Merge branch 'maint'

[git.git] / Documentation / RelNotes-1.7.0.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.0.txt
index d66a9732c3620f20c4518fa63b23b7f62662b058..7a49b475da70a0daf043eda389848f0057e22e5f 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.0.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.0.txt
@@ -44,18 +44,70 @@ Updates since v1.6.6
 
 (subsystems)
 
+ * "git fast-import" updates; adds "option" and "feature" to detect the
+   mismatch between fast-import and the frontends that produce the input
+   stream.
+
 (portability)
 
+ * Some more MSVC portability patches for msysgit port.
+
+ * Minimum Pthreads emulation for msysgit port.
+
 (performance)
 
+ * More performance improvement patches for msysgit port.
+
 (usability, bells and whistles)
 
+ * More commands learned "--quiet" and "--[no-]progress" options.
+
+ * Various commands given by the end user (e.g. diff.type.textconv,
+   and GIT_EDITOR) can be specified with command line arguments.  E.g. it
+   is now possible to say "[diff "utf8doc"] textconv = nkf -w".
+
+ * "sparse checkout" feature allows only part of the work tree to be
+   checked out.
+
+ * HTTP transfer can use authentication scheme other than basic
+   (i.e./e.g. digest).
+
+ * Switching from a version of superproject that used to have a submodule
+   to another version of superproject that no longer has it did not remove
+   the submodule directory when it should (namely, when you are not
+   interested in the submodule at all and didn't clone/checkout).
+
+ * "git checkout A...B" is a way to detach HEAD at the merge base between
+   A and B.
+
  * "git commit --date='<date>'" can be used to override the author date
    just like "git commit --author='<name> <email>'" can be used to
    override the author identity.
 
+ * "git commit --no-status" can be used to omit the listing of the index
+   and the work tree status in the editor used to prepare the log message.
+
+ * "git fetch --all" can now be used in place of "git remote update".
+
+ * "git push" learned "git push origin --delete branch", a syntactic sugar
+   for "git push origin :branch".
+
+ * "git rebase --onto A...B" means the history is replayed on top of the
+   merge base between A and B.
+
+ * Use of "git reset --merge" has become easier when resetting away a
+   conflicted mess left in the work tree.
+
+ * "git rerere" had rerere.autoupdate configuration but there was no way
+   to countermand it from the command line; --no-rerere-autoupdate option
+   given to "merge", "revert", etc. fixes this.
+
  * "git status" learned "-s(hort)" output format.
 
+(developers)
+
+ * The infrastructure to build foreign SCM interface has been updated.
+
 
 Fixes since v1.6.6
 ------------------
@@ -65,6 +117,6 @@ release, unless otherwise noted.
 
 --
 exec >/var/tmp/1
-O=v1.6.6-101-gf012d27
+O=v1.6.6-263-ge33fd3c
 echo O=$(git describe master)
 git shortlog --no-merges $O..master ^maint