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Update draft release notes to 1.6.3
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <[email protected]>
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Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.3.txt

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@@ -47,6 +47,8 @@ Updates since v1.6.2
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(usability, bells and whistles)
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* Boolean configuration variable yes/no can be written as on/off.
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* rsync:/path/to/repo can be used to run git over rsync for local
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repositories. It may not be useful in practice; meant primarily for
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testing.
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* "--oneline" is a synonym for "--pretty=oneline --abbrev-commit".
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* "--graph" to the "git log" family can draw the commit ancestry graph
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in colors.
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* If you realize that you botched the patch when you are editing hunks
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with the 'edit' action in git-add -i/-p, you can abort the editor to
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tell git not to apply it.
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1.6.2, but the initial implementation did not teach this to a few
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commands. Now the syntax works with "branch -m @{-1} newname".
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* "git-add -p" now supports "q"uit action.
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* git-archive learned --output=<file> option.
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* git-archive takes attributes from the tree being archived; strictly
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speaking, this is an incompatible behaviour change, but is a good one.
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Use --worktree-attributes option to allow it to read attributes from
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the work tree as before (deprecated git-tar tree command always reads
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attributes from the work tree).
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* git-bisect shows not just the number of remaining commits whose goodness
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is unknown, but also shows the estimated number of remaining rounds.
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* git-clone runs post-checkout hook when run without --no-checkout.
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* git-difftool is now part of the officially supported command, primarily
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maintained by David Aguilar.
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* git-fast-export choked when seeing a tag that does not point at commit.
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* git-for-each-ref learned a new "upstream" token.
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Here are fixes that this release has, but have not been backported to
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v1.6.2.X series.
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* "git-apply" rejected a patch that swaps two files (i.e. renames A to B
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and B to A at the same time). May need to be backported by cherry
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picking d8c81df and then 7fac0ee).
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* The initial checkout did not read the attributes from the .gitattribute
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file that is being checked out.
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* "git-checkout <tree-ish> <submodule>" did not update the index entry at
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the named path; it now does.
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* git-gc spent excessive amount of time to decide if an object appears
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in a locally existing pack (if needed, backport by merging 69e020a).
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* "git-ls-tree" and "git-diff-tree" used a pathspec correctly when
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deciding to descend into a subdirectory but they did not match the
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individual paths correctly. This caused pathspecs "abc/d ab" to match
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"abc/0" ("abc/d" made them decide to descend into the directory "abc/",
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and then "ab" incorrectly matched "abc/0" when it shouldn't).
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* "git-merge-recursive" was broken when a submodule entry was involved in
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a criss-cross merge situation.
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exec >/var/tmp/1
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O=v1.6.2.3-497-g54a4749
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O=v1.6.3-rc0-74-g9824a38
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echo O=$(git describe master)
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git shortlog --no-merges $O..master ^maint

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