Update draft release notes to 1.7.2
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Jun 18, 2010 at 11:27 UTC
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@@ -23,6 +23,9 @@ Updates since v1.7.1
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patch in a patch series, it failed to apply later patches that depend
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on the presense of such blank lines.
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+ * The message from "git am -3" has been improved when conflict
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+ resolution ended up making the patch a no-op.
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* "git checkout --orphan newbranch" is similar to "-b newbranch" but
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prepares to create a root commit that is not connected to any existing
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commit.
@@ -47,27 +50,38 @@ Updates since v1.7.1
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been enhanced for visibility modifiers (public, protected, etc.) to
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better support PHP5.
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+ * "diff.noprefix" configuration variable can be used to implicitly
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+ ask for "diff --no-prefix" behaviour.
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* "git for-each-ref" learned "%(objectname:short)" that gives the object
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name abbreviated.
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* Various options to "git grep" (e.g. --count, --name-only) work better
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with binary files.
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+ * "git help -w" learned "chrome" and "chromium" browsers.
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* "git log --follow <path>" follows across copies (it used to only follow
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renames). This may make the processing more expensive.
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+ * "git ls-files ../out/side/cwd" works now.
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* "git notes prune" learned "-n" (dry-run) and "-v" options, similar to
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what "git prune" has.
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* "git patch-id" can be fed a mbox without getting confused by the
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signature line in the format-patch output.
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+ * "git remote" learned "set-branches" subcommand.
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* "git revert" learned --strategy option to specify the merge strategy.
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* "git status [-s] --ignored" can be used to list ignored paths.
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+ * "git status -s -b" shows the current branch in the output.
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* Various "gitweb" enhancements and clean-ups, including syntax
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- highlighting.
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+ highlighting, "plackup" support for instaweb, etc.
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Fixes since v1.7.1
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* We didn't recognize timezone "Z" as a synonym for "UTC" (75b37e70).
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+ * We didn't URL decode "file:///path/to/repo" correctly when path/to/repo
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+ had percent-encoded characters (638794c, 9d2e942).
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* "git checkout" and "git rebase" overwrote paths that are marked "assume
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unchanged" (aecda37c).
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@@ -93,6 +110,15 @@ release, unless otherwise noted.
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minimize the output, but this often was spending too many extra cycles
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for very little gain (582aa00).
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+ * "git diff --graph" works better with "--color-words" and other options
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+ (81fa024..4297c0a).
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+ * "git diff" could show ambiguous abbreviation of blob object names on
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+ its "index" line (3e5a188).
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+ * "git merge --log" used to replace the custom message given by "-m" with
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+ the shortlog, instead of appending to it (tc/merge-m-log).
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* "git pull" accepted "--dry-run", gave it to underlying "git fetch" but
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ignored the option itself, resulting in a bogus attempt to merge
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unrelated commit (29609e68).
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* "git reset --hard" started from a wrong directory and a working tree in
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a nonstandard location is in use got confused (560fb6a1).
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+ * "git show -C -C" and other corner cases lost diff metainfo output
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+ in 1.7.0 (296c6bb).
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--
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exec >/var/tmp/1
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-O=v1.7.1-336-g0925c02
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-echo O=$(git describe master)
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-git shortlog --no-merges master ^maint ^$O
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+O=v1.7.1-423-gae391ec
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+echo O=$(git describe HEAD)
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+git shortlog --no-merges HEAD ^maint ^$O