Update draft release notes to 1.6.3

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Junio C Hamano
2009-03-28 00:55:52 -07:00
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@ -22,12 +22,12 @@ branch pointed at by its HEAD, gets a large warning. You can choose what
should happen upon such a push by setting the configuration variable should happen upon such a push by setting the configuration variable
receive.denyDeleteCurrent in the receiving repository. receive.denyDeleteCurrent in the receiving repository.
In a future release, the default of "git push" without further When the user does not tell "git push" what to push, it has always
arguments might be changed. Currently, it will push all matching pushed matching refs. For some people it is unexpected, and a new
refspecs to the current remote. A configuration variable push.default configuration variable push.default has been introduced to allow
has been introduced to select the default behaviour. To ease the changing a different default behaviour. To advertise the new feature,
transition, a big warning is issued if this is not configured and a a big warning is issued if this is not configured and a git push without
git push without arguments is attempted. arguments is attempted.
Updates since v1.6.2 Updates since v1.6.2
@ -46,6 +46,9 @@ Updates since v1.6.2
repositories. It may not be useful in practice; meant primarily for repositories. It may not be useful in practice; meant primarily for
testing. testing.
* http transport learned to prompt and use password when fetching from or
pushing to http://user@host.xz/ URL.
* (msysgit) progress output that is sent over the sideband protocol can * (msysgit) progress output that is sent over the sideband protocol can
be handled appropriately in Windows console. be handled appropriately in Windows console.
@ -99,6 +102,8 @@ Updates since v1.6.2
* Test scripts can be run under valgrind. * Test scripts can be run under valgrind.
* Test scripts can be run with installed git.
* Makefile learned 'coverage' option to run the test suites with * Makefile learned 'coverage' option to run the test suites with
coverage tracking enabled. coverage tracking enabled.
@ -111,11 +116,20 @@ 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
v1.6.2.X series. v1.6.2.X series.
* "git-blame -S" did not quite work near the commits that were given
on the command line correctly (jc/maint-1.6.0-blame-s).
* The initial checkout did not read the attributes from the .gitattribute
file that is being checked out.
* git-diff feeds files in work-tree representation to external diff and
textconv (js/maint-diff-temp-smudge).
* git-gc spent excessive amount of time to decide if an object appears * git-gc spent excessive amount of time to decide if an object appears
in a locally existing pack (if needed, backport by merging 69e020a). in a locally existing pack (if needed, backport by merging 69e020a).
--- ---
exec >/var/tmp/1 exec >/var/tmp/1
O=v1.6.2.1-213-g7d4e3a7 O=v1.6.2.1-399-gaa72a14
echo O=$(git describe master) echo O=$(git describe master)
git shortlog --no-merges $O..master ^maint git shortlog --no-merges $O..master ^maint