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authorLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2012-04-24 14:50:06 -0700
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2012-04-24 14:50:06 -0700
commitf9d995d5dd39c942c06829e45f195eeaa99936e1 (patch)
treed2976fbf8bacba39396d8084efb4767759217888 /Documentation
parentMerge branch 'fc/completion-tests' (diff)
downloadtgif-f9d995d5dd39c942c06829e45f195eeaa99936e1.tar.xz
The fifth batch of topics graduated to 'master'
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@@ -8,6 +8,9 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
* A third-party tool "git subtree" is distributed in contrib/
+ * Error messages given when @{u} is used for a branch without its
+ upstream configured have been clatified.
+
* Even with "-q"uiet option, "checkout" used to report setting up
tracking. Also "branch" learned the "-q"uiet option to squelch
informational message.
@@ -30,11 +33,20 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
* The cases "git push" fails due to non-ff can be broken into three
categories; each case is given a separate advise message.
+ * "git push --recurse-submodules" learned to optionally look into the
+ histories of submodules bound to the superproject and push them
+ out.
+
* A 'snapshot' request to "gitweb" honors If-Modified-Since: header,
based on the commit date.
+ * "gitweb" learned to highlight the patch it outputs even more.
+
Foreign Interface
+ * "git svn" used to die with unwanted SIGPIPE when talking with HTTP
+ server that uses keep-alive.
+
* "git p4" has been moved out of contrib/ area.
Performance
@@ -61,6 +73,9 @@ Internal Implementation (please report possible regressions)
systems, run-command API now uses SHELL_PATH, not /bin/sh, when
spawning an external command (not applicable to Windows port).
+ * The API to iterate over refs/ hierarchy has been tweaked to allow
+ walking only a subset of it more efficiently.
+
Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.
@@ -71,6 +86,17 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.7.10 in the maintenance
releases are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
details).
+ * The parser in "fast-import" did not diagnose ":9" style references
+ that is not followed by required SP/LF as an error.
+ (merge 06454cb pw/fast-import-dataref-parsing later to maint).
+
+ * When "git fetch" encounters repositories with too many references,
+ the command line of "fetch-pack" that is run by a helper
+ e.g. remote-curl, may fail to hold all of them. Now such an
+ internal invocation can feed the references through the standard
+ input of "fetch-pack".
+ (merge 7103d25 it/fetch-pack-many-refs later to maint).
+
* "git fetch" that recurses into submodules on demand did not check
if it needs to go into submodules when non branches (most notably,
tags) are fetched.