Re: [RFH] An early draft of v1.5.0 release notes
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Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
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- Dec 27, 2006, 10:12 UTC
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Junio C Hamano wrote:
> This is still rough, but I think we have a pretty good idea what > will and what won't be in v1.5.0 by now, and end-of-year is a > good slow time to summarize what we have done.
Very nice idea! Perhaps those release notes can find it's way into either v1.5.0 commit, or v1.5.0 tag comment?
Just a few comments:
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> - git-add without any argument does not add everything > anymore. Say "git add ." if you want to. > > - git-add tries to be more friendly to users by offering an > interactive mode.
Perhaps information that git-add can be used to add ignored files with -f option should be added? Or is it not important enough?
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> - The commits referred to by reflog entries are now protected > against pruning. The new command "git reflog expire" can be > used to truncate older reflog entries and entries that refer > to commits that have been pruned away previously. > > Existing repositories that have been using reflog may get > complaints from fsck-objects; please run "git reflog expire > --all" first to remove reflog entries that refer to commits > that are no longer in the repository before attempting to > repack it.
That's a bit bad, as it forces to lose some info... but that info was not that useful anyway.
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> - A commit object recorded in non UTF-8 encoding records the > encoding i18n.commitencoding specified in the originating > repository in a new "encoding" header. This information is > used by git-log and friends to reencode the message to UTF-8 > when displaying.
I don't quite like it. Why if someone uses different encoding that utf-8 because his terminal is not set to utf-8? Having suddenly what looks like garbage on output, while input was in local encoding (and specified in i18n.commitencoding) is a bit suprising...
> ---------------------------------------------------------------- > (shortlog since v1.4.4.3 here)
I'd rather have description a la "what's cooking" here...
-- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git