Update draft release notes for 1.6.0
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Jul 7, 2008 at 01:39 UTC
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@@ -28,6 +28,8 @@ actually affected all git commands, now only affects "git config".
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GIT_LOCAL_CONFIG, also only documented as affecting "git config" and
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not different from GIT_CONFIG in a useful way, is removed.
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+An ancient merge strategy "stupid" has been removed.
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Updates since v1.5.6
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* git-p4 in contrib learned "allowSubmit" configuration to control on
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which branch to allow "submit" subcommand.
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+* git-gui learned to stage changes per-line.
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(portability)
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+* Changes for MinGW port have been merged, thanks to Johannes Sixt and
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+ gangs.
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* Sample hook scripts shipped in templates/ are now suffixed with
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*.sample. We used to prevent them from triggering by default by
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relying on the fact that we install them as unexecutable, but on
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* Updated howto/update-hook-example
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-* Got rid of usage of "git-foo" from the tutorial.
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+* Got rid of usage of "git-foo" from the tutorial and made typography
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+ more consistent.
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* Disambiguating "--" between revs and paths is finally documented.
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@@ -84,6 +92,11 @@ Updates since v1.5.6
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(usability, bells and whistles)
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+* A new environment variable GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES can be used to stop
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+ the discovery process of the toplevel of working tree; this may be useful
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+ when you are working in a slow network disk and are outside any working tree,
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+ as bash-completion and "git help" may still need to run in these places.
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* git-apply can handle a patch that touches the same path more than once
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much better than before.
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@@ -107,13 +120,16 @@ Updates since v1.5.6
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* fast-export learned to export and import marks file; this can be used to
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interface with fast-import incrementally.
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-* Original SHA-1 value for "update-ref -d" is optional now.
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+* "git rerere" can be told to update the index with auto-reused resolution
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+ with rerere.autoupdate configuration variable.
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* git-send-mail can talk not just over SSL but over TLS now.
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* You can tell "git status -u" to even more aggressively omit checking
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untracked files with --untracked-files=no.
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+* Original SHA-1 value for "update-ref -d" is optional now.
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* Error codes from gitweb are made more descriptive where possible, rather
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than "403 forbidden" as we used to issue everywhere.
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@@ -126,14 +142,12 @@ Fixes since v1.5.6
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All of the fixes in v1.5.6 maintenance series are included in
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this release, unless otherwise noted.
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- * diff -c/--cc showed unnecessary "deletion" lines at the context
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- boundary (needs backmerge to maint).
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- * "git-clone <src> <dst>" did not create leading directories for <dst>
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- like the scripted version used to do (needs backport to maint).
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+ * "git fetch" into an empty repository used to remind the fetch will
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+ be huge by saying "no common commits", but it is already known by
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+ the user anyway (need to backport 8cb560f to 'maint').
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exec >/var/tmp/1
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-O=v1.5.6.1-155-gaa0c1f2
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+O=v1.5.6.2-246-g86d7244
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echo O=$(git describe refs/heads/master)
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git shortlog --no-merges $O..refs/heads/master ^refs/heads/maint