X-Git-Url: https://git.tokkee.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2FRelNotes-1.6.3.txt;h=418c685cf8328a0dc128847a98c334b727a8d6f9;hb=8b3dce565084c89ceb19f7ccf0fe22ffd365f7fd;hp=9aa143b199a0a594b6799d189f51ce1daed28b68;hpb=6f523f6d38e660edc67719fb0953d79cee3b4b1f;p=git.git diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.3.txt index 9aa143b19..418c685cf 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.3.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.3.txt @@ -35,16 +35,23 @@ Updates since v1.6.2 (subsystems) +* various git-svn updates. + +* git-gui updates, including an update to Russian translation, and a + fix to an infinite loop when showing an empty diff. + +* gitk updates, including an update to Russian translation and improved Windows + support. + (performance) * many uses of lstat(2) in the codepath for "git checkout" have been optimized out. -* pruning reflog entries that are unreachable from the tip of the ref - during "git reflog prune" (hence "git gc") was very inefficient. - (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. @@ -61,34 +68,45 @@ Updates since v1.6.2 * "--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= 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= 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. @@ -118,6 +136,9 @@ Updates since v1.6.2 * Output from git-remote command has been vastly improved. +* "git remote update --prune $remote" updates from the named remote and + then prunes stale tracking branches. + * git-send-email learned --confirm option to review the Cc: list before sending the messages out. @@ -137,6 +158,10 @@ Updates since v1.6.2 knobs you can tweak to work around issues with various versions of the docbook-xsl package. See comments in Documentation/Makefile for details. +* Support for building and testing a subset of git on a system without a + working perl has been improved. + + Fixes since v1.6.2 ------------------ @@ -146,26 +171,12 @@ release, unless otherwise noted. Here are fixes that this release has, but have not been backported to v1.6.2.X series. +* "git-apply" rejected a patch that swaps two files (i.e. renames A to B + and B to A at the same time). May need to be backported by cherry + picking d8c81df and then 7fac0ee). + * The initial checkout did not read the attributes from the .gitattribute file that is being checked out. -* "git-checkout " did not update the index entry at - the named path; it now does. - * git-gc spent excessive amount of time to decide if an object appears in a locally existing pack (if needed, backport by merging 69e020a). - -* "git-ls-tree" and "git-diff-tree" used a pathspec correctly when - deciding to descend into a subdirectory but they did not match the - individual paths correctly. This caused pathspecs "abc/d ab" to match - "abc/0" ("abc/d" made them decide to descend into the directory "abc/", - and then "ab" incorrectly matched "abc/0" when it shouldn't). - -* "git-merge-recursive" was broken when a submodule entry was involved in - a criss-cross merge situation. - ---- -exec >/var/tmp/1 -O=v1.6.2.2-484-g796b137 -echo O=$(git describe master) -git shortlog --no-merges $O..master ^maint