Merge branch 'pb/patch-id-plus'

diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.1.txt
index 19aeef5effd16a7a7fc5409ca42bc54eb780e991..9d89fedb36b4d6fa7c8a6a8487cc47b4ca542e3a 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.1.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.1.txt
@@ -1,19 +1,30 @@
-Git v1.7.1 Release Notes (draft)
-================================
+Git v1.7.1 Release Notes
+========================
 
 Updates since v1.7.0
 --------------------
 
+ * Eric Raymond is the maintainer of updated CIAbot scripts, in contrib/.
+
+ * gitk updates.
+
  * Some commands (e.g. svn and http interfaces) that interactively ask
-   password can be told to use an external program given via GIT_ASKPASS.
+   for a password can be told to use an external program given via
+   GIT_ASKPASS.
+
+ * Conflict markers that lead the common ancestor in diff3-style output
+   now have a label, which hopefully would help third-party tools that
+   expect one.
+
+ * Comes with an updated bash-completion script.
 
  * "git am" learned "--keep-cr" option to handle inputs that are
-   mixture of changes to files with and without CRLF line endings.
+   a mixture of changes to files with and without CRLF line endings.
 
  * "git cvsimport" learned -R option to leave revision mapping between
    CVS revisions and resulting git commits.
 
- * "git diff --submodule" notices and descries dirty submodules.
+ * "git diff --submodule" notices and describes dirty submodules.
 
  * "git for-each-ref" learned %(symref), %(symref:short) and %(flag)
    tokens.
@@ -34,12 +45,11 @@ Updates since v1.7.0
  * "git log -p --first-parent -m" shows one-parent diff for merge
    commits, instead of showing combined diff.
 
- * "git merge-file" learned to use custom conflict marker size and also use
-   the "union merge" behaviour.
+ * "git merge-file" learned to use custom conflict marker size and also
+   to use the "union merge" behaviour.
 
- * "git notes" command has been rewritten in C and learned quite a
-   many commands and features to help you carry notes forward across
-   rebases and amends.
+ * "git notes" command has been rewritten in C and learned many commands
+   and features to help you carry notes forward across rebases and amends.
 
  * "git request-pull" identifies the commit the request is relative to in
    a more readable way.
@@ -48,13 +58,18 @@ Updates since v1.7.0
    near the tip while preserving your local changes in a way similar
    to how "git checkout branch" does.
 
- * "git status" notices and descries dirty submodules.
+ * "git status" notices and describes dirty submodules.
 
  * "git svn" should work better when interacting with repositories
    with CRLF line endings.
 
  * "git imap-send" learned to support CRAM-MD5 authentication.
 
+ * "gitweb" installation procedure can use "minified" js/css files
+   better.
+
+ * Various documentation updates.
+
 Fixes since v1.7.0
 ------------------
 
@@ -64,8 +79,11 @@ release, unless otherwise noted.
  * "git add frotz/nitfol" did not complain when the entire frotz/ directory
    was ignored.
 
----
-exec >/var/tmp/1
-echo O=$(git describe)
-O=v1.7.0.3-310-g99f5b08
-git shortlog --no-merges ^maint $O..
+ * "git diff --stat" used "int" to count the size of differences,
+   which could result in overflowing.
+
+ * "git rev-list --pretty=oneline" didn't terminate a record with LF for
+   commits without any message.
+
+ * "git rev-list --abbrev-commit" defaulted to 40-byte abbreviations, unlike
+   newer tools in the git toolset.