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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.txt | 39 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.txt index e1f013bd3..9125ee01a 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.txt @@ -97,15 +97,39 @@ Updates since v1.5.6 when you are working in a slow network disk and are outside any working tree, as bash-completion and "git help" may still need to run in these places. +* By default, stash entries never expire. Set reflogexpire in [gc + "refs/stash"] to a reasonable value to get traditional auto-expiration + behaviour back + +* Longstanding latency issue with bash completion script has been + addressed. This will need to be backmerged to 'maint' later. + +* pager.<cmd> configuration variable can be used to enable/disable the + default paging behaviour per command. + +* "git-add -i" has a new action 'e/dit' to allow you edit the patch hunk + manually. + * 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-apply can be told to apply a patch to a path deeper than what the + patch records with --directory option. + * git-archive can be told to omit certain paths from its output using export-ignore attributes. +* With -v option, git-branch describes the remote tracking statistics + similar to the way git-checkout reports by how many commits your branch + is ahead/behind. + +* git-bundle can read the revision arguments from the standard input. + +* git-cherry-pick can replay a root commit now. + * git-clone can clone from a remote whose URL would be rewritten by configuration stored in $HOME/.gitconfig now. @@ -123,8 +147,21 @@ Updates since v1.5.6 * "git rerere" can be told to update the index with auto-reused resolution with rerere.autoupdate configuration variable. +* git-rev-list learned --children option to show child commits it + encountered during the traversal, instead of shoing parent commits. + * git-send-mail can talk not just over SSL but over TLS now. +* "git-stash save" learned --keep-index option. This lets you stash away the + local changes and bring the changes staged in the index to your working + tree for examination and testing. + +* git-stash also learned branch subcommand to create a new branch out of + stashed changes. + +* git-status gives the remote tracking statistics similar to the way + git-checkout reports by how many commits your branch is ahead/behind. + * You can tell "git status -u" to even more aggressively omit checking untracked files with --untracked-files=no. @@ -148,6 +185,6 @@ this release, unless otherwise noted. --- exec >/var/tmp/1 -O=v1.5.6.2-246-g86d7244 +O=v1.5.6.3-315-g10ce020 echo O=$(git describe refs/heads/master) git shortlog --no-merges $O..refs/heads/master ^refs/heads/maint |