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Update draft release notes to 1.6.3
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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should happen upon such a push by setting the configuration variable
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In a future release, the default of "git push" without further
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arguments might be changed. Currently, it will push all matching
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refspecs to the current remote. A configuration variable push.default
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has been introduced to select the default behaviour. To ease the
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transition, a big warning is issued if this is not configured and a
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git push without arguments is attempted.
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When the user does not tell "git push" what to push, it has always
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pushed matching refs. For some people it is unexpected, and a new
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configuration variable push.default has been introduced to allow
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changing a different default behaviour. To advertise the new feature,
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a big warning is issued if this is not configured and a git push without
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arguments is attempted.
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Updates since v1.6.2
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repositories. It may not be useful in practice; meant primarily for
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* http transport learned to prompt and use password when fetching from or
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pushing to http://user@host.xz/ URL.
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* (msysgit) progress output that is sent over the sideband protocol can
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be handled appropriately in Windows console.
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* Test scripts can be run under valgrind.
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* Test scripts can be run with installed git.
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* Makefile learned 'coverage' option to run the test suites with
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coverage tracking enabled.
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Here are fixes that this release has, but have not been backported to
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v1.6.2.X series.
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* "git-blame -S" did not quite work near the commits that were given
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on the command line correctly (jc/maint-1.6.0-blame-s).
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* The initial checkout did not read the attributes from the .gitattribute
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file that is being checked out.
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* git-diff feeds files in work-tree representation to external diff and
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textconv (js/maint-diff-temp-smudge).
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* git-gc spent excessive amount of time to decide if an object appears
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in a locally existing pack (if needed, backport by merging 69e020a).
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exec >/var/tmp/1
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O=v1.6.2.1-213-g7d4e3a7
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O=v1.6.2.1-399-gaa72a14
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echo O=$(git describe master)
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git shortlog --no-merges $O..master ^maint

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