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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.3.txt index 2ab2328316..ee1fddb76a 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.3.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.3.txt @@ -32,6 +32,44 @@ Updates since v1.6.2 (usability, bells and whistles) +* "--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. + +* "--oneline" is a synonym for "--pretty=oneline --abbrev=commit". + +* If you realize that you botched the patch when you are editing hunks + with the 'edit' action in git-add -i/-p, you can abort the editor to + tell git not to apply it. + +* git-archive learned --output=<file> option. + +* git-bisect shows not just the number of remaining commits whose goodness + is unknown, but also shows the estimated number of remaining rounds. + +* git-branch -r shows HEAD symref that points at a remote branch in + interest of each tracked remote repository. + +* git-config learned -e option to open an editor to edit the config file + directly. + +* git-format-patch can be told to use attachment with a new configuration, + format.attach. + +* git-imap-send learned to work around Thunderbird's inability to easily + disable format=flowed with a new configuration, imap.preformattedHTML. + +* git-rebase can be told to rebase the series even if your branch is a + descendant of the commit you are rebasing onto with --force-rebase + option. + +* git-send-email learned --confirm option to review the Cc: list before + sending the messages out. + +(developers) + +* Test scripts can be run under valgrind. + Fixes since v1.6.2 ------------------ @@ -42,3 +80,25 @@ release, unless otherwise noted. Here are fixes that this release has, but have not been backported to v1.6.2.X series. +* .gitignore learned to handle backslash as a quoting mechanism for + comment introduction character "#" (backport by merging dd482ee if + needed). + +* timestamp output in --date=relative mode used to display timestamps that + are long time ago in the default mode; it now uses "N years M months + ago", and "N years ago" (backport by picking 10edf37 if needed). + +* git-add -i/-p now works with non-ASCII pathnames (backport by picking + 8851f48 if needed). + +* "git hash-object -w" did not read from the configuration file from the + correct .git directory (backport by merging 272459a if needed). + +* git-send-email learned to correctly handle multiple Cc: addresses + (backport by merging afe756c if needed). + +--- +exec >/var/tmp/1 +O=v1.6.2-77-g8cc3fe4 +echo O=$(git describe master) +git shortlog --no-merges $O..master ^maint |