Git 1.7.2-rc3

[git.git] / Documentation / RelNotes-1.7.2.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.2.txt
index 8ed74062660993649cfb4415ab0e63e80788673e..f24b3876af6e2edbfdd7e8af2eff445fb8e6f85d 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.2.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.2.txt
@@ -4,10 +4,13 @@ Git v1.7.2 Release Notes (draft)
 Updates since v1.7.1
 --------------------
 
- * core.eol configuration and eol attribute are the new way to control
-   the end of line conventions for files in the working tree;
-   core.autocrlf overrides it, keeping the traditional behaviour by
-   default.
+ * core.eol configuration and text/eol attributes are the new way to control
+   the end of line conventions for files in the working tree.
+
+ * core.autocrlf has been made safer - it will now only handle line
+   endings for new files and files that are LF-only in the
+   repository. To normalize content that has been checked in with
+   CRLF, use the new eol/text attributes.
 
  * The whitespace rules used in "git apply --whitespace" and "git diff"
    gained a new member in the family (tab-in-indent) to help projects with
@@ -44,9 +47,13 @@ Updates since v1.7.1
    prepares to create a root commit that is not connected to any existing
    commit.
 
- * "git cherry-pick" learned to pick a range of commits (e.g. "cherry-pick
-   A..B"); this does not have nicer sequencing control "rebase [-i]" has,
-   though.
+ * "git cherry-pick" learned to pick a range of commits
+   (e.g. "cherry-pick A..B" and "cherry-pick --stdin"), so did "git
+   revert"; these do not support the nicer sequencing control "rebase
+   [-i]" has, though.
+
+ * "git cherry-pick" and "git revert" learned --strategy option to specify
+   the merge strategy to be used when performing three-way merges.
 
  * "git cvsserver" can be told to use pserver; its password file can be
    stored outside the repository.
@@ -74,8 +81,12 @@ Updates since v1.7.1
  * Various options to "git grep" (e.g. --count, --name-only) work better
    with binary files.
 
+ * "git grep" learned "-Ovi" to open the files with hits in your editor.
+
  * "git help -w" learned "chrome" and "chromium" browsers.
 
+ * "git log --decorate" shows commit decorations in various colours.
+
  * "git log --follow <path>" follows across copies (it used to only follow
    renames).  This may make the processing more expensive.
 
@@ -92,8 +103,6 @@ Updates since v1.7.1
 
  * "git remote" learned "set-branches" subcommand.
 
- * "git revert" learned --strategy option to specify the merge strategy.
-
  * "git rev-list A..B" learned --ancestry-path option to further limit
    the result to the commits that are on the ancestry chain between A and
    B (i.e. commits that are not descendants of A are excluded).
@@ -106,10 +115,14 @@ Updates since v1.7.1
 
  * "git status -s -b" shows the current branch in the output.
 
+ * "git status" learned "--ignore-submodules" option.
+
  * Various "gitweb" enhancements and clean-ups, including syntax
    highlighting, "plackup" support for instaweb, .fcgi suffix to run
    it as FastCGI script, etc.
 
+ * The test harness has been updated to produce TAP-friendly output.
+
 
 Fixes since v1.7.1
 ------------------
@@ -118,37 +131,25 @@ All of the fixes in v1.7.1.X maintenance series are included in this
 release, unless otherwise noted.
 
  * We didn't URL decode "file:///path/to/repo" correctly when path/to/repo
-   had percent-encoded characters (638794c, 9d2e942).
-
- * "git commit" did not honor GIT_REFLOG_ACTION environment variable, resulting
-   reflog messages for cherry-pick and revert actions to be recorded as "commit".
-
- * "git clone/fetch/pull" issued an incorrect error message when a ref and
-   a symref that points to the ref were updated at the same time.  This
-   obviously would update them to the same value, and should not result in
-   an error condition (0e71bc3).
+   had percent-encoded characters (638794c, 9d2e942, ce83eda, 3c73a1d).
 
  * "git clone" did not configure remote.origin.url correctly for bare
    clones (df61c889).
 
- * "git diff" inside a tree with many pathnames that have certain
-   characters has become very slow in 1.7.0 by mistake (will merge
-   e53e6b443 to 'maint').
-
  * "git diff --graph" works better with "--color-words" and other options
    (81fa024..4297c0a).
 
  * "git diff" could show ambiguous abbreviation of blob object names on
    its "index" line (3e5a188).
 
- * "git rebase" did not faithfully reproduce a malformed author ident, that
-   is often seen in a repository converted from foreign SCMs (43c23251).
-
  * "git reset --hard" started from a wrong directory and a working tree in
    a nonstandard location is in use got confused (560fb6a1).
 
+ * "git read-tree -m A B" used to switch to branch B while retaining
+   local changes added an incorrect cache-tree information (b1f47514).
+
 --
 exec >/var/tmp/1
-O=v1.7.1-592-gcf4403a
+O=v1.7.2-rc2-17-gc9a9766
 echo O=$(git describe HEAD)
 git shortlog --no-merges HEAD ^maint ^$O