diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.txt | 88 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 74 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.txt index 5645fa20bf..b4d90bba0f 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.txt @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ -Git v1.7.8 Release Notes (draft) -================================ +Git v1.7.8 Release Notes +======================== Updates since v1.7.7 -------------------- @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ 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. @@ -79,6 +79,9 @@ Updates since v1.7.7 * "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. @@ -110,9 +113,6 @@ 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. @@ -131,91 +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 branch -m/-M" advertised to update RENAME_REF ref in the - commit log message that introduced the feature but not anywhere in - the documentation, and never did update such a ref anyway. This - undocumented misfeature that did not exist has been excised. - (merge b0eab01 jc/maint-remove-renamed-ref 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). - * "git fetch --prune" was unsafe when used with refspecs from the - command line. - (merge e8c1e6c cn/fetch-prune 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 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 $a (i.e. source side of the remote nickname). - (merge b52d00aed mz/remote-rename later to maint). - - * "git diff --[num]stat" used to use the number of lines of context - different from the default, potentially giving different results from - "git diff | diffstat" and confusing the users. - (merge f01cae918 jc/maint-diffstat-numstat-context later to maint). + (merge 395c7356 jk/name-hash-dirent later to maint). * "git merge" did not understand ":/<pattern>" as a way to name a commit. - * "git mergetool" learned to use its arguments as pathspec, not a path to - the file that may not even have any conflict. - (merge 6d9990a jm/mergetool-pathspec later to maint). - - * "git pull" and "git rebase" did not work well even when GIT_WORK_TREE is - set correctly with GIT_DIR if the current directory is outside the working - tree. - (merge 035b5bf jk/pull-rebase-with-work-tree later to maint). - " "git push" on the receiving end used to call post-receive and post-update hooks for attempted removal of non-existing refs. (merge 160b81ed ph/push-to-delete-nothing later to maint). - * "git send-email" did not honor the configured hostname when restarting - the HELO/EHLO exchange after switching TLS on. - (merge 155b940 md/smtp-tls-hello-again later to maint). - - * "gitweb" used to produce a non-working link while showing the contents - of a blob, when JavaScript actions are enabled. - (merge 2b07ff3ff ps/gitweb-js-with-lineno later to maint). - - * The logic to filter out forked projects in the project list in - "gitweb" was broken for some time. - (merge 53c632f jm/maint-gitweb-filter-forks-fix later to maint). - ---- -exec >/var/tmp/1 -O=v1.7.7.1-492-g324bc2a -echo O=$(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). |