Update release notes to 1.6.3
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Mar 11, 2009 at 21:47 UTC
f4e52f0babdb3ec655a168801e613688a7942839
1 file changed
+18
-1
Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.3.txt
+18
-1
@@ -47,15 +47,21 @@ Updates since v1.6.2
47
* git-bisect shows not just the number of remaining commits whose goodness
48
is unknown, but also shows the estimated number of remaining rounds.
49
50
+* You can give --date=<format> option to git-blame.
51
+
52
* git-branch -r shows HEAD symref that points at a remote branch in
53
interest of each tracked remote repository.
54
55
* git-config learned -e option to open an editor to edit the config file
56
directly.
57
58
+* git-clone runs post-checkout hook when run without --no-checkout.
59
+
60
* git-format-patch can be told to use attachment with a new configuration,
61
format.attach.
62
63
+* git-format-patch can be told to produce deep or shallow message threads.
64
+
65
* git-imap-send learned to work around Thunderbird's inability to easily
66
disable format=flowed with a new configuration, imap.preformattedHTML.
67
@@ -63,6 +69,8 @@ Updates since v1.6.2
69
descendant of the commit you are rebasing onto with --force-rebase
70
option.
71
72
+* git-rebase can be told to report diffstat with the --stat option.
73
+
74
* git-send-email learned --confirm option to review the Cc: list before
75
sending the messages out.
76
@@ -70,6 +78,8 @@ Updates since v1.6.2
78
79
* Test scripts can be run under valgrind.
80
81
+* Makefile learned 'coverage' option to run the test suites with
82
+ coverage tracking enabled.
83
84
Fixes since v1.6.2
85
------------------
@@ -80,8 +90,15 @@ release, unless otherwise noted.
90
Here are fixes that this release has, but have not been backported to
91
v1.6.2.X series.
92
93
+* 'git-submodule add' did not tolerate extra slashes and ./ in the
94
+ path it accepted from the command line; it now is more lenient
95
+ (if needed, backport by merging db75ada).
96
+
97
+* git-gc spent excessive amount of time to decide if an object appears
98
+ in a locally existing pack (if needed, backport by merging 69e020a).
99
+
100
---
101
exec >/var/tmp/1
85
-O=v1.6.2-77-g8cc3fe4
102
+O=v1.6.2-149-g6462146
103
echo O=$(git describe master)
104
git shortlog --no-merges $O..master ^maint