Update draft release notes to 1.6.1

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Junio C Hamano 2008-10-13 17:05:45 -07:00
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* gitk can call out to git-gui to view "git blame" output; git-gui in turn
can run gitk from its blame view.
* Various git-gui updates including updated translations.
* Various gitweb updates from repo.or.cz installation.
(portability)
* ...
* A few test scripts used nonportable "grep" that did not work well on
some platforms, e.g. Solaris.
(documentation)
* ...
* Sample pre-auto-gc script has OS X support.
(performance)
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* Bash completion of refnames in a repository with massive number of
refs has been optimized.
* Cygwin port uses native stat/lstat implementations when applicable,
which leads to improved performance.
* "git push" pays attention to alternate repositories to avoid sending
unnecessary objects.
* "git svn" can rebuild an out-of-date rev_map file.
(usability, bells and whistles)
* When you mistype a command name, git helpfully suggests what it guesses
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to a non-zero value to accept the suggestion when git can uniquely
guess.
* "git add -N path..." adds the named paths as an empty blob, so that
subsequent "git diff" will show a diff as if they are creation events.
* "git apply" learned --include=paths option, similar to the existing
--exclude=paths option.
* "git bisect" is careful about a user mistake and suggests testing of
merge base first when good is not a strict ancestor of bad.
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DWIMs to create a corresponding local branch "hack", i.e. acts as if you
said "git checkout --track -b hack origin/hack".
* "git checkout --ours/--theirs" can be used to check out one side of a
conflicting merge during conflict resolution.
* "git checkout -m" can be used to recreate the initial conflicted state
during conflict resolution.
* "git cherry-pick" can also utilize rerere for conflict resolution.
* "git commit --author=$name" can look up author name from existing
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* "git diff" learned to mimic --suppress-blank-empty from GNU diff via a
configuration option.
* "git diff" learned to put more sensible hunk headers for Python and
HTML contents.
* "git diff" learned to put more sensible hunk headers for Python,
HTML and ObjC contents.
* "git diff" learned to vary the a/ vs b/ prefix depending on what are
being compared, controlled by diff.mnemonicprefix configuration.
* "git diff" learned --dirstat-by-file to count changed files, not number
of lines, when summarizing the global picture.
* "git for-each-ref" learned "refname:short" token that gives an
unambiguously abbreviated refname.
* "git grep" learned to accept -z similar to GNU grep.
* "git help" learned to use GIT_MAN_VIEWER environment variable before
using "man" program.
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* "git submodule sync" subcommands allows you to update the origin URL
recorded in submodule directories from the toplevel .gitmodules file.
* "git svn branch" can create new branches on the other end.
(internal)
* "git hash-object" learned to lie about the path being hashed, so that
correct gitattributes processing can be done while hashing contents
stored in a temporary file.
* various callers of git-merge-recursive avoid forking it as an external
process.
Fixes since v1.6.0
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but we dropped support for such a use case long time ago. This has
been resurrected.
* Giving 3 or more tree-ish to "git diff" is supposed to show the combined
diff from second and subsequent trees to the first one. b75271d ("git
diff <tree>{3,}": do not reverse order of arguments, 2008-10-10) needs
to be cherry-picked to 'maint'.
* "git filter-branch" failed to rewrite a tag name with slashes in it.
* "git push --tags --all $there" failed with generic usage message without
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--
exec >/var/tmp/1
O=v1.6.0.2-295-g34a5d35
O=v1.6.0.2-529-g769b008
echo O=$(git describe master)
git shortlog --no-merges $O..master ^maint