Update 1.7.6 draft release notes
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
May 23, 2011 at 10:54 UTC
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@@ -14,13 +14,29 @@ Updates since v1.7.5
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* Clean-up of the C part of i18n (but not l10n---please wait)
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continues.
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+ * The scripting part of the codebase is getting prepared for i18n/l10n.
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* Processes spawned by "[alias] <name> = !process" in the configuration
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can inspect GIT_PREFIX environment variable to learn where in the
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working tree the original command was invoked.
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+ * A magic pathspec ":/" tells a command that limits its operation to
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+ the current directory when ran from a subdirectory to work on the
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+ entire working tree. In general, ":/path/to/file" would be relative
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+ to the root of the working tree hierarchy.
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+ After "git reset --hard; edit Makefile; cd t/", "git add -u" would
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+ be a no-op, but "git add -u :/" would add the updated contents of
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+ the Makefile at the top level. If you want to name a path in the
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+ current subdirectory whose unusual name begins with ":/", you can
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+ name it by "./:/that/path" or by "\:/that/path".
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* "git blame" learned "--abbrev[=<n>]" option to control the minimum
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number of hexdigits shown for commit object names.
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+ * "git blame" learned "--line-porcelain" that is less efficient but is
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+ easier to parse.
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* Aborting "git commit --interactive" discards updates to the index
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made during the interctive session.
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@@ -50,6 +66,9 @@ Updates since v1.7.5
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"--show-notes" option. Unlike "--show-notes", "--notes=<ref>" does
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not imply showing the default notes.
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+ * "git ls-remote" learned "--exit-code" option to consider it a
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+ different kind of error when no remote ref to be shown.
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* "git merge" learned "-" as a short-hand for "the previous branch", just
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like the way "git checkout -" works.
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@@ -101,12 +120,21 @@ included in this release.
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miscounted the length of the name it formatted.
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(merge rg/copy-gecos-username later)
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+ * The single-key mode of "git add -p" was easily fooled into thinking
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+ that it was told to add everthing ('a') when up-arrow was pressed by
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+ mistake.
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+ (merge tr/add-i-no-escape later)
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* "git cherry-pick -s resolve" failed to cherry-pick a root commit.
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(merge jk/cherry-pick-root-with-resolve later)
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* "git config" used to choke with an insanely long line.
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(merge ef/maint-strbuf-init later)
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+ * "git diff --word-diff" misbehaved when diff.suppress-blank-empty was
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+ in effect.
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+ (merge jm/maint-diff-words-with-sbe later)
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* "git log --stdin path" with an input that has additional pathspec
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used to corrupt memory.
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(merge jc/maint-pathspec-stdin-and-cmdline later)
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---
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exec >/var/tmp/1
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echo O=$(git describe master)
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-O=v1.7.5.1-339-g254fd97
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+O=v1.7.5.2-352-g4961210
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git shortlog --no-merges ^maint ^$O master