Updates to draft release notes to 1.6.4
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
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@@ -22,13 +22,6 @@ branch pointed at by its HEAD, gets a large warning. You can choose what
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should happen upon such a push by setting the configuration variable
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receive.denyDeleteCurrent in the receiving repository.
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-When the user does not tell "git push" what to push, it has always
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-pushed matching refs. For some people it is unexpected, and a new
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-configuration variable push.default has been introduced to allow
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-changing a different default behaviour. To advertise the new feature,
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-a big warning is issued if this is not configured and a git push without
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-arguments is attempted.
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Updates since v1.6.3
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@@ -38,26 +31,60 @@ Updates since v1.6.3
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* gitweb Perl style clean-up.
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* git-svn updates, including a new --authors-prog option to map author
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- names by invoking an external program.
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+ names by invoking an external program, 'git svn reset' to unwind
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+ 'git svn fetch', support for more than one branches, etc.
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(portability)
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* We feed iconv with "UTF-8" instead of "utf8"; the former is
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- understood more widely.
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+ understood more widely. Similarly updated test scripts to use
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+ encoding names more widely understood (e.g. use "ISO8850-1" instead
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+ of "ISO-8859-1").
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+ * Various portability fixes/workarounds for different vintages of
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+ SunOS, IRIX, and Windows.
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+ * Git-over-ssh transport on Windows supports PuTTY plink and TortoisePlink.
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(performance)
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+ * Many repeated use of lstat() are optimized out in "checkout" codepath.
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+ * git-status (and underlying git-diff-index --cached) are optimized
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+ to take advantage of cache-tree information in the index.
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(usability, bells and whistles)
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* "git add --edit" lets users edit the whole patch text to fine-tune what
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is added to the index.
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+ * "git am" accepts StGIT series file as its input.
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+ * "git bisect skip" skips to a more randomly chosen place in the hope
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+ to avoid testing a commit that is too close to a commit that is
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+ already known to be untestable.
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+ * "git cvsexportcommit" learned -k option to stop CVS keywords expansion
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+ * "git grep" learned -p option to show the location of the match using the
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+ same context hunk marker "git diff" uses.
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+ * https transport can optionally be told that the used client
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+ certificate is password protected, in which case it asks the
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+ password only once.
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+ * "git imap-send" is IPv6 aware.
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* "git log --graph" draws graphs more compactly by using horizonal lines
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when able.
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* "git log --decorate" shows shorter refnames by stripping well-known
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refs/* prefix.
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+ * "git push $name" honors remote.$name.pushurl if present before
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+ using remote.$name.url. In other words, the URL used for fetching
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+ and pushing can be different.
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* "git send-email" understands quoted aliases in .mailrc files (might
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* "add" and "update" subcommands to "git submodule" learned --reference
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option to use local clone with references.
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+ * "git submodule update" learned --rebase option to update checked
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+ out submodules by rebasing the local changes.
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+ * "gitweb" can optionally use gravatar to adorn author/committer names.
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(developers)
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* A major part of the "git bisect" wrapper has moved to C.
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Here are fixes that this release has, but have not been backported to
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v1.6.3.X series.
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+ * "git diff-tree -r -t" used to omit new or removed directories from
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+ the output. df533f3 (diff-tree -r -t: include added/removed
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+ directories in the output, 2009-06-13) may need to be cherry-picked
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+ to backport this fix.
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* The way Git.pm sets up a Repository object was not friendly to callers
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that chdir around. It now internally records the repository location
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as an absolute path when autodetected.
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exec >/var/tmp/1
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echo O=$(git describe master)
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-O=v1.6.3.1-168-g23807fa
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+O=v1.6.4-rc1-7-gbba0fd2
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git shortlog --no-merges $O..master ^maint