Update release notes to 2.7
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Dec 21, 2015 at 11:08 UTC
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@@ -6,6 +6,10 @@ Updates since v2.6
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UI, Workflows & Features
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+ * The appearance of "gitk", particularly on high DPI monitors, have
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+ been improved. "gitk" also comes with an undated translation for
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+ Swedish and Japanese.
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* "git remote" learned "get-url" subcommand to show the URL for a
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given remote name used for fetching and pushing.
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@@ -22,7 +26,7 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
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* Users who are too busy to type three extra keystrokes to ask for
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"git stash show -p" can now set stash.showPatch configuration
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- varible to true to always see the actual patch, not just the list
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+ variable to true to always see the actual patch, not just the list
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of paths affected with feel for the extent of damage via diffstat.
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* "quiltimport" allows to specify the series file by honoring the
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a superset of "--no-progress". Extend the command to support the
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usual "--[no-]progress".
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- * The semantics of tranfer.hideRefs configuration variable have been
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+ * The semantics of transfer.hideRefs configuration variable have been
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extended to work better with the ref "namespace" feature that lets
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you throw unrelated bunches of repositories in a single physical
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repository and virtually serve them as separate ones.
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* The credential-cache daemon can be told to ignore SIGHUP to work
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around issue when running Git from inside emacs.
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+ * "git push" learned new configuration for doing "--recurse-submodules"
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+ on each push.
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+ * "format-patch" has learned a new option to zero-out the commit
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+ object name on the mbox "From " line.
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Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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them instead, with a new configuration git-p4.keepEmptyCommits as a
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backward compatibility knob.
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+ * The completion script (in contrib/) used to list "git column"
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+ (which is not an end-user facing command) as one of the choices
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+ (merge 160fcdb sg/completion-no-column later to maint).
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+ * The error reporting from "git send-email", when SMTP TLS fails, has
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+ been improved.
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+ (merge 9d60524 jk/send-email-ssl-errors later to maint).
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+ * When getpwuid() on the system returned NULL (e.g. the user is not
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+ in the /etc/passwd file or other uid-to-name mappings), the
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+ codepath to find who the user is to record it in the reflog barfed
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+ and died. Loosen the check in this codepath, which already accepts
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+ questionable ident string (e.g. host part of the e-mail address is
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+ obviously bogus), and in general when we operate fmt_ident() function
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+ in non-strict mode.
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+ (merge 92bcbb9 jk/ident-loosen-getpwuid later to maint).
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* Code clean-up, minor fixes etc.