Git 1.7.10-rc4

[git.git] / Documentation / RelNotes / 1.7.10.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.txt
index 11b0b100672e477dd39e0ac10cc172cc3b307cc3..fed9c73f08dc68cb3f143b468862f1ebb1439a4b 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.txt
@@ -32,12 +32,12 @@ Compatibility Notes
  * When you do not tell which branches and tags to push to the "git push"
    command in any way, the command used "matching refs" rule to update
    remote branches and tags with branches and tags with the same name you
-   locally have.  In future versions of Git, this will change to use the
-   "upstream" rule to update the branch at the remote you would "pull"
-   from into your current branch with your local current branch.  The
-   release after 1.7.10 will start issuing a warning about this change,
-   to encourage you to tell the command what to push out, e.g. by setting
-   push.default configuration.
+   locally have.  In future versions of Git, this will change to push out
+   only your current branch according to either the "upstream" or the
+   "current" rule.  Although "upstream" may be more powerful once the
+   user understands Git better, the semantics "current" gives is
+   simpler and easier to understand for beginners and may be a safer
+   and better default option, but we haven't decided yet.
 
 
 Updates since v1.7.9
@@ -46,11 +46,19 @@ Updates since v1.7.9
 UI, Workflows & Features
 
  * various "gitk" updates.
+   - show the path to the top level directory in the window title
+   - update preference edit dialog
+   - display file list correctly when directories are given on command line
+   - make "git-describe" output in the log message into a clickable link
+   - avoid matching the UNIX timestamp part when searching all fields
+   - give preference to symbolic font names like sans & monospace
+   - allow comparing two commits using a mark
+   - "gitk" honors log.showroot configuration.
 
  * Teams for localizing the messages from the Porcelain layer of
    commands are starting to form, thanks to Jiang Xin who volunteered
-   to be the localization coordinator.  An initial set of translated
-   messages for simplified chinese is available.
+   to be the localization coordinator.  Translated messages for
+   simplified Chinese, Swedish and Portuguese are available.
 
  * The configuration mechanism learned an "include" facility; an
    assignment to the include.path pseudo-variable causes the named
@@ -206,11 +214,3 @@ details).
    people on Solaris who have saner tools outside /usr/xpg[46]/bin.
 
  * zsh port of bash completion script needed another workaround.
-
----
-exec >/var/tmp/1
-O=v1.7.10-rc2-18-gee459ba
-echo O=$(git describe)
-git log --first-parent --oneline ^maint $O..
-echo
-git shortlog --no-merges ^maint $O..