From fbcda3c0a72cbcc105100ebef1b1dae54d854204 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Junio C Hamano Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 16:29:03 -0700 Subject: Prepare draft release notes to 1.7.4.2 Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.4.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.4.2.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..afb3871 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.4.2.txt @@ -0,0 +1,42 @@ +Git v1.7.4.2 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.4.1 +-------------------- + + * Many documentation updates to match "git cmd -h" output and the + git-cmd manual page. + + * "git clone /no/such/path" did not fail correctly. + + * "git commit" did not correctly error out when the user asked to use a + non existent file as the commit message template. + + * "git diff --stat -B" ran on binary files counted the changes in lines, + which was nonsensical. + + * "git diff -M" opportunistically detected copies, which was not + necessarily a good thing, especially when it is internally run by + recursive merge. + + * "git difftool" didn't tell (g)vimdiff that the files it is reading are + to be opened read-only. + + * "git merge" didn't pay attention to prepare-commit-msg hook, even + though if a merge is conflicted and manually resolved, the subsequent + "git commit" would have triggered the hook, which was inconsistent. + + * "git patch-id" (and commands like "format-patch --ignore-in-upstream" + that use it as their internal logic) handled changes to files that end + with incomplete lines incorrectly. + + * The official value to tell "git push" to push the current branch back + to update the upstream branch it forked from is now called "upstream". + The old name "tracking" is and will be supported. + + * gitweb's "highlight" interface mishandled tabs. + + * gitweb had a few forward-incompatible syntactic constructs and + also used incorrect variable when showing the file mode in a diff. + +And other minor fixes and documentation updates. diff --git a/RelNotes b/RelNotes index 0362cfa..9a74955 120000 --- a/RelNotes +++ b/RelNotes @@ -1 +1 @@ -Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.4.1.txt \ No newline at end of file +Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.4.2.txt \ No newline at end of file -- cgit v0.10.2-6-g49f6