Update draft release notes to 1.7.5
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Mar 22, 2011 at 22:02 UTC
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@@ -15,6 +15,9 @@ Updates since v1.7.4
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* The codebase is getting prepared for i18n/l10n; no translated/translatable
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strings in the code yet.
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+ * The bash completion script can now complete symmetric difference
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+ for "git diff" command, e.g. "git diff ...bra<TAB>".
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* "git apply -v" reports offset lines when the patch does not apply at
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the exact location recorded in the diff output.
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@@ -43,6 +46,11 @@ Updates since v1.7.4
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reached, without spewing unnecessary error messages that complain about
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the server response it never got.
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+ * "git fetch" vs "git upload-pack" transfer learned 'no-done'
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+ protocol extension to save one round-trip after the content
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+ negotiation is done. This saves one HTTP RPC, reducing the overall
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+ latency for a trivial fetch.
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* "git grep -f <filename>" learned to treat "-" as "read from the
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standard input stream".
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@@ -52,6 +60,11 @@ Updates since v1.7.4
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* "git log" type commands now understand globbing pathspecs. You
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can say "git log -- '*.txt'" for example.
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+ * "git log" family of commands learned --cherry and --cherry-mark
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+ options that can be used to view two diverged branches while omitting
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+ or highlighting equivalent changes that appear on both sides of a
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+ symmetric difference (e.g. "log --cherry A...B").
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* "git mergetool" learned how to drive "beyond compare 3" as well.
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* "git rerere forget" without pathspec used to forget all the saved
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in the working tree that are in the way in order to check out paths
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under it from the named branch (js/checkout-untracked-symlink).
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+ * "git fetch" from a client that is mostly following the remote
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+ needlessly told all of its refs to the server for both sides to
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+ compute the set of objects that need to be transferred efficiently,
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+ instead of stopping when the server heard enough. In a project with
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+ many tags, this turns out to be extremely wasteful, especially over
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+ the smart HTTP transport (sp/maint-{upload,fetch}-pack-stop-early~1).
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+ * "git fetch" run from a repository that uses the same repository as
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+ its alternate object store as the repository it is fetching from
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+ did not tell the server that it already has access to objects
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+ reachable from the refs in their common alternate object store,
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+ causing it to fetch unnecessary objects (jc/maint-fetch-alt).
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---
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exec >/var/tmp/1
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O=v1.7.4.1-352-gcdc3466
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+O=v1.7.4.1-414-gaeb2aaa
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echo O=$(git describe 'master')
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git shortlog --no-merges ^maint ^$O master