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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.1.txt index 906932c..4dc0634 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.1.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.1.txt @@ -16,13 +16,16 @@ on. * gitk can call out to git-gui to view "git blame" output; git-gui in turn can run gitk from its blame view. -(portability) +* Various git-gui updates including updated translations. + +* Various gitweb updates from repo.or.cz installation. -* ... +(portability) -(documentation) +* A few test scripts used nonportable "grep" that did not work well on + some platforms, e.g. Solaris. -* ... +* Sample pre-auto-gc script has OS X support. (performance) @@ -35,6 +38,14 @@ on. * Bash completion of refnames in a repository with massive number of refs has been optimized. +* Cygwin port uses native stat/lstat implementations when applicable, + which leads to improved performance. + +* "git push" pays attention to alternate repositories to avoid sending + unnecessary objects. + +* "git svn" can rebuild an out-of-date rev_map file. + (usability, bells and whistles) * When you mistype a command name, git helpfully suggests what it guesses @@ -42,6 +53,12 @@ on. to a non-zero value to accept the suggestion when git can uniquely guess. +* "git add -N path..." adds the named paths as an empty blob, so that + subsequent "git diff" will show a diff as if they are creation events. + +* "git apply" learned --include=paths option, similar to the existing + --exclude=paths option. + * "git bisect" is careful about a user mistake and suggests testing of merge base first when good is not a strict ancestor of bad. @@ -49,6 +66,12 @@ on. DWIMs to create a corresponding local branch "hack", i.e. acts as if you said "git checkout --track -b hack origin/hack". +* "git checkout --ours/--theirs" can be used to check out one side of a + conflicting merge during conflict resolution. + +* "git checkout -m" can be used to recreate the initial conflicted state + during conflict resolution. + * "git cherry-pick" can also utilize rerere for conflict resolution. * "git commit --author=$name" can look up author name from existing @@ -62,15 +85,20 @@ on. * "git diff" learned to mimic --suppress-blank-empty from GNU diff via a configuration option. -* "git diff" learned to put more sensible hunk headers for Python and - HTML contents. +* "git diff" learned to put more sensible hunk headers for Python, + HTML and ObjC contents. * "git diff" learned to vary the a/ vs b/ prefix depending on what are being compared, controlled by diff.mnemonicprefix configuration. +* "git diff" learned --dirstat-by-file to count changed files, not number + of lines, when summarizing the global picture. + * "git for-each-ref" learned "refname:short" token that gives an unambiguously abbreviated refname. +* "git grep" learned to accept -z similar to GNU grep. + * "git help" learned to use GIT_MAN_VIEWER environment variable before using "man" program. @@ -103,12 +131,18 @@ on. * "git submodule sync" subcommands allows you to update the origin URL recorded in submodule directories from the toplevel .gitmodules file. +* "git svn branch" can create new branches on the other end. + (internal) * "git hash-object" learned to lie about the path being hashed, so that correct gitattributes processing can be done while hashing contents stored in a temporary file. +* various callers of git-merge-recursive avoid forking it as an external + process. + + Fixes since v1.6.0 ------------------ @@ -124,6 +158,11 @@ release, unless otherwise noted. but we dropped support for such a use case long time ago. This has been resurrected. +* Giving 3 or more tree-ish to "git diff" is supposed to show the combined + diff from second and subsequent trees to the first one. b75271d ("git + diff <tree>{3,}": do not reverse order of arguments, 2008-10-10) needs + to be cherry-picked to 'maint'. + * "git filter-branch" failed to rewrite a tag name with slashes in it. * "git push --tags --all $there" failed with generic usage message without @@ -135,6 +174,6 @@ release, unless otherwise noted. -- exec >/var/tmp/1 -O=v1.6.0.2-295-g34a5d35 +O=v1.6.0.2-529-g769b008 echo O=$(git describe master) git shortlog --no-merges $O..master ^maint |