Update draft release notes to 1.6.3
Junio C Hamano committed
Mar 6, 2009 at 01:37 UTC
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@@ -32,6 +32,44 @@ Updates since v1.6.2
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(usability, bells and whistles)
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+* "--pretty=<style>" option to the log family of commands can now be
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+ spelled as "--format=<style>". In addition, --format=%formatstring
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+ is a short-hand for --pretty=tformat:%formatstring.
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+* "--oneline" is a synonym for "--pretty=oneline --abbrev=commit".
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+* If you realize that you botched the patch when you are editing hunks
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+ with the 'edit' action in git-add -i/-p, you can abort the editor to
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+ tell git not to apply it.
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+* git-archive learned --output=<file> option.
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+* git-bisect shows not just the number of remaining commits whose goodness
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+ is unknown, but also shows the estimated number of remaining rounds.
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+* git-branch -r shows HEAD symref that points at a remote branch in
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+ interest of each tracked remote repository.
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+* git-config learned -e option to open an editor to edit the config file
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+ directly.
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+* git-format-patch can be told to use attachment with a new configuration,
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+ format.attach.
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+* git-imap-send learned to work around Thunderbird's inability to easily
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+ disable format=flowed with a new configuration, imap.preformattedHTML.
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+* git-rebase can be told to rebase the series even if your branch is a
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+ descendant of the commit you are rebasing onto with --force-rebase
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+ option.
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+* git-send-email learned --confirm option to review the Cc: list before
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+ sending the messages out.
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+(developers)
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+* Test scripts can be run under valgrind.
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Fixes since v1.6.2
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@@ -42,3 +80,25 @@ release, unless otherwise noted.
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Here are fixes that this release has, but have not been backported to
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v1.6.2.X series.
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+* .gitignore learned to handle backslash as a quoting mechanism for
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+ comment introduction character "#" (backport by merging dd482ee if
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+ needed).
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+* timestamp output in --date=relative mode used to display timestamps that
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+ are long time ago in the default mode; it now uses "N years M months
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+ ago", and "N years ago" (backport by picking 10edf37 if needed).
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+* git-add -i/-p now works with non-ASCII pathnames (backport by picking
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+ 8851f48 if needed).
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+* "git hash-object -w" did not read from the configuration file from the
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+ correct .git directory (backport by merging 272459a if needed).
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+* git-send-email learned to correctly handle multiple Cc: addresses
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+ (backport by merging afe756c if needed).
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+---
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+exec >/var/tmp/1
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+O=v1.6.2-77-g8cc3fe4
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+echo O=$(git describe master)
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+git shortlog --no-merges $O..master ^maint