Update draft release notes to 1.6.3
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Apr 2, 2009 at 13:42 UTC
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@@ -62,6 +62,10 @@ Updates since v1.6.2
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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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+* The number of commits shown in "you are ahead/behind your upstream"
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+ messages given by "git checkout" and "git status" used to count merge
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+ commits; now it doesn't.
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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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* git-clone runs post-checkout hook when run without --no-checkout.
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+* git-fast-export choked when seeing a tag that does not point at commit.
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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-format-patch can be told to produce deep or shallow message threads.
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+* git-format-patch learned format.headers configuration to add extra
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+ header fields to the output. This behaviour is similar to the existing
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+ --add-header=<header> option of the command.
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* git-grep learned to highlight the found substrings in color.
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* git-imap-send learned to work around Thunderbird's inability to easily
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* Output from git-remote command has been vastly improved.
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+* git-repack (invoked from git-gc) did not work as nicely as it should in
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+ a repository that borrows objects from neighbours via alternates
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+ mechanism especially when some packs are marked with the ".keep" flag
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+ to prevent them from being repacked.
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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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@@ -110,7 +125,9 @@ Updates since v1.6.2
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* Building the manpages with docbook-xsl between 1.69.1 and 1.71.1 now
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requires setting DOCBOOK_SUPPRESS_SP to work around a docbook-xsl bug.
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This workaround used to be enabled by default, but causes problems
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- with newer versions of docbook-xsl.
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+ with newer versions of docbook-xsl. In addition, there are a few more
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+ knobs you can tweak to work around issues with various versions of the
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+ docbook-xsl package. See comments in Documentation/Makefile for details.
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Fixes since v1.6.2
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exec >/var/tmp/1
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-O=v1.6.2.1-399-gaa72a14
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+O=v1.6.2.2-403-g8130949
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echo O=$(git describe master)
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git shortlog --no-merges $O..master ^maint