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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.1.txt index 4088a166f5..671e3d2eb5 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.1.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.1.txt @@ -4,43 +4,6 @@ Git 1.7.12.1 Release Notes Fixes since v1.7.12 ------------------- - * "ciabot" script (in contrib/) has been updated with extensive - documentation. - - * The "--rebase" option to "git pull" can be abbreviated to "-r", - but we didn't document it. - - * It was generally understood that "--long-option"s to many of our - subcommands can be abbreviated to the unique prefix, but it was not - easy to find it described for new readers of the documentation set. - - * The synopsis said "checkout [-B branch]" to make it clear the - branch name is a parameter to the option, but the heading for the - option description was "-B::", not "-B branch::", making the - documentation misleading. - - * The "--topo-order", "--date-order" (and the lack of either means - the default order) options to "rev-list" and "log" family of - commands were poorly described in the documentation. - - * Older parts of the documentation described as if having a regular - file in .git/refs/ hierarchy were the only way to have branches and - tags, which is not true for quite some time. - - * A utility shell function test_seq has been added as a replacement - for the 'seq' utility found on some platforms. - - * Compatibility wrapper to learn the maximum number of file - descriptors we can open around sysconf(_SC_OPEN_MAX) and - getrlimit(RLIMIT_NO_FILE) has been introduced for portability. - - * We used curl_easy_strerror() without checking version of cURL, - breaking the build for versions before curl 7.12.0. - - * Code to work around MacOS X UTF-8 gotcha has been cleaned up. - - * Fallback 'getpass' implementation made unportable use of stdio API. - * "git apply -p0" did not parse pathnames on "diff --git" line correctly. This caused patches that had pathnames in no other places to be mistakenly rejected (most notably, binary patch that @@ -49,6 +12,11 @@ Fixes since v1.7.12 in a form that can be parsed unambiguously and did not suffer from this problem. + * "git cherry-pick A C B" used to replay changes in A and then B and + then C if these three commits had committer timestamps in that + order, which is not what the user who said "A C B" naturally + expects. + * "git commit --amend" let the user edit the log message and then died when the human-readable committer name was given insufficiently by getpwent(3). @@ -57,7 +25,11 @@ Fixes since v1.7.12 did not advertise that they are available. fetch-pack has been fixed not to do so. - * "git for-each-ref" did not currectly support more than one --sort + * "git diff" had a confusion between taking data from a path in the + working tree and taking data from an object that happens to have + name 0{40} recorded in a tree. + + * "git for-each-ref" did not correctly support more than one --sort option. * "git log .." errored out saying it is both rev range and a path @@ -65,6 +37,10 @@ Fixes since v1.7.12 Update the command line parser to interpret ".." as a path in such a case. + * The "--topo-order", "--date-order" (and the lack of either means + the default order) options to "rev-list" and "log" family of + commands were poorly described in the documentation. + * "git prune" without "-v" used to warn about leftover temporary files (which is an indication of an earlier aborted operation). @@ -76,26 +52,72 @@ Fixes since v1.7.12 * The reflog entries left by "git rebase" and "git rebase -i" were inconsistent (the interactive one gave an abbreviated object name). - * When the user exports a non-default IFS without HT, scripts that - rely on being able to parse "ls-files -s | while read a b c..." - started to fail. Protect them from such a misconfiguration. - * When "git push" triggered the automatic gc on the receiving end, a message from "git prune" that said it was removing cruft leaked to the standard output, breaking the communication protocol. - * "git diff" had a confusion between taking data from a path in the - working tree and taking data from an object that happens to have - name 0{40} recorded in a tree. + * "git show --quiet" ought to be a synonym for "git show -s", but + wasn't. + + * "git show --format='%ci'" did not give timestamp correctly for + commits created without human readable name on "committer" line. * "git send-email" did not unquote encoded words that appear on the header correctly, and lost "_" from strings. + * The interactive prompt "git send-email" gives was error prone. It + asked "What e-mail address do you want to use?" with the address it + guessed (correctly) the user would want to use in its prompt, + tempting the user to say "y". But the response was taken as "No, + please use 'y' as the e-mail address instead", which is most + certainly not what the user meant. + + * "gitweb" when used with PATH_INFO failed to notice directories with + SP (and other characters that need URL-style quoting) in them. + * When the user gives an argument that can be taken as both a revision name and a pathname without disambiguating with "--", we used to give a help message "Use '--' to separate". The message has been clarified to show where that '--' goes on the command line. - * "gitweb" when used with PATH_INFO failed to notice directories with - SP (and other characters that need URL-style quoting) in them. + * When the user exports a non-default IFS without HT, scripts that + rely on being able to parse "ls-files -s | while read a b c..." + started to fail. Protect them from such a misconfiguration. + + * After "gitk" showed the contents of a tag, neither "Reread + references" nor "Reload" did not update what is shown as the + contents of it, when the user overwrote the tag with "git tag -f". + + * "ciabot" script (in contrib/) has been updated with extensive + documentation. + + * Older parts of the documentation described as if having a regular + file in .git/refs/ hierarchy were the only way to have branches and + tags, which is not true for quite some time. + + * A utility shell function test_seq has been added as a replacement + for the 'seq' utility found on some platforms. + + * Compatibility wrapper to learn the maximum number of file + descriptors we can open around sysconf(_SC_OPEN_MAX) and + getrlimit(RLIMIT_NO_FILE) has been introduced for portability. + + * We used curl_easy_strerror() without checking version of cURL, + breaking the build for versions before curl 7.12.0. + + * Code to work around MacOS X UTF-8 gotcha has been cleaned up. + + * Fallback 'getpass' implementation made unportable use of stdio API. + + * The "--rebase" option to "git pull" can be abbreviated to "-r", + but we didn't document it. + + * It was generally understood that "--long-option"s to many of our + subcommands can be abbreviated to the unique prefix, but it was not + easy to find it described for new readers of the documentation set. + + * The synopsis said "checkout [-B branch]" to make it clear the + branch name is a parameter to the option, but the heading for the + option description was "-B::", not "-B branch::", making the + documentation misleading. |