Update draft release notes to 1.7.5

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.5.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.5.txt
index b917d0bcf06080175eb929e4c88d6c75e03fd832..24f5d8c4a47866dfd88146d2686773a4e1227a57 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.5.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.5.txt
@@ -15,6 +15,9 @@ Updates since v1.7.4
  * The codebase is getting prepared for i18n/l10n; no translated/translatable
    strings in the code yet.
 
  * The codebase is getting prepared for i18n/l10n; no translated/translatable
    strings in the code yet.
 

+ * The bash completion script can now complete symmetric difference
+   for "git diff" command, e.g. "git diff ...bra<TAB>".
+

  * "git apply -v" reports offset lines when the patch does not apply at
    the exact location recorded in the diff output.
 
  * "git apply -v" reports offset lines when the patch does not apply at
    the exact location recorded in the diff output.
 


@@ -43,6 +46,11 @@ Updates since v1.7.4
    reached, without spewing unnecessary error messages that complain about
    the server response it never got.
 
    reached, without spewing unnecessary error messages that complain about
    the server response it never got.
 

+ * "git fetch" vs "git upload-pack" transfer learned 'no-done'
+   protocol extension to save one round-trip after the content
+   negotiation is done. This saves one HTTP RPC, reducing the overall
+   latency for a trivial fetch.
+

  * "git grep -f <filename>" learned to treat "-" as "read from the
    standard input stream".
 
  * "git grep -f <filename>" learned to treat "-" as "read from the
    standard input stream".
 


@@ -52,6 +60,11 @@ Updates since v1.7.4
  * "git log" type commands now understand globbing pathspecs.  You
    can say "git log -- '*.txt'" for example.
 
  * "git log" type commands now understand globbing pathspecs.  You
    can say "git log -- '*.txt'" for example.
 

+ * "git log" family of commands learned --cherry and --cherry-mark
+   options that can be used to view two diverged branches while omitting
+   or highlighting equivalent changes that appear on both sides of a
+   symmetric difference (e.g. "log --cherry A...B").
+

  * "git mergetool" learned how to drive "beyond compare 3" as well.
 
  * "git rerere forget" without pathspec used to forget all the saved
  * "git mergetool" learned how to drive "beyond compare 3" as well.
 
  * "git rerere forget" without pathspec used to forget all the saved


@@ -93,8 +106,22 @@ release, unless otherwise noted.
    in the working tree that are in the way in order to check out paths
    under it from the named branch (js/checkout-untracked-symlink).
 
    in the working tree that are in the way in order to check out paths
    under it from the named branch (js/checkout-untracked-symlink).
 

+ * "git fetch" from a client that is mostly following the remote
+   needlessly told all of its refs to the server for both sides to
+   compute the set of objects that need to be transferred efficiently,
+   instead of stopping when the server heard enough. In a project with
+   many tags, this turns out to be extremely wasteful, especially over
+   the smart HTTP transport (sp/maint-{upload,fetch}-pack-stop-early~1).
+
+ * "git fetch" run from a repository that uses the same repository as
+   its alternate object store as the repository it is fetching from
+   did not tell the server that it already has access to objects
+   reachable from the refs in their common alternate object store,
+   causing it to fetch unnecessary objects (jc/maint-fetch-alt).
+

 ---
 exec >/var/tmp/1
 O=v1.7.4.1-352-gcdc3466
 ---
 exec >/var/tmp/1
 O=v1.7.4.1-352-gcdc3466

+O=v1.7.4.1-414-gaeb2aaa

 echo O=$(git describe 'master')
 git shortlog --no-merges ^maint ^$O master
 echo O=$(git describe 'master')
 git shortlog --no-merges ^maint ^$O master