Update draft release notes to 1.7.6
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
May 2, 2011 at 16:10 UTC
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@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ Updates since v1.7.5
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* Various git-svn updates.
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+ * Clean-up of the C part of i18n (but not l10n---please wait)
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+ continues.
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* When an object "$tree:$path" does not exist, if $path does exist in the
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subtree of $tree that corresponds to the subdirectory the user is in,
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git now suggests using "$tree:./$path" in addition to the advice to use
@@ -26,6 +29,10 @@ Updates since v1.7.5
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* "git format-patch" learned "--quiet" option to suppress the output of
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the names of generated files.
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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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* "git merge" learned "-" as a short-hand for "the previous branch", just
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like the way "git checkout -" works.
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@@ -37,6 +44,9 @@ Updates since v1.7.5
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* "git stash apply" can now apply to a working tree with changes as long
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as there is no overlapping change as the stash being applied.
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+ * "git submodule update" learned "--force" option to get rid of local
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+ changes in submodules and replace them with the up-to-date version.
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* "git stash apply @{99999}" now is diagnosed as an error, unless you
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really have that many stash entries.
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@@ -49,10 +59,6 @@ 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 "--date=relative" output format used to say "X years, 12 months"
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- when it should have said "X+1 years".
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- (merge mg/x-years-12-months later)
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-
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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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@@ -65,6 +71,10 @@ included in this release.
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when renames are involved.
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(merge jh/dirstat for the above two later)
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+ * "diff -M --cached" used to use unmerged path as a possible rename
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+ source candidate, which made no sense.
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+ (merge mz/maint-rename-unmerged later)
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* "git format-patch" when run with "--quiet" option used to produce a
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nonsense result that consists of alternating empty output.
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(merge early part of cn/format-patch-quiet later)
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exec >/var/tmp/1
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echo O=$(git describe master)
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-O=v1.7.5-140-g5ae6f5c
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+O=v1.7.5-184-g23f536c
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git shortlog --no-merges ^maint ^$O master