From: Junio C Hamano Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 00:10:11 +0000 (-0700) Subject: Update draft release notes to 1.7.2 X-Git-Tag: v1.7.2-rc0~62 X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d0b8d79510cd9c45a4c6bc08a37c6348f8293e8a;p=git.git Update draft release notes to 1.7.2 ... to exclude items meant to go to 1.7.1.1 Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.2.txt index 2dea6ffcf..1df22be12 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.2.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.2.txt @@ -8,10 +8,6 @@ Updates since v1.7.1 gained a new member in the family (tab-in-indent) to help projects with policy to indent only with spaces. - * Authentication over http transport can now be made lazily, in that the - request can first go to a URL without username, get a 401 response and - then the client will ask for the username to use. - * When working from a subdirectory, by default, git does not look for its metadirectory ".git" across filesystems, primarily to help people who have invocations of git in their custom PS1 prompts, as being outside @@ -37,9 +33,6 @@ Updates since v1.7.1 * "git cvsserver" can be told to use pserver; its password file can be stored outside the repository. - * "git describe" tie-breaks tags that point at the same commit better by - paying attention to the tagger date (newer ones are preferred). - * The output from the textconv filter used by "git diff" can be cached to speed up their reuse. @@ -54,17 +47,12 @@ Updates since v1.7.1 been enhanced for visibility modifiers (public, protected, etc.) to better support PHP5. - * "git fetch" over HTTP verifies the downloaded packfiles more robustly. - * "git for-each-ref" learned "%(objectname:short)" that gives the object name abbreviated. * Various options to "git grep" (e.g. --count, --name-only) work better with binary files. - * The memory usage by "git index-pack" (run during "git fetch" and "git - push") got leaner. - * "git log --follow " follows across copies (it used to only follow renames). This may make the processing more expensive. @@ -76,9 +64,6 @@ Updates since v1.7.1 * "git revert" learned --strategy option to specify the merge strategy. - * "git send-email" learned --smtp-domain option to specify the domainname - used in the EHLO/HELO exchange. - * "git status [-s] --ignored" can be used to list ignored paths. * Various "gitweb" enhancements and clean-ups, including syntax @@ -93,19 +78,13 @@ release, unless otherwise noted. * We didn't recognize timezone "Z" as a synonym for "UTC" (75b37e70). - * In 1.7.1, "git status" stopped refreshing the index by mistake - (e251a7b3^2). - - * We used to mistakenly think "../work" is a subdirectory of the current - directory when we are in "../work-xyz" (490544b). - * "git checkout" and "git rebase" overwrote paths that are marked "assume unchanged" (aecda37c). * "git clone/fetch/pull" issued an incorrect error message when a ref and a symref that points to the ref were updated at the same time. This obviously would update them to the same value, and should not result in - an error condition (da3efdb). + an error condition (7223dcaf). * "git clone" did not configure remote.origin.url correctly for bare clones (df61c889). @@ -121,9 +100,6 @@ release, unless otherwise noted. * "git reset --hard" started from a wrong directory and a working tree in a nonstandard location is in use got confused (560fb6a1). - * "git stash" incorrectly lost paths in the working tree that were - previously removed from the index (7aa5d43). - -- exec >/var/tmp/1 O=v1.7.1-336-g0925c02