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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.txt index d5a522d915..786a702420 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.txt @@ -19,8 +19,14 @@ UI, Workflows & Features $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. + $HOME/.config/git/attributes and $HOME/.config/git/ignore respectively + when these files exist. + + * Logic to disambiguate abbreviated object names have been taught to + take advantage of object types that are expected in the context, + e.g. XXXXXX in the "git describe" output v1.2.3-gXXXXXX must be a + commit object, not a blob nor a tree. This will help us prolong + the lifetime of abbreviated object names. * "git apply" learned to wiggle the base version and perform three-way merge when a patch does not exactly apply to the version you have. @@ -71,6 +77,10 @@ UI, Workflows & Features a separate "git prompting" script, to help lazy-autoloading of the completion part while making prompting part always available. + * "gitweb" pays attention to various forms of credits that are + similar to "Signed-off-by:" lines in the commit objects and + highlights them accordingly. + Foreign Interface @@ -103,6 +113,12 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. (please report possible regressions) fnmatch() by comparing fixed leading substring literally when possible. + * "git log -n 1 -- rarely-touched-path" was spending unnecessary + cycles after showing the first change to find the next one, only to + discard it. + + * "git svn" got a large-looking code reorganization at the last + minute before the code freeze. Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups. @@ -114,59 +130,33 @@ 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). - * The error message from "git push $there :bogo" (and its equivalent - "git push $there --delete bogo") mentioned that we tried and failed - to guess what ref is being deleted based on the LHS of the refspec, - which we don't. - (merge 5742c82 jk/push-delete-ref-error-message later to maint). - - * A handful of files and directories we create had tighter than - necessary permission bits when the user wanted to have group - writability (e.g. by setting "umask 002"). - (merge 6ff2b72 ar/clone-honor-umask-at-top later to maint). - - * "commit --amend" used to refuse amending a commit with an empty log - message, with or without "--allow-empty-message". - (merge d9a9357 cw/amend-commit-without-message later to maint). - - * "git commit --amend --only --" was meant to allow "Clever" people to - rewrite the commit message without making any change even when they - have already changes for the next commit added to their index, but - it never worked as advertised since it was introduced in 1.3.0 era. - (merge ea2d4ed jk/maint-commit-amend-only-no-paths later to maint). - - * Even though the index can record pathnames longer than 1<<12 bytes, - in some places we were not comparing them in full, potentially - replacing index entries instead of adding. - (merge d5f5333 tg/maint-cache-name-compare later to maint). - - * "git show"'s auto-walking behaviour was an unreliable and - unpredictable hack; it now behaves just like "git log" does when it - walks. - (merge c5941f1 tr/maint-show-walk later to maint). - - * "git diff", "git status" and anything that internally uses the - comparison machinery was utterly broken when the difference - involved a file with "-" as its name. This was due to the way "git - diff --no-index" was incorrectly bolted on to the system, making - any comparison that involves a file "-" at the root level - incorrectly read from the standard input. - (merge 4682d85 jc/refactor-diff-stdin 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 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). - - * 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). + * "git grep" stopped spawning an external "grep" long time ago, but a + duplicated test to check internal and external "grep" was left + behind. + (merge 4ca9453 rj/maint-grep-remove-redundant-test later to maint). + + * The code to avoid mistaken attempt to add the object directory + itself as its own alternate could read beyond end of a string while + comparison. + (merge cb2912c hv/link-alt-odb-entry later to maint). + + * "git checkout <branchname>" to come back from a detached HEAD state + incorrectly computed reachability of the detached HEAD, resulting + in unnecessary warnings. + (merge add416a jk/maint-checkout-orphan-check-fix later to maint). + + * The documentation for revision range specifiers (e.g. A..B, A^@) + has been updated. + (merge ca5ee2d mh/maint-revisions-doc later to maint). + + * "git submodule add" was confused when the superproject did not have + its repository in its usual place in the working tree and GIT_DIR + and GIT_WORK_TREE was used to access it. + + * "git mergetool" did not support --tool-help option to give the list + of supported backends, like "git difftool" does. + (merge 109859e jc/mergetool-tool-help later to maint). + + * "git commit --amend" let the user edit the log message and then died + when the human-readable committer name was given insufficiently by + getpwent(3). |