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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..117f4b1904 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.txt @@ -0,0 +1,55 @@ +Git v1.7.12 Release Notes +========================= + +Updates since v1.7.11 +--------------------- + +UI, Workflows & Features + + * "git help" used to always default to "man" format even on platforms + where "man" viewer is not widely available. + + * "git clone --local $path" started its life as an experiment to + optionally use link/copy when cloning a repository on the disk, but + we didn't deprecate it after we made the option a no-op to always + use the optimization. The command learned "--no-local" option to + turn this off, as a more explicit alternative over use of file:// + URL. + + * git native protocol agents learned to show software version over + the wire, so that the server log can be examined to see the vintage + distribution of clients. + + +Foreign Interface + + +Performance and Internal Implementation (please report possible regressions) + + * Some tests showed false failures caused by a bug in ecryptofs. + + +Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups. + + +Fixes since v1.7.11 +------------------- + +Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.7.11 in the maintenance +releases are contained in this release (see release notes to them for +details). + +* Running "git bundle verify" on a bundle that records a complete + history said "it requires these 0 commits". + (merge 8c3710f jc/bundle-complete-notice later to maint). + +* "git ls-files --exclude=t -i" did not consider anything under t/ as + excluded, as it did not pay attention to exclusion of leading paths + while walking the index. Other two users of excluded() are also + updated. + (merge 0d316f0 jc/ls-files-i-dir later to maint). + +* "git request-pull $url dev" when the tip of "dev" branch was tagged + with "ext4-for-linus" used the contents from the tag in the output + but still asked the "dev" branch to be pulled, not the tag. + (merge 682853e jc/request-pull-match-tagname later to maint). @@ -1 +1 @@ -Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.txt
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