Update draft release notes for 1.6.0
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Jul 16, 2008 at 18:34 UTC
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@@ -28,6 +28,10 @@ actually affected all git commands, now only affects "git config".
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GIT_LOCAL_CONFIG, also only documented as affecting "git config" and
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not different from GIT_CONFIG in a useful way, is removed.
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+The ".dotest" temporary area "git am" and "git rebase" use is now moved
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+inside the $GIT_DIR, to avoid mistakes of adding it to the project by
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+accident.
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An ancient merge strategy "stupid" has been removed.
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@@ -67,7 +71,8 @@ Updates since v1.5.6
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(performance, robustness, sanity etc.)
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-* even more documentation pages are now accessible via "man" and "git help".
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+* index-pack used too much memory when dealing with a deep delta chain.
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+ This has been optimized.
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* reduced excessive inlining to shrink size of the "git" binary.
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@@ -79,6 +84,8 @@ Updates since v1.5.6
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repack -a -f" can be used to fix such a corruption as long as necessary
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objects are available.
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+* Performance of "git-blame -C -C" operation is vastly improved.
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* git-clone does not create refs in loose form anymore (it behaves as
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if you immediately ran git-pack-refs after cloning). This will help
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repositories with insanely large number of refs.
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(usability, bells and whistles)
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+* even more documentation pages are now accessible via "man" and "git help".
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* A new environment variable GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES can be used to stop
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the discovery process of the toplevel of working tree; this may be useful
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when you are working in a slow network disk and are outside any working tree,
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(internal)
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+* git-merge has been reimplemented in C.
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Fixes since v1.5.6
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All of the fixes in v1.5.6 maintenance series are included in
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this release, unless otherwise noted.
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- * "git fetch" into an empty repository used to remind the fetch will
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- be huge by saying "no common commits", but it is already known by
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- the user anyway (need to backport 8cb560f to 'maint').
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exec >/var/tmp/1
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-O=v1.5.6.3-350-g499027b
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+O=v1.5.6.3-436-g1f8dc67
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echo O=$(git describe refs/heads/master)
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git shortlog --no-merges $O..refs/heads/master ^refs/heads/maint