git config: error when editing a repo config and not being in one

[git.git] / Documentation / RelNotes-1.6.3.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.3.txt
index db6956205d4fe12dbb4adefb71bc01030f15dde7..7270ef893b0719bd9e4f187ae1aaf323b815af39 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.3.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.3.txt
@@ -35,6 +35,8 @@ Updates since v1.6.2
 
 (subsystems)
 
+* various git-svn updates.
+
 (performance)
 
 * many uses of lstat(2) in the codepath for "git checkout" have been
@@ -42,6 +44,8 @@ Updates since v1.6.2
 
 (usability, bells and whistles)
 
+* Boolean configuration variable yes/no can be written as on/off.
+
 * rsync:/path/to/repo can be used to run git over rsync for local
   repositories.  It may not be useful in practice; meant primarily for
   testing.
@@ -56,42 +60,63 @@ Updates since v1.6.2
   spelled as "--format=<style>".  In addition, --format=%formatstring
   is a short-hand for --pretty=tformat:%formatstring.
 
-* "--oneline" is a synonym for "--pretty=oneline --abbrev=commit".
+* "--oneline" is a synonym for "--pretty=oneline --abbrev-commit".
+
+* "--graph" to the "git log" family can draw the commit ancestry graph
+  in colors.
 
 * If you realize that you botched the patch when you are editing hunks
   with the 'edit' action in git-add -i/-p, you can abort the editor to
   tell git not to apply it.
 
-* The number of commits shown in "you are ahead/behind your upstream"
-  messages given by "git checkout" and "git status" used to count merge
-  commits; now it doesn't.
+* @{-1} is a new way to refer to the last branch you were on introduced in
+  1.6.2, but the initial implementation did not teach this to a few
+  commands.  Now the syntax works with "branch -m @{-1} newname".
 
 * git-archive learned --output=<file> option.
 
+* git-archive takes attributes from the tree being archived; strictly
+  speaking, this is an incompatible behaviour change, but is a good one.
+  Use --worktree-attributes option to allow it to read attributes from
+  the work tree as before (deprecated git-tar tree command always reads
+  attributes from the work tree).
+
 * git-bisect shows not just the number of remaining commits whose goodness
   is unknown, but also shows the estimated number of remaining rounds.
 
 * You can give --date=<format> option to git-blame.
 
-* git-branch -r shows HEAD symref that points at a remote branch in
+* "git-branch -r" shows HEAD symref that points at a remote branch in
   interest of each tracked remote repository.
 
+* "git-branch -v -v" is a new way to get list of names for branches and the
+  "upstream" branch for them.
+
 * git-config learned -e option to open an editor to edit the config file
   directly.
 
 * git-clone runs post-checkout hook when run without --no-checkout.
 
-* git-fast-export choked when seeing a tag that does not point at commit.
+* git-difftool is now part of the officially supported command, primarily
+  maintained by David Aguilar.
+
+* git-for-each-ref learned a new "upstream" token.
 
 * git-format-patch can be told to use attachment with a new configuration,
   format.attach.
 
 * git-format-patch can be told to produce deep or shallow message threads.
 
+* git-format-patch can be told to always add sign-off with a configuration
+  variable.
+
 * git-format-patch learned format.headers configuration to add extra
   header fields to the output.  This behaviour is similar to the existing
   --add-header=<header> option of the command.
 
+* git-format-patch gives human readable names to the attached files, when
+  told to send patches as attachments.
+
 * git-grep learned to highlight the found substrings in color.
 
 * git-imap-send learned to work around Thunderbird's inability to easily
@@ -105,10 +130,8 @@ Updates since v1.6.2
 
 * Output from git-remote command has been vastly improved.
 
-* git-repack (invoked from git-gc) did not work as nicely as it should in
-  a repository that borrows objects from neighbours via alternates
-  mechanism especially when some packs are marked with the ".keep" flag
-  to prevent them from being repacked.
+* "git remote update --prune $remote" updates from the named remote and
+  then prunes stale tracking branches.
 
 * git-send-email learned --confirm option to review the Cc: list before
   sending the messages out.
@@ -129,6 +152,10 @@ Updates since v1.6.2
   knobs you can tweak to work around issues with various versions of the
   docbook-xsl package.  See comments in Documentation/Makefile for details.
 
+* Support for building and testing a subset of git on a system without a
+  working perl has been improved.
+
+
 Fixes since v1.6.2
 ------------------
 
@@ -138,6 +165,10 @@ release, unless otherwise noted.
 Here are fixes that this release has, but have not been backported to
 v1.6.2.X series.
 
+* "git-apply" rejected a patch that swaps two files (i.e. renames A to B
+  and B to A at the same time).  May need to be backported by cherry
+  picking d8c81df and then 7fac0ee).
+
 * The initial checkout did not read the attributes from the .gitattribute
   file that is being checked out.
 
@@ -146,6 +177,6 @@ v1.6.2.X series.
 
 ---
 exec >/var/tmp/1
-O=v1.6.2.2-403-g8130949
+O=v1.6.3-rc2
 echo O=$(git describe master)
 git shortlog --no-merges $O..master ^maint