Update draft release notes to 1.6.6
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Oct 25, 2009 at 18:41 UTC
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@@ -46,11 +46,28 @@ Updates since v1.6.5
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(usability, bells and whistles)
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+ * The object replace mechanism can be bypassed with --no-replace-objects
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+ global option given to the "git" program.
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* "git fsck" by default checks the packfiles (i.e. "--full" is the
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default); you can turn it off with "git fsck --no-full".
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+ * import-tars contributed fast-import frontend learned more types of
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+ compressed tarballs.
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+ * "git instaweb" knows how to talk with mod_cgid to apache2.
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* "git log --decorate" shows the location of HEAD as well.
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+ * "git rebase -i" learned "reword" that acts like "edit" but immediately
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+ starts an editor to tweak the log message without returning control to
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+ the shell, which is done by "edit" to give an opportunity to tweak the
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+ contents.
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+ * Author names shown in gitweb output are links to search commits by the
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+ author.
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(developers)
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Fixes since v1.6.5
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whitespace attribute). The 'trailing-space' whitespace error class has
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become a short-hand to cover both of these and there is no behaviour
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change for existing set-ups.
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+ * "git cvsimport" did not work well when it is fed filenames from the
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+ command line and is not started at the top of the work tree. We should
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+ backport this by merging f6fdbb6 (cvsimport: fix relative argument
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+ filenames, 2009-10-19).
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+ * The way gitweb escapes its CGI parameters were broken especially when
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+ the parameter was a UTF-8 string. We may want to backport this to
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+ 1.6.5.X series by merging 452e225 (gitweb: fix esc_param, 2009-10-13).
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+ * gitweb used to show 'patch' link for merge commits but the output from
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+ it is not usable to feed "git am" with. We may want to backport this
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+ to 1.6.5.X series by merging 1655c98 (gitweb: Do not show 'patch' link
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+ for merge commits, 2009-10-09).
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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=v1.6.5.2-73-g9b12444
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+git shortlog --no-merges $O..master --not maint