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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.1.txt index 34c5b26977..d6f9555923 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.1.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.1.txt @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ variable in this release. "git branch --set-upstream" is deprecated and may be removed in a relatively distant future. "git branch [-u|--set-upstream-to]" has -been introduced with a saner order of arguments. +been introduced with a saner order of arguments to replace it. Updates since v1.8.0 @@ -27,22 +27,24 @@ Updates since v1.8.0 UI, Workflows & Features - * Command-line completion for tcsh has been added. + * Command-line completion scripts for tcsh and zsh have been added. - * We used to have a workaround for a bug in ancient "less" that - causes it to exit without any output when the terminal is resized. - The bug has been fixed in "less" version 406 (June 2007), and the - workaround has been removed in this release. + * "git-prompt" scriptlet (in contrib/completion) can be told to paint + pieces of the hints in the prompt string in colors. * Some documentation pages that used to ship only in the plain text format are now formatted in HTML as well. - * "git-prompt" scriptlet (in contrib/completion) can be told to paint - pieces of the hints in the prompt string in colors. + * We used to have a workaround for a bug in ancient "less" that + causes it to exit without any output when the terminal is resized. + The bug has been fixed in "less" version 406 (June 2007), and the + workaround has been removed in this release. - * A new configuration variable "diff.context" can be used to - give the default number of context lines in the patch output, to - override the hardcoded default of 3 lines. + * When "git checkout" checks out a branch, it tells the user how far + behind (or ahead) the new branch is relative to the remote tracking + branch it builds upon. The message now also advises how to sync + them up by pushing or pulling. This can be disabled with the + advice.statusHints configuration variable. * "git config --get" used to diagnose presence of multiple definitions of the same variable in the same configuration file as @@ -51,20 +53,43 @@ UI, Workflows & Features API regression but it is expected that nobody will notice it in practice. + * A new configuration variable "diff.context" can be used to + give the default number of context lines in the patch output, to + override the hardcoded default of 3 lines. + * "git format-patch" learned the "--notes=<ref>" option to give notes for the commit after the three-dash lines in its output. + * "git log -p -S<string>" now looks for the <string> after applying + the textconv filter (if defined); earlier it inspected the contents + of the blobs without filtering. + * "git log --grep=<pcre>" learned to honor the "grep.patterntype" configuration set to "perl". - * "git replace -d <object>" now interprets <object>, instead of only - accepting full hex object name. + * "git replace -d <object>" now interprets <object> as an extended + SHA-1 (e.g. HEAD~4 is allowed), instead of only accepting full hex + object name. * "git rm $submodule" used to punt on removing a submodule working tree to avoid losing the repository embedded in it. Because recent git uses a mechanism to separate the submodule repository from the submodule working tree, "git rm" learned to detect this - case and removes the submodule working tree when it is safe. + case and removes the submodule working tree when it is safe to do so. + + * "git send-email" used to prompt for the sender address, even when + the committer identity is well specified (e.g. via user.name and + user.email configuration variables). The command no longer gives + this prompt when not necessary. + + * "git send-email" did not allow non-address garbage strings to + appear after addresses on Cc: lines in the patch files (and when + told to pick them up to find more recipients), e.g. + + Cc: Stable Kernel <stable@k.org> # for v3.2 and up + + The command now strips " # for v3.2 and up" part before adding the + remainder of this line to the list of recipients. * "git submodule add" learned to add a new submodule at the same path as the path where an unrelated submodule was bound to in an @@ -77,7 +102,7 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * "git symbolic-ref" learned the "-d $symref" option to delete the named symbolic ref, which is more intuitive way to spell it than - "update-ref -d --no-deref". + "update-ref -d --no-deref $symref". Foreign Interface @@ -88,15 +113,24 @@ Foreign Interface * The remote helper interface to interact with subversion repositories (one of the GSoC 2012 projects) has been merged. + * A new remote-helper interface for Mercurial has been added to + contrib/remote-helpers. + + * The documentation for git(1) was pointing at a page at an external + site for the list of authors that no longer existed. The link has + been updated to point at an alternative site. + Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. * Compilation on Cygwin with newer header files are supported now. - * The logic to generate the initial advertisement from - "upload-pack" (what is invoked by "git fetch" on the other side - of the connection) to list what refs are available in the - repository has been optimized. + * A couple of low-level implementation updates on MinGW. + + * The logic to generate the initial advertisement from "upload-pack" + (i.e. what is invoked by "git fetch" on the other side of the + connection) to list what refs are available in the repository has + been optimized. * The logic to find set of attributes that match a given path has been optimized. @@ -118,55 +152,44 @@ details). * The configuration parser had an unnecessary hardcoded limit on variable names that was not checked consistently. - (merge 0971e99 bw/config-lift-variable-name-length-limit later to maint). * The "say" function in the test scaffolding incorrectly allowed "echo" to interpret "\a" as if it were a C-string asking for a BEL output. - (merge 7bc0911 jc/test-say-color-avoid-echo-escape later to maint). * "git mergetool" feeds /dev/null as a common ancestor when dealing with an add/add conflict, but p4merge backend cannot handle it. Work it around by passing a temporary empty file. - (merge 3facc60 da/mergetools-p4 later to maint). * "git log -F -E --grep='<ere>'" failed to use the given <ere> pattern as extended regular expression, and instead looked for the string literally. - (merge 727b6fc jc/grep-pcre-loose-ends~1 later to maint). * "git grep -e pattern <tree>" asked the attribute system to read "<tree>:.gitattributes" file in the working tree, which was nonsense. - (merge 55c6168 nd/grep-true-path later to maint). * A symbolic ref refs/heads/SYM was not correctly removed with "git branch -d SYM"; the command removed the ref pointed by SYM instead. - (merge 13baa9f rs/branch-del-symref later to maint). * Update "remote tracking branch" in the documentation to "remote-tracking branch". - (merge a6d3bde mm/maint-doc-remote-tracking later to maint). * "git pull --rebase" run while the HEAD is detached tried to find the upstream branch of the detached HEAD (which by definition does not exist) and emitted unnecessary error messages. - (merge e980765 ph/pull-rebase-detached later to maint). * The refs/replace hierarchy was not mentioned in the repository-layout docs. - (merge 11fbe18 po/maint-refs-replace-docs later to maint). * Various rfc2047 quoting issues around a non-ASCII name on the From: line in the output from format-patch have been corrected. - (merge 25dc8da js/format-2047 later to maint). * Sometimes curl_multi_timeout() function suggested a wrong timeout value when there is no file descriptor to wait on and the http transport ended up sleeping for minutes in select(2) system call. A workaround has been added for this. - (merge 7202b81 sz/maint-curl-multi-timeout later to maint). * For a fetch refspec (or the result of applying wildcard on one), we always want the RHS to map to something inside "refs/" @@ -175,7 +198,6 @@ details). * "git diff -G<pattern>" did not honor textconv filter when looking for changes. - (merge b1c2f57 jk/maint-diff-grep-textconv later to maint). * Some HTTP servers ask for auth only during the actual packing phase (not in ls-remote phase); this is not really a recommended @@ -185,27 +207,35 @@ details). * "git p4" used to try expanding malformed "$keyword$" that spans across multiple lines. - (merge 6b2bf41 pw/maint-p4-rcs-expansion-newline later to maint). * Syntax highlighting in "gitweb" was not quite working. - (merge 048b399 rh/maint-gitweb-highlight-ext later to maint). * RSS feed from "gitweb" had a xss hole in its title output. - (merge 0f0ecf6 jk/maint-gitweb-xss later to maint). * "git config --path $key" segfaulted on "[section] key" (a boolean "true" spelled without "=", not "[section] key = true"). - (merge 962c38e cn/config-missing-path later to maint). * "git checkout -b foo" while on an unborn branch did not say "Switched to a new branch 'foo'" like other cases. - (merge afa8c07 jk/checkout-out-of-unborn later to maint). + + * Various codepaths have workaround for a common misconfiguration to + spell "UTF-8" as "utf8", but it was not used uniformly. Most + notably, mailinfo (which is used by "git am") lacked this support. * We failed to mention a file without any content change but whose permission bit was modified, or (worse yet) a new file without any content in the "git diff --stat" output. - (merge 74faaa1 lt/diff-stat-show-0-lines later to maint). + + * When "--stat-count" hides a diffstat for binary contents, the total + number of added and removed lines at the bottom was computed + incorrectly. + + * When "--stat-count" hides a diffstat for unmerged paths, the total + number of affected files at the bottom of the "diff --stat" output + was computed incorrectly. + + * "diff --shortstat" miscounted the total number of affected files + when there were unmerged paths. * "update-ref -d --deref SYM" to delete a ref through a symbolic ref that points to it did not remove it correctly. - (merge b274a71 jh/update-ref-d-through-symref later to maint). |