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@@ -6,6 +6,16 @@ Updates since v1.7.11
UI, Workflows & Features
+ * Per-user $HOME/.gitconfig file can optionally be stored in
+ $HOME/.config/git/config instead, which is in line with XDG.
+
+ * The value of core.attributesfile and core.excludesfile default to
+ $HOME/.config/attributes and $HOME/.config/ignore respectively when
+ these files exist.
+
+ * Scripted Porcelain writers now have access to the credential API via
+ the "git credential" plumbing command.
+
* "git help" used to always default to "man" format even on platforms
where "man" viewer is not widely available.
@@ -16,18 +26,55 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
turn this off, as a more explicit alternative over use of file://
URL.
+ * "git fetch" and friends used to say "remote side hung up
+ unexpectedly" when they failed to get response they expect from the
+ other side, but one common reason why they don't get expected
+ response is that the remote repository does not exist or cannot be
+ read. The error message in this case was updated to give better
+ hints to the user.
+
* git native protocol agents learned to show software version over
the wire, so that the server log can be examined to see the vintage
distribution of clients.
+ * "git help -w $cmd" can show HTML version of documentation for
+ "git-$cmd" by setting help.htmlpath to somewhere other than the
+ default location where the build procedure installs them locally;
+ the variable can even point at a http:// URL.
+
+ * "git rebase -i" learned "-x <cmd>" to insert "exec <cmd>" after
+ each commit in the resulting history.
+
+ * "git status" gives finer classification to various states of paths
+ in conflicted state and offer advice messages in its output.
+
+ * "git submodule" learned to deal with nested submodule structure
+ where a module is contained within a module whose origin is
+ specified as a relative URL to its superproject's origin.
+
+ * A rather heavy-ish "git completion" script has been split to create
+ a separate "git prompting" script, to help lazy-autoloading of the
+ completion part while making prompting part always available.
+
Foreign Interface
-Performance and Internal Implementation (please report possible regressions)
+Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. (please report possible regressions)
* Some tests showed false failures caused by a bug in ecryptofs.
+ * We no longer use AsciiDoc7 syntax in our documentation and favor a
+ more modern style.
+
+ * "git index-pack" and "git pack-objects" use streaming API to read
+ from the object store to avoid having to hold a large blob object
+ in-core while they are doing their thing.
+
+ * Code to match paths with exclude patterns learned to avoid calling
+ fnmatch() by comparing fixed leading substring literally when
+ possible.
+
Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.
@@ -39,17 +86,20 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.7.11 in the maintenance
releases are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
details).
-* Running "git bundle verify" on a bundle that records a complete
- history said "it requires these 0 commits".
- (merge 8c3710f jc/bundle-complete-notice later to maint).
+ * We did not have test to make sure "git rebase" without extra options
+ filters out an empty commit in the original history.
+ (merge 2b5ba7b mz/empty-rebase-test later to maint).
+
+ * "git fast-export" produced an input stream for fast-import without
+ properly quoting pathnames when they contain SPs in them.
+ (merge ff59f6d js/fast-export-paths-with-spaces later to maint).
-* "git ls-files --exclude=t -i" did not consider anything under t/ as
- excluded, as it did not pay attention to exclusion of leading paths
- while walking the index. Other two users of excluded() are also
- updated.
- (merge 0d316f0 jc/ls-files-i-dir later to maint).
+ * "git checkout --detach", when you are still on an unborn branch,
+ should be forbidden, but it wasn't.
+ (merge 8ced1aa cw/no-detaching-an-unborn later to maint).
-* "git request-pull $url dev" when the tip of "dev" branch was tagged
- with "ext4-for-linus" used the contents from the tag in the output
- but still asked the "dev" branch to be pulled, not the tag.
- (merge 682853e jc/request-pull-match-tagname later to maint).
+ * Some implementations of Perl terminates "lines" with CRLF even when
+ the script is operating on just a sequence of bytes. Make sure to
+ use "$PERL_PATH", the version of Perl the user told Git to use, in
+ our tests to avoid unnecessary breakages in tests.
+ (merge ad78585 vr/use-our-perl-in-tests later to maint).