@@ -53,11 +53,6 @@ Updates since v1.7.5
5353 * "git commit" learned a "--patch" option to directly jump to the
5454 per-hunk selection UI of the interactive mode.
5555
56- * "git diff -C -C" used to disable the rename detection entirely when
57- there are too many copy candidate paths in the tree; now it falls
58- back to "-C" when doing so would keep the copy candidate paths
59- under the rename detection limit.
60-
6156 * "git diff" and its family of commands learned --dirstat=0 to show
6257 directories that contribute less than 0.1% of changes.
6358
@@ -72,6 +67,8 @@ Updates since v1.7.5
7267 characters in it, e.g. "Junio C. Hamano" <
[email protected] >. Earlier
7368 it was up to the user to do this when using its output.
7469
70+ * "git format-patch" can take an empty --subject-prefix now.
71+
7572 * "git log" and friends learned a new "--notes" option to replace the
7673 "--show-notes" option. Unlike "--show-notes", "--notes=<ref>" does
7774 not imply showing the default notes.
@@ -93,9 +90,20 @@ Updates since v1.7.5
9390
9491 * p4-import (from contrib) learned a new option --preserve-user.
9592
93+ * "git read-tree -m" learned "--dry-run" option that reports if a merge
94+ would fail without touching the index nor the working tree.
95+
9696 * "git rebase" that does not specify on top of which branch to rebase
9797 the current branch now uses @{upstream} of the current branch.
9898
99+ * "git rebase" finished either normally or with --abort did not
100+ update the reflog for HEAD to record the event to come back to
101+ where it started from.
102+
103+ * "git remote add -t only-this-branch --mirror=fetch" is now allowed. Earlier
104+ a fetch-mode mirror meant mirror everything, but now it only means refs are
105+ not renamed.
106+
99107 * "git rev-list --count" used with "--cherry-mark" counts the cherry-picked
100108 commits separately, producing more a useful output.
101109
@@ -116,11 +124,6 @@ Fixes since v1.7.5
116124Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes in 1.7.5.X maintenance track are
117125included in this release.
118126
119- * The single-key mode of "git add -p" was easily fooled into thinking
120- that it was told to add everthing ('a') when up-arrow was pressed by
121- mistake.
122- (merge tr/add-i-no-escape later)
123-
124127 * "git config" used to choke with an insanely long line.
125128 (merge ef/maint-strbuf-init later)
126129
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