diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.txt | 82 |
1 files changed, 38 insertions, 44 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.txt index 8dfeddcd68..15b954ca4b 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.txt @@ -18,25 +18,30 @@ 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. + * 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. @@ -48,11 +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 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. @@ -68,51 +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. @@ -124,22 +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). + * "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 right. - - * "log -z --pretty=tformat:..." did not terminate each record with - NUL. The fix is not entirely correct when the output also asks for - --patch and/or --stat, though. - (merge fafd382 jk/maint-tformat-with-z later to maint). - - * "git push" over smart-http lost progress output a few releases ago. - (merge e304aeb jk/maint-push-progress 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). |