Update draft release notes to 1.7.9
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Dec 16, 2011 at 22:45 UTC
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@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ Git v1.7.9 Release Notes (draft)
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Updates since v1.7.8
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+ * gitk updates accumulated since early 2011.
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* git-gui updated to 0.16.0.
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* git-p4 (in contrib/) updates.
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the same 'M' moniker. They now use 'D' (for deletion) and 'T' (for
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type-change) to match "git status -s" and "git diff --name-status".
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+ * "git add" learned to stream large files directly into a packfile
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+ instead of writing them into individual loose object files.
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* "git branch -m <current branch> HEAD" is an obvious no-op and is
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now allowed.
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@@ -22,6 +27,10 @@ Updates since v1.7.8
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* "git checkout" and "git merge" learned "--no-overwrite-ignore" option
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to tell Git that untracked and ignored files are not expendable.
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+ * "git commit --amend" learned "--no-edit" option to say that the
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+ user is amending the tree being recorded, without updating the
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+ commit log message.
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* fsck and prune are relatively lengthy operations that still go
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silent while making the end-user wait. They learned to give progress
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output like other slow operations.
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had trouble with.
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(merge 6a5ceda jl/submodule-status-failure-report later to maint).
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+ * "fast-import" did not correctly update an existing notes tree,
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+ possibly corrupting the fan-out.
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+ * When a "reword" action in "git rebase -i" failed to run "commit --amend",
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+ we did not give the control back to the user to resolve the situation, and
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+ instead kept the original commit log message.
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+ (merge 0becb3e aw/rebase-i-stop-on-failure-to-amend later to maint).
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--
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exec >/var/tmp/1
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-O=v1.7.8-246-gb3f17ac
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+O=v1.7.8-282-ga2add85
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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