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-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.6.5.txt | 26 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.4.txt | 14 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.5.txt | 14 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.1.txt | 17 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.txt | 17 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.txt | 113 |
6 files changed, 187 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.6.5.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.6.5.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..6713132a9e --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.6.5.txt @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +Git v1.7.6.5 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.6.4 +-------------------- + + * The date parser did not accept timezone designators that lack minutes + part and also has a colon between "hh:mm". + + * After fetching from a remote that has very long refname, the reporting + output could have corrupted by overrunning a static buffer. + + * "git mergetool" did not use its arguments as pathspec, but as a path to + the file that may not even have any conflict. + + * "git name-rev --all" tried to name all _objects_, naturally failing to + describe many blobs and trees, instead of showing only commits as + advertised in its documentation. + + * "git remote rename $a $b" were not careful to match the remote name + against $a (i.e. source side of the remote nickname). + + * "gitweb" used to produce a non-working link while showing the contents + of a blob, when JavaScript actions are enabled. + +Also contains minor fixes and documentation updates. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.4.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..e5234485e7 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.4.txt @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +Git v1.7.7.4 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.7.3 +-------------------- + + * A few header dependencies were missing from the Makefile. + + * Some newer parts of the code used C99 __VA_ARGS__ while we still + try to cater to older compilers. + + * "git name-rev --all" tried to name all _objects_, naturally failing to + describe many blobs and trees, instead of showing only commits as + advertised in its documentation. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.5.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.5.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..7b0931987b --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.5.txt @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +Git v1.7.7.5 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.7.4 +-------------------- + + * After fetching from a remote that has very long refname, the reporting + output could have corrupted by overrunning a static buffer. + + * "git checkout" and "git merge" treated in-tree .gitignore and exclude + file in $GIT_DIR/info/ directory inconsistently when deciding which + untracked files are ignored and expendable. + +Also contains minor fixes and documentation updates. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.1.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..0e8bd9f5ee --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +Git v1.7.8.1 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.8.1 +-------------------- + + * In some codepaths (notably, checkout and merge), the ignore patterns + recorded in $GIT_DIR/info/exclude were not honored. They now are. + + * After fetching from a remote that has very long refname, the reporting + output could have corrupted by overrunning a static buffer. + + * "git checkout" and "git merge" treated in-tree .gitignore and exclude + file in $GIT_DIR/info/ directory inconsistently when deciding which + untracked files are ignored and expendable. + +Also contains minor fixes and documentation updates. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.txt index b9bb32492f..b4d90bba0f 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.txt @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ -Git v1.7.8 Release Notes (draft) -================================ +Git v1.7.8 Release Notes +======================== Updates since v1.7.7 -------------------- @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ Updates since v1.7.7 files from the index, not from the working tree. * Variants of "git cherry-pick" and "git revert" that take multiple - commits learned to "--continue". + commits learned to "--continue" and "--abort". * "git daemon" gives more human readble error messages to clients using ERR packets when appropriate. @@ -113,9 +113,6 @@ Updates since v1.7.7 between commits in the superproject that has and does not have the submodule in the tree without re-cloning. - * "git upload-archive" (hence "git archive --remote") can be built - and used on mingw port of Git. - * "gitweb" leaked unescaped control characters from syntax hiliter outputs. @@ -162,11 +159,3 @@ included in this release. were misspelled. (merge c49904e fc/remote-seturl-usage-fix later to maint). (merge 656cdf0 jc/remote-setbranches-usage-fix later to maint). - ---- -exec >/var/tmp/1 -O=v1.7.8-rc1-23-gdc865af -echo O=$(git describe --always master) -git log --first-parent --oneline --reverse ^$O master -echo -git shortlog --no-merges ^$O master diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..ee72a845fe --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.txt @@ -0,0 +1,113 @@ +Git v1.7.9 Release Notes (draft) +======================== + +Updates since v1.7.8 +-------------------- + + * gitk updates accumulated since early 2011. + + * 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 add" learned to stream large files directly into a packfile + instead of writing them into individual loose object files. + + * "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. + + * "git commit --amend" learned "--no-edit" option to say that the + user is amending the tree being recorded, without updating the + commit log message. + + * 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. + + * The set of built-in function-header patterns for various languages + knows MATLAB. + + * "git pull" can be used to fetch and merge an annotated/signed tag, + instead of the tip of a topic branch. The GPG signature from the + signed tag is recorded in the resulting merge commit for later + auditing. + + * "git branch --edit-description" can be used to add descriptive text + to explain what a topic branch is about. + + * "git fmt-merge-msg" learned to take the branch description into + account when preparing a merge summary that "git merge" records + when merging a local branch. + + * "git request-pull" has been updated to convey more information + useful for integrators to decide if a topic is worth merging and + what is pulled is indeed what the requestor asked to pull, + including: + + - the tip of the branch being requested to be merged; + - the branch description describing what the topic is about; + - the contents of the annotated tag, when requesting to pull a tag. + + * "git pull" learned to notice 'pull.rebase' configuration variable, + 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. + + +Fixes since v1.7.8 +------------------ + + * 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). + + * "fast-import" did not correctly update an existing notes tree, + possibly corrupting the fan-out. + + * When a "reword" action in "git rebase -i" failed to run "commit --amend", + we did not give the control back to the user to resolve the situation, and + instead kept the original commit log message. + (merge 0becb3e aw/rebase-i-stop-on-failure-to-amend later to maint). + +-- +exec >/var/tmp/1 +O=v1.7.8-282-ga2add85 +echo O=$(git describe master) +git log --first-parent --oneline --reverse ^$O master +echo +git shortlog --no-merges ^$O ^maint master |