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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.txt index 117f4b1904..0c64700c36 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.txt @@ -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). |