Update draft release notes for 1.7.9
The first two of more important topics slated for 1.7.9 have been merged. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@@ -16,7 +16,33 @@ Updates since v1.7.8
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* The set of built-in function-header patterns for various languages
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knows MATLAB.
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-May also contain documentation updates and code clean-ups.
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+ * "git pull" can be used to fetch and merge an annotated/signed tag,
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+ instead of the tip of a topic branch. The GPG signature from the
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+ signed tag is recorded in the resulting merge commit for later
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+ auditing.
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+ * "git branch --edit-description" can be used to add descriptive text
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+ to explain what a topic branch is about.
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+ * "git fmt-merge-msg" learned to take the branch description into
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+ account when preparing a merge summary that "git merge" records
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+ when merging a local branch.
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+ * "git request-pull" has been updated to convey more information
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+ useful for integrators to decide if a topic is worth merging and
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+ what is pulled is indeed what the requestor asked to pull,
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+ including:
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+ - the tip of the branch being requested to be merged;
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+ - the branch description describing what the topic is about;
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+ - the contents of the annotated tag, when requesting to pull a tag.
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+ * "git pull" learned to notice 'pull.rebase' configuration variable,
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+ which serves as a global fallback for setting 'branch.<name>.rebase'
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+ configuration variable per branch.
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+Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.
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Fixes since v1.7.8
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* In some codepaths (notably, checkout and merge), the ignore patterns
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recorded in $GIT_DIR/info/exclude were not honored. They now are.
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(merge fc001b5 nd/maint-ignore-exclude later to maint).
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+--
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+exec >/var/tmp/1
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+O=v1.7.8-162-gd2c7807
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+echo O=$(git describe master)
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+git log --first-parent --oneline --reverse ^$O master
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+echo
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+git shortlog --no-merges ^$O ^maint master