Update draft release notes for 7th batch
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Jul 15, 2012 at 21:46 UTC
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@@ -22,6 +22,9 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
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$HOME/.config/attributes and $HOME/.config/ignore respectively when
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these files exist.
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+ * "git apply" learned to wiggle the base version and perform three-way
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+ merge when a patch does not exactly apply to the version you have.
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* Scripted Porcelain writers now have access to the credential API via
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the "git credential" plumbing command.
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@@ -51,6 +54,9 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
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default location where the build procedure installs them locally;
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the variable can even point at a http:// URL.
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+ * "git rebase [-i] --root $tip" can now be used to rewrite all the
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+ history leading to "$tip" down to the root commit.
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* "git rebase -i" learned "-x <cmd>" to insert "exec <cmd>" after
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each commit in the resulting history.
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@@ -71,6 +77,8 @@ Foreign Interface
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* "mediawiki" remote helper (in contrib/) learned to handle file
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attachments.
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+ * "git p4" now uses "Jobs:" and "p4 move" when appropriate.
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* vcs-svn has been updated to clean-up compilation, lift 32-bit
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limitations, etc.
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@@ -106,6 +114,32 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.7.11 in the maintenance
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releases are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
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details).
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+ * The error message from "git push $there :bogo" (and its equivalent
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+ "git push $there --delete bogo") mentioned that we tried and failed
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+ to guess what ref is being deleted based on the LHS of the refspec,
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+ which we don't.
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+ (merge 5742c82 jk/push-delete-ref-error-message later to maint).
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+ * A handful of files and directories we create had tighter than
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+ necessary permission bits when the user wanted to have group
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+ writability (e.g. by setting "umask 002").
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+ (merge 6ff2b72 ar/clone-honor-umask-at-top later to maint).
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+ * "commit --amend" used to refuse amending a commit with an empty log
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+ message, with or without "--allow-empty-message".
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+ (merge d9a9357 cw/amend-commit-without-message later to maint).
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+ * "git commit --amend --only --" was meant to allow "Clever" people to
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+ rewrite the commit message without making any change even when they
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+ have already changes for the next commit added to their index, but
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+ it never worked as advertised since it was introduced in 1.3.0 era.
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+ (merge ea2d4ed jk/maint-commit-amend-only-no-paths later to maint).
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+ * Even though the index can record pathnames longer than 1<<12 bytes,
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+ in some places we were not comparing them in full, potentially
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+ replacing index entries instead of adding.
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+ (merge d5f5333 tg/maint-cache-name-compare later to maint).
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* "git show"'s auto-walking behaviour was an unreliable and
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unpredictable hack; it now behaves just like "git log" does when it
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walks.