Update draft release notes to 1.6.1
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
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@@ -62,6 +62,8 @@ on.
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* "git bisect" is careful about a user mistake and suggests testing of
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merge base first when good is not a strict ancestor of bad.
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+* "git check-attr --stdin" can check attributes for multiple paths.
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* "git checkout --track origin/hack" used to be a syntax error. It now
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DWIMs to create a corresponding local branch "hack", i.e. acts as if you
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said "git checkout --track -b hack origin/hack".
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* "git cherry-pick" can also utilize rerere for conflict resolution.
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+* "git clone" learned to be verbose with -v
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* "git commit --author=$name" can look up author name from existing
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commits.
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* "git daemon" learned --max-connections=<count> option.
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+* "git daemon" exports REMOTE_ADDR to record client address, so that
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+ spawned programs can act differently on it.
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+* "git describe --tags" favours closer lightweight tags than farther
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+ annotated tags now.
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* "git diff" learned to mimic --suppress-blank-empty from GNU diff via a
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configuration option.
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* "git diff" hunk header pattern for ObjC has been added.
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+* a "textconv" filter that makes binary files textual form for human
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+ consumption can be specified as an attribute for paths; "git diff"
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+ learnt to make use of it.
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* "git for-each-ref" learned "refname:short" token that gives an
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unambiguously abbreviated refname.
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+* Auto-numbering of the subject lines is the default for "git
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+ format-patch" now.
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* "git grep" learned to accept -z similar to GNU grep.
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* "git help" learned to use GIT_MAN_VIEWER environment variable before
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* "git merge -s $strategy" can use a custom built strategy if you have a
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command "git-merge-$strategy" on your $PATH.
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+* "git rebase" honours pre-rebase hook; use --no-verify to bypass it.
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+* "git rebase -p" uses interactive rebase machinery now to preserve the merges.
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* "git reflog expire branch" can be used in place of "git reflog expire
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refs/heads/branch".
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+* "git remote show $remote" lists remote branches one-per-line now.
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+* when giving up resolving a conflicted merge, "git reset --hard" failed
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+ to remove new paths from the working tree. [cherry-pick to 'maint'?]
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* "git submodule foreach" subcommand allows you to iterate over checked
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out submodules.
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@@ -179,6 +205,6 @@ release, unless otherwise noted.
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exec >/var/tmp/1
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-O=v1.6.0.2-553-g58e0fa5
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+O=v1.6.0.3-574-gaebd173
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echo O=$(git describe master)
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git shortlog --no-merges $O..master ^maint