Update draft release notes to 1.6.4

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Junio C Hamano 2009-05-25 19:46:17 -07:00
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@ -35,12 +35,43 @@ Updates since v1.6.3
(subsystems) (subsystems)
* gitweb Perl style clean-up.
* git-svn updates, including a new --authors-prog option to map author
names by invoking an external program.
(portability)
* We feed iconv with "UTF-8" instead of "utf8"; the former is
understood more widely.
(performance) (performance)
(usability, bells and whistles) (usability, bells and whistles)
* "git add --edit" lets users edit the whole patch text to fine-tune what
is added to the index.
* "git log --graph" draws graphs more compactly by using horizonal lines
when able.
* "git log --decorate" shows shorter refnames by stripping well-known
refs/* prefix.
* "git send-email" understands quoted aliases in .mailrc files (might
have to be backported to 1.6.3.X).
* "git send-email" can fetch the sender address from the configuration
variable "sendmail.from" (and "sendmail.<identity>.from").
* "git show-branch" can color its output.
* "add" and "update" subcommands to "git submodule" learned --reference
option to use local clone with references.
(developers) (developers)
* A major part of the "git bisect" wrapper has moved to C.
Fixes since v1.6.3 Fixes since v1.6.3
------------------ ------------------
@ -51,9 +82,12 @@ release, unless otherwise noted.
Here are fixes that this release has, but have not been backported to Here are fixes that this release has, but have not been backported to
v1.6.3.X series. v1.6.3.X series.
* The way Git.pm sets up a Repository object was not friendly to callers
that chdir around. It now internally records the repository location
as an absolute path when autodetected.
--- ---
exec >/var/tmp/1 exec >/var/tmp/1
echo O=$(git describe master) echo O=$(git describe master)
O=v1.6.3 O=v1.6.3.1-168-g23807fa
git shortlog --no-merges $O..master ^maint git shortlog --no-merges $O..master ^maint