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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.1.txt index f48d816c7b..daed367270 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.1.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.1.txt @@ -90,7 +90,11 @@ Updates since v1.5.0 which does what the name suggests. -* Updated behaviour of existing commands. +* Updated behavior of existing commands. + + - "git-merge-recursive" used to barf when there are more than + one common ancestors for the merge, and merging them had a + rename/rename conflict. This has been fixed. - "git fsck" does not barf on corrupt loose objects. @@ -113,10 +117,10 @@ Updates since v1.5.0 allow users to explicitly override this heuristic based on paths. - - The behaviour of 'git-apply', when run in a subdirectory, + - The behavior of 'git-apply', when run in a subdirectory, without --index nor --cached were inconsistent with that of the command with these options. This was fixed to match the - behaviour with --index. A patch that is meant to be applied + behavior with --index. A patch that is meant to be applied with -p1 from the toplevel of the project tree can be applied with any custom -p<n> option. A patch that is not relative to the toplevel needs to be applied with -p<n> @@ -158,15 +162,17 @@ Updates since v1.5.0 the heaviest parts in C. - "git mailinfo" which splits an e-mail into a patch and the - metainformation was rewritten, thanks to Don Zickus. It - handles nested multipart better. + meta-information was rewritten, thanks to Don Zickus. It + handles nested multipart better. The command was broken for + a brief period on 'master' branch since 1.5.0 but the + breakage is fixed now. - send-email learned configurable bcc and chain-reply-to. - "git remote show $remote" also talks about branches that would be pushed if you run "git push remote". - - Using objects from packs is now seriouly optimized by clever + - Using objects from packs is now seriously optimized by clever use of a cache. This should be most noticeable in git-log family of commands that involve reading many tree objects. In addition, traversing revisions while filtering changes @@ -178,20 +184,188 @@ Updates since v1.5.0 - The part to send out notification e-mails was removed from the sample update hook, as it was not an appropriate place - to do so. + to do so. The proper place to do this is the new post-receive + hook. An example hook has been added to contrib/hooks/. * Others - git-revert, git-gc and git-cherry-pick are now built-ins. +Fixes since v1.5.0 +------------------ + +These are all in v1.5.0.x series. + +* Documentation updates + + - Clarifications and corrections to 1.5.0 release notes. + + - The main documentation did not link to git-remote documentation. + + - Clarified introductory text of git-rebase documentation. + + - Converted remaining mentions of update-index on Porcelain + documents to git-add/git-rm. + + - Some i18n.* configuration variables were incorrectly + described as core.*; fixed. + + - added and clarified core.bare, core.legacyheaders configurations. + + - updated "git-clone --depth" documentation. + + - user-manual updates. + + - Options to 'git remote add' were described insufficiently. + + - Configuration format.suffix was not documented. + + - Other formatting and spelling fixes. + + - user-manual has better cross references. + + - gitweb installation/deployment procedure is now documented. + + +* Bugfixes + + - git-upload-pack closes unused pipe ends; earlier this caused + many zombies to hang around. + + - git-rerere was recording the contents of earlier hunks + duplicated in later hunks. This prevented resolving the same + conflict when performing the same merge the other way around. + + - git-add and git-update-index on a filesystem on which + executable bits are unreliable incorrectly reused st_mode + bits even when the path changed between symlink and regular + file. + + - git-daemon marks the listening sockets with FD_CLOEXEC so + that it won't be leaked into the children. + + - segfault from git-blame when the mandatory pathname + parameter was missing was fixed; usage() message is given + instead. + + - git-rev-list did not read $GIT_DIR/config file, which means + that did not honor i18n.logoutputencoding correctly. + + - Automated merge conflict handling when changes to symbolic + links conflicted were completely broken. The merge-resolve + strategy created a regular file with conflict markers in it + in place of the symbolic link. The default strategy, + merge-recursive was even more broken. It removed the path + that was pointed at by the symbolic link. Both of these + problems have been fixed. + + - 'git diff maint master next' did not correctly give combined + diff across three trees. + + - 'git fast-import' portability fix for Solaris. + + - 'git show-ref --verify' without arguments did not error out + but segfaulted. + + - 'git diff :tracked-file `pwd`/an-untracked-file' gave an extra + slashes after a/ and b/. + + - 'git format-patch' produced too long filenames if the commit + message had too long line at the beginning. + + - Running 'make all' and then without changing anything + running 'make install' still rebuilt some files. This + was inconvenient when building as yourself and then + installing as root (especially problematic when the source + directory is on NFS and root is mapped to nobody). + + - 'git-rerere' failed to deal with two unconflicted paths that + sorted next to each other. + + - 'git-rerere' attempted to open(2) a symlink and failed if + there was a conflict. Since a conflicting change to a + symlink would not benefit from rerere anyway, the command + now ignores conflicting changes to symlinks. + + - 'git-repack' did not like to pass more than 64 arguments + internally to underlying 'rev-list' logic, which made it + impossible to repack after accumulating many (small) packs + in the repository. + + - 'git-diff' to review the combined diff during a conflicted + merge were not reading the working tree version correctly + when changes to a symbolic link conflicted. It should have + read the data using readlink(2) but read from the regular + file the symbolic link pointed at. + + - 'git-remote' did not like period in a remote's name. + + - 'git.el' honors the commit coding system from the configuration. + + - 'blameview' in contrib/ correctly digs deeper when a line is + clicked. + + - 'http-push' correctly makes sure the remote side has leading + path. Earlier it started in the middle of the path, and + incorrectly. + + - 'git-merge' did not exit with non-zero status when the + working tree was dirty and cannot fast forward. It does + now. + + - 'cvsexportcommit' does not lose yet-to-be-used message file. + + - int-vs-size_t typefix when running combined diff on files + over 2GB long. + + - 'git apply --whitespace=strip' should not touch unmodified + lines. + + - 'git-mailinfo' choke when a logical header line was too long. + + - 'git show A..B' did not error out. Negative ref ("not A" in + this example) does not make sense for the purpose of the + command, so now it errors out. + + - 'git fmt-merge-msg --file' without file parameter did not + correctly error out. + + - 'git archimport' barfed upon encountering a commit without + summary. + + - 'git index-pack' did not protect itself from getting a short + read out of pread(2). + + - 'git http-push' had a few buffer overruns. + + - Build dependency fixes to rebuild fetch.o when other headers + change. + + - git.el does not add duplicate sign-off lines. + + - git-commit shows the full stat of the resulting commit, not + just about the files in the current directory, when run from + a subdirectory. + + - "git-checkout -m '@{8 hours ago}'" had a funny failure from + eval; fixed. + + - git-merge (hence git-pull) did not refuse fast-forwarding + when the working tree had local changes that would have + conflicted with it. + + - a handful small fixes to gitweb. + + - build procedure for user-manual is fixed not to require locally + installed stylesheets. + + - "git commit $paths" on paths whose earlier contents were + already updated in the index were failing out. + --- -exec >/var/tmp/1 -O=v1.5.1-rc3-18-ge881192 -echo O=`git describe master` -git shortlog --no-merges $O..master ^maint +* Tweaks -# Local Variables: -# mode: text -# End: + - sliding mmap() inefficiently mmaped the same region of a + packfile with an access pattern that used objects in the + reverse order. This has been made more efficient. |