From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 00:21:16 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: Update Release Notes to 1.7.5
X-Git-Tag: v1.7.5-rc0~87
X-Git-Url: https://git.lorimer.id.au/gitweb.git/diff_plain/83c3c6222a2331042c973a991572eafa37f25d1d

Update 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 56c3863f04..64372df755 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.5.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.5.txt
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ Updates since v1.7.4
 
  * Various git-p4 enhancements (in contrib).
 
+ * Various vcs-svn enhancements.
+
  * "git config" used to be also known as "git repo-config", but the old
    name is now officially deprecated.
 
@@ -17,7 +19,14 @@ Updates since v1.7.4
  * "git cherry-pick" and "git revert" can be told to use custom merge
    strategy, similar to "git rebase".
 
- * "rev-list --objects $revs -- $pathspec" would limit the objects listed
+ * "git cherry-pick" remembers which commit failed to apply when it is
+   stopped by conflicts, making it unnecessary to use "commit -c $commit"
+   to conclude it.
+
+ * "git grep --no-index" did not honor pathspecs correctly, returning
+   paths outside the specified area.
+
+ * "git rev-list --objects $revs -- $pathspec" would limit the objects listed
    in its output properly with the pathspec, in preparation for narrow
    clones.
 
@@ -43,14 +52,29 @@ Fixes since v1.7.4
 All of the fixes in the v1.7.4.X maintenance series are included in this
 release, unless otherwise noted.
 
+ * "git clone /no/such/path" did not fail correctly (jk/fail-null/clone).
+
+ * "git checkout $other_branch" silently removed untracked symbolic links
+   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 diff --stat -B" ran on binary files counted the changes in lines,
+   which was nonsensical (jk/diffstat-binary).
+
+ * "git diff -M" opportunisticly detected copies, which was not
+   necessarily a good thing, especially when it is internally run by
+   recursive merge.
+
  * "git merge" triggers prepare-commit-msg hook.  Earlier, only "git
    commit" to conclude an interrupted merge triggered the hook, leading to
    an inconsistent overall user experience (js/maint-merge-use-prepare-commit-msg-hook).
 
+ * "git submodule update" used to honor --merge/--rebase option (or
+   corresponding configuration variables) even for a newly cloned
+   subprojects, which made no sense (so/submodule-no-update-first-time).
 
 ---
 exec >/var/tmp/1
-O=v1.7.4
-O=v1.7.4.1-140-g8978166
+O=v1.7.4.1-224-g66ecd2d
 echo O=$(git describe 'master')
 git shortlog --no-merges ^maint ^$O master