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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.txt index bd3b89dae2..689c3874e1 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.txt @@ -51,12 +51,20 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * "git grep" learned to use a non-standard pattern type by default if a configuration variable tells it to. + * "git merge-base" learned "--is-ancestor A B" option to tell if A is + an ancestor of B. The result is indicated by its exit status code. + + Foreign Interface * "git svn" has been updated to work with SVN 1.7. Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. (please report possible regressions) + * Git ships with a fall-back regexp implementation for platforms with + buggy regexp library, but it was easy for people to keep using their + platform regexp. A new test has been added to check this. + * The "check-docs" build target has been updated and greatly simplified. @@ -64,13 +72,14 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. (please report possible regressions) for materials meant to be examples that are better typeset in monospace. - * Compatibility wrapper to learn the maximum number of file - descriptors we can open around sysconf(_SC_OPEN_MAX) and - getrlimit(RLIMIT_NO_FILE) has been introduced for portability. - * Compatibility wrapper around some mkdir(2) implementations that reject parameter with trailing slash has been introduced. + * Many internal uses of "git merge-base" equivalent were only to see + if one commit fast-forwards to the other, which did not need the + full set of merge bases to be computed. They have been updated to + use less expensive checks. + * The heuristics to detect and silently convert latin1 to utf8 when we were told to use utf-8 in the log message has been transplanted from "mailinfo" to "commit" and "commit-tree". @@ -88,6 +97,10 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.7.12 in the maintenance track are contained in this release (see release notes to them for details). + * "git show --format='%ci'" did not give timestamp correctly for + commits created without human readable name on "committer" line. + (merge e27ddb6 jc/maint-ident-missing-human-name later to maint). + * "git cherry-pick A C B" used to replay changes in A and then B and then C if these three commits had committer timestamps in that order, which is not what the user who said "A C B" naturally @@ -143,17 +156,6 @@ to them for details). this problem. (merge 6a2abdc jc/apply-binary-p0 later to maint). - * The exit status code from "git config" was way overspecified while - being incorrect. The implementation has been updated to give the - documented status for a case that was documented, and introduce a - new code for "all other errors". - (merge 9409c7a jc/maint-config-exit-status later to maint). - - * "git foo" errored out with "Not a directory" when the user had a - non-directory on $PATH, and worse yet it masked an alias "foo" from - running. (merge a785508 jc/maint-sane-execvp-notdir later to - maint). - * The interactive prompt "git send-email" gives was error prone. It asked "What e-mail address do you want to use?" with the address it guessed (correctly) the user would want to use in its prompt, @@ -161,33 +163,3 @@ to them for details). please use 'y' as the e-mail address instead", which is most certainly not what the user meant. (merge 51bbccf jc/send-email-reconfirm later to maint). - - * "git stash apply/pop" did not trigger "rerere" upon conflicts - unlike other mergy operations. - (merge 743bf6d ph/stash-rerere later to maint). - - * "git submodule update -f" did not update paths in the working tree - that has local changes. - (merge 01d4721 sz/submodule-force-update later to maint). - - * We used curl_easy_strerror() without checking version of cURL, - breaking the build for versions before curl 7.12.0. - (merge 4246b0b js/no-curl-easy-strerror-on-old-curl later to maint). - - * Code to work around MacOS X UTF-8 gotcha has been cleaned up. - (merge 9a27f96 rr/precompose-utf8-cleanup later to maint). - - * Documentation for the configuration file format had a confusing - example. - (merge d1e1fe7 mh/maint-config-doc-proxy-command later to maint). - - * "git submodule <cmd> path" did not error out when the path to the - submodule was misspelt. - (merge be9d0a3 hv/submodule-path-unmatch later to maint). - - * Some capabilities were asked by fetch-pack even when upload-pack - did not advertise that they are available. fetch-pack has been - fixed not to do so. - - * The output from "git diff -B" for a file that ends with an - incomplete line did not put "\ No newline..." on a line of its own. |