X-Git-Url: https://git.tokkee.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2FRelNotes-1.7.0.txt;h=43e3f336150e1869bdae01823471d7ab216584a8;hb=748af44c63ea6fec12690f1693f3dddd963e88d5;hp=08972879790cdf10ebf421499045b0209a716c8a;hpb=8051a030617cf7d083568cca223bdaa15052c33f;p=git.git diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.0.txt index 089728797..43e3f3361 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.0.txt @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Git v1.7.0 Release Notes Notes on behaviour change ------------------------- - * "git push" into a branch that is currently checked out (i.e. pointed by + * "git push" into a branch that is currently checked out (i.e. pointed at by HEAD in a repository that is not bare) is refused by default. Similarly, "git push $there :$killed" to delete the branch $killed @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ Notes on behaviour change patch series with more than two messages. All messages will be sent as a reply to the first message, i.e. cover letter. - It has been possible to configure send-email to send "shallow thread" + It has been possible already to configure send-email to send "shallow thread" by setting sendemail.chainreplyto configuration variable to false. The only thing this release does is to change the default when you haven't configured that variable. @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ Notes on behaviour change * "git diff" traditionally treated various "ignore whitespace" options only as a way to filter the patch output. "git diff --exit-code -b" exited with non-zero status even if all changes were about changing the - ammount of whitespace and nothing else. and "git diff -b" showed the + amount of whitespace and nothing else; and "git diff -b" showed the "diff --git" header line for such a change without patch text. In this release, the "ignore whitespaces" options affect the semantics @@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ Updates since v1.6.6 * "git svn" support of subversion "merge tickets" and miscellaneous fixes. - * "gitk" updates. + * "gitk" and "git gui" translation updates. * "gitweb" updates (code clean-up, load checking etc.) @@ -106,7 +106,9 @@ Updates since v1.6.6 defaults to the current branch, so "git fetch && git merge @{upstream}" will be equivalent to "git pull". - * "git branch --set-upstream" can be used to update the (surprise!) upstream + * "git am --resolved" has a synonym "git am --continue". + + * "git branch --set-upstream" can be used to update the (surprise!) upstream, i.e. where the branch is supposed to pull and merge from (or rebase onto). * "git checkout A...B" is a way to detach HEAD at the merge base between @@ -133,7 +135,7 @@ Updates since v1.6.6 * "git fetch --all" can now be used in place of "git remote update". * "git grep" does not rely on external grep anymore. It can use more than - one threads to accelerate the operation. + one thread to accelerate the operation. * "git grep" learned "--quiet" option. @@ -159,13 +161,13 @@ Updates since v1.6.6 * "git rebase --onto A...B" means the history is replayed on top of the merge base between A and B. - * "git rebase -i" learned new action "fixup", that squashes the change + * "git rebase -i" learned new action "fixup" that squashes the change but does not affect existing log message. - * "git rebase -i" also learned --autosquash option, that is useful + * "git rebase -i" also learned --autosquash option that is useful together with the new "fixup" action. - * "git remote" learned set-url subcommand, to update (surprise!) url + * "git remote" learned set-url subcommand that updates (surprise!) url for an existing remote nickname. * "git rerere" learned "forget path" subcommand. Together with "git @@ -200,13 +202,8 @@ release, unless otherwise noted. the branch is fully merged to its upstream branch if it is not merged to the current branch. It now deletes it in such a case. - * "git config -f " run from a subdirectory misbehaved. - 65807ee (builtin-config: Fix crash when using "-f " - from non-root dir, 2010-01-26) may be merged to older maintenance - branches. - - * "git fast-import" did not correctly handle large blobs that may - bust the pack size limit. + * "fiter-branch" command incorrectly said --prune-empty and --filter-commit + were incompatible; the latter should be read as --commit-filter. * When using "git status" or asking "git diff" to compare the work tree with something, they used to consider that a checked-out submodule with @@ -215,9 +212,3 @@ release, unless otherwise noted. superproject. They now consider such a change as a modification and "git diff" will append a "-dirty" to the work tree side when generating patch output or when used with the --submodule option. - --- -exec >/var/tmp/1 -O=v1.7.0-rc1-42-g3bd8de5 -echo O=$(git describe master) -git shortlog --no-merges $O..master ^maint