Update draft release notes to 1.6.3

diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.3.txt
index 2ab2328316a8b52613eacfe8e0b865ec69ee3154..ee1fddb76a76e33b9b4dc684063a32433ca5d7b0 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.3.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.3.txt
@@ -32,6 +32,44 @@ Updates since v1.6.2
 
 (usability, bells and whistles)
 
 
 (usability, bells and whistles)
 

+* "--pretty=<style>" option to the log family of commands can now be
+  spelled as "--format=<style>".  In addition, --format=%formatstring
+  is a short-hand for --pretty=tformat:%formatstring.
+
+* "--oneline" is a synonym for "--pretty=oneline --abbrev=commit".
+
+* If you realize that you botched the patch when you are editing hunks
+  with the 'edit' action in git-add -i/-p, you can abort the editor to
+  tell git not to apply it.
+
+* git-archive learned --output=<file> option.
+
+* git-bisect shows not just the number of remaining commits whose goodness
+  is unknown, but also shows the estimated number of remaining rounds.
+
+* git-branch -r shows HEAD symref that points at a remote branch in
+  interest of each tracked remote repository.
+
+* git-config learned -e option to open an editor to edit the config file
+  directly.
+
+* git-format-patch can be told to use attachment with a new configuration,
+  format.attach.
+
+* git-imap-send learned to work around Thunderbird's inability to easily
+  disable format=flowed with a new configuration, imap.preformattedHTML.
+
+* git-rebase can be told to rebase the series even if your branch is a
+  descendant of the commit you are rebasing onto with --force-rebase
+  option.
+
+* git-send-email learned --confirm option to review the Cc: list before
+  sending the messages out.
+
+(developers)
+
+* Test scripts can be run under valgrind.
+

 
 Fixes since v1.6.2
 ------------------
 
 Fixes since v1.6.2
 ------------------


@@ -42,3 +80,25 @@ release, unless otherwise noted.
 Here are fixes that this release has, but have not been backported to
 v1.6.2.X series.
 
 Here are fixes that this release has, but have not been backported to
 v1.6.2.X series.
 

+* .gitignore learned to handle backslash as a quoting mechanism for
+  comment introduction character "#" (backport by merging dd482ee if
+  needed).
+
+* 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" (backport by picking 10edf37 if needed).
+
+* git-add -i/-p now works with non-ASCII pathnames (backport by picking
+  8851f48 if needed).
+
+* "git hash-object -w" did not read from the configuration file from the
+  correct .git directory (backport by merging 272459a if needed).
+
+* git-send-email learned to correctly handle multiple Cc: addresses
+  (backport by merging afe756c if needed).
+
+---
+exec >/var/tmp/1
+O=v1.6.2-77-g8cc3fe4
+echo O=$(git describe master)
+git shortlog --no-merges $O..master ^maint