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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.txt index cd3c256..ee72a84 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.txt @@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ Git v1.7.9 Release Notes (draft) Updates since v1.7.8 -------------------- + * gitk updates accumulated since early 2011. + * git-gui updated to 0.16.0. * git-p4 (in contrib/) updates. @@ -13,6 +15,9 @@ Updates since v1.7.8 the same 'M' moniker. They now use 'D' (for deletion) and 'T' (for type-change) to match "git status -s" and "git diff --name-status". + * "git add" learned to stream large files directly into a packfile + instead of writing them into individual loose object files. + * "git branch -m <current branch> HEAD" is an obvious no-op and is now allowed. @@ -22,6 +27,10 @@ Updates since v1.7.8 * "git checkout" and "git merge" learned "--no-overwrite-ignore" option to tell Git that untracked and ignored files are not expendable. + * "git commit --amend" learned "--no-edit" option to say that the + user is amending the tree being recorded, without updating the + commit log message. + * fsck and prune are relatively lengthy operations that still go silent while making the end-user wait. They learned to give progress output like other slow operations. @@ -87,9 +96,17 @@ Fixes since v1.7.8 had trouble with. (merge 6a5ceda jl/submodule-status-failure-report later to maint). + * "fast-import" did not correctly update an existing notes tree, + possibly corrupting the fan-out. + + * When a "reword" action in "git rebase -i" failed to run "commit --amend", + we did not give the control back to the user to resolve the situation, and + instead kept the original commit log message. + (merge 0becb3e aw/rebase-i-stop-on-failure-to-amend later to maint). + -- exec >/var/tmp/1 -O=v1.7.8-246-gb3f17ac +O=v1.7.8-282-ga2add85 echo O=$(git describe master) git log --first-parent --oneline --reverse ^$O master echo |