Update draft release notes to 1.7.6
I think we are almost there for the feature freeze. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
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@@ -53,11 +53,6 @@ Updates since v1.7.5
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* "git commit" learned a "--patch" option to directly jump to the
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per-hunk selection UI of the interactive mode.
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- * "git diff -C -C" used to disable the rename detection entirely when
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- there are too many copy candidate paths in the tree; now it falls
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- back to "-C" when doing so would keep the copy candidate paths
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- under the rename detection limit.
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-
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* "git diff" and its family of commands learned --dirstat=0 to show
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directories that contribute less than 0.1% of changes.
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@@ -72,6 +67,8 @@ Updates since v1.7.5
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characters in it, e.g. "Junio C. Hamano" <jch@example.com>. Earlier
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it was up to the user to do this when using its output.
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+ * "git format-patch" can take an empty --subject-prefix now.
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* "git log" and friends learned a new "--notes" option to replace the
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"--show-notes" option. Unlike "--show-notes", "--notes=<ref>" does
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not imply showing the default notes.
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* p4-import (from contrib) learned a new option --preserve-user.
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+ * "git read-tree -m" learned "--dry-run" option that reports if a merge
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+ would fail without touching the index nor the working tree.
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* "git rebase" that does not specify on top of which branch to rebase
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the current branch now uses @{upstream} of the current branch.
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+ * "git rebase" finished either normally or with --abort did not
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+ update the reflog for HEAD to record the event to come back to
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+ where it started from.
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+ * "git remote add -t only-this-branch --mirror=fetch" is now allowed. Earlier
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+ a fetch-mode mirror meant mirror everything, but now it only means refs are
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+ not renamed.
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* "git rev-list --count" used with "--cherry-mark" counts the cherry-picked
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commits separately, producing more a useful output.
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@@ -116,11 +124,6 @@ Fixes since v1.7.5
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Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes in 1.7.5.X maintenance track are
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included in this release.
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- * The single-key mode of "git add -p" was easily fooled into thinking
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- that it was told to add everthing ('a') when up-arrow was pressed by
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- mistake.
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- (merge tr/add-i-no-escape later)
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* "git config" used to choke with an insanely long line.
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(merge ef/maint-strbuf-init later)
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