commit object names.
+ * "git blame" learned "--line-porcelain" that is less efficient but is
+ easier to parse.
+
* Aborting "git commit --interactive" discards updates to the index
made during the interctive session.
@@ -50,6 +66,9 @@ Updates since v1.7.5
"--show-notes" option. Unlike "--show-notes", "--notes=<ref>" does
not imply showing the default notes.
+ * "git ls-remote" learned "--exit-code" option to consider it a
+ different kind of error when no remote ref to be shown.
+
* "git merge" learned "-" as a short-hand for "the previous branch", just
like the way "git checkout -" works.
@@ -101,12 +120,21 @@ included in this release.
miscounted the length of the name it formatted.
(merge rg/copy-gecos-username later)
+ * The single-key mode of "git add -p" was easily fooled into thinking
+ that it was told to add everthing ('a') when up-arrow was pressed by
+ mistake.
+ (merge tr/add-i-no-escape later)
+
* "git cherry-pick -s resolve" failed to cherry-pick a root commit.
(merge jk/cherry-pick-root-with-resolve later)
* "git config" used to choke with an insanely long line.
(merge ef/maint-strbuf-init later)
+ * "git diff --word-diff" misbehaved when diff.suppress-blank-empty was
+ in effect.
+ (merge jm/maint-diff-words-with-sbe later)
+
* "git log --stdin path" with an input that has additional pathspec
used to corrupt memory.
(merge jc/maint-pathspec-stdin-and-cmdline later)
@@ -119,5 +147,5 @@ included in this release.
---
exec >/var/tmp/1
echo O=$(git describe master)
-O=v1.7.5.1-339-g254fd97
+O=v1.7.5.2-352-g4961210
git shortlog --no-merges ^maint ^$O master