Update draft release notes to 1.6.1
A large number of topics are merged to prepare for -rc0 now. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
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* Sample pre-auto-gc script has OS X support.
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+* Makefile has support for (ancient) FreeBSD 4.9.
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(performance)
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* The underlying diff machinery to produce textual output has been
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to a non-zero value to accept the suggestion when git can uniquely
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guess.
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+* The packfile machinery hopefully is more robust when dealilng with
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+ corrupt packs if redundant objects involved in the corruption are
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+ available elsehwere.
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* "git add -N path..." adds the named paths as an empty blob, so that
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subsequent "git diff" will show a diff as if they are creation events.
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* "git diff" learned --dirstat-by-file to count changed files, not number
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of lines, when summarizing the global picture.
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+* "git diff" learned "textconv" filters --- a binary or hard-to-read
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+ contents can be munged into human readable form and the difference
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+ between the results of the conversion can be viewed (obviously this
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+ cannot produce a patch that can be applied, so this is disabled in
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+ format-patch among other things).
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* "git diff" hunk header pattern for ObjC has been added.
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+* "--cached" option to "git diff has an easier to remember synonym "--staged",
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+ to ask "what is the difference between the given commit and the
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+ contents staged in the index?"
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* a "textconv" filter that makes binary files textual form for human
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consumption can be specified as an attribute for paths; "git diff"
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learnt to make use of it.
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* "git log" learned --simplify-merges, a milder variant of --full-history;
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"gitk --simplify-merges" is easier to view than with --full-history.
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+* "git log" learned "--source" to show what ref each commit was reached
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+ from.
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+* "git log" also learned "--simplify-by-decration" to show the
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+ birds-eye-view of the topology of the history.
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* "git log --pretty=format:" learned "%d" format element that inserts
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names of tags that point at the commit.
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* "git filter-branch" failed to rewrite a tag name with slashes in it.
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+* "git repack" used to grab objects out of packs marked with .keep
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+ into a new pack (fix scheduled to be further downmerged to maint).
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* "git push --tags --all $there" failed with generic usage message without
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telling saying these two options are incompatible.
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timestamp part, exposing internal implementation detail. Also these did
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not work with --fixed-strings match at all.
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+* "git tag" did not complain about incompatible combination of options
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+ e.g. "tag -l -d" (fix scheduled to be further downmerged to maint).
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+* Internal diff machinery had a corner case performance bug that choked on a
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+ large file with many repeated contents (fix scheduled to be further cherry-
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+ picked to maint).
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--
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exec >/var/tmp/1
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-O=v1.6.0.3-639-ga1a846a
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+O=v1.6.0.4-697-g168d5bd
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echo O=$(git describe master)
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git shortlog --no-merges $O..master ^maint