diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.2.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.2.1.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..dfa36416af --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.2.1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +GIT v1.6.2.1 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.6.2 +------------------ + +* .gitignore learned to handle backslash as a quoting mechanism for + comment introduction character "#". + +* timestamp output in --date=relative mode used to display timestamps that + are long time ago in the default mode; it now uses "N years M months + ago", and "N years ago". + +* git-add -i/-p now works with non-ASCII pathnames. + +* "git hash-object -w" did not read from the configuration file from the + correct .git directory. + +* git-send-email learned to correctly handle multiple Cc: addresses. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.3.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..679ad28b9d --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.3.txt @@ -0,0 +1,104 @@ +GIT v1.6.3 Release Notes +======================== + +With the next major release, "git push" into a branch that is +currently checked out will be refused by default. You can choose +what should happen upon such a push by setting the configuration +variable receive.denyCurrentBranch in the receiving repository. + +To ease the transition plan, the receiving repository of such a +push running this release will issue a big warning when the +configuration variable is missing. Please refer to: + + http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitFaq#non-bare + http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/107758/focus=108007 + +for more details on the reason why this change is needed and the +transition plan. + +For a similar reason, "git push $there :$killed" to delete the branch +$killed in a remote repository $there, if $killed branch is the current +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 +receive.denyDeleteCurrent in the receiving repository. + + +Updates since v1.6.2 +-------------------- + +(subsystems) + +(performance) + +(usability, bells and whistles) + +* "--pretty=