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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.txt index 9e50db35ac..15b954ca4b 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.txt @@ -13,38 +13,49 @@ UI, Workflows & Features name over there. The plan is to make this mode the new default value when push.default is not configured. + * A couple of commands learned the "--column" option to produce + columnar output. + * A third-party tool "git subtree" is distributed in contrib/ + * A remote helper that acts as a proxy and caches ssl session for the + https:// transport is added to the contrib/ area. + * Error messages given when @{u} is used for a branch without its - upstream configured have been clatified. + upstream configured have been clarified. - * Even with "-q"uiet option, "checkout" used to report setting up + * Even with the "-q"uiet option, "checkout" used to report setting up tracking. Also "branch" learned the "-q"uiet option to squelch informational message. + * Your build platform may support hardlinks but you may prefer not to + use them, e.g. when installing to DESTDIR to make a tarball and + untarring on a filesystem that has poor support for hardlinks. + There is a Makefile option NO_INSTALL_HARDLINKS for you. + * The smart-http backend used to always override GIT_COMMITTER_* variables with REMOTE_USER and REMOTE_ADDR, but these variables are now preserved when set. - * "include.path" mechanism of the configuration files learned to - understand "~/path" and "~user/path". - * "git am" learned the "--include" option, which is an opposite of existing the "--exclude" option. - * When "git am -3" needs to fall back to an application to a - synthesized preimage followed by a 3-way merge, the paths that + * When "git am -3" needs to fall back to an application of the patch + to a synthesized preimage followed by a 3-way merge, the paths that needed such treatment are now reported to the end user, so that the result in them can be eyeballed with extra care. * The output from "diff/log --stat" used to always allocate 4 columns to show the number of modified lines, but not anymore. - * The "fmt-merge-msg" command learns to list the primary contributors - involved in the side topic you are merging. + * "git difftool" learned the "--dir-diff" option to spawn external + diff tools that can compare two directory hierarchies at a time + after populating two temporary directories, instead of running an + instance of the external tool once per a file pair. - * The cases "git push" fails due to non-ff can be broken into three - categories; each case is given a separate advise message. + * The "fmt-merge-msg" command learned to list the primary contributors + involved in the side topic you are merging in a comment in the merge + commit template. * "git rebase" learned to optionally keep commits that do not introduce any change in the original history. @@ -60,51 +71,54 @@ UI, Workflows & Features Foreign Interface - * "git svn" used to die with unwanted SIGPIPE when talking with HTTP + * "git svn" used to die with unwanted SIGPIPE when talking with an HTTP server that uses keep-alive. * "git svn" learned to use platform specific authentication providers, e.g. gnome-keyring, kwallet, etc. - * "git p4" has been moved out of contrib/ area and has seen more work - on importing labels as tags from (and exporting tags as labels to) - p4. + * "git p4" has been moved out of the contrib/ area and has seen more + work on importing labels as tags from (and exporting tags as labels + to) p4. Performance and Internal Implementation (please report possible regressions) + * Bash completion script (in contrib/) have been cleaned up to make + future work on it simpler. + * An experimental "version 4" format of the index file has been introduced to reduce on-disk footprint and I/O overhead. + * "git archive" learned to produce its output without reading the + blob object it writes out in memory in its entirety. + + * "git index-pack" that runs when fetching or pushing objects to + complete the packfile on the receiving end learned to use multiple + threads to do its job when available. + * The code to compute hash values for lines used by the internal diff engine was optimized on little-endian machines, using the same trick the kernel folks came up with. * "git apply" had some memory leaks plugged. - * "git repack" used to write out unreachable objects as loose objects - when repacking, even if such loose objects will immediately pruned - due to its age. - * Setting up a revision traversal with many starting points was inefficient as these were placed in a date-order priority queue one-by-one. Now they are collected in the queue unordered first, and sorted immediately before getting used. - * "git rev-parse --show-prefix" used to emit nothing when run at the - top-level of the working tree, but now it gives a blank line. - - * Minor memory leak during unpack_trees (hence "merge" and "checkout" - to check out another branch) has been plugged. - * More lower-level commands learned to use the streaming API to read from the object store without keeping everything in core. + * The weighting parameters to suggestion command name typo have been + tweaked, so that "git tags" will suggest "tag?" and not "stage?". + * Because "sh" on the user's PATH may be utterly broken on some 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. + * The API to iterate over the refs/ hierarchy has been tweaked to + allow walking only a subset of it more efficiently. Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups. @@ -116,61 +130,10 @@ 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). - * When using a Perl script on a system where "perl" found on user's - $PATH could be ancient or otherwise broken, we allow builders to - specify the path to a good copy of Perl with $PERL_PATH. The - gitweb test forgot to use that Perl when running its test. - (merge 0754e08 jk/maint-gitweb-test-use-sane-perl later to maint). - - * A contrib script "rerere-train" did not work out of the box unless - user futzed with her $PATH. - (merge 53876fc jc/rerere-train later to maint). - - * "log --graph" was not very friendly with "--stat" option and its - output had line breaks at wrong places. - (merge bafa16e lp/diffstat-with-graph later to maint). - - * "git config --rename-section" to rename an existing section into a - bogus one did not check the new name. - (merge 94a35b1 jk/maint-config-bogus-section later to maint). - - * The test scaffolding for git-daemon was flaky. - (merge 46e3581 js/daemon-test-race-fix later to maint). - - * The test scaffolding for fast-import was flaky. - (merge 7fb8e16 pw/t5800-import-race-fix later to maint). - - * Octopus merge strategy did not reduce heads that are recorded in the - final commit correctly. - (merge 5802f81 jc/merge-reduce-parents-early later to maint). - - * In the older days, the header "Conflicts:" in "cherry-pick" and - "merge" was separated by a blank line from the list of paths that - follow for readability, but when "merge" was rewritten in C, we lost - it by mistake. Remove the newline from "cherry-pick" to make them - match again. - (merge 5112068 rt/cherry-revert-conflict-summary later to maint). - - * The filesystem boundary was not correctly reported when .git - directory discovery stopped at a mount point. - (merge 2565b43 cb/maint-report-mount-point-correctly-in-setup later to maint). - - * The command line parser choked "git cherry-pick $name" when $name - can be both revision name and a pathname, even though $name can - never be a path in the context of the command. - (merge 6d5b93f cb/cherry-pick-rev-path-confusion later to maint). - - * HTTP transport that requires authentication did not work correctly - when multiple connections are used simultaneously. - (merge 6f4c347 cb/http-multi-curl-auth later to maint). - - * The i18n of error message "git stash save" was not properly done. - (merge ed3c400 rl/maint-stash-i18n-save-error later to maint). - - * The report from "git fetch" said "new branch" even for a non branch - ref. - (merge 0997ada mb/fetch-call-a-non-branch-a-ref later to maint). + * "git submodule init" used to report "registered for path ..." + even for submodules that were registered earlier. + (cherry-pick c1c259e jl/submodule-report-new-path-once later to maint). - * The "diff --no-index" codepath used limited-length buffers, risking - pathnames getting truncated. Update it to use the strbuf API. - (merge 875b91b jm/maint-strncpy-diff-no-index later to maint). + * "git diff --stat" used to fully count a binary file with modified + execution bits whose contents is unmodified, which was not quite + right. |