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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.5.txt | 23 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.5.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.5.txt index bb0eb40af4..b917d0bcf0 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.5.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.5.txt @@ -12,6 +12,9 @@ Updates since v1.7.4 * Update to more modern HP-UX port. + * The codebase is getting prepared for i18n/l10n; no translated/translatable + strings in the code yet. + * "git apply -v" reports offset lines when the patch does not apply at the exact location recorded in the diff output. @@ -40,12 +43,21 @@ Updates since v1.7.4 reached, without spewing unnecessary error messages that complain about the server response it never got. + * "git grep -f <filename>" learned to treat "-" as "read from the + standard input stream". + * "git grep --no-index" did not honor pathspecs correctly, returning paths outside the specified area. * "git log" type commands now understand globbing pathspecs. You can say "git log -- '*.txt'" for example. + * "git mergetool" learned how to drive "beyond compare 3" as well. + + * "git rerere forget" without pathspec used to forget all the saved + conflicts that relate to the current merge; it now requires you to + give it pathspecs. + * "git rev-list --objects $revs -- $pathspec" now limits the objects listed in its output properly with the pathspec, in preparation for narrow clones. @@ -73,11 +85,6 @@ Fixes since v1.7.4 All of the fixes in the v1.7.4.X maintenance series are included in this release, unless otherwise noted. - * We used to keep one file descriptor open for each and every packfile - that we have a mmap window on it (read: "in use"), even when for very - tiny packfiles. We now close the file descriptor early when the entire - packfile fits inside one mmap window. - * "git apply" used to confuse lines updated by previous hunks as lines that existed before when applying a hunk, contributing misapplication of patches with offsets. @@ -86,12 +93,8 @@ release, unless otherwise noted. in the working tree that are in the way in order to check out paths under it from the named branch (js/checkout-untracked-symlink). - * "git submodule update" used to honor the --merge/--rebase option (or - corresponding configuration variables) even for a newly cloned - subproject, which made no sense (so/submodule-no-update-first-time). - --- exec >/var/tmp/1 -O=v1.7.4.1-291-g01de349 +O=v1.7.4.1-352-gcdc3466 echo O=$(git describe 'master') git shortlog --no-merges ^maint ^$O master |