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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.txt index 3c247cc231..b4d90bba0f 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.txt @@ -1,17 +1,27 @@ -Git v1.7.8 Release Notes (draft) -================================ +Git v1.7.8 Release Notes +======================== Updates since v1.7.7 -------------------- + * Some git-svn, git-gui, git-p4 (in contrib) 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". + * 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. + * "git am" learned how to read from patches generated by Hg. + * "git archive" talking with a remote repository can report errors + from the remote side in a more informative way. + * "git branch" learned an explicit --list option to ask for branches listed, optionally with a glob matching pattern to limit its output. @@ -19,7 +29,21 @@ Updates since v1.7.7 files from the index, not from the working tree. * Variants of "git cherry-pick" and "git revert" that take multiple - commits learned to "--continue". + commits learned to "--continue" and "--abort". + + * "git daemon" gives more human readble error messages to clients + using ERR packets when appropriate. + + * Errors at the network layer is logged by "git daemon". + + * "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 difftool" can be told to skip launching the tool for a path by + answering 'n' to its prompt. * "git fetch" learned to honor transfer.fsckobjects configuration to validate the objects that were received from the other end, just like @@ -30,22 +54,76 @@ Updates since v1.7.7 "git receive-pack" (the receiving end of "git push") learned to do the same. + * "git fetch" learned that fetching/cloning from a regular file on the + filesystem is not necessarily a request to unpack a bundle file; the + file could be ".git" with "gitdir: <path>" in it. + * "git for-each-ref" learned "%(contents:subject)", "%(contents:body)" and "%(contents:signature)". The last one is useful for signed tags. + * "git grep" used to incorrectly pay attention to .gitignore files + scattered in the directory it was working in even when "--no-index" + option was used. It no longer does this. The "--exclude-standard" + option needs to be given to explicitly activate the ignore + mechanism. + + * "git grep" learned "--untracked" option, where given patterns are + searched in untracked (but not ignored) files as well as tracked + 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. + * "mediawiki" remote helper can interact with (surprise!) MediaWiki + with "git fetch" & "git push". + + * "git merge" learned the "--edit" option to allow users to edit the + merge commit log message. + + * "git rebase -i" can be told to use special purpose editor suitable + only for its insn sheet via sequence.editor configuration variable. + * "git send-email" learned to respond to "-h"(elp) requests. + * "git send-email" allows the value given to sendemail.aliasfile to begin + with "~/" to refer to the $HOME directory. + + * "git send-email" forces use of Authen::SASL::Perl to work around + issues between Authen::SASL::Cyrus and AUTH PLAIN/LOGIN. + * "git stash" learned "--include-untracked" option to stash away untracked/ignored cruft from the working tree. - * "mediawiki" remote helper can interact with (surprise!) MediaWiki - with "git fetch" & "git push". + * "git submodule clone" does not leak an error message to the UI + level unnecessarily anymore. + + * "git submodule update" learned to honor "none" as the value for + submodule.<name>.update to specify that the named submodule should + not be checked out by default. + + * When populating a new submodule directory with "git submodule init", + the $GIT_DIR metainformation directory for submodules is created inside + $GIT_DIR/modules/<name>/ directory of the superproject and referenced + via the gitfile mechanism. This is to make it possible to switch + between commits in the superproject that has and does not have the + submodule in the tree without re-cloning. * "gitweb" leaked unescaped control characters from syntax hiliter outputs. + * "gitweb" can be told to give custom string at the end of the HTML + HEAD element. + + * "gitweb" now has its own manual pages. + + +Also contains other documentation updates and minor code cleanups. + Fixes since v1.7.7 ------------------ @@ -53,55 +131,31 @@ Fixes since v1.7.7 Unless otherwise noted, all fixes in the 1.7.7.X maintenance track are included in this release. - * "git diff $tree $path" used to apply the pathspec at the output stage, - reading the whole tree, wasting resources. - (merge 2f88c1970 jc/diff-index-unpack 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). - * The code to check for updated submodules during a "git fetch" of the - superproject had an unnecessary quadratic loop. - (merge 6859de45 jk/maint-fetch-submodule-check-fix later to maint). + * "git blame" was aborted if started from an uncommitted content and + the path had the textconv filter in effect. + (merge 8518088 ss/blame-textconv-fake-working-tree later to maint). - * "git fetch" from a large bundle did not enable the progress output. - (merge be042aff jc/maint-bundle-too-quiet 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). - * When "git fsck --lost-and-found" found that an empty blob object in the - object store is unreachable, it incorrectly reported an error after - writing the lost blob out successfully. - (merge eb726f2d jc/maint-fsck-fwrite-size-check later to maint). - - * "git filter-branch" did not refresh the index before checking that the - working tree was clean. - (merge 5347a50f jk/filter-branch-require-clean-work-tree later to maint). - - * "git grep $tree" when run with multiple threads had an unsafe access to - the object database that should have been protected with mutex. - (merge 8cb5775b2 nm/grep-object-sha1-lock later to maint). - - * The "--ancestry-path" option to "git log" and friends misbehaved in a - history with complex criss-cross merges and showed an uninteresting - side history as well. - (merge c05b988a6 bk/ancestry-path later to maint). + * Report from "git commit" on untracked files was confused under + core.ignorecase option. + (merge 395c7356 jk/name-hash-dirent later to maint). * "git merge" did not understand ":/<pattern>" as a way to name a commit. - * Tests with --valgrind failed to find "mergetool" scriptlets. - (merge ee0d7bf92 tr/mergetool-valgrind later to maint). - - * "git patch-id" miscomputed the patch-id in a patch that has a line longer - than 1kB. - (merge b9ab810b ms/patch-id-with-overlong-line later to maint). - - * When an "exec" insn failed after modifying the index and/or the working - tree during "rebase -i", we now check and warn that the changes need to - be cleaned up. - (merge 1686519a mm/rebase-i-exec-edit later to maint). - ---- -it=master -exec >/var/tmp/1 -O=v1.7.7 -O=v1.7.7-137-g2e49dab -echo O=$(git describe --always $it) -git log --first-parent --oneline --reverse ^$O $it -echo -git shortlog --no-merges ^$O $it + " "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). + + * Help text for "git remote set-url" and "git remote set-branches" + were misspelled. + (merge c49904e fc/remote-seturl-usage-fix later to maint). + (merge 656cdf0 jc/remote-setbranches-usage-fix later to maint). |