Git 1.7.9-rc2

[git.git] / Documentation / RelNotes / 1.7.9.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.txt
index 9689efa986c27ffdc9684f62767bfc7cd93fb113..9b0a6ebf156ac632820e96a674b404cae8f5919f 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-Git v1.7.9 Release Notes (draft)
+Git v1.7.9 Release Notes
 ========================
 
 Updates since v1.7.8
@@ -28,6 +28,10 @@ Updates since v1.7.8
    building more generic "sequencer" on top of the implementation that
    drives them.
 
+ * "git rev-parse FETCH_HEAD" after "git fetch" without specifying
+   what to fetch from the command line will now show the commit that
+   would be merged if the command were "git pull".
+
  * "git add" learned to stream large files directly into a packfile
    instead of writing them into individual loose object files.
 
@@ -48,6 +52,9 @@ Updates since v1.7.8
  * "git commit" detects and rejects an attempt to stuff NUL byte in
    the commit log message.
 
+ * "git commit" learned "-S" to GPG-sign the commit; this can be shown
+   with the "--show-signature" option to "git log".
+
  * fsck and prune are relatively lengthy operations that still go
    silent while making the end-user wait. They learned to give progress
    output like other slow operations.
@@ -64,6 +71,10 @@ Updates since v1.7.8
    signed tag is recorded in the resulting merge commit for later
    auditing.
 
+ * "git log" learned "--show-signature" option to show the signed tag
+   that was merged that is embedded in the merge commit. It also can
+   show the signature made on the commit with "git commit -S".
+
  * "git branch --edit-description" can be used to add descriptive text
    to explain what a topic branch is about.
 
@@ -98,15 +109,3 @@ Fixes since v1.7.8
 Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.7.8 in the maintenance
 releases are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
 details).
-
- * gitweb did not correctly fall back to configured $fallback_encoding
-   that is not 'latin1'.
-   (merge b13e3ea jn/maint-gitweb-utf8-fix later to maint).
-
---
-exec >/var/tmp/1
-O=v1.7.8.2-301-g48de656
-echo O=$(git describe master)
-git log --first-parent --oneline --reverse ^$O master
-echo
-git shortlog --no-merges ^$O ^maint master