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Update draft release notes to 1.6.4
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <[email protected]>
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Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.4.txt

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@@ -35,12 +35,43 @@ Updates since v1.6.3
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* gitweb Perl style clean-up.
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* git-svn updates, including a new --authors-prog option to map author
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names by invoking an external program.
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(portability)
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* We feed iconv with "UTF-8" instead of "utf8"; the former is
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understood more widely.
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* "git add --edit" lets users edit the whole patch text to fine-tune what
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is added to the index.
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* "git log --graph" draws graphs more compactly by using horizonal lines
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when able.
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* "git log --decorate" shows shorter refnames by stripping well-known
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refs/* prefix.
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* "git send-email" understands quoted aliases in .mailrc files (might
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have to be backported to 1.6.3.X).
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* "git send-email" can fetch the sender address from the configuration
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variable "sendmail.from" (and "sendmail.<identity>.from").
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* "git show-branch" can color its output.
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* "add" and "update" subcommands to "git submodule" learned --reference
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option to use local clone with references.
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* A major part of the "git bisect" wrapper has moved to C.
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Fixes since v1.6.3
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Here are fixes that this release has, but have not been backported to
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* The way Git.pm sets up a Repository object was not friendly to callers
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that chdir around. It now internally records the repository location
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as an absolute path when autodetected.
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exec >/var/tmp/1
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echo O=$(git describe master)
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O=v1.6.3.1-168-g23807fa
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git shortlog --no-merges $O..master ^maint

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