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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.txt | 29 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.txt index 03e3a59ff..e5c285f9c 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.txt @@ -4,9 +4,6 @@ GIT v1.6.0 Release Notes User visible changes -------------------- -[[Note that none of these are not merged to 'master' as of this writing -but they will be before 1.6.0 happens]] - With the default Makefile settings, most of the programs are now installed outside your $PATH, except for "git", "gitk", "git-gui" and some server side programs that need to be accessible for technical @@ -21,6 +18,11 @@ scripts to use "git xyzzy" form, as we will stop installing Source changes needed for porting to MinGW environment are now all in the main git.git codebase. +By default, packfiles created with this version uses delta-base-offset +encoding introduced in v1.4.4. Pack idx files are using version 2 that +allows larger packs and added robustness thanks to its CRC checking, +introduced in v1.5.2. + Updates since v1.5.6 -------------------- @@ -77,14 +79,33 @@ Updates since v1.5.6 (usability, bells and whistles) +* git-apply can handle a patch that touches the same path more than once + much better than before. + +* git-apply can be told not to trust the line counts recorded in the input + patch but recount, with the new --recount option. + * git-archive can be told to omit certain paths from its output using export-ignore attributes. +* git-clone can clone from a remote whose URL would be rewritten by + configuration stored in $HOME/.gitconfig now. + +* git-diff --check now checks leftover merge conflict markers. + +* When remote side used to have branch 'foo' and git-fetch finds that now + it has branch 'foo/bar', it refuses to lose the existing remote tracking + branch and its reflog. The error message has been improved to suggest + pruning the remote if the user wants to proceed and get the latest set + of branches from the remote, including such 'foo/bar'. + * fast-export learned to export and import marks file; this can be used to interface with fast-import incrementally. * Original SHA-1 value for "update-ref -d" is optional now. +* git-send-mail can talk not just over SSL but over TLS now. + * You can tell "git status -u" to even more aggressively omit checking untracked files with --untracked-files=no. @@ -108,6 +129,6 @@ this release, unless otherwise noted. --- exec >/var/tmp/1 -O=v1.5.6.1-104-ga08b868 +O=v1.5.6.1-155-gaa0c1f2 echo O=$(git describe refs/heads/master) git shortlog --no-merges $O..refs/heads/master ^refs/heads/maint |