From fe33b333af6e72d74e80da16517cb6d33283c7f7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Junio C Hamano Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 01:01:30 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Update draft release notes to 1.6.1 Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.1.txt | 22 +++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.1.txt index 609d4ca56..421e569ea 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.1.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.1.txt @@ -32,8 +32,19 @@ on. * Most of the test scripts (but not the ones that try to run servers) can be run in parallel. +* Bash completion of refnames in a repository with massive number of + refs has been optimized. + (usability, bells and whistles) +* When you mistype a command name, git helpfully suggests what it guesses + you might have meant to say. help.autocorrect configuration can be set + to a non-zero value to accept the suggestion when git can uniquely + guess. + +* "git bisect" is careful about a user mistake and suggests testing of + merge base first when good is not a strict ancestor of bad. + * "git checkout --track origin/hack" used to be a syntax error. It now DWIMs to create a corresponding local branch "hack", i.e. acts as if you said "git checkout --track -b hack origin/hack". @@ -54,6 +65,12 @@ on. * "git diff" learned to put more sensible hunk headers for Python and HTML contents. +* "git diff" learned to vary the a/ vs b/ prefix depending on what are + being compared, controlled by diff.mnemonicprefix configuration. + +* "git for-each-ref" learned "refname:short" token that gives an + unambiguously abbreviated refname. + * "git help" learned to use GIT_MAN_VIEWER environment variable before using "man" program. @@ -68,6 +85,9 @@ on. * "git log" learned --simplify-merges, a milder variant of --full-history; "gitk --simplify-merges" is easier to view than with --full-history. +* "git log --pretty=format:" learned "%d" format element that inserts + names of tags that point at the commit. + * "git merge --squash" and "git merge --no-ff" into an unborn branch are noticed as user errors. @@ -115,6 +135,6 @@ release, unless otherwise noted. -- exec >/var/tmp/1 -O=v1.6.0.1-266-gaf9552f +O=v1.6.0.2-295-g34a5d35 echo O=$(git describe master) git shortlog --no-merges $O..master ^maint -- 2.30.2