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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.txt index 0576c36f8a..b4d90bba0f 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.txt @@ -1,10 +1,10 @@ -Git v1.7.8 Release Notes (draft) -================================ +Git v1.7.8 Release Notes +======================== Updates since v1.7.7 -------------------- - * Some git-svn and git-gui updates. + * Some git-svn, git-gui, git-p4 (in contrib) and msysgit updates. * Updates to bash completion scripts. @@ -14,10 +14,6 @@ Updates since v1.7.7 * 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. @@ -33,13 +29,22 @@ 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 "git receive-pack" (the receiving end of "git push") does. @@ -49,6 +54,10 @@ 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. @@ -63,8 +72,22 @@ 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. + * "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 @@ -76,6 +99,9 @@ Updates since v1.7.7 * "git stash" learned "--include-untracked" option to stash away untracked/ignored cruft from the working tree. + * "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. @@ -87,12 +113,14 @@ Updates since v1.7.7 between commits in the superproject that has and does not have the submodule in the tree without re-cloning. - * "mediawiki" remote helper can interact with (surprise!) MediaWiki - with "git fetch" & "git push". - * "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. @@ -103,90 +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. - * We used to drop error messages from libcurl on certain kinds of - errors. - (merge be22d92eac8 jn/maint-http-error-message later to maint). - - * Error report from smart HTTP transport, when the connection was - broken in the middle of a transfer, showed a useless message on - 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). + * "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). + * 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 checkout $tree $directory/" resurrected paths locally removed or - modified only in the working tree in $directory/ that did not appear - in $directory of the given $tree. They should have been kept intact. - (merge 0a1283b jc/checkout-from-tree-keep-local-changes 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 $a (i.e. source side of the remote nickname). - (merge b52d00aed mz/remote-rename later to maint). - - * "git diff --[num]stat" used to use the number of lines of context - different from the default, potentially giving different results from - "git diff | diffstat" and confusing the users. - (merge f01cae918 jc/maint-diffstat-numstat-context later to maint). + (merge 395c7356 jk/name-hash-dirent later to maint). * "git merge" did not understand ":/<pattern>" as a way to name a commit. - * "git mergetool" learned to use its arguments as pathspec, not a path to - the file that may not even have any conflict. - (merge 6d9990a jm/mergetool-pathspec later to maint). - - * "git pull" and "git rebase" did not work well even when GIT_WORK_TREE is - set correctly with GIT_DIR if the current directory is outside the working - tree. - (merge 035b5bf jk/pull-rebase-with-work-tree later to maint). - " "git push" on the receiving end used to call post-receive and post-update hooks for attempted removal of non-existing refs. (merge 160b81ed ph/push-to-delete-nothing later to maint). - * "gitweb" used to produce a non-working link while showing the contents - of a blob, when JavaScript actions are enabled. - (merge 2b07ff3ff ps/gitweb-js-with-lineno later to maint). - ---- -exec >/var/tmp/1 -O=v1.7.7-368-g9638384 -echo O=$(git describe --always master) -git log --first-parent --oneline --reverse ^$O master -echo -git shortlog --no-merges ^$O master + * 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). |