Update draft release notes to 1.6.1
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Dec 5, 2008 at 20:02 UTC
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@@ -69,12 +69,18 @@ on.
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* "git add -N path..." adds the named paths as an empty blob, so that
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subsequent "git diff" will show a diff as if they are creation events.
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+* "git add" gained a built-in synonym for people who want to say "stage
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+ changes" instead of "add contents the the staging area" which amounts
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+ to the same thing.
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* "git apply" learned --include=paths option, similar to the existing
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--exclude=paths option.
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* "git bisect" is careful about a user mistake and suggests testing of
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merge base first when good is not a strict ancestor of bad.
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+* "git bisect skip" can take a range of commits.
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* "git blame" re-encodes the commit metainfo to UTF-8 from i18n.commitEncoding
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by default.
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@@ -238,6 +244,9 @@ release, unless otherwise noted.
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it (we still need to fix a similar nonsense when S is a submodule and F
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is a path in it).
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+* "git am" after stopping at a broken patch lost --whitespace, -C, -p and
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+ --3way options given from the command line initially.
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* "git diff --stdin" used to take two trees on a line and compared them,
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but we dropped support for such a use case long time ago. This has
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been resurrected.
@@ -252,6 +261,10 @@ release, unless otherwise noted.
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* "git repack" used to grab objects out of packs marked with .keep
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into a new pack (fix scheduled to be further downmerged to maint).
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+* "git rm --cached" used to allow an empty blob that was added earlier to
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+ be removed without --force, even when the file in the work tree has
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+ since been modified.
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* "git push --tags --all $there" failed with generic usage message without
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telling saying these two options are incompatible.
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@@ -263,8 +276,11 @@ release, unless otherwise noted.
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large file with many repeated contents (fix scheduled to be further cherry-
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picked to maint).
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+* "gitweb" did not mark non-ASCII characters imported from external HTML fragments
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+ correctly.
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--
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exec >/var/tmp/1
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-O=v1.6.0.4-854-gaaab7ea
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+O=v1.6.1-rc1-55-gd8af75d
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echo O=$(git describe master)
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git shortlog --no-merges $O..master ^maint