From: Michael J Gruber Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 09:47:53 +0000 (+0100) Subject: Documentation: minor fixes to RelNotes-1.7.0 X-Git-Tag: v1.7.0~3 X-Git-Url: https://git.tokkee.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f93742170248127eec46e6d1afc65da2919480db;p=git.git Documentation: minor fixes to RelNotes-1.7.0 Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.0.txt index 2fedb6656..0815ca166 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 @@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ 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 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 +133,7 @@ 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 +159,13 @@ 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