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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..7694203cad --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.txt @@ -0,0 +1,115 @@ +Git v1.7.11 Release Notes +========================= + +Updates since v1.7.10 +--------------------- + +UI, Workflows & Features + + * A third-party tool "git subtree" is distributed in contrib/ + + * Even with "-q"uiet option, "checkout" used to report setting up + tracking. Also "branch" learned the "-q"uiet option to squelch + informational message. + + * 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. + + * "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 + needed such treatment are now reported to the end user, so that the + result in them can be eyeballed with extra care. + + * The "fmt-merge-msg" command learns to list the primary contributors + involved in the side topic you are merging. + + * The cases "git push" fails due to non-ff can be broken into three + categories; each case is given a separate advise message. + + * A 'snapshot' request to "gitweb" honors If-Modified-Since: header, + based on the commit date. + +Foreign Interface + + +Performance + + +Internal Implementation (please report possible regressions) + + * 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. + + * 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). + +Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups. + + +Fixes since v1.7.10 +------------------- + +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 PATH contains an unreadable directory, alias expansion code + did not kick in, and failed with an error that said "git-subcmd" + was not found. + (merge 38f865c jk/run-command-eacces later to maint). + + * The 'push to upstream' implementation was broken in some corner + cases. "git push $there" without refspec, when the current branch + is set to push to a remote different from $there, used to push to + $there using the upstream information to a remote unreleated to + $there. + (merge 135dade jc/push-upstream-sanity later to maint). + + * "git clean -d -f" (not "-d -f -f") is supposed to protect nested + working trees of independent git repositories that exist in the + current project working tree from getting removed, but the + protection applied only to such working trees that are at the + top-level of the current project by mistake. + (merge ae2f203 jc/maint-clean-nested-worktree-in-subdir later to maint). + + * Rename detection logic used to match two empty files as renames + during merge-recursive, leading unnatural mismerges. + (merge 4f7cb99 jk/diff-no-rename-empty later to maint). + + * An age-old corner case bug in combine diff (only triggered with -U0 + and the hunk at the beginning of the file needs to be shown) has + been fixed. + (merge e5e9b56 rs/combine-diff-zero-context-at-the-beginning later to maint). + + * When "git commit --template F" errors out because the user did not + touch the message, it claimed that it aborts due to "empty + message", which was utterly wrong. + (merge 1f08c2c jc/commit-unedited-template later to maint). + + * "git add -p" is not designed to deal with unmerged paths but did + not exclude them and tried to apply funny patches only to fail. + (merge 4066bd6 jk/add-p-skip-conflicts later to maint). + + * "git commit --author=$name" did not tell the name that was being + recorded in the resulting commit to hooks, even though it does do + so when the end user overrode the authorship via the + "GIT_AUTHOR_NAME" environment variable. + (merge 7dfe8ad jc/commit-hook-authorship later to maint). + + * The regexp configured with diff.wordregex was incorrectly reused + across files. + (merge 6440d34 tr/maint-word-diff-regex-sticky later to maint). + + * Running "notes merge --commit" failed to perform correctly when run + from any directory inside $GIT_DIR/. When "notes merge" stops with + conflicts, $GIT_DIR/NOTES_MERGE_WORKTREE is the place a user edits + to resolve it. + (merge dabba59 jh/notes-merge-in-git-dir-worktree later to maint). |