From 610f99ec7d22b5750f12350f67c1341d6be8030f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Junio C Hamano Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2009 18:41:09 -0700 Subject: Update draft release notes to 1.6.6 Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.6.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.6.txt index fa0e11a..abf34e6 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.6.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.6.txt @@ -46,11 +46,28 @@ Updates since v1.6.5 (usability, bells and whistles) + * The object replace mechanism can be bypassed with --no-replace-objects + global option given to the "git" program. + * "git fsck" by default checks the packfiles (i.e. "--full" is the default); you can turn it off with "git fsck --no-full". + * import-tars contributed fast-import frontend learned more types of + compressed tarballs. + + * "git instaweb" knows how to talk with mod_cgid to apache2. + * "git log --decorate" shows the location of HEAD as well. + * "git rebase -i" learned "reword" that acts like "edit" but immediately + starts an editor to tweak the log message without returning control to + the shell, which is done by "edit" to give an opportunity to tweak the + contents. + + * Author names shown in gitweb output are links to search commits by the + author. + + (developers) Fixes since v1.6.5 @@ -69,3 +86,23 @@ release, unless otherwise noted. whitespace attribute). The 'trailing-space' whitespace error class has become a short-hand to cover both of these and there is no behaviour change for existing set-ups. + + * "git cvsimport" did not work well when it is fed filenames from the + command line and is not started at the top of the work tree. We should + backport this by merging f6fdbb6 (cvsimport: fix relative argument + filenames, 2009-10-19). + + * The way gitweb escapes its CGI parameters were broken especially when + the parameter was a UTF-8 string. We may want to backport this to + 1.6.5.X series by merging 452e225 (gitweb: fix esc_param, 2009-10-13). + + * gitweb used to show 'patch' link for merge commits but the output from + it is not usable to feed "git am" with. We may want to backport this + to 1.6.5.X series by merging 1655c98 (gitweb: Do not show 'patch' link + for merge commits, 2009-10-09). + +--- +exec >/var/tmp/1 +echo O=$(git describe master) +O=v1.6.5.2-73-g9b12444 +git shortlog --no-merges $O..master --not maint -- cgit v0.10.2-6-g49f6