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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.txt index 258ab7a186..cd3c256928 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.txt @@ -4,11 +4,24 @@ Git v1.7.9 Release Notes (draft) Updates since v1.7.8 -------------------- + * git-gui updated to 0.16.0. + + * git-p4 (in contrib/) updates. + * Porcelain commands like "git reset" did not distinguish deletions and type-changes from ordinary modification, and reported them with the same 'M' moniker. They now use 'D' (for deletion) and 'T' (for type-change) to match "git status -s" and "git diff --name-status". + * "git branch -m <current branch> HEAD" is an obvious no-op and is + now allowed. + + * "git checkout -B <current branch> <elsewhere>" is a more intuitive + way to spell "git reset --keep <elsewhere>". + + * "git checkout" and "git merge" learned "--no-overwrite-ignore" option + to tell Git that untracked and ignored files are not expendable. + * fsck and prune are relatively lengthy operations that still go silent while making the end-user wait. They learned to give progress output like other slow operations. @@ -41,6 +54,10 @@ Updates since v1.7.8 which serves as a global fallback for setting 'branch.<name>.rebase' configuration variable per branch. + * "git tag" learned "--cleanup" option to control how the whitespaces + and empty lines in tag message are cleaned up. + + * "gitweb" learned to show side-by-side diff. Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups. @@ -48,14 +65,31 @@ Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups. Fixes since v1.7.8 ------------------ - * In some codepaths (notably, checkout and merge), the ignore patterns - recorded in $GIT_DIR/info/exclude were not honored. They now are. - (merge fc001b5 nd/maint-ignore-exclude later to maint). + * The function header pattern for files with "diff=cpp" attribute did + not consider "type *funcname(type param1,..." as the beginning of a + function. + (merge 37e7793 tr/userdiff-c-returns-pointer later to maint). + + * LF-to-CRLF streaming filter used when checking out a large-ish blob + fell into an infinite loop with a rare input. + (merge 284e3d2 cn/maint-lf-to-crlf-filter later to maint). + + * "git archive" mistakenly allowed remote clients to ask for commits + that are not at the tip of any ref. + (merge 7b51c33 jk/maint-upload-archive later to maint). + + * "git apply --check" did not error out when given an empty input + without any patch. + (merge cc64b31 bc/maint-apply-check-no-patch later to maint). + * The error message from "git diff" and "git status" when they fail + to inspect changes in submodules did not report which submodule they + had trouble with. + (merge 6a5ceda jl/submodule-status-failure-report later to maint). -- exec >/var/tmp/1 -O=v1.7.8-162-gd2c7807 +O=v1.7.8-246-gb3f17ac echo O=$(git describe master) git log --first-parent --oneline --reverse ^$O master echo |