From ea3594e04184475226109a21e71c539ff5f139fd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Junio C Hamano Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:32:15 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Update draft release notes for 1.6.1 Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.1.txt | 26 +++++++++++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.1.txt index efaf9ac4f..d37da039f 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.1.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.1.txt @@ -4,6 +4,13 @@ GIT v1.6.1 Release Notes Updates since v1.6.0 -------------------- +When some commands (e.g. "git log", "git diff") spawn pager internally, we +used to make the pager the parent process of the git command that produces +output. This meant that the exit status of the whole thing comes from the +pager, not the underlying git command. We swapped the order of the +processes around and you will see the exit code from the command from now +on. + (subsystems) * ... @@ -18,16 +25,25 @@ Updates since v1.6.0 (performance) -* ... +* The underlying diff machinery to produce textual output has been + optimized, which would result in faster "git blame" processing. (usability, bells and whistles) -* ... +* "git checkout --track origin/hack" used to be a syntax error. It now + DWIMs to create a corresponding local branch "hack", i.e. acts as if you + said "git checkout --track -b hack origin/hack". -(internal) +* "git diff" learned to mimick --suppress-blank-empty from GNU diff via a + configuration option. -* ... +* "git imap-send" can optionally talk SSL. + +(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. Fixes since v1.6.0 ------------------ @@ -37,6 +53,6 @@ release, unless otherwise noted. -- exec >/var/tmp/1 -O=v1.6.0 +O=v1.6.0-48-ge28a867 echo O=$(git describe master) git shortlog --no-merges $O..master ^maint -- 2.26.2