From: Junio C Hamano Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2012 04:44:37 +0000 (-0700) Subject: Draft release notes to 1.8.0 X-Git-Tag: v1.8.0-rc0~48 X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=83379df0251243b5e1f328598bfdd39327766df3;p=git.git Draft release notes to 1.8.0 Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.txt index 9714422de..90c4f4795 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.txt @@ -31,6 +31,10 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * A credential helper to allow access to the Gnome keyring has been added. + * When "git am" sanitizes the Subject: line, we strip the prefix from + "Re: subject" and also from a less common "re: subject", but left + even less common "RE: subject" intact. + * It was tempting to say "git branch --set-upstream origin/master", but that tells Git to arrange the local branch "origin/master" to integrate with the currently checked out branch, which is highly @@ -54,6 +58,9 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * "git merge-base" learned "--is-ancestor A B" option to tell if A is an ancestor of B. The result is indicated by its exit status code. + * The "-Xours" backend option to "git merge -s recursive" now takes + effect even on binary files. + Foreign Interface