From 4bf4fd2c3c24072f52bc1a8eda0f2c2b7af0c888 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 20:31:25 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Update release notes to upcoming 1.6.5.1 Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin --- share/WinGit/ReleaseNotes.rtf | 17 +++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/share/WinGit/ReleaseNotes.rtf b/share/WinGit/ReleaseNotes.rtf index ccc14b38..2a056661 100644 --- a/share/WinGit/ReleaseNotes.rtf +++ b/share/WinGit/ReleaseNotes.rtf @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ {\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\deff0{\fonttbl{\f0\fswiss\fprq2\fcharset0 Arial;}{\f1\fnil\fcharset0 Arial;}{\f2\fnil\fcharset2 Symbol;}} {\colortbl ;\red0\green0\blue0;} -{\*\generator Msftedit 5.41.15.1507;}\viewkind4\uc1\pard\cf1\lang1033\b\f0\fs32 Git Release Notes (Git-1.6.4-preview20090729)\b0\fs20\par -Last update: 29 July 2009\par +{\*\generator Msftedit 5.41.15.1515;}\viewkind4\uc1\pard\cf1\lang1033\b\f0\fs32 Git Release Notes (Git-1.6.5.1-preview20091018)\b0\fs20\par +Last update: 18 October 2009\par \par \b\fs24 Introduction\b0\fs20\par These release notes describe issues specific to the Windows release.\par @@ -21,6 +21,19 @@ General release notes covering the history of the core git commands are included {\pntext\f2\'B7\tab}There are a spurious write errors during rebase (Issue 200) that seem not to be reproducible on most computers.\par {\pntext\f2\'B7\tab}As merge tools are executed using the MSys bash, options starting with "/" need to be handled specially: MSys would interpret that as a POSIX path, so you need to double the slash (Issue 226). Example: instead of "/base", say "//base". Also, extra care has to be paid to pass Windows programs Windows paths, as they have no clue about MSys style POSIX paths -- You can use something like $(cmd //c echo "$POSIXPATH").\par \pard\b\fs24\par +Changes since Git-1.6.4-preview20090729\par +\par +\i\fs20 New Features\par +\pard{\pntext\f2\'B7\tab}{\*\pn\pnlvlblt\pnf2\pnindent0{\pntxtb\'B7}}\fi-288\li432\b0\i0 Comes with official git 1.6.5.1.\par +{\pntext\f2\'B7\tab}Thanks to Johan 't Hart, files and directories starting with a single dot (such as '.git') will now be marked hidden (you can disable this setting with core.hideDotFiles=false in your config).\par +{\pntext\f2\'B7\tab}Thanks to Thorvald Natvig, Git on Windows can simulate symbolic links by using reparse points when available. For technical reasons, this only works for symbolic links pointing to files, not directories.\par +{\pntext\f2\'B7\tab}A lot of work has been put into making it possible to compile Git's source code (the part written in C, of course, not the scripts) with Microsoft Visual Studio. This work is ongoing.\par +{\pntext\f2\'B7\tab}Thanks to Sebastian Schuberth, we only offer the (Tortoise)Plink option in the installer if the presence of Plink was detected \ul and\ulnone at least one Putty session was found..\par +{\pntext\f2\'B7\tab}Thanks to Sebastian Schuberth, the installer has a nicer icon now.\par +\pard\li144\par +\pard\b\i Bugfixes\b0\i0\par +\pard{\pntext\f2\'B7\tab}{\*\pn\pnlvlblt\pnf2\pnindent0{\pntxtb\'B7}}\fi-288\li432 Thanks to Sebastian Schuberth, \i git svn\i0 picks up the SSH setting specified with the installer (Issue 305).\par +\pard\b\fs24\par Changes since Git-1.6.3.2-preview20090608\par \par \i\fs20 New Features\par -- 2.11.4.GIT