From: Junio C Hamano Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 20:42:24 +0000 (-0700) Subject: Update draft release notes to 1.6.3 X-Git-Tag: v1.6.3-rc0~43 X-Git-Url: https://git.tokkee.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e96f3689ecd95997a2a474c2b7f21b0a67f138b1;p=git.git Update draft release notes to 1.6.3 Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.3.txt index bcbd7c5a2..db6956205 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.3.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.3.txt @@ -62,6 +62,10 @@ Updates since v1.6.2 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. + * git-archive learned --output= option. * git-bisect shows not just the number of remaining commits whose goodness @@ -77,11 +81,17 @@ Updates since v1.6.2 * 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-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 learned format.headers configuration to add extra + header fields to the output. This behaviour is similar to the existing + --add-header=
option of the command. + * git-grep learned to highlight the found substrings in color. * git-imap-send learned to work around Thunderbird's inability to easily @@ -95,6 +105,11 @@ 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-send-email learned --confirm option to review the Cc: list before sending the messages out. @@ -110,7 +125,9 @@ Updates since v1.6.2 * Building the manpages with docbook-xsl between 1.69.1 and 1.71.1 now requires setting DOCBOOK_SUPPRESS_SP to work around a docbook-xsl bug. This workaround used to be enabled by default, but causes problems - with newer versions of docbook-xsl. + with newer versions of docbook-xsl. In addition, there are a few more + knobs you can tweak to work around issues with various versions of the + docbook-xsl package. See comments in Documentation/Makefile for details. Fixes since v1.6.2 ------------------ @@ -129,6 +146,6 @@ v1.6.2.X series. --- exec >/var/tmp/1 -O=v1.6.2.1-399-gaa72a14 +O=v1.6.2.2-403-g8130949 echo O=$(git describe master) git shortlog --no-merges $O..master ^maint