Update draft release notes to 1.7.6
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
May 19, 2011 at 20:50 UTC
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@@ -8,6 +8,9 @@ Updates since v1.7.5
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* Updates the way content tags are handled in gitweb.
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+ * Similar to branch names, tagnames that begin with "-" are now
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+ disallowed.
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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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@@ -56,6 +59,8 @@ Updates since v1.7.5
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(or not setting it at all) restores the default behaviour of allowing
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fast-forward to happen when possible.
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+ * p4-import (from contrib) learned a new option --preserve-user.
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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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@@ -65,6 +70,10 @@ Updates since v1.7.5
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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 status" and friends ignore .gitmodules file while the file is
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+ still in a conflicted state during a merge, to avoid using information
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+ that is not final and possibly corrupt with conflict markers.
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* Compressed tarball gitweb generates is made without the timestamp of
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the tarball generation; snapshot from the same tree should result in
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a same tarball.
@@ -86,14 +95,26 @@ included in this release.
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* The bash completion scripts should correctly work using zsh's bash
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completion emulation layer now.
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- (merge either fc/completion-zsh later)
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+ (merge fc/completion-zsh later)
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+ * The logic to handle "&" (expand to UNIX username) in GECOS field
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+ miscounted the length of the name it formatted.
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+ (merge rg/copy-gecos-username later)
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+ * "git cherry-pick -s resolve" failed to cherry-pick a root commit.
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+ (merge jk/cherry-pick-root-with-resolve 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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+ * "git log --stdin path" with an input that has additional pathspec
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+ used to corrupt memory.
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+ (merge jc/maint-pathspec-stdin-and-cmdline later)
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* "git send-pack" (hence "git push") over smalt-HTTP protocol could
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deadlock when the client side pack-object died early.
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(merge js/maint-send-pack-stateless-rpc-deadlock-fix later)
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+ (merge jk/git-connection-deadlock-fix later)
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