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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.txt index 5500db2b71..886dfbfaa5 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.txt @@ -4,16 +4,16 @@ Git v1.7.8 Release Notes (draft) Updates since v1.7.7 -------------------- + * Some git-svn, git-gui and msysgit updates. + + * Updates to bash completion scripts. + * The build procedure has been taught to take advantage of computed dependency automatically when the complier supports it. * The date parser now accepts timezone designators that lack minutes part and also has a colon between "hh:mm". - * On some BSD systems, adding +s bit on directories is detrimental - (it is not necessary on BSD to begin with). The installation - procedure has been updated to take this into account. - * The contents of the /etc/mailname file, if exists, is used as the default value of the hostname part of the committer/author e-mail. @@ -36,6 +36,9 @@ Updates since v1.7.7 * "git diff" learned "--minimal" option to spend extra cycles to come up with a minimal patch output. + * "git diff" learned "--function-context" option to show the whole + function as context that was affected by a change. + * "git fetch" learned to honor transfer.fsckobjects configuration to validate the objects that were received from the other end, just like "git receive-pack" (the receiving end of "git push") does. @@ -59,8 +62,16 @@ Updates since v1.7.7 files in the working tree, so that matches in new but not yet added files do not get missed. + * The recursive merge backend no longer looks for meaningless + existing merges in submodules unless in the outermost merge. + + * "git log" and friends learned "--children" option. + * "git ls-remote" learned to respond to "-h"(elp) requests. + * "git merge" learned the "--edit" option to allow users to edit the + merge commit log message. + * "git send-email" learned to respond to "-h"(elp) requests. * "git send-email" allows the value given to sendemail.aliasfile to begin @@ -89,6 +100,8 @@ Updates since v1.7.7 * "gitweb" leaked unescaped control characters from syntax hiliter outputs. + * "gitweb" now has its own manual pages. + Also contains other documentation updates and minor code cleanups. @@ -108,23 +121,31 @@ included in this release. a corrupt packet. (merge 6cdf022 sp/smart-http-failure later to maint). + * HTTP transport did not use pushurl correctly, and also did not tell + what host it is trying to authenticate with when asking for + credentials. + (merge deba493 jk/http-auth later to maint). + * Adding many refs to the local repository in one go (e.g. "git fetch" that fetches many tags) and looking up a ref by name in a repository with too many refs were unnecessarily slow. (merge 17d68a54d jp/get-ref-dir-unsorted later to maint). - * After incorrectly written third-party tools store a tag object in - HEAD, git diagnosed it as a repository corruption and refused to - proceed in order to avoid spreading the damage. We now gracefully - recover from such a situation by pretending as if the commit that - is pointed at by the tag were in HEAD. - (merge baf18fc nd/maint-autofix-tag-in-head later to maint). + * Report from "git commit" on untracked files was confused under + core.ignorecase option. + (merge 2548183b jk/name-hash-dirent later to maint). + + * The attribute mechanism did not use case insensitive match when + core.ignorecase was set. + (merge 6eba621 bc/attr-ignore-case later to maint). - * "git apply --whitespace=error" did not bother to report the exact - line number in the patch that introduced new blank lines at the end - of the file. - (merge 8557263 jc/apply-blank-at-eof-fix later to maint). + * "git bisect" did not notice when it failed to update the working tree + to the next commit to be tested. + (merge 1acf11717 js/bisect-no-checkout later to maint). + * "git config --bool --get-regexp" failed to separate the variable name + and its value "true" when the variable is defined without "= true". + (merge 880e3cc mm/maint-config-explicit-bool-display later to maint). * "git remote rename $a $b" were not careful to match the remote name against $a (i.e. source side of the remote nickname). @@ -141,13 +162,26 @@ included in this release. the file that may not even have any conflict. (merge 6d9990a jm/mergetool-pathspec later to maint). + * "git pull" and "git rebase" did not work well even when GIT_WORK_TREE is + set correctly with GIT_DIR if the current directory is outside the working + tree. + (merge 035b5bf jk/pull-rebase-with-work-tree later to maint). + + " "git push" on the receiving end used to call post-receive and post-update + hooks for attempted removal of non-existing refs. + (merge 160b81ed ph/push-to-delete-nothing later to maint). + + * "git send-email" did not honor the configured hostname when restarting + the HELO/EHLO exchange after switching TLS on. + (merge 155b940 md/smtp-tls-hello-again later to maint). + * "gitweb" used to produce a non-working link while showing the contents of a blob, when JavaScript actions are enabled. (merge 2b07ff3ff ps/gitweb-js-with-lineno later to maint). --- exec >/var/tmp/1 -O=v1.7.7-289-gb73c683 +O=v1.7.7-418-g40d6987 echo O=$(git describe --always master) git log --first-parent --oneline --reverse ^$O master echo |