Draft release notes to 1.8.0
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Sep 14, 2012 at 21:44 UTC
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* A credential helper to allow access to the Gnome keyring has been
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added.
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+ * When "git am" sanitizes the Subject: line, we strip the prefix from
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+ "Re: subject" and also from a less common "re: subject", but left
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+ even less common "RE: subject" intact.
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* It was tempting to say "git branch --set-upstream origin/master",
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but that tells Git to arrange the local branch "origin/master" to
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integrate with the currently checked out branch, which is highly
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* "git merge-base" learned "--is-ancestor A B" option to tell if A is
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an ancestor of B. The result is indicated by its exit status code.
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+ * The "-Xours" backend option to "git merge -s recursive" now takes
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+ effect even on binary files.
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Foreign Interface
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