Update draft release notes to 1.6.4
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
May 25, 2009 at 19:46 UTC
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@@ -35,12 +35,43 @@ Updates since v1.6.3
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(subsystems)
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+ * gitweb Perl style clean-up.
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+ * git-svn updates, including a new --authors-prog option to map author
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+ names by invoking an external program.
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+(portability)
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+ * We feed iconv with "UTF-8" instead of "utf8"; the former is
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+ understood more widely.
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(performance)
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(usability, bells and whistles)
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+ * "git add --edit" lets users edit the whole patch text to fine-tune what
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+ is added to the index.
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+ * "git log --graph" draws graphs more compactly by using horizonal lines
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+ when able.
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+ * "git log --decorate" shows shorter refnames by stripping well-known
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+ refs/* prefix.
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+ * "git send-email" understands quoted aliases in .mailrc files (might
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+ have to be backported to 1.6.3.X).
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+ * "git send-email" can fetch the sender address from the configuration
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+ variable "sendmail.from" (and "sendmail.<identity>.from").
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+ * "git show-branch" can color its output.
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+ * "add" and "update" subcommands to "git submodule" learned --reference
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+ option to use local clone with references.
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(developers)
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+ * A major part of the "git bisect" wrapper has moved to C.
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Fixes since v1.6.3
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@@ -51,9 +82,12 @@ release, unless otherwise noted.
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Here are fixes that this release has, but have not been backported to
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v1.6.3.X series.
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+ * The way Git.pm sets up a Repository object was not friendly to callers
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+ that chdir around. It now internally records the repository location
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+ as an absolute path when autodetected.
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exec >/var/tmp/1
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echo O=$(git describe master)
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-O=v1.6.3
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+O=v1.6.3.1-168-g23807fa
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git shortlog --no-merges $O..master ^maint