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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.txt index 7931f77076..15b954ca4b 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.txt @@ -18,10 +18,13 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * 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. @@ -37,8 +40,8 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * "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. @@ -50,8 +53,9 @@ UI, Workflows & Features after populating two temporary directories, instead of running an instance of the external tool once per a file pair. - * The "fmt-merge-msg" command learns to list the primary contributors - involved in the side topic you are merging. + * 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. @@ -67,15 +71,15 @@ 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) @@ -106,12 +110,15 @@ Performance and Internal Implementation (please report possible regressions) * 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. @@ -123,26 +130,9 @@ 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). - * The progress indicator for a large "git checkout" was sent to - stderr even if it is not a terminal. - (merge e9fc64c ap/checkout-no-progress-for-non-tty later to maint). - - * A name taken from mailmap was copied into an internal buffer - incorrectly and could overun the buffer if it is too long. - (merge c9b4e9e jk/format-person-part-buffer-limit later to maint). - - * A malformed commit object that has a header line chomped in the - middle could kill git with a NULL pointer dereference. - (merge a9c7a8a jk/pretty-commit-header-incomplete-line later to maint). - - * An author/committer name that is a single character was mishandled - as an invalid name by mistake. - (merge d9955fd jk/ident-split-fix later to maint). - - * "git grep -e '$pattern'", unlike the case where the patterns are - read from a file, did not treat individual lines in the given - pattern argument as separate regular expressions as it should. - (merge ec83061 rs/maint-grep-F 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). * "git diff --stat" used to fully count a binary file with modified execution bits whose contents is unmodified, which was not quite |