Update draft release notes to 1.6.1
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Sep 20, 2008 at 01:01 UTC
fe33b333af6e72d74e80da16517cb6d33283c7f7
1 file changed
+21
-1
Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.1.txt
+21
-1
@@ -32,8 +32,19 @@ on.
32
* Most of the test scripts (but not the ones that try to run servers)
33
can be run in parallel.
34
35
+* Bash completion of refnames in a repository with massive number of
36
+ refs has been optimized.
37
+
38
(usability, bells and whistles)
39
40
+* When you mistype a command name, git helpfully suggests what it guesses
41
+ you might have meant to say. help.autocorrect configuration can be set
42
+ to a non-zero value to accept the suggestion when git can uniquely
43
+ guess.
44
+
45
+* "git bisect" is careful about a user mistake and suggests testing of
46
+ merge base first when good is not a strict ancestor of bad.
47
+
48
* "git checkout --track origin/hack" used to be a syntax error. It now
49
DWIMs to create a corresponding local branch "hack", i.e. acts as if you
50
said "git checkout --track -b hack origin/hack".
@@ -54,6 +65,12 @@ on.
65
* "git diff" learned to put more sensible hunk headers for Python and
66
HTML contents.
67
68
+* "git diff" learned to vary the a/ vs b/ prefix depending on what are
69
+ being compared, controlled by diff.mnemonicprefix configuration.
70
+
71
+* "git for-each-ref" learned "refname:short" token that gives an
72
+ unambiguously abbreviated refname.
73
+
74
* "git help" learned to use GIT_MAN_VIEWER environment variable before
75
using "man" program.
76
@@ -68,6 +85,9 @@ on.
85
* "git log" learned --simplify-merges, a milder variant of --full-history;
86
"gitk --simplify-merges" is easier to view than with --full-history.
87
88
+* "git log --pretty=format:" learned "%d" format element that inserts
89
+ names of tags that point at the commit.
90
+
91
* "git merge --squash" and "git merge --no-ff" into an unborn branch are
92
noticed as user errors.
93
@@ -115,6 +135,6 @@ release, unless otherwise noted.
135
136
--
137
exec >/var/tmp/1
118
-O=v1.6.0.1-266-gaf9552f
138
+O=v1.6.0.2-295-g34a5d35
139
echo O=$(git describe master)
140
git shortlog --no-merges $O..master ^maint