From: Junio C Hamano Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 23:58:35 +0000 (-0700) Subject: Update release notes to 1.7.6 X-Git-Tag: v1.7.6-rc0~62 X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b602ed7dea968d72c5b3f61ca016de7f285d80ef;p=git.git Update release notes to 1.7.6 Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.6.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.6.txt index f644378d2..a3624a6c5 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.6.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.6.txt @@ -18,6 +18,12 @@ Updates since v1.7.5 * "git blame" learned "--abbrev[=]" option to control the minimum number of hexdigits shown for commit object names. + * Aborting "git commit --interactive" discards updates to the index + made during the interctive session. + + * "git commit" learned a "--patch" option to directly jump to the + per-hunk selection UI of the interactive mode. + * "git diff -C -C" used to disable the rename detection entirely when there are too many copy candidate paths in the tree; now it falls back to "-C" when doing so would keep the copy candidate paths @@ -44,6 +50,12 @@ Updates since v1.7.5 * "git merge" learned "-" as a short-hand for "the previous branch", just like the way "git checkout -" works. + * "git merge" uses "merge.ff" configuration variable to decide to always + create a merge commit (i.e. --no-ff, aka merge.ff=no), refuse to create + a merge commit (i.e. --ff-only, aka merge.ff=only). Setting merge.ff=yes + (or not setting it at all) restores the default behaviour of allowing + fast-forward to happen when possible. + * "git rebase" that does not specify on top of which branch to rebase the current branch now uses @{upstream} of the current branch. @@ -67,23 +79,18 @@ Fixes since v1.7.5 Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes in 1.7.5.X maintenance track are included in this release. - * "git add -p" did not work correctly when a hunk is split and then - one of them was given to the editor. - (merge jc/maint-add-p-overlapping-hunks later) + * Setting $(prefix) in config.mak did not affect where etc/gitconfig + file is read from, even though passing it from the command line of + $(MAKE) did. + (merge kk/maint-prefix-in-config-mak later) - * "git add -u" did not resolve a conflict where our history deleted and - their history modified the same file, and the working tree resolved to - keep a file. - (merge jc/fix-add-u-unmerged later) + * The bash completion scripts should correctly work using zsh's bash + completion emulation layer now. + (merge either fc/completion-zsh later) * "git config" used to choke with an insanely long line. (merge ef/maint-strbuf-init later) - * In "git merge", per-branch branch..mergeoptions configuration - variables did not override the fallback default merge.