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Update draft release notes for 1.6.1

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A handful of fixes have been backmerged to 'maint' and are now contained
in 1.6.0.X series as the result, so drop them from this document.

Also contains typofix and duplicate removal pointed out by
Bjørn Lindeijer and Jakub Narebski.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ on.
subsequent "git diff" will show a diff as if they are creation events. subsequent "git diff" will show a diff as if they are creation events.
* "git add" gained a built-in synonym for people who want to say "stage * "git add" gained a built-in synonym for people who want to say "stage
changes" instead of "add contents the the staging area" which amounts changes" instead of "add contents to the staging area" which amounts
to the same thing. to the same thing.
* "git apply" learned --include=paths option, similar to the existing * "git apply" learned --include=paths option, similar to the existing
@ -135,16 +135,10 @@ on.
cannot produce a patch that can be applied, so this is disabled in cannot produce a patch that can be applied, so this is disabled in
format-patch among other things). format-patch among other things).
* "git diff" hunk header pattern for ObjC has been added.
* "--cached" option to "git diff has an easier to remember synonym "--staged", * "--cached" option to "git diff has an easier to remember synonym "--staged",
to ask "what is the difference between the given commit and the to ask "what is the difference between the given commit and the
contents staged in the index?" contents staged in the index?"
* a "textconv" filter that makes binary files textual form for human
consumption can be specified as an attribute for paths; "git diff"
learnt to make use of it.
* "git for-each-ref" learned "refname:short" token that gives an * "git for-each-ref" learned "refname:short" token that gives an
unambiguously abbreviated refname. unambiguously abbreviated refname.
@ -197,9 +191,6 @@ on.
* "git remote show $remote" lists remote branches one-per-line now. * "git remote show $remote" lists remote branches one-per-line now.
* when giving up resolving a conflicted merge, "git reset --hard" failed
to remove new paths from the working tree. [cherry-pick to 'maint'?]
* "git send-email" can be given revision range instead of files and * "git send-email" can be given revision range instead of files and
maildirs on the command line, and automatically runs format-patch to maildirs on the command line, and automatically runs format-patch to
generate patches for the given revision range. generate patches for the given revision range.
@ -251,16 +242,8 @@ release, unless otherwise noted.
but we dropped support for such a use case long time ago. This has but we dropped support for such a use case long time ago. This has
been resurrected. been resurrected.
* Giving 3 or more tree-ish to "git diff" is supposed to show the combined
diff from second and subsequent trees to the first one. b75271d ("git
diff <tree>{3,}": do not reverse order of arguments, 2008-10-10) needs
to be cherry-picked to 'maint'.
* "git filter-branch" failed to rewrite a tag name with slashes in it. * "git filter-branch" failed to rewrite a tag name with slashes in it.
* "git repack" used to grab objects out of packs marked with .keep
into a new pack (fix scheduled to be further downmerged to maint).
* "git rm --cached" used to allow an empty blob that was added earlier to * "git rm --cached" used to allow an empty blob that was added earlier to
be removed without --force, even when the file in the work tree has be removed without --force, even when the file in the work tree has
since been modified. since been modified.
@ -272,10 +255,6 @@ release, unless otherwise noted.
timestamp part, exposing internal implementation detail. Also these did timestamp part, exposing internal implementation detail. Also these did
not work with --fixed-strings match at all. not work with --fixed-strings match at all.
* Internal diff machinery had a corner case performance bug that choked on a
large file with many repeated contents (fix scheduled to be further cherry-
picked to maint).
* "gitweb" did not mark non-ASCII characters imported from external HTML fragments * "gitweb" did not mark non-ASCII characters imported from external HTML fragments
correctly. correctly.