Update Release Notes to 1.7.5
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Mar 9, 2011 at 16:21 UTC
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@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ Updates since v1.7.4
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* Various git-p4 enhancements (in contrib).
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+ * Various vcs-svn enhancements.
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* "git config" used to be also known as "git repo-config", but the old
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name is now officially deprecated.
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@@ -17,7 +19,14 @@ Updates since v1.7.4
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* "git cherry-pick" and "git revert" can be told to use custom merge
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strategy, similar to "git rebase".
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- * "rev-list --objects $revs -- $pathspec" would limit the objects listed
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+ * "git cherry-pick" remembers which commit failed to apply when it is
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+ stopped by conflicts, making it unnecessary to use "commit -c $commit"
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+ to conclude it.
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+ * "git grep --no-index" did not honor pathspecs correctly, returning
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+ paths outside the specified area.
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+ * "git rev-list --objects $revs -- $pathspec" would limit the objects listed
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in its output properly with the pathspec, in preparation for narrow
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clones.
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@@ -43,14 +52,29 @@ Fixes since v1.7.4
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All of the fixes in the v1.7.4.X maintenance series are included in this
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release, unless otherwise noted.
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+ * "git clone /no/such/path" did not fail correctly (jk/fail-null/clone).
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+ * "git checkout $other_branch" silently removed untracked symbolic links
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+ in the working tree that are in the way in order to check out paths
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+ under it from the named branch (js/checkout-untracked-symlink).
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+ * "git diff --stat -B" ran on binary files counted the changes in lines,
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+ which was nonsensical (jk/diffstat-binary).
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+ * "git diff -M" opportunisticly detected copies, which was not
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+ necessarily a good thing, especially when it is internally run by
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+ recursive merge.
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* "git merge" triggers prepare-commit-msg hook. Earlier, only "git
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commit" to conclude an interrupted merge triggered the hook, leading to
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an inconsistent overall user experience (js/maint-merge-use-prepare-commit-msg-hook).
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+ * "git submodule update" used to honor --merge/--rebase option (or
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+ corresponding configuration variables) even for a newly cloned
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+ subprojects, which made no sense (so/submodule-no-update-first-time).
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---
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exec >/var/tmp/1
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-O=v1.7.4
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-O=v1.7.4.1-140-g8978166
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+O=v1.7.4.1-224-g66ecd2d
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echo O=$(git describe 'master')
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git shortlog --no-merges ^maint ^$O master