Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.4.txt | 50 +++++++++++++++++++-------------------
1 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.4.txt
index 055c1ca..48dd964 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.4.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.4.txt
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ Updates since v1.7.3
themselves. The name of a branch cannot begin with a dash now.
* System-wide fallback default attributes can be stored in
- /etc/gitattributes; core.attributesfile configuration variable can
+ /etc/gitattributes; the core.attributesfile configuration variable can
be used to customize the path to this file.
* The thread structure generated by "git send-email" has changed
@@ -25,39 +25,39 @@ Updates since v1.7.3
cover letter of the previous series; this has been changed to make
the patches in the new series replies to the new cover letter.
- * Bash completion script in contrib/ has been adjusted to be usable with
- Bash 4 (options with '=value' didn't complete) It has been also made
+ * The Bash completion script in contrib/ has been adjusted to be usable with
+ Bash 4 (options with '=value' didn't complete). It has been also made
usable with zsh.
* Different pagers can be chosen depending on which subcommand is
- being run under the pager, using "pager.<subcommand>" variable.
+ being run under the pager, using the "pager.<subcommand>" variable.
- * The hardcoded tab-width of 8 used in whitespace breakage checks is now
+ * The hardcoded tab-width of 8 that is used in whitespace breakage checks is now
configurable via the attributes mechanism.
* Support of case insensitive filesystems (i.e. "core.ignorecase") has
been improved. For example, the gitignore mechanism didn't pay attention
- to the case insensitivity.
+ to case insensitivity.
- * The <tree>:<path> syntax to name a blob in a tree, and :<path>
- syntax to name a blob in the index (e.g. "master:Makefile",
+ * The <tree>:<path> syntax for naming a blob in a tree, and the :<path>
+ syntax for naming a blob in the index (e.g. "master:Makefile",
":hello.c") have been extended. You can start <path> with "./" to
implicitly have the (sub)directory you are in prefixed to the
lookup. Similarly, ":../Makefile" from a subdirectory would mean
"the Makefile of the parent directory in the index".
- * "git blame" learned --show-email option to display the e-mail
+ * "git blame" learned the --show-email option to display the e-mail
addresses instead of the names of authors.
- * "git commit" learned --fixup and --squash options to help later invocation
- of the interactive rebase.
+ * "git commit" learned the --fixup and --squash options to help later invocation
+ of interactive rebase.
* Command line options to "git cvsimport" whose names are in capital
letters (-A, -M, -R and -S) can now be specified as the default in
the .git/config file by their longer names (cvsimport.authorsFile,
cvsimport.mergeRegex, cvsimport.trackRevisions, cvsimport.ignorePaths).
- * "git daemon" can be built in MinGW environment.
+ * "git daemon" can be built in the MinGW environment.
* "git daemon" can take more than one --listen option to listen to
multiple addresses.
@@ -65,13 +65,13 @@ Updates since v1.7.3
* "git describe --exact-match" was optimized not to read commit
objects unnecessarily.
- * "git diff" and "git grep" learned how functions and subroutines
+ * "git diff" and "git grep" learned what functions and subroutines
in Fortran look like.
- * "git fetch" learned "--recurse-submodules" option.
+ * "git fetch" learned the "--recurse-submodules" option.
- * "git mergetool" tells vim/gvim to show three-way diff by default
- (use vimdiff2/gvimdiff2 as the tool name for old behaviour).
+ * "git mergetool" tells vim/gvim to show a three-way diff by default
+ (use vimdiff2/gvimdiff2 as the tool name for old behavior).
* "git log -G<pattern>" limits the output to commits whose change has
added or deleted lines that match the given pattern.
@@ -91,12 +91,12 @@ Updates since v1.7.3
directory in one branch while a new file is created in place of that
directory in the other branch.
- * "git rebase --autosquash" can use SHA-1 object names to name which
- commit to fix up (e.g. "fixup! e83c5163").
+ * "git rebase --autosquash" can use SHA-1 object names to name the
+ commit which is to be fixed up (e.g. "fixup! e83c5163").
- * The default "recursive" merge strategy learned --rename-threshold
+ * The default "recursive" merge strategy learned the --rename-threshold
option to influence the rename detection, similar to the -M option
- of "git diff". From "git merge" frontend, "-X<strategy option>"
+ of "git diff". From the "git merge" frontend, the "-X<strategy option>"
interface, e.g. "git merge -Xrename-threshold=50% ...", can be used
to trigger this.
@@ -104,21 +104,21 @@ Updates since v1.7.3
changes; the most notable is -Xignore-space-at-eol.
* "git send-email" learned "--to-cmd", similar to "--cc-cmd", to read
- recipient list from a command output.
+ the recipient list from a command output.
* "git send-email" learned to read and use "To:" from its input files.
* you can extend "git shell", which is often used on boxes that allow
- git-only login over ssh as login shell, with custom set of
+ git-only login over ssh as login shell, with a custom set of
commands.
* The current branch name in "git status" output can be colored differently
- from the generic header color by setting "color.status.branch" variable.
+ from the generic header color by setting the "color.status.branch" variable.
* "git submodule sync" updates metainformation for all submodules,
not just the ones that have been checked out.
- * gitweb can use custom 'highlight' command with its configuration file.
+ * gitweb can use a custom 'highlight' command with its configuration file.
* other gitweb updates.
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ Also contains various documentation updates.
Fixes since v1.7.3
------------------
-All of the fixes in v1.7.3.X maintenance series are included in this
+All of the fixes in the v1.7.3.X maintenance series are included in this
release, unless otherwise noted.
* "git log --author=me --author=her" did not find commits written by
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