Update 1.7.6 draft release notes

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

diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.6.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.6.txt
index 3d5ff4d9b2fc775b1d9bc3c52fe97a9cf9fd08cc..7e1c7f177327a253d5adb1a9aae31da9caf62b20 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.6.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.6.txt
@@ -6,7 +6,8 @@ Updates since v1.7.5
 
  * Various git-svn updates.
 
 
  * Various git-svn updates.
 

- * Updates the way content tags are handled in gitweb.
+ * Updates the way content tags are handled in gitweb.  Also adds
+   a UI to choose common timezone for displaying the dates.

 
  * Similar to branch names, tagnames that begin with "-" are now
    disallowed.
 
  * Similar to branch names, tagnames that begin with "-" are now
    disallowed.


@@ -16,6 +17,15 @@ Updates since v1.7.5
 
  * The scripting part of the codebase is getting prepared for i18n/l10n.
 
 
  * The scripting part of the codebase is getting prepared for i18n/l10n.
 

+ * Pushing and pulling from a repository with large number of refs that
+   point to identical commits are optimized by not listing the same commit
+   during the common ancestor negotiation exchange with the other side.
+
+ * Adding a file larger than core.bigfilethreshold (defaults to 1/2 Gig)
+   using "git add" will send the contents straight to a packfile without
+   having to hold it and its compressed representation both at the same
+   time in memory.
+

  * Processes spawned by "[alias] <name> = !process" in the configuration
    can inspect GIT_PREFIX environment variable to learn where in the
    working tree the original command was invoked.
  * Processes spawned by "[alias] <name> = !process" in the configuration
    can inspect GIT_PREFIX environment variable to learn where in the
    working tree the original command was invoked.


@@ -66,6 +76,9 @@ Updates since v1.7.5
    "--show-notes" option.  Unlike "--show-notes", "--notes=<ref>" does
    not imply showing the default notes.
 
    "--show-notes" option.  Unlike "--show-notes", "--notes=<ref>" does
    not imply showing the default notes.
 

+ * They also learned a log.abbrevCommit configuration variable to augment
+   the --abbrev-commit command line option.
+

  * "git ls-remote" learned "--exit-code" option to consider it a
    different kind of error when no remote ref to be shown.
 
  * "git ls-remote" learned "--exit-code" option to consider it a
    different kind of error when no remote ref to be shown.
 


@@ -93,10 +106,6 @@ Updates since v1.7.5
    still in a conflicted state during a merge, to avoid using information
    that is not final and possibly corrupt with conflict markers.
 
    still in a conflicted state during a merge, to avoid using information
    that is not final and possibly corrupt with conflict markers.
 

- * Compressed tarball gitweb generates is made without the timestamp of
-   the tarball generation; snapshot from the same tree should result in
-   a same tarball.
-

 Also contains various documentation updates and minor miscellaneous
 changes.
 
 Also contains various documentation updates and minor miscellaneous
 changes.
 


@@ -107,45 +116,16 @@ Fixes since v1.7.5
 Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes in 1.7.5.X maintenance track are
 included in this release.
 
 Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes in 1.7.5.X maintenance track are
 included in this release.
 

- * Setting $(prefix) in config.mak did not affect where etc/gitconfig
-   file is read from, even though passing it from the command line of
-   $(MAKE) did.
-   (merge kk/maint-prefix-in-config-mak later)
-
- * The bash completion scripts should correctly work using zsh's bash
-   completion emulation layer now.
-   (merge fc/completion-zsh later)
-
- * The logic to handle "&" (expand to UNIX username) in GECOS field
-   miscounted the length of the name it formatted.
-   (merge rg/copy-gecos-username later)
-

  * The single-key mode of "git add -p" was easily fooled into thinking
    that it was told to add everthing ('a') when up-arrow was pressed by
    mistake.
    (merge tr/add-i-no-escape later)
 
  * The single-key mode of "git add -p" was easily fooled into thinking
    that it was told to add everthing ('a') when up-arrow was pressed by
    mistake.
    (merge tr/add-i-no-escape later)
 

- * "git cherry-pick -s resolve" failed to cherry-pick a root commit.
-   (merge jk/cherry-pick-root-with-resolve later)
-

  * "git config" used to choke with an insanely long line.
    (merge ef/maint-strbuf-init later)
 
  * "git config" used to choke with an insanely long line.
    (merge ef/maint-strbuf-init later)
 

- * "git diff --word-diff" misbehaved when diff.suppress-blank-empty was
-   in effect.
-   (merge jm/maint-diff-words-with-sbe later)
-
- * "git log --stdin path" with an input that has additional pathspec
-   used to corrupt memory.
-   (merge jc/maint-pathspec-stdin-and-cmdline later)
-
- * "git send-pack" (hence "git push") over smalt-HTTP protocol could
-   deadlock when the client side pack-object died early.
-   (merge js/maint-send-pack-stateless-rpc-deadlock-fix later)
-   (merge jk/git-connection-deadlock-fix later)
-

 ---
 exec >/var/tmp/1
 echo O=$(git describe master)
 ---
 exec >/var/tmp/1
 echo O=$(git describe master)

-O=v1.7.5.2-352-g4961210
+O=v1.7.5.3-365-g7eacc2b

 git shortlog --no-merges ^maint ^$O master
 git shortlog --no-merges ^maint ^$O master