From a1b1ae0571f6b57117678aeaa1939d97c992a254 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Junio C Hamano Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 00:55:52 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Update draft release notes to 1.6.3 Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.3.txt | 28 +++++++++++++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.3.txt index 0d8260a84..f0a2e41c7 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.3.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.3.txt @@ -22,12 +22,12 @@ branch pointed at by its HEAD, gets a large warning. You can choose what should happen upon such a push by setting the configuration variable receive.denyDeleteCurrent in the receiving repository. -In a future release, the default of "git push" without further -arguments might be changed. Currently, it will push all matching -refspecs to the current remote. A configuration variable push.default -has been introduced to select the default behaviour. To ease the -transition, a big warning is issued if this is not configured and a -git push without arguments is attempted. +When the user does not tell "git push" what to push, it has always +pushed matching refs. For some people it is unexpected, and a new +configuration variable push.default has been introduced to allow +changing a different default behaviour. To advertise the new feature, +a big warning is issued if this is not configured and a git push without +arguments is attempted. Updates since v1.6.2 @@ -46,6 +46,9 @@ Updates since v1.6.2 repositories. It may not be useful in practice; meant primarily for testing. +* http transport learned to prompt and use password when fetching from or + pushing to http://user@host.xz/ URL. + * (msysgit) progress output that is sent over the sideband protocol can be handled appropriately in Windows console. @@ -99,6 +102,8 @@ Updates since v1.6.2 * Test scripts can be run under valgrind. +* Test scripts can be run with installed git. + * Makefile learned 'coverage' option to run the test suites with coverage tracking enabled. @@ -111,11 +116,20 @@ release, unless otherwise noted. Here are fixes that this release has, but have not been backported to v1.6.2.X series. +* "git-blame -S" did not quite work near the commits that were given + on the command line correctly (jc/maint-1.6.0-blame-s). + +* The initial checkout did not read the attributes from the .gitattribute + file that is being checked out. + +* git-diff feeds files in work-tree representation to external diff and + textconv (js/maint-diff-temp-smudge). + * git-gc spent excessive amount of time to decide if an object appears in a locally existing pack (if needed, backport by merging 69e020a). --- exec >/var/tmp/1 -O=v1.6.2.1-213-g7d4e3a7 +O=v1.6.2.1-399-gaa72a14 echo O=$(git describe master) git shortlog --no-merges $O..master ^maint -- 2.45.2