Update draft release notes to 1.7.2

[git.git] / Documentation / RelNotes-1.7.2.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.2.txt
index 1df22be1269d7ccff01330523e4d805934f8bf59..bd87a9174641d8284fec6466aac8edacdf18127c 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.2.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.2.txt
@@ -23,6 +23,9 @@ Updates since v1.7.1
    patch in a patch series, it failed to apply later patches that depend
    on the presense of such blank lines.
 
    patch in a patch series, it failed to apply later patches that depend
    on the presense of such blank lines.
 

+ * The message from "git am -3" has been improved when conflict
+   resolution ended up making the patch a no-op.
+

  * "git checkout --orphan newbranch" is similar to "-b newbranch" but
    prepares to create a root commit that is not connected to any existing
    commit.
  * "git checkout --orphan newbranch" is similar to "-b newbranch" but
    prepares to create a root commit that is not connected to any existing
    commit.


@@ -47,27 +50,38 @@ Updates since v1.7.1
    been enhanced for visibility modifiers (public, protected, etc.) to
    better support PHP5.
 
    been enhanced for visibility modifiers (public, protected, etc.) to
    better support PHP5.
 

+ * "diff.noprefix" configuration variable can be used to implicitly
+   ask for "diff --no-prefix" behaviour.
+

  * "git for-each-ref" learned "%(objectname:short)" that gives the object
    name abbreviated.
 
  * Various options to "git grep" (e.g. --count, --name-only) work better
    with binary files.
 
  * "git for-each-ref" learned "%(objectname:short)" that gives the object
    name abbreviated.
 
  * Various options to "git grep" (e.g. --count, --name-only) work better
    with binary files.
 

+ * "git help -w" learned "chrome" and "chromium" browsers.
+

  * "git log --follow <path>" follows across copies (it used to only follow
    renames).  This may make the processing more expensive.
 
  * "git log --follow <path>" follows across copies (it used to only follow
    renames).  This may make the processing more expensive.
 

+ * "git ls-files ../out/side/cwd" works now.
+

  * "git notes prune" learned "-n" (dry-run) and "-v" options, similar to
    what "git prune" has.
 
  * "git patch-id" can be fed a mbox without getting confused by the
    signature line in the format-patch output.
 
  * "git notes prune" learned "-n" (dry-run) and "-v" options, similar to
    what "git prune" has.
 
  * "git patch-id" can be fed a mbox without getting confused by the
    signature line in the format-patch output.
 

+ * "git remote" learned "set-branches" subcommand.
+

  * "git revert" learned --strategy option to specify the merge strategy.
 
  * "git status [-s] --ignored" can be used to list ignored paths.
 
  * "git revert" learned --strategy option to specify the merge strategy.
 
  * "git status [-s] --ignored" can be used to list ignored paths.
 

+ * "git status -s -b" shows the current branch in the output.
+

  * Various "gitweb" enhancements and clean-ups, including syntax
  * Various "gitweb" enhancements and clean-ups, including syntax

-   highlighting.
+   highlighting, "plackup" support for instaweb, etc.

 
 
 Fixes since v1.7.1
 
 
 Fixes since v1.7.1


@@ -78,6 +92,9 @@ release, unless otherwise noted.
 
  * We didn't recognize timezone "Z" as a synonym for "UTC" (75b37e70).
 
 
  * We didn't recognize timezone "Z" as a synonym for "UTC" (75b37e70).
 

+ * We didn't URL decode "file:///path/to/repo" correctly when path/to/repo
+   had percent-encoded characters (638794c, 9d2e942).
+

  * "git checkout" and "git rebase" overwrote paths that are marked "assume
    unchanged" (aecda37c).
 
  * "git checkout" and "git rebase" overwrote paths that are marked "assume
    unchanged" (aecda37c).
 


@@ -93,6 +110,15 @@ release, unless otherwise noted.
    minimize the output, but this often was spending too many extra cycles
    for very little gain (582aa00).
 
    minimize the output, but this often was spending too many extra cycles
    for very little gain (582aa00).
 

+ * "git diff --graph" works better with "--color-words" and other options
+   (81fa024..4297c0a).
+
+ * "git diff" could show ambiguous abbreviation of blob object names on
+   its "index" line (3e5a188).
+
+ * "git merge --log" used to replace the custom message given by "-m" with
+   the shortlog, instead of appending to it (tc/merge-m-log).
+

  * "git pull" accepted "--dry-run", gave it to underlying "git fetch" but
    ignored the option itself, resulting in a bogus attempt to merge
    unrelated commit (29609e68).
  * "git pull" accepted "--dry-run", gave it to underlying "git fetch" but
    ignored the option itself, resulting in a bogus attempt to merge
    unrelated commit (29609e68).


@@ -100,8 +126,11 @@ release, unless otherwise noted.
  * "git reset --hard" started from a wrong directory and a working tree in
    a nonstandard location is in use got confused (560fb6a1).
 
  * "git reset --hard" started from a wrong directory and a working tree in
    a nonstandard location is in use got confused (560fb6a1).
 

+ * "git show -C -C" and other corner cases lost diff metainfo output
+   in 1.7.0 (296c6bb).
+

 --
 exec >/var/tmp/1
 --
 exec >/var/tmp/1

-O=v1.7.1-336-g0925c02
-echo O=$(git describe master)
-git shortlog --no-merges master ^maint ^$O
+O=v1.7.1-423-gae391ec
+echo O=$(git describe HEAD)
+git shortlog --no-merges HEAD ^maint ^$O