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author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2009-03-17 20:26:24 -0700 |
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committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2009-03-17 20:26:24 -0700 |
commit | e986ceb05a118944d2638fba4cd09678c1afa6b3 (patch) | |
tree | 5db6fdccf9fe6685816e6a8773509a6d9fabb9ed /Documentation | |
parent | 7d4e3a72fb2d544b4a7cfd75f8626532d78fd726 (diff) | |
download | git-e986ceb05a118944d2638fba4cd09678c1afa6b3.tar.gz |
Update draft release notes to 1.6.3
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.3.txt | 35 |
1 files changed, 32 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.3.txt index 679ad28b9d..4353cbf8c3 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.3.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.3.txt @@ -30,8 +30,18 @@ Updates since v1.6.2 (performance) +* many uses of lstat(2) in the codepath for "git checkout" have been + optimized out. + (usability, bells and whistles) +* rsync:/path/to/repo can be used to run git over rsync for local + repositories. It may not be useful in practice; meant primarily for + testing. + +* (msysgit) progress output that is sent over the sideband protocol can + be handled appropriately in Windows console. + * "--pretty=<style>" option to the log family of commands can now be spelled as "--format=<style>". In addition, --format=%formatstring is a short-hand for --pretty=tformat:%formatstring. @@ -62,6 +72,8 @@ Updates since v1.6.2 * git-format-patch can be told to produce deep or shallow message threads. +* git-grep learned to highlight the found substrings in color. + * git-imap-send learned to work around Thunderbird's inability to easily disable format=flowed with a new configuration, imap.preformattedHTML. @@ -71,6 +83,8 @@ Updates since v1.6.2 * git-rebase can be told to report diffstat with the --stat option. +* Output from git-remote command has been vastly improved. + * git-send-email learned --confirm option to review the Cc: list before sending the messages out. @@ -90,15 +104,30 @@ release, unless otherwise noted. Here are fixes that this release has, but have not been backported to v1.6.2.X series. +* "git diff --pickaxe-regexp" did not count overlapping matches + correctly (backport by cherry-picking 50fd699). + +* "git-fetch" in a repository that was not cloned from anywhere said + it cannot find 'origin', which was hard to understand for new people. + +* git-gc spent excessive amount of time to decide if an object appears + in a locally existing pack (if needed, backport by merging 69e020a). + +* "git-ls-files --deleted" did not work well with GIT_DIR&GIT_WORK_TREE + (backport by cherry-picking 8ad3dae). + +* "git-read-tree A B C..." without -m option has been broken for a long time + (backport by merging jc/maint-1.6.0-read-tree-overlay) + * 'git-submodule add' did not tolerate extra slashes and ./ in the path it accepted from the command line; it now is more lenient (if needed, backport by merging db75ada). -* git-gc spent excessive amount of time to decide if an object appears - in a locally existing pack (if needed, backport by merging 69e020a). +* git-send-email ignored --in-reply-to when --no-thread was given + (backport by merging tr/maint-1.6.0-send-email-irt) --- exec >/var/tmp/1 -O=v1.6.2.1-135-g7d65c21 +O=v1.6.2.1-213-g7d4e3a7 echo O=$(git describe master) git shortlog --no-merges $O..master ^maint |