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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.0.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.0.1.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..fea3f9935b --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.0.1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,42 @@ +GIT v1.5.0.1 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.5.0 +------------------ + +* Documentation updates + + - Clarifications and corrections to 1.5.0 release notes. + + - The main documentation did not link to git-remote documentation. + + - Clarified introductory text of git-rebase documentation. + + - Converted remaining mentions of update-index on Porcelain + documents to git-add/git-rm. + + - Some i18n.* configuration variables were incorrectly + described as core.*; fixed. + +* Bugfixes + + - git-add and git-update-index on a filesystem on which + executable bits are unreliable incorrectly reused st_mode + bits even when the path changed between symlink and regular + file. + + - git-daemon marks the listening sockets with FD_CLOEXEC so + that it won't be leaked into the children. + + - segfault from git-blame when the mandatory pathname + parameter was missing was fixed; usage() message is given + instead. + + - git-rev-list did not read $GIT_DIR/config file, which means + that did not honor i18n.logoutputencoding correctly. + +* Tweaks + + - sliding mmap() inefficiently mmaped the same region of a + packfile with an access pattern that used objects in the + reverse order. This has been made more efficient. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.0.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.0.2.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..b061e50ff0 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.0.2.txt @@ -0,0 +1,65 @@ +GIT v1.5.0.2 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.5.0.1 +-------------------- + +* Bugfixes + + - Automated merge conflict handling when changes to symbolic + links conflicted were completely broken. The merge-resolve + strategy created a regular file with conflict markers in it + in place of the symbolic link. The default strategy, + merge-recursive was even more broken. It removed the path + that was pointed at by the symbolic link. Both of these + problems have been fixed. + + - 'git diff maint master next' did not correctly give combined + diff across three trees. + + - 'git fast-import' portability fix for Solaris. + + - 'git show-ref --verify' without arguments did not error out + but segfaulted. + + - 'git diff :tracked-file `pwd`/an-untracked-file' gave an extra + slashes after a/ and b/. + + - 'git format-patch' produced too long filenames if the commit + message had too long line at the beginning. + + - Running 'make all' and then without changing anything + running 'make install' still rebuilt some files. This + was inconvenient when building as yourself and then + installing as root (especially problematic when the source + directory is on NFS and root is mapped to nobody). + + - 'git-rerere' failed to deal with two unconflicted paths that + sorted next to each other. + + - 'git-rerere' attempted to open(2) a symlink and failed if + there was a conflict. Since a conflicting change to a + symlink would not benefit from rerere anyway, the command + now ignores conflicting changes to symlinks. + + - 'git-repack' did not like to pass more than 64 arguments + internally to underlying 'rev-list' logic, which made it + impossible to repack after accumulating many (small) packs + in the repository. + + - 'git-diff' to review the combined diff during a conflicted + merge were not reading the working tree version correctly + when changes to a symbolic link conflicted. It should have + read the data using readlink(2) but read from the regular + file the symbolic link pointed at. + + - 'git-remote' did not like period in a remote's name. + +* Documentation updates + + - added and clarified core.bare, core.legacyheaders configurations. + + - updated "git-clone --depth" documentation. + + +* Assorted git-gui fixes. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.0.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.0.3.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..cd500f96bf --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.0.3.txt @@ -0,0 +1,58 @@ +GIT v1.5.0.3 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.5.0.2 +-------------------- + +* Bugfixes + + - 'git.el' honors the commit coding system from the configuration. + + - 'blameview' in contrib/ correctly digs deeper when a line is + clicked. + + - 'http-push' correctly makes sure the remote side has leading + path. Earlier it started in the middle of the path, and + incorrectly. + + - 'git-merge' did not exit with non-zero status when the + working tree was dirty and cannot fast forward. It does + now. + + - 'cvsexportcommit' does not lose yet-to-be-used message file. + + - int-vs-size_t typefix when running combined diff on files + over 2GB long. + + - 'git apply --whitespace=strip' should not touch unmodified + lines. + + - 'git-mailinfo' choke when a logical header line was too long. + + - 'git show A..B' did not error out. Negative ref ("not A" in + this example) does not make sense for the purpose of the + command, so now it errors out. + + - 'git fmt-merge-msg --file' without file parameter did not + correctly error out. + + - 'git archimport' barfed upon encountering a commit without + summary. + + - 'git index-pack' did not protect itself from getting a short + read out of pread(2). + + - 'git http-push' had a few buffer overruns. + + - Build dependency fixes to rebuild fetch.o when other headers + change. + +* Documentation updates + + - user-manual updates. + + - Options to 'git remote add' were described insufficiently. + + - Configuration format.suffix was not documented. + + - Other formatting and spelling fixes. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.0.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.0.4.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..feefa5dfd4 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.0.4.txt @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +GIT v1.5.0.4 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.5.0.3 +-------------------- + +* Bugfixes + + - git.el does not add duplicate sign-off lines. + + - git-commit shows the full stat of the resulting commit, not + just about the files in the current directory, when run from + a subdirectory. + + - "git-checkout -m '@{8 hours ago}'" had a funny failure from + eval; fixed. + + - git-gui updates. + +* Documentation updates + +* User manual updates diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.0.5.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.0.5.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..eeec3d73d0 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.0.5.txt @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +GIT v1.5.0.5 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.5.0.3 +-------------------- + +* Bugfixes + + - git-merge (hence git-pull) did not refuse fast-forwarding + when the working tree had local changes that would have + conflicted with it. + + - git.el does not add duplicate sign-off lines. + + - git-commit shows the full stat of the resulting commit, not + just about the files in the current directory, when run from + a subdirectory. + + - "git-checkout -m '@{8 hours ago}'" had a funny failure from + eval; fixed. + + - git-gui updates. + +* Documentation updates + +* User manual updates diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.0.6.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.0.6.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..c02015ad5f --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.0.6.txt @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +GIT v1.5.0.6 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.5.0.5 +-------------------- + +* Bugfixes + + - a handful small fixes to gitweb. + + - build procedure for user-manual is fixed not to require locally + installed stylesheets. + + - "git commit $paths" on paths whose earlier contents were + already updated in the index were failing out. + +* Documentation + + - user-manual has better cross references. + + - gitweb installation/deployment procedure is now documented. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.0.7.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.0.7.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..670ad32b85 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.0.7.txt @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +GIT v1.5.0.7 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.5.0.6 +-------------------- + +* Bugfixes + + - git-upload-pack failed to close unused pipe ends, resulting + in many zombies to hang around. + + - git-rerere was recording the contents of earlier hunks + duplicated in later hunks. This prevented resolving the same + conflict when performing the same merge the other way around. + +* Documentation + + - a few documentation fixes from Debian package maintainer. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..daf4bdb0d7 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,469 @@ +GIT v1.5.0 Release Notes +======================== + +Old news +-------- + +This section is for people who are upgrading from ancient +versions of git. Although all of the changes in this section +happened before the current v1.4.4 release, they are summarized +here in the v1.5.0 release notes for people who skipped earlier +versions. + +As of git v1.5.0 there are some optional features that changes +the repository to allow data to be stored and transferred more +efficiently. These features are not enabled by default, as they +will make the repository unusable with older versions of git. +Specifically, the available options are: + + - There is a configuration variable core.legacyheaders that + changes the format of loose objects so that they are more + efficient to pack and to send out of the repository over git + native protocol, since v1.4.2. However, loose objects + written in the new format cannot be read by git older than + that version; people fetching from your repository using + older clients over dumb transports (e.g. http) using older + versions of git will also be affected. + + To let git use the new loose object format, you have to + set core.legacyheaders to false. + + - Since v1.4.3, configuration repack.usedeltabaseoffset allows + packfile to be created in more space efficient format, which + cannot be read by git older than that version. + + To let git use the new format for packfiles, you have to + set repack.usedeltabaseoffset to true. + +The above two new features are not enabled by default and you +have to explicitly ask for them, because they make repositories +unreadable by older versions of git, and in v1.5.0 we still do +not enable them by default for the same reason. We will change +this default probably 1 year after 1.4.2's release, when it is +reasonable to expect everybody to have new enough version of +git. + + - 'git pack-refs' appeared in v1.4.4; this command allows tags + to be accessed much more efficiently than the traditional + 'one-file-per-tag' format. Older git-native clients can + still fetch from a repository that packed and pruned refs + (the server side needs to run the up-to-date version of git), + but older dumb transports cannot. Packing of refs is done by + an explicit user action, either by use of "git pack-refs + --prune" command or by use of "git gc" command. + + - 'git -p' to paginate anything -- many commands do pagination + by default on a tty. Introduced between v1.4.1 and v1.4.2; + this may surprise old timers. + + - 'git archive' superseded 'git tar-tree' in v1.4.3; + + - 'git cvsserver' was new invention in v1.3.0; + + - 'git repo-config', 'git grep', 'git rebase' and 'gitk' were + seriously enhanced during v1.4.0 timeperiod. + + - 'gitweb' became part of git.git during v1.4.0 timeperiod and + seriously modified since then. + + - reflog is an v1.4.0 invention. This allows you to name a + revision that a branch used to be at (e.g. "git diff + master@{yesterday} master" allows you to see changes since + yesterday's tip of the branch). + + +Updates in v1.5.0 since v1.4.4 series +------------------------------------- + +* Index manipulation + + - git-add is to add contents to the index (aka "staging area" + for the next commit), whether the file the contents happen to + be is an existing one or a newly created one. + + - git-add without any argument does not add everything + anymore. Use 'git-add .' instead. Also you can add + otherwise ignored files with an -f option. + + - git-add tries to be more friendly to users by offering an + interactive mode ("git-add -i"). + + - git-commit <path> used to refuse to commit if <path> was + different between HEAD and the index (i.e. update-index was + used on it earlier). This check was removed. + + - git-rm is much saner and safer. It is used to remove paths + from both the index file and the working tree, and makes sure + you are not losing any local modification before doing so. + + - git-reset <tree> <paths>... can be used to revert index + entries for selected paths. + + - git-update-index is much less visible. Many suggestions to + use the command in git output and documentation have now been + replaced by simpler commands such as "git add" or "git rm". + + +* Repository layout and objects transfer + + - The data for origin repository is stored in the configuration + file $GIT_DIR/config, not in $GIT_DIR/remotes/, for newly + created clones. The latter is still supported and there is + no need to convert your existing repository if you are + already comfortable with your workflow with the layout. + + - git-clone always uses what is known as "separate remote" + layout for a newly created repository with a working tree. + + A repository with the separate remote layout starts with only + one default branch, 'master', to be used for your own + development. Unlike the traditional layout that copied all + the upstream branches into your branch namespace (while + renaming their 'master' to your 'origin'), the new layout + puts upstream branches into local "remote-tracking branches" + with their own namespace. These can be referenced with names + such as "origin/$upstream_branch_name" and are stored in + .git/refs/remotes rather than .git/refs/heads where normal + branches are stored. + + This layout keeps your own branch namespace less cluttered, + avoids name collision with your upstream, makes it possible + to automatically track new branches created at the remote + after you clone from it, and makes it easier to interact with + more than one remote repository (you can use "git remote" to + add other repositories to track). There might be some + surprises: + + * 'git branch' does not show the remote tracking branches. + It only lists your own branches. Use '-r' option to view + the tracking branches. + + * If you are forking off of a branch obtained from the + upstream, you would have done something like 'git branch + my-next next', because traditional layout dropped the + tracking branch 'next' into your own branch namespace. + With the separate remote layout, you say 'git branch next + origin/next', which allows you to use the matching name + 'next' for your own branch. It also allows you to track a + remote other than 'origin' (i.e. where you initially cloned + from) and fork off of a branch from there the same way + (e.g. "git branch mingw j6t/master"). + + Repositories initialized with the traditional layout continue + to work. + + - New branches that appear on the origin side after a clone is + made are also tracked automatically. This is done with an + wildcard refspec "refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*", which + older git does not understand, so if you clone with 1.5.0, + you would need to downgrade remote.*.fetch in the + configuration file to specify each branch you are interested + in individually if you plan to fetch into the repository with + older versions of git (but why would you?). + + - Similarly, wildcard refspec "refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/me/*" + can be given to "git-push" command to update the tracking + branches that is used to track the repository you are pushing + from on the remote side. + + - git-branch and git-show-branch know remote tracking branches + (use the command line switch "-r" to list only tracked branches). + + - git-push can now be used to delete a remote branch or a tag. + This requires the updated git on the remote side (use "git + push <remote> :refs/heads/<branch>" to delete "branch"). + + - git-push more aggressively keeps the transferred objects + packed. Earlier we recommended to monitor amount of loose + objects and repack regularly, but you should repack when you + accumulated too many small packs this way as well. Updated + git-count-objects helps you with this. + + - git-fetch also more aggressively keeps the transferred objects + packed. This behavior of git-push and git-fetch can be + tweaked with a single configuration transfer.unpacklimit (but + usually there should not be any need for a user to tweak it). + + - A new command, git-remote, can help you manage your remote + tracking branch definitions. + + - You may need to specify explicit paths for upload-pack and/or + receive-pack due to your ssh daemon configuration on the + other end. This can now be done via remote.*.uploadpack and + remote.*.receivepack configuration. + + +* Bare repositories + + - Certain commands change their behavior in a bare repository + (i.e. a repository without associated working tree). We use + a fairly conservative heuristic (if $GIT_DIR is ".git", or + ends with "/.git", the repository is not bare) to decide if a + repository is bare, but "core.bare" configuration variable + can be used to override the heuristic when it misidentifies + your repository. + + - git-fetch used to complain updating the current branch but + this is now allowed for a bare repository. So is the use of + 'git-branch -f' to update the current branch. + + - Porcelain-ish commands that require a working tree refuses to + work in a bare repository. + + +* Reflog + + - Reflog records the history from the view point of the local + repository. In other words, regardless of the real history, + the reflog shows the history as seen by one particular + repository (this enables you to ask "what was the current + revision in _this_ repository, yesterday at 1pm?"). This + facility is enabled by default for repositories with working + trees, and can be accessed with the "branch@{time}" and + "branch@{Nth}" notation. + + - "git show-branch" learned showing the reflog data with the + new -g option. "git log" has -g option to view reflog + entries in a more verbose manner. + + - git-branch knows how to rename branches and moves existing + reflog data from the old branch to the new one. + + - In addition to the reflog support in v1.4.4 series, HEAD + reference maintains its own log. "HEAD@{5.minutes.ago}" + means the commit you were at 5 minutes ago, which takes + branch switching into account. If you want to know where the + tip of your current branch was at 5 minutes ago, you need to + explicitly say its name (e.g. "master@{5.minutes.ago}") or + omit the refname altogether i.e. "@{5.minutes.ago}". + + - The commits referred to by reflog entries are now protected + against pruning. The new command "git reflog expire" can be + used to truncate older reflog entries and entries that refer + to commits that have been pruned away previously with older + versions of git. + + Existing repositories that have been using reflog may get + complaints from fsck-objects and may not be able to run + git-repack, if you had run git-prune from older git; please + run "git reflog expire --stale-fix --all" first to remove + reflog entries that refer to commits that are no longer in + the repository when that happens. + + +* Crufts removal + + - We used to say "old commits are retrievable using reflog and + 'master@{yesterday}' syntax as long as you haven't run + git-prune". We no longer have to say the latter half of the + above sentence, as git-prune does not remove things reachable + from reflog entries. + + - There is a toplevel garbage collector script, 'git-gc', that + runs periodic cleanup functions, including 'git-repack -a -d', + 'git-reflog expire', 'git-pack-refs --prune', and 'git-rerere + gc'. + + - The output from fsck ("fsck-objects" is called just "fsck" + now, but the old name continues to work) was needlessly + alarming in that it warned missing objects that are reachable + only from dangling objects. This has been corrected and the + output is much more useful. + + +* Detached HEAD + + - You can use 'git-checkout' to check out an arbitrary revision + or a tag as well, instead of named branches. This will + dissociate your HEAD from the branch you are currently on. + + A typical use of this feature is to "look around". E.g. + + $ git checkout v2.6.16 + ... compile, test, etc. + $ git checkout v2.6.17 + ... compile, test, etc. + + - After detaching your HEAD, you can go back to an existing + branch with usual "git checkout $branch". Also you can + start a new branch using "git checkout -b $newbranch" to + start a new branch at that commit. + + - You can even pull from other repositories, make merges and + commits while your HEAD is detached. Also you can use "git + reset" to jump to arbitrary commit, while still keeping your + HEAD detached. + + Remember that a detached state is volatile, i.e. it will be forgotten + as soon as you move away from it with the checkout or reset command, + unless a branch is created from it as mentioned above. It is also + possible to rescue a lost detached state from the HEAD reflog. + + +* Packed refs + + - Repositories with hundreds of tags have been paying large + overhead, both in storage and in runtime, due to the + traditional one-ref-per-file format. A new command, + git-pack-refs, can be used to "pack" them in more efficient + representation (you can let git-gc do this for you). + + - Clones and fetches over dumb transports are now aware of + packed refs and can download from repositories that use + them. + + +* Configuration + + - configuration related to color setting are consolidated under + color.* namespace (older diff.color.*, status.color.* are + still supported). + + - 'git-repo-config' command is accessible as 'git-config' now. + + +* Updated features + + - git-describe uses better criteria to pick a base ref. It + used to pick the one with the newest timestamp, but now it + picks the one that is topologically the closest (that is, + among ancestors of commit C, the ref T that has the shortest + output from "git-rev-list T..C" is chosen). + + - git-describe gives the number of commits since the base ref + between the refname and the hash suffix. E.g. the commit one + before v2.6.20-rc6 in the kernel repository is: + + v2.6.20-rc5-306-ga21b069 + + which tells you that its object name begins with a21b069, + v2.6.20-rc5 is an ancestor of it (meaning, the commit + contains everything -rc5 has), and there are 306 commits + since v2.6.20-rc5. + + - git-describe with --abbrev=0 can be used to show only the + name of the base ref. + + - git-blame learned a new option, --incremental, that tells it + to output the blames as they are assigned. A sample script + to use it is also included as contrib/blameview. + + - git-blame starts annotating from the working tree by default. + + +* Less external dependency + + - We no longer require the "merge" program from the RCS suite. + All 3-way file-level merges are now done internally. + + - The original implementation of git-merge-recursive which was + in Python has been removed; we have a C implementation of it + now. + + - git-shortlog is no longer a Perl script. It no longer + requires output piped from git-log; it can accept revision + parameters directly on the command line. + + +* I18n + + - We have always encouraged the commit message to be encoded in + UTF-8, but the users are allowed to use legacy encoding as + appropriate for their projects. This will continue to be the + case. However, a non UTF-8 commit encoding _must_ be + explicitly set with i18n.commitencoding in the repository + where a commit is made; otherwise git-commit-tree will + complain if the log message does not look like a valid UTF-8 + string. + + - The value of i18n.commitencoding in the originating + repository is recorded in the commit object on the "encoding" + header, if it is not UTF-8. git-log and friends notice this, + and reencodes the message to the log output encoding when + displaying, if they are different. The log output encoding + is determined by "git log --encoding=<encoding>", + i18n.logoutputencoding configuration, or i18n.commitencoding + configuration, in the decreasing order of preference, and + defaults to UTF-8. + + - Tools for e-mailed patch application now default to -u + behavior; i.e. it always re-codes from the e-mailed encoding + to the encoding specified with i18n.commitencoding. This + unfortunately forces projects that have happily been using a + legacy encoding without setting i18n.commitencoding to set + the configuration, but taken with other improvement, please + excuse us for this very minor one-time inconvenience. + + +* e-mailed patches + + - See the above I18n section. + + - git-format-patch now enables --binary without being asked. + git-am does _not_ default to it, as sending binary patch via + e-mail is unusual and is harder to review than textual + patches and it is prudent to require the person who is + applying the patch to explicitly ask for it. + + - The default suffix for git-format-patch output is now ".patch", + not ".txt". This can be changed with --suffix=.txt option, + or setting the config variable "format.suffix" to ".txt". + + +* Foreign SCM interfaces + + - git-svn now requires the Perl SVN:: libraries, the + command-line backend was too slow and limited. + + - the 'commit' subcommand of git-svn has been renamed to + 'set-tree', and 'dcommit' is the recommended replacement for + day-to-day work. + + - git fast-import backend. + + +* User support + + - Quite a lot of documentation updates. + + - Bash completion scripts have been updated heavily. + + - Better error messages for often used Porcelainish commands. + + - Git GUI. This is a simple Tk based graphical interface for + common Git operations. + + +* Sliding mmap + + - We used to assume that we can mmap the whole packfile while + in use, but with a large project this consumes huge virtual + memory space and truly huge ones would not fit in the + userland address space on 32-bit platforms. We now mmap huge + packfile in pieces to avoid this problem. + + +* Shallow clones + + - There is a partial support for 'shallow' repositories that + keeps only recent history. A 'shallow clone' is created by + specifying how deep that truncated history should be + (e.g. "git clone --depth 5 git://some.where/repo.git"). + + Currently a shallow repository has number of limitations: + + - Cloning and fetching _from_ a shallow clone are not + supported (nor tested -- so they might work by accident but + they are not expected to). + + - Pushing from nor into a shallow clone are not expected to + work. + + - Merging inside a shallow repository would work as long as a + merge base is found in the recent history, but otherwise it + will be like merging unrelated histories and may result in + huge conflicts. + + but this would be more than adequate for people who want to + look at near the tip of a big project with a deep history and + send patches in e-mail format. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.1.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.1.1.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..91471213bd --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.1.1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,65 @@ +GIT v1.5.1.1 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.5.1 +------------------ + +* Documentation updates + + - The --left-right option of rev-list and friends is documented. + + - The documentation for cvsimport has been majorly improved. + + - "git-show-ref --exclude-existing" was documented. + +* Bugfixes + + - The implementation of -p option in "git cvsexportcommit" had + the meaning of -C (context reduction) option wrong, and + loosened the context requirements when it was told to be + strict. + + - "git cvsserver" did not behave like the real cvsserver when + client side removed a file from the working tree without + doing anything else on the path. In such a case, it should + restore it from the checked out revision. + + - "git fsck" issued an alarming error message on detached + HEAD. It is not an error since at least 1.5.0. + + - "git send-email" produced of References header of unbounded length; + fixed this with line-folding. + + - "git archive" to download from remote site should not + require you to be in a git repository, but it incorrectly + did. + + - "git apply" ignored -p<n> for "diff --git" formatted + patches. + + - "git rerere" recorded a conflict that had one side empty + (the other side adds) incorrectly; this made merging in the + other direction fail to use previously recorded resolution. + + - t4200 test was broken where "wc -l" pads its output with + spaces. + + - "git branch -m old new" to rename branch did not work + without a configuration file in ".git/config". + + - The sample hook for notification e-mail was misnamed. + + - gitweb did not show type-changing patch correctly in the + blobdiff view. + + - git-svn did not error out with incorrect command line options. + + - git-svn fell into an infinite loop when insanely long commit + message was found. + + - git-svn dcommit and rebase was confused by patches that were + merged from another branch that is managed by git-svn. + + - git-svn used to get confused when globbing remote branch/tag + spec (e.g. "branches = proj/branches/*:refs/remotes/origin/*") + is used and there was a plain file that matched the glob. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.1.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.1.2.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..d88456306c --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.1.2.txt @@ -0,0 +1,50 @@ +GIT v1.5.1.2 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.5.1.1 +-------------------- + +* Bugfixes + + - "git clone" over http from a repository that has lost the + loose refs by running "git pack-refs" were broken (a code to + deal with this was added to "git fetch" in v1.5.0, but it + was missing from "git clone"). + + - "git diff a/ b/" incorrectly fell in "diff between two + filesystem objects" codepath, when the user most likely + wanted to limit the extent of output to two tracked + directories. + + - git-quiltimport had the same bug as we fixed for + git-applymbox in v1.5.1.1 -- it gave an alarming "did not + have any patch" message (but did not actually fail and was + harmless). + + - various git-svn fixes. + + - Sample update hook incorrectly always refused requests to + delete branches through push. + + - git-blame on a very long working tree path had buffer + overrun problem. + + - git-apply did not like to be fed two patches in a row that created + and then modified the same file. + + - git-svn was confused when a non-project was stored directly under + trunk/, branches/ and tags/. + + - git-svn wants the Error.pm module that was at least as new + as what we ship as part of git; install ours in our private + installation location if the one on the system is older. + + - An earlier update to command line integer parameter parser was + botched and made 'update-index --cacheinfo' completely useless. + + +* Documentation updates + + - Various documentation updates from J. Bruce Fields, Frank + Lichtenheld, Alex Riesen and others. Andrew Ruder started a + war on undocumented options. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.1.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.1.3.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..876408b65a --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.1.3.txt @@ -0,0 +1,45 @@ +GIT v1.5.1.3 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.5.1.2 +-------------------- + +* Bugfixes + + - git-add tried to optimize by finding common leading + directories across its arguments but botched, causing very + confused behaviour. + + - unofficial rpm.spec file shipped with git was letting + ETC_GITCONFIG set to /usr/etc/gitconfig. Tweak the official + Makefile to make it harder for distro people to make the + same mistake, by setting the variable to /etc/gitconfig if + prefix is set to /usr. + + - git-svn inconsistently stripped away username from the URL + only when svnsync_props was in use. + + - git-svn got confused when handling symlinks on Mac OS. + + - git-send-email was not quoting recipient names that have + period '.' in them. Also it did not allow overriding + envelope sender, which made it impossible to send patches to + certain subscriber-only lists. + + - built-in write_tree() routine had a sequence that renamed a + file that is still open, which some systems did not like. + + - when memory is very tight, sliding mmap code to read + packfiles incorrectly closed the fd that was still being + used to read the pack. + + - import-tars contributed front-end for fastimport was passing + wrong directory modes without checking. + + - git-fastimport trusted its input too much and allowed to + create corrupt tree objects with entries without a name. + + - git-fetch needlessly barfed when too long reflog action + description was given by the caller. + +Also contains various documentation updates. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.1.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.1.4.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..df2f66ccb5 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.1.4.txt @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +GIT v1.5.1.4 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.5.1.3 +-------------------- + +* Bugfixes + + - "git-http-fetch" did not work around a bug in libcurl + earlier than 7.16 (curl_multi_remove_handle() was broken). + + - "git cvsserver" handles a file that was once removed and + then added again correctly. + + - import-tars script (in contrib/) handles GNU tar archives + that contain pathnames longer than 100 bytes (long-link + extension) correctly. + + - xdelta test program did not build correctly. + + - gitweb sometimes tried incorrectly to apply function to + decode utf8 twice, resulting in corrupt output. + + - "git blame -C" mishandled text at the end of a group of + lines. + + - "git log/rev-list --boundary" did not produce output + correctly without --left-right option. + + - Many documentation updates. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.1.5.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.1.5.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..b0ab8eb371 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.1.5.txt @@ -0,0 +1,42 @@ +GIT v1.5.1.5 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.5.1.4 +-------------------- + +* Bugfixes + + - git-send-email did not understand aliases file for mutt, which + allows leading whitespaces. + + - git-format-patch emitted Content-Type and Content-Transfer-Encoding + headers for non ASCII contents, but failed to add MIME-Version. + + - git-name-rev had a buffer overrun with a deep history. + + - contributed script import-tars did not get the directory in + tar archives interpreted correctly. + + - git-svn was reported to segfault for many people on list and + #git; hopefully this has been fixed. + + - "git-svn clone" does not try to minimize the URL + (i.e. connect to higher level hierarchy) by default, as this + can prevent clone to fail if only part of the repository + (e.g. 'trunk') is open to public. + + - "git checkout branch^0" did not detach the head when you are + already on 'branch'; backported the fix from the 'master'. + + - "git-config section.var" did not correctly work when + existing configuration file had both [section] and [section "name"] + next to each other. + + - "git clone ../other-directory" was fooled if the current + directory $PWD points at is a symbolic link. + + - (build) tree_entry_extract() function was both static inline + and extern, which caused trouble compiling with Forte12 + compilers on Sun. + + - Many many documentation fixes and updates. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.1.6.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.1.6.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..55f3ac13e3 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.1.6.txt @@ -0,0 +1,45 @@ +GIT v1.5.1.6 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.5.1.4 +-------------------- + +* Bugfixes + + - git-send-email did not understand aliases file for mutt, which + allows leading whitespaces. + + - git-format-patch emitted Content-Type and Content-Transfer-Encoding + headers for non ASCII contents, but failed to add MIME-Version. + + - git-name-rev had a buffer overrun with a deep history. + + - contributed script import-tars did not get the directory in + tar archives interpreted correctly. + + - git-svn was reported to segfault for many people on list and + #git; hopefully this has been fixed. + + - git-svn also had a bug to crash svnserve by sending a bad + sequence of requests. + + - "git-svn clone" does not try to minimize the URL + (i.e. connect to higher level hierarchy) by default, as this + can prevent clone to fail if only part of the repository + (e.g. 'trunk') is open to public. + + - "git checkout branch^0" did not detach the head when you are + already on 'branch'; backported the fix from the 'master'. + + - "git-config section.var" did not correctly work when + existing configuration file had both [section] and [section "name"] + next to each other. + + - "git clone ../other-directory" was fooled if the current + directory $PWD points at is a symbolic link. + + - (build) tree_entry_extract() function was both static inline + and extern, which caused trouble compiling with Forte12 + compilers on Sun. + + - Many many documentation fixes and updates. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.1.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..daed367270 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,371 @@ +GIT v1.5.1 Release Notes +======================== + +Updates since v1.5.0 +-------------------- + +* Deprecated commands and options. + + - git-diff-stages and git-resolve have been removed. + +* New commands and options. + + - "git log" and friends take --reverse, which instructs them + to give their output in the order opposite from their usual. + They typically output from new to old, but with this option + their output would read from old to new. "git shortlog" + usually lists older commits first, but with this option, + they are shown from new to old. + + - "git log --pretty=format:<string>" to allow more flexible + custom log output. + + - "git diff" learned --ignore-space-at-eol. This is a weaker + form of --ignore-space-change. + + - "git diff --no-index pathA pathB" can be used as diff + replacement with git specific enhancements. + + - "git diff --no-index" can read from '-' (standard input). + + - "git diff" also learned --exit-code to exit with non-zero + status when it found differences. In the future we might + want to make this the default but that would be a rather big + backward incompatible change; it will stay as an option for + now. + + - "git diff --quiet" is --exit-code with output turned off, + meant for scripted use to quickly determine if there is any + tree-level difference. + + - Textual patch generation with "git diff" without -w/-b + option has been significantly optimized. "git blame" got + faster because of the same change. + + - "git log" and "git rev-list" has been optimized + significantly when they are used with pathspecs. + + - "git branch --track" can be used to set up configuration + variables to help it easier to base your work on branches + you track from a remote site. + + - "git format-patch --attach" now emits attachments. Use + --inline to get an inlined multipart/mixed. + + - "git name-rev" learned --refs=<pattern>, to limit the tags + used for naming the given revisions only to the ones + matching the given pattern. + + - "git remote update" is to run "git fetch" for defined remotes + to update tracking branches. + + - "git cvsimport" can now take '-d' to talk with a CVS + repository different from what are recorded in CVS/Root + (overriding it with environment CVSROOT does not work). + + - "git bundle" can help sneaker-netting your changes between + repositories. + + - "git mergetool" can help 3-way file-level conflict + resolution with your favorite graphical merge tools. + + - A new configuration "core.symlinks" can be used to disable + symlinks on filesystems that do not support them; they are + checked out as regular files instead. + + - You can name a commit object with its first line of the + message. The syntax to use is ':/message text'. E.g. + + $ git show ":/object name: introduce ':/<oneline prefix>' notation" + + means the same thing as: + + $ git show 28a4d940443806412effa246ecc7768a21553ec7 + + - "git bisect" learned a new command "run" that takes a script + to run after each revision is checked out to determine if it + is good or bad, to automate the bisection process. + + - "git log" family learned a new traversal option --first-parent, + which does what the name suggests. + + +* Updated behavior of existing commands. + + - "git-merge-recursive" used to barf when there are more than + one common ancestors for the merge, and merging them had a + rename/rename conflict. This has been fixed. + + - "git fsck" does not barf on corrupt loose objects. + + - "git rm" does not remove newly added files without -f. + + - "git archimport" allows remapping when coming up with git + branch names from arch names. + + - git-svn got almost a rewrite. + + - core.autocrlf configuration, when set to 'true', makes git + to convert CRLF at the end of lines in text files to LF when + reading from the filesystem, and convert in reverse when + writing to the filesystem. The variable can be set to + 'input', in which case the conversion happens only while + reading from the filesystem but files are written out with + LF at the end of lines. Currently, which paths to consider + 'text' (i.e. be subjected to the autocrlf mechanism) is + decided purely based on the contents, but the plan is to + allow users to explicitly override this heuristic based on + paths. + + - The behavior of 'git-apply', when run in a subdirectory, + without --index nor --cached were inconsistent with that of + the command with these options. This was fixed to match the + behavior with --index. A patch that is meant to be applied + with -p1 from the toplevel of the project tree can be + applied with any custom -p<n> option. A patch that is not + relative to the toplevel needs to be applied with -p<n> + option with or without --index (or --cached). + + - "git diff" outputs a trailing HT when pathnames have embedded + SP on +++/--- header lines, in order to help "GNU patch" to + parse its output. "git apply" was already updated to accept + this modified output format since ce74618d (Sep 22, 2006). + + - "git cvsserver" runs hooks/update and honors its exit status. + + - "git cvsserver" can be told to send everything with -kb. + + - "git diff --check" also honors the --color output option. + + - "git name-rev" used to stress the fact that a ref is a tag too + much, by saying something like "v1.2.3^0~22". It now says + "v1.2.3~22" in such a case (it still says "v1.2.3^0" if it does + not talk about an ancestor of the commit that is tagged, which + makes sense). + + - "git rev-list --boundary" now shows boundary markers for the + commits omitted by --max-age and --max-count condition. + + - The configuration mechanism now reads $(prefix)/etc/gitconfig. + + - "git apply --verbose" shows what preimage lines were wanted + when it couldn't find them. + + - "git status" in a read-only repository got a bit saner. + + - "git fetch" (hence "git clone" and "git pull") are less + noisy when the output does not go to tty. + + - "git fetch" between repositories with many refs were slow + even when there are not many changes that needed + transferring. This has been sped up by partially rewriting + the heaviest parts in C. + + - "git mailinfo" which splits an e-mail into a patch and the + meta-information was rewritten, thanks to Don Zickus. It + handles nested multipart better. The command was broken for + a brief period on 'master' branch since 1.5.0 but the + breakage is fixed now. + + - send-email learned configurable bcc and chain-reply-to. + + - "git remote show $remote" also talks about branches that + would be pushed if you run "git push remote". + + - Using objects from packs is now seriously optimized by clever + use of a cache. This should be most noticeable in git-log + family of commands that involve reading many tree objects. + In addition, traversing revisions while filtering changes + with pathspecs is made faster by terminating the comparison + between the trees as early as possible. + + +* Hooks + + - The part to send out notification e-mails was removed from + the sample update hook, as it was not an appropriate place + to do so. The proper place to do this is the new post-receive + hook. An example hook has been added to contrib/hooks/. + + +* Others + + - git-revert, git-gc and git-cherry-pick are now built-ins. + +Fixes since v1.5.0 +------------------ + +These are all in v1.5.0.x series. + +* Documentation updates + + - Clarifications and corrections to 1.5.0 release notes. + + - The main documentation did not link to git-remote documentation. + + - Clarified introductory text of git-rebase documentation. + + - Converted remaining mentions of update-index on Porcelain + documents to git-add/git-rm. + + - Some i18n.* configuration variables were incorrectly + described as core.*; fixed. + + - added and clarified core.bare, core.legacyheaders configurations. + + - updated "git-clone --depth" documentation. + + - user-manual updates. + + - Options to 'git remote add' were described insufficiently. + + - Configuration format.suffix was not documented. + + - Other formatting and spelling fixes. + + - user-manual has better cross references. + + - gitweb installation/deployment procedure is now documented. + + +* Bugfixes + + - git-upload-pack closes unused pipe ends; earlier this caused + many zombies to hang around. + + - git-rerere was recording the contents of earlier hunks + duplicated in later hunks. This prevented resolving the same + conflict when performing the same merge the other way around. + + - git-add and git-update-index on a filesystem on which + executable bits are unreliable incorrectly reused st_mode + bits even when the path changed between symlink and regular + file. + + - git-daemon marks the listening sockets with FD_CLOEXEC so + that it won't be leaked into the children. + + - segfault from git-blame when the mandatory pathname + parameter was missing was fixed; usage() message is given + instead. + + - git-rev-list did not read $GIT_DIR/config file, which means + that did not honor i18n.logoutputencoding correctly. + + - Automated merge conflict handling when changes to symbolic + links conflicted were completely broken. The merge-resolve + strategy created a regular file with conflict markers in it + in place of the symbolic link. The default strategy, + merge-recursive was even more broken. It removed the path + that was pointed at by the symbolic link. Both of these + problems have been fixed. + + - 'git diff maint master next' did not correctly give combined + diff across three trees. + + - 'git fast-import' portability fix for Solaris. + + - 'git show-ref --verify' without arguments did not error out + but segfaulted. + + - 'git diff :tracked-file `pwd`/an-untracked-file' gave an extra + slashes after a/ and b/. + + - 'git format-patch' produced too long filenames if the commit + message had too long line at the beginning. + + - Running 'make all' and then without changing anything + running 'make install' still rebuilt some files. This + was inconvenient when building as yourself and then + installing as root (especially problematic when the source + directory is on NFS and root is mapped to nobody). + + - 'git-rerere' failed to deal with two unconflicted paths that + sorted next to each other. + + - 'git-rerere' attempted to open(2) a symlink and failed if + there was a conflict. Since a conflicting change to a + symlink would not benefit from rerere anyway, the command + now ignores conflicting changes to symlinks. + + - 'git-repack' did not like to pass more than 64 arguments + internally to underlying 'rev-list' logic, which made it + impossible to repack after accumulating many (small) packs + in the repository. + + - 'git-diff' to review the combined diff during a conflicted + merge were not reading the working tree version correctly + when changes to a symbolic link conflicted. It should have + read the data using readlink(2) but read from the regular + file the symbolic link pointed at. + + - 'git-remote' did not like period in a remote's name. + + - 'git.el' honors the commit coding system from the configuration. + + - 'blameview' in contrib/ correctly digs deeper when a line is + clicked. + + - 'http-push' correctly makes sure the remote side has leading + path. Earlier it started in the middle of the path, and + incorrectly. + + - 'git-merge' did not exit with non-zero status when the + working tree was dirty and cannot fast forward. It does + now. + + - 'cvsexportcommit' does not lose yet-to-be-used message file. + + - int-vs-size_t typefix when running combined diff on files + over 2GB long. + + - 'git apply --whitespace=strip' should not touch unmodified + lines. + + - 'git-mailinfo' choke when a logical header line was too long. + + - 'git show A..B' did not error out. Negative ref ("not A" in + this example) does not make sense for the purpose of the + command, so now it errors out. + + - 'git fmt-merge-msg --file' without file parameter did not + correctly error out. + + - 'git archimport' barfed upon encountering a commit without + summary. + + - 'git index-pack' did not protect itself from getting a short + read out of pread(2). + + - 'git http-push' had a few buffer overruns. + + - Build dependency fixes to rebuild fetch.o when other headers + change. + + - git.el does not add duplicate sign-off lines. + + - git-commit shows the full stat of the resulting commit, not + just about the files in the current directory, when run from + a subdirectory. + + - "git-checkout -m '@{8 hours ago}'" had a funny failure from + eval; fixed. + + - git-merge (hence git-pull) did not refuse fast-forwarding + when the working tree had local changes that would have + conflicted with it. + + - a handful small fixes to gitweb. + + - build procedure for user-manual is fixed not to require locally + installed stylesheets. + + - "git commit $paths" on paths whose earlier contents were + already updated in the index were failing out. + + +* Tweaks + + - sliding mmap() inefficiently mmaped the same region of a + packfile with an access pattern that used objects in the + reverse order. This has been made more efficient. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.2.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.2.1.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..ebf20e22a7 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.2.1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,53 @@ +GIT v1.5.2.1 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.5.2 +------------------ + +* Bugfixes + + - Temporary files that are used when invoking external diff + programs did not tolerate a long TMPDIR. + + - git-daemon did not notice when it could not write into its + pid file. + + - git-status did not honor core.excludesFile configuration like + git-add did. + + - git-annotate did not work from a subdirectory while + git-blame did. + + - git-cvsserver should have disabled access to a repository + with "gitcvs.pserver.enabled = false" set even when + "gitcvs.enabled = true" was set at the same time. It + didn't. + + - git-cvsimport did not work correctly in a repository with + its branch heads were packed with pack-refs. + + - ident unexpansion to squash "$Id: xxx $" that is in the + repository copy removed incorrect number of bytes. + + - git-svn misbehaved when the subversion repository did not + provide MD5 checksums for files. + + - git rebase (and git am) misbehaved on commits that have '\n' + (literally backslash and en, not a linefeed) in the title. + + - code to decode base85 used in binary patches had one error + return codepath wrong. + + - RFC2047 Q encoding output by git-format-patch used '_' for a + space, which is not understood by some programs. It uses =20 + which is safer. + + - git-fastimport --import-marks was broken; fixed. + + - A lot of documentation updates, clarifications and fixes. + +-- +exec >/var/tmp/1 +O=v1.5.2-65-g996e2d6 +echo O=`git describe refs/heads/maint` +git shortlog --no-merges $O..refs/heads/maint diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.2.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.2.2.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..7bfa341750 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.2.2.txt @@ -0,0 +1,61 @@ +GIT v1.5.2.2 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.5.2.1 +-------------------- + +* Usability fix + + - git-gui is shipped with its updated blame interface. It is + rumored that the older one was not just unusable but was + active health hazard, but this one is actually pretty. + Please see for yourself. + +* Bugfixes + + - "git checkout fubar" was utterly confused when there is a + branch fubar and a tag fubar at the same time. It correctly + checks out the branch fubar now. + + - "git clone /path/foo" to clone a local /path/foo.git + repository left an incorrect configuration. + + - "git send-email" correctly unquotes RFC 2047 quoted names in + the patch-email before using their values. + + - We did not accept number of seconds since epoch older than + year 2000 as a valid timestamp. We now interpret positive + integers more than 8 digits as such, which allows us to + express timestamps more recent than March 1973. + + - git-cvsimport did not work when you have GIT_DIR to point + your repository at a nonstandard location. + + - Some systems (notably, Solaris) lack hstrerror() to make + h_errno human readable; prepare a replacement + implementation. + + - .gitignore file listed git-core.spec but what we generate is + git.spec, and nobody noticed for a long time. + + - "git-merge-recursive" does not try to run file level merge + on binary files. + + - "git-branch --track" did not create tracking configuration + correctly when the branch name had slash in it. + + - The email address of the user specified with user.email + configuration was overridden by EMAIL environment variable. + + - The tree parser did not warn about tree entries with + nonsense file modes, and assumed they must be blobs. + + - "git log -z" without any other request to generate diff still + invoked the diff machinery, wasting cycles. + +* Documentation + + - Many updates to fix stale or missing documentation. + + - Although our documentation was primarily meant to be formatted + with AsciiDoc7, formatting with AsciiDoc8 is supported better. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.2.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.2.3.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..addb22955b --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.2.3.txt @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +GIT v1.5.2.3 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.5.2.2 +-------------------- + + * Bugfixes + + - Version 2 pack index format was introduced in version 1.5.2 + to support pack files that has offset that cannot be + represented in 32-bit. The runtime code to validate such + an index mishandled such an index for an empty pack. + + - Commit walkers (most notably, fetch over http protocol) + tried to traverse commit objects contained in trees (aka + subproject); they shouldn't. + + - A build option NO_R_TO_GCC_LINKER was not explained in Makefile + comment correctly. + + * Documentation Fixes and Updates + + - git-config --regexp was not documented properly. + + - git-repack -a was not documented properly. + + - git-remote -n was not documented properly. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.2.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.2.4.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..75cff475f6 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.2.4.txt @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +GIT v1.5.2.4 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.5.2.3 +-------------------- + + * Bugfixes + + - "git-gui" bugfixes, including a handful fixes to run it + better on Cygwin/MSYS. + + - "git checkout" failed to switch back and forth between + branches, one of which has "frotz -> xyzzy" symlink and + file "xyzzy/filfre", while the other one has a file + "frotz/filfre". + + - "git prune" used to segfault upon seeing a commit that is + referred to by a tree object (aka "subproject"). + + - "git diff --name-status --no-index" mishandled an added file. + + - "git apply --reverse --whitespace=warn" still complained + about whitespaces that a forward application would have + introduced. + + * Documentation Fixes and Updates + + - A handful documentation updates. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.2.5.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.2.5.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..e8281c72a0 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.2.5.txt @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +GIT v1.5.2.5 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.5.2.4 +-------------------- + + * Bugfixes + + - "git add -u" had a serious data corruption problem in one + special case (when the changes to a subdirectory's files + consist only deletion of files). + + - "git add -u <path>" did not work from a subdirectory. + + - "git apply" left an empty directory after all its files are + renamed away. + + - "git $anycmd foo/bar", when there is a file 'foo' in the + working tree, complained that "git $anycmd foo/bar --" form + should be used to disambiguate between revs and files, + which was completely bogus. + + - "git checkout-index" and other commands that checks out + files to the work tree tried unlink(2) on directories, + which is a sane thing to do on sane systems, but not on + Solaris when you are root. + + * Documentation Fixes and Updates + + - A handful documentation fixes. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.2.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..e8328d090a --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.2.txt @@ -0,0 +1,197 @@ +GIT v1.5.2 Release Notes +======================== + +Updates since v1.5.1 +-------------------- + +* Plumbing level superproject support. + + You can include a subdirectory that has an independent git + repository in your index and tree objects of your project + ("superproject"). This plumbing (i.e. "core") level + superproject support explicitly excludes recursive behaviour. + + The "subproject" entries in the index and trees of a superproject + are incompatible with older versions of git. Experimenting with + the plumbing level support is encouraged, but be warned that + unless everybody in your project updates to this release or + later, using this feature would make your project + inaccessible by people with older versions of git. + +* Plumbing level gitattributes support. + + The gitattributes mechanism allows you to add 'attributes' to + paths in your project, and affect the way certain git + operations work. Currently you can influence if a path is + considered a binary or text (the former would be treated by + 'git diff' not to produce textual output; the latter can go + through the line endings conversion process in repositories + with core.autocrlf set), expand and unexpand '$Id$' keyword + with blob object name, specify a custom 3-way merge driver, + and specify a custom diff driver. You can also apply + arbitrary filter to contents on check-in/check-out codepath + but this feature is an extremely sharp-edged razor and needs + to be handled with caution (do not use it unless you + understand the earlier mailing list discussion on keyword + expansion). These conversions apply when checking files in + or out, and exporting via git-archive. + +* The packfile format now optionally supports 64-bit index. + + This release supports the "version 2" format of the .idx + file. This is automatically enabled when a huge packfile + needs more than 32-bit to express offsets of objects in the + pack. + +* Comes with an updated git-gui 0.7.1 + +* Updated gitweb: + + - can show combined diff for merges; + - uses font size of user's preference, not hardcoded in pixels; + - can now 'grep'; + +* New commands and options. + + - "git bisect start" can optionally take a single bad commit and + zero or more good commits on the command line. + + - "git shortlog" can optionally be told to wrap its output. + + - "subtree" merge strategy allows another project to be merged in as + your subdirectory. + + - "git format-patch" learned a new --subject-prefix=<string> + option, to override the built-in "[PATCH]". + + - "git add -u" is a quick way to do the first stage of "git + commit -a" (i.e. update the index to match the working + tree); it obviously does not make a commit. + + - "git clean" honors a new configuration, "clean.requireforce". When + set to true, this makes "git clean" a no-op, preventing you + from losing files by typing "git clean" when you meant to + say "make clean". You can still say "git clean -f" to + override this. + + - "git log" family of commands learned --date={local,relative,default} + option. --date=relative is synonym to the --relative-date. + --date=local gives the timestamp in local timezone. + +* Updated behavior of existing commands. + + - When $GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL or $GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL is not set + but $EMAIL is set, the latter is used as a substitute. + + - "git diff --stat" shows size of preimage and postimage blobs + for binary contents. Earlier it only said "Bin". + + - "git lost-found" shows stuff that are unreachable except + from reflogs. + + - "git checkout branch^0" now detaches HEAD at the tip commit + on the named branch, instead of just switching to the + branch (use "git checkout branch" to switch to the branch, + as before). + + - "git bisect next" can be used after giving only a bad commit + without giving a good one (this starts bisection half-way to + the root commit). We used to refuse to operate without a + good and a bad commit. + + - "git push", when pushing into more than one repository, does + not stop at the first error. + + - "git archive" does not insist you to give --format parameter + anymore; it defaults to "tar". + + - "git cvsserver" can use backends other than sqlite. + + - "gitview" (in contrib/ section) learned to better support + "git-annotate". + + - "git diff $commit1:$path2 $commit2:$path2" can now report + mode changes between the two blobs. + + - Local "git fetch" from a repository whose object store is + one of the alternates (e.g. fetching from the origin in a + repository created with "git clone -l -s") avoids + downloading objects unnecessarily. + + - "git blame" uses .mailmap to canonicalize the author name + just like "git shortlog" does. + + - "git pack-objects" pays attention to pack.depth + configuration variable. + + - "git cherry-pick" and "git revert" does not use .msg file in + the working tree to prepare commit message; instead it uses + $GIT_DIR/MERGE_MSG as other commands do. + +* Builds + + - git-p4import has never been installed; now there is an + installation option to do so. + + - gitk and git-gui can be configured out. + + - Generated documentation pages automatically get version + information from GIT_VERSION. + + - Parallel build with "make -j" descending into subdirectory + was fixed. + +* Performance Tweaks + + - Optimized "git-rev-list --bisect" (hence "git-bisect"). + + - Optimized "git-add $path" in a large directory, most of + whose contents are ignored. + + - Optimized "git-diff-tree" for reduced memory footprint. + + - The recursive merge strategy updated a worktree file that + was changed identically in two branches, when one of them + renamed it. We do not do that when there is no rename, so + match that behaviour. This avoids excessive rebuilds. + + - The default pack depth has been increased to 50, as the + recent addition of delta_base_cache makes deeper delta chains + much less expensive to access. Depending on the project, it was + reported that this reduces the resulting pack file by 10% + or so. + + +Fixes since v1.5.1 +------------------ + +All of the fixes in v1.5.1 maintenance series are included in +this release, unless otherwise noted. + +* Bugfixes + + - Switching branches with "git checkout" refused to work when + a path changes from a file to a directory between the + current branch and the new branch, in order not to lose + possible local changes in the directory that is being turned + into a file with the switch. We now allow such a branch + switch after making sure that there is no locally modified + file nor un-ignored file in the directory. This has not + been backported to 1.5.1.x series, as it is rather an + intrusive change. + + - Merging branches that have a file in one and a directory in + another at the same path used to get quite confused. We + handle such a case a bit more carefully, even though that is + still left as a conflict for the user to sort out. This + will not be backported to 1.5.1.x series, as it is rather an + intrusive change. + + - git-fetch had trouble with a remote with insanely large number + of refs. + + - "git clean -d -X" now does not remove non-excluded directories. + + - rebasing (without -m) a series that changes a symlink to a directory + in the middle of a path confused git-apply greatly and refused to + operate. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.3.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.3.1.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..7ff546c743 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.3.1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +GIT v1.5.3.1 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.5.3 +------------------ + +This is solely to fix the generated RPM's dependencies. We used +to have git-p4 package but we do not anymore. As suggested on +the mailing list, this release makes git-core "Obsolete" git-p4, +so that yum update would not complain. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.3.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.3.2.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..4bbde3cab4 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.3.2.txt @@ -0,0 +1,58 @@ +GIT v1.5.3.2 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.5.3.1 +-------------------- + + * git-push sent thin packs by default, which was not good for + the public distribution server (no point in saving transfer + while pushing; no point in making the resulting pack less + optimum). + + * git-svn sometimes terminated with "Malformed network data" when + talking over svn:// protocol. + + * git-send-email re-issued the same message-id about 10% of the + time if you fired off 30 messages within a single second. + + * git-stash was not terminating the log message of commits it + internally creates with LF. + + * git-apply failed to check the size of the patch hunk when its + beginning part matched the remainder of the preimage exactly, + even though the preimage recorded in the hunk was much larger + (therefore the patch should not have applied), leading to a + segfault. + + * "git rm foo && git commit foo" complained that 'foo' needs to + be added first, instead of committing the removal, which was a + nonsense. + + * git grep -c said "/dev/null: 0". + + * git-add -u failed to recognize a blob whose type changed + between the index and the work tree. + + * The limit to rename detection has been tightened a lot to + reduce performance problems with a huge change. + + * cvsimport and svnimport barfed when the input tried to move + a tag. + + * "git apply -pN" did not chop the right number of directories. + + * "git svnimport" did not like SVN tags with funny characters in them. + + * git-gui 0.8.3, with assorted fixes, including: + + - font-chooser on X11 was unusable with large number of fonts; + - a diff that contained a deleted symlink made it barf; + - an untracked symbolic link to a directory made it fart; + - a file with % in its name made it vomit; + + +Documentation updates +--------------------- + +User manual has been somewhat restructured. I think the new +organization is much easier to read. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.3.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.3.3.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..d213846951 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.3.3.txt @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +GIT v1.5.3.3 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.5.3.2 +-------------------- + + * git-quiltimport did not like it when a patch described in the + series file does not exist. + + * p4 importer missed executable bit in some cases. + + * The default shell on some FreeBSD did not execute the + argument parsing code correctly and made git unusable. + + * git-svn incorrectly spawned pager even when the user + explicitly asked not to. + + * sample post-receive hook overquoted the envelope sender + value. + + * git-am got confused when the patch contained a change that is + only about type and not contents. + + * git-mergetool did not show our and their version of the + conflicted file when started from a subdirectory of the + project. + + * git-mergetool did not pass correct options when invoking diff3. + + * git-log sometimes invoked underlying "diff" machinery + unnecessarily. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.3.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.3.4.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..b04b3a45a5 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.3.4.txt @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ +GIT v1.5.3.4 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.5.3.3 +-------------------- + + * Change to "git-ls-files" in v1.5.3.3 that was introduced to support + partial commit of removal better had a segfaulting bug, which was + diagnosed and fixed by Keith and Carl. + + * Performance improvements for rename detection has been backported + from the 'master' branch. + + * "git-for-each-ref --format='%(numparent)'" was not working + correctly at all, and --format='%(parent)' was not working for + merge commits. + + * Sample "post-receive-hook" incorrectly sent out push + notification e-mails marked as "From: " the committer of the + commit that happened to be at the tip of the branch that was + pushed, not from the person who pushed. + + * "git-remote" did not exit non-zero status upon error. + + * "git-add -i" did not respond very well to EOF from tty nor + bogus input. + + * "git-rebase -i" squash subcommand incorrectly made the + author of later commit the author of resulting commit, + instead of taking from the first one in the squashed series. + + * "git-stash apply --index" was not documented. + + * autoconfiguration learned that "ar" command is found as "gas" on + some systems. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.3.5.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.3.5.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..7ff1d5d0d1 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.3.5.txt @@ -0,0 +1,94 @@ +GIT v1.5.3.5 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.5.3.4 +-------------------- + + * Comes with git-gui 0.8.4. + + * "git-config" silently ignored options after --list; now it will + error out with a usage message. + + * "git-config --file" failed if the argument used a relative path + as it changed directories before opening the file. + + * "git-config --file" now displays a proper error message if it + cannot read the file specified on the command line. + + * "git-config", "git-diff", "git-apply" failed if run from a + subdirectory with relative GIT_DIR and GIT_WORK_TREE set. + + * "git-blame" crashed if run during a merge conflict. + + * "git-add -i" did not handle single line hunks correctly. + + * "git-rebase -i" and "git-stash apply" failed if external diff + drivers were used for one or more files in a commit. They now + avoid calling the external diff drivers. + + * "git-log --follow" did not work unless diff generation (e.g. -p) + was also requested. + + * "git-log --follow -B" did not work at all. Fixed. + + * "git-log -M -B" did not correctly handle cases of very large files + being renamed and replaced by very small files in the same commit. + + * "git-log" printed extra newlines between commits when a diff + was generated internally (e.g. -S or --follow) but not displayed. + + * "git-push" error message is more helpful when pushing to a + repository with no matching refs and none specified. + + * "git-push" now respects + (force push) on wildcard refspecs, + matching the behavior of git-fetch. + + * "git-filter-branch" now updates the working directory when it + has finished filtering the current branch. + + * "git-instaweb" no longer fails on Mac OS X. + + * "git-cvsexportcommit" didn't always create new parent directories + before trying to create new child directories. Fixed. + + * "git-fetch" printed a scary (but bogus) error message while + fetching a tag that pointed to a tree or blob. The error did + not impact correctness, only user perception. The bogus error + is no longer printed. + + * "git-ls-files --ignored" did not properly descend into non-ignored + directories that themselves contained ignored files if d_type + was not supported by the filesystem. This bug impacted systems + such as AFS. Fixed. + + * Git segfaulted when reading an invalid .gitattributes file. Fixed. + + * post-receive-email example hook was fixed for non-fast-forward + updates. + + * Documentation updates for supported (but previously undocumented) + options of "git-archive" and "git-reflog". + + * "make clean" no longer deletes the configure script that ships + with the git tarball, making multiple architecture builds easier. + + * "git-remote show origin" spewed a warning message from Perl + when no remote is defined for the current branch via + branch.<name>.remote configuration settings. + + * Building with NO_PERL_MAKEMAKER excessively rebuilt contents + of perl/ subdirectory by rewriting perl.mak. + + * http.sslVerify configuration settings were not used in scripted + Porcelains. + + * "git-add" leaked a bit of memory while scanning for files to add. + + * A few workarounds to squelch false warnings from recent gcc have + been added. + + * "git-send-pack $remote frotz" segfaulted when there is nothing + named 'frotz' on the local end. + + * "git-rebase --interactive" did not handle its "--strategy" option + properly. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.3.6.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.3.6.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..069a2b2cf9 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.3.6.txt @@ -0,0 +1,48 @@ +GIT v1.5.3.6 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.5.3.5 +-------------------- + + * git-cvsexportcommit handles root commits better. + + * git-svn dcommit used to clobber when sending a series of + patches. + + * git-svn dcommit failed after attempting to rebase when + started with a dirty index; now it stops upfront. + + * git-grep sometimes refused to work when your index was + unmerged. + + * "git-grep -A1 -B2" acted as if it was told to run "git -A1 -B21". + + * git-hash-object did not honor configuration variables, such as + core.compression. + + * git-index-pack choked on a huge pack on 32-bit machines, even when + large file offsets are supported. + + * atom feeds from git-web said "10" for the month of November. + + * a memory leak in commit walker was plugged. + + * When git-send-email inserted the original author's From: + address in body, it did not mark the message with + Content-type: as needed. + + * git-revert and git-cherry-pick incorrectly refused to start + when the work tree was dirty. + + * git-clean did not honor core.excludesfile configuration. + + * git-add mishandled ".gitignore" files when applying them to + subdirectories. + + * While importing a too branchy history, git-fastimport did not + honor delta depth limit properly. + + * Support for zlib implementations that lack ZLIB_VERNUM and definition + of deflateBound() has been added. + + * Quite a lot of documentation clarifications. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.3.7.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.3.7.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..2f690616c8 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.3.7.txt @@ -0,0 +1,45 @@ +GIT v1.5.3.7 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.5.3.6 +-------------------- + + * git-send-email added 8-bit contents to the payload without + marking it as 8-bit in a CTE header. + + * "git-bundle create a.bndl HEAD" dereferenced the symref and + did not record the ref as 'HEAD'; this prevented a bundle + from being used as a normal source of git-clone. + + * The code to reject nonsense command line of the form + "git-commit -a paths..." and "git-commit --interactive + paths..." were broken. + + * Adding a signature that is not ASCII-only to an original + commit that is ASCII-only would make the result non-ASCII. + "git-format-patch -s" did not mark such a message correctly + with MIME encoding header. + + * git-add sometimes did not mark the resulting index entry + stat-clean. This affected only cases when adding the + contents with the same length as the previously staged + contents, and the previous staging made the index entry + "racily clean". + + * git-commit did not honor GIT_INDEX_FILE the user had in the + environment. + + * When checking out a revision, git-checkout did not report where the + updated HEAD is if you happened to have a file called HEAD in the + work tree. + + * "git-rev-list --objects" mishandled a tree that points at a + submodule. + + * "git cvsimport" was not ready for packed refs that "git gc" can + produce and gave incorrect results. + + * Many scripted Porcelains were confused when you happened to have a + file called "HEAD" in your work tree. + +Also it contains updates to the user manual and documentation. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.3.8.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.3.8.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..0e3ff58a46 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.3.8.txt @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +GIT v1.5.3.8 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.5.3.7 +-------------------- + + * Some documentation used "email.com" as an example domain. + + * git-svn fix to handle funky branch and project names going over + http/https correctly. + + * git-svn fix to tone down a needlessly alarming warning message. + + * git-clone did not correctly report errors while fetching over http. + + * git-send-email added redundant Message-Id: header to the outgoing + e-mail when the patch text already had one. + + * a read-beyond-end-of-buffer bug in configuration file updater was fixed. + + * git-grep used to show the same hit repeatedly for unmerged paths. + + * After amending the patch title in "git-am -i", the command did not + report the patch it applied with the updated title. + diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.3.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..0668d3c0ca --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.3.txt @@ -0,0 +1,366 @@ +GIT v1.5.3 Release Notes +======================== + +Updates since v1.5.2 +-------------------- + +* The commit walkers other than http are officially deprecated, + but still supported for now. + +* The submodule support has Porcelain layer. + + Note that the current submodule support is minimal and this is + deliberately so. A design decision we made is that operations + at the supermodule level do not recurse into submodules by + default. The expectation is that later we would add a + mechanism to tell git which submodules the user is interested + in, and this information might be used to determine the + recursive behaviour of certain commands (e.g. "git checkout" + and "git diff"), but currently we haven't agreed on what that + mechanism should look like. Therefore, if you use submodules, + you would probably need "git submodule update" on the + submodules you care about after running a "git checkout" at + the supermodule level. + +* There are a handful pack-objects changes to help you cope better + with repositories with pathologically large blobs in them. + +* For people who need to import from Perforce, a front-end for + fast-import is in contrib/fast-import/. + +* Comes with git-gui 0.8.2. + +* Comes with updated gitk. + +* New commands and options. + + - "git log --date=<format>" can use more formats: iso8601, rfc2822. + + - The hunk header output from "git diff" family can be customized + with the attributes mechanism. See gitattributes(5) for details. + + - "git stash" allows you to quickly save away your work in + progress and replay it later on an updated state. + + - "git rebase" learned an "interactive" mode that let you + pick and reorder which commits to rebuild. + + - "git fsck" can save its findings in $GIT_DIR/lost-found, without a + separate invocation of "git lost-found" command. The blobs stored by + lost-found are stored in plain format to allow you to grep in them. + + - $GIT_WORK_TREE environment variable can be used together with + $GIT_DIR to work in a subdirectory of a working tree that is + not located at "$GIT_DIR/..". + + - Giving "--file=<file>" option to "git config" is the same as + running the command with GIT_CONFIG=<file> environment. + + - "git log" learned a new option "--follow", to follow + renaming history of a single file. + + - "git filter-branch" lets you rewrite the revision history of + specified branches. You can specify a number of filters to + modify the commits, files and trees. + + - "git cvsserver" learned new options (--base-path, --export-all, + --strict-paths) inspired by "git daemon". + + - "git daemon --base-path-relaxed" can help migrating a repository URL + that did not use to use --base-path to use --base-path. + + - "git commit" can use "-t templatefile" option and commit.template + configuration variable to prime the commit message given to you in the + editor. + + - "git submodule" command helps you manage the projects from + the superproject that contain them. + + - In addition to core.compression configuration option, + core.loosecompression and pack.compression options can + independently tweak zlib compression levels used for loose + and packed objects. + + - "git ls-tree -l" shows size of blobs pointed at by the + tree entries, similar to "/bin/ls -l". + + - "git rev-list" learned --regexp-ignore-case and + --extended-regexp options to tweak its matching logic used + for --grep filtering. + + - "git describe --contains" is a handier way to call more + obscure command "git name-rev --tags". + + - "git gc --aggressive" tells the command to spend more cycles + to optimize the repository harder. + + - "git repack" learned a "window-memory" limit which + dynamically reduces the window size to stay within the + specified memory usage. + + - "git repack" can be told to split resulting packs to avoid + exceeding limit specified with "--max-pack-size". + + - "git fsck" gained --verbose option. This is really really + verbose but it might help you identify exact commit that is + corrupt in your repository. + + - "git format-patch" learned --numbered-files option. This + may be useful for MH users. + + - "git format-patch" learned format.subjectprefix configuration + variable, which serves the same purpose as "--subject-prefix" + option. + + - "git tag -n -l" shows tag annotations while listing tags. + + - "git cvsimport" can optionally use the separate-remote layout. + + - "git blame" can be told to see through commits that change + whitespaces and indentation levels with "-w" option. + + - "git send-email" can be told not to thread the messages when + sending out more than one patches. + + - "git send-email" can also be told how to find whom to cc the + message to for each message via --cc-cmd. + + - "git config" learned NUL terminated output format via -z to + help scripts. + + - "git add" learned "--refresh <paths>..." option to selectively refresh + the cached stat information. + + - "git init -q" makes the command quieter. + + - "git -p command" now has a cousin of opposite sex, "git --no-pager + command". + +* Updated behavior of existing commands. + + - "gitweb" can offer multiple snapshot formats. + + ***NOTE*** Unfortunately, this changes the format of the + $feature{snapshot}{default} entry in the per-site + configuration file 'gitweb_config.perl'. It used to be a + three-element tuple that describe a single format; with the + new configuration item format, you only have to say the name + of the format ('tgz', 'tbz2' or 'zip'). Please update the + your configuration file accordingly. + + - "git clone" uses -l (hardlink files under .git) by default when + cloning locally. + + - URL used for "git clone" and friends can specify nonstandard SSH port + by using ssh://host:port/path/to/repo syntax. + + - "git bundle create" can now create a bundle without negative refs, + i.e. "everything since the beginning up to certain points". + + - "git diff" (but not the plumbing level "git diff-tree") now + recursively descends into trees by default. + + - "git diff" does not show differences that come only from + stat-dirtiness in the form of "diff --git" header anymore. + It runs "update-index --refresh" silently as needed. + + - "git tag -l" used to match tags by globbing its parameter as if it + has wildcard '*' on both ends, which made "git tag -l gui" to match + tag 'gitgui-0.7.0'; this was very annoying. You now have to add + asterisk on the sides you want to wildcard yourself. + + - The editor to use with many interactive commands can be + overridden with GIT_EDITOR environment variable, or if it + does not exist, with core.editor configuration variable. As + before, if you have neither, environment variables VISUAL + and EDITOR are consulted in this order, and then finally we + fall back on "vi". + + - "git rm --cached" does not complain when removing a newly + added file from the index anymore. + + - Options to "git log" to affect how --grep/--author options look for + given strings now have shorter abbreviations. -i is for ignore case, + and -E is for extended regexp. + + - "git log" learned --log-size to show the number of bytes in + the log message part of the output to help qgit. + + - "git log --name-status" does not require you to give "-r" anymore. + As a general rule, Porcelain commands should recurse when showing + diff. + + - "git format-patch --root A" can be used to format everything + since the beginning up to A. This was supported with + "git format-patch --root A A" for a long time, but was not + properly documented. + + - "git svn dcommit" retains local merge information. + + - "git svnimport" allows an empty string to be specified as the + trunk/ directory. This is necessary to suck data from a SVN + repository that doe not have trunk/ branches/ and tags/ organization + at all. + + - "git config" to set values also honors type flags like --bool + and --int. + + - core.quotepath configuration can be used to make textual git + output to emit most of the characters in the path literally. + + - "git mergetool" chooses its backend more wisely, taking + notice of its environment such as use of X, Gnome/KDE, etc. + + - "gitweb" shows merge commits a lot nicer than before. The + default view uses more compact --cc format, while the UI + allows to choose normal diff with any parent. + + - snapshot files "gitweb" creates from a repository at + $path/$project/.git are more useful. We use $project part + in the filename, which we used to discard. + + - "git cvsimport" creates lightweight tags; there is no + interesting information we can record in an annotated tag, + and the handcrafted ones the old code created was not + properly formed anyway. + + - "git push" pretends that you immediately fetched back from + the remote by updating corresponding remote tracking + branches if you have any. + + - The diffstat given after a merge (or a pull) honors the + color.diff configuration. + + - "git commit --amend" is now compatible with various message source + options such as -m/-C/-c/-F. + + - "git apply --whitespace=strip" removes blank lines added at + the end of the file. + + - "git fetch" over git native protocols with "-v" option shows + connection status, and the IP address of the other end, to + help diagnosing problems. + + - We used to have core.legacyheaders configuration, when + set to false, allowed git to write loose objects in a format + that mimics the format used by objects stored in packs. It + turns out that this was not so useful. Although we will + continue to read objects written in that format, we do not + honor that configuration anymore and create loose objects in + the legacy/traditional format. + + - "--find-copies-harder" option to diff family can now be + spelled as "-C -C" for brevity. + + - "git mailsplit" (hence "git am") can read from Maildir + formatted mailboxes. + + - "git cvsserver" does not barf upon seeing "cvs login" + request. + + - "pack-objects" honors "delta" attribute set in + .gitattributes. It does not attempt to deltify blobs that + come from paths with delta attribute set to false. + + - "new-workdir" script (in contrib) can now be used with a + bare repository. + + - "git mergetool" learned to use gvimdiff. + + - "gitview" (in contrib) has a better blame interface. + + - "git log" and friends did not handle a commit log message + that is larger than 16kB; they do now. + + - "--pretty=oneline" output format for "git log" and friends + deals with "malformed" commit log messages that have more + than one lines in the first paragraph better. We used to + show the first line, cutting the title at mid-sentence; we + concatenate them into a single line and treat the result as + "oneline". + + - "git p4import" has been demoted to contrib status. For + a superior option, checkout the "git p4" front end to + "git fast-import" (also in contrib). The man page and p4 + rpm have been removed as well. + + - "git mailinfo" (hence "am") now tries to see if the message + is in utf-8 first, instead of assuming iso-8859-1, if + incoming e-mail does not say what encoding it is in. + +* Builds + + - old-style function definitions (most notably, a function + without parameter defined with "func()", not "func(void)") + have been eradicated. + + - "git tag" and "git verify-tag" have been rewritten in C. + +* Performance Tweaks + + - "git pack-objects" avoids re-deltification cost by caching + small enough delta results it creates while looking for the + best delta candidates. + + - "git pack-objects" learned a new heuristic to prefer delta + that is shallower in depth over the smallest delta + possible. This improves both overall packfile access + performance and packfile density. + + - diff-delta code that is used for packing has been improved + to work better on big files. + + - when there are more than one pack files in the repository, + the runtime used to try finding an object always from the + newest packfile; it now tries the same packfile as we found + the object requested the last time, which exploits the + locality of references. + + - verifying pack contents done by "git fsck --full" got boost + by carefully choosing the order to verify objects in them. + + - "git read-tree -m" to read into an already populated index + has been optimized vastly. The effect of this can be seen + when switching branches that have differences in only a + handful paths. + + - "git add paths..." and "git commit paths..." has also been + heavily optimized. + +Fixes since v1.5.2 +------------------ + +All of the fixes in v1.5.2 maintenance series are included in +this release, unless otherwise noted. + +* Bugfixes + + - "gitweb" had trouble handling non UTF-8 text with older + Encode.pm Perl module. + + - "git svn" misparsed the data from the commits in the repository when + the user had "color.diff = true" in the configuration. This has been + fixed. + + - There was a case where "git svn dcommit" clobbered changes made on the + SVN side while committing multiple changes. + + - "git-write-tree" had a bad interaction with racy-git avoidance and + gitattributes mechanisms. + + - "git --bare command" overrode existing GIT_DIR setting and always + made it treat the current working directory as GIT_DIR. + + - "git ls-files --error-unmatch" does not complain if you give the + same path pattern twice by mistake. + + - "git init" autodetected core.filemode but not core.symlinks, which + made a new directory created automatically by "git clone" cumbersome + to use on filesystems that require these configurations to be set. + + - "git log" family of commands behaved differently when run as "git + log" (no pathspec) and as "git log --" (again, no pathspec). This + inconsistency was introduced somewhere in v1.3.0 series but now has + been corrected. + + - "git rebase -m" incorrectly displayed commits that were skipped. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.4.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.4.1.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..d4e44b8b09 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.4.1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +GIT v1.5.4.1 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.5.4 +------------------ + + * "git-commit -C $tag" used to work but rewrite in C done in + 1.5.4 broke it. + + * An entry in the .gitattributes file that names a pattern in a + subdirectory of the directory it is in did not match + correctly (e.g. pattern "b/*.c" in "a/.gitattributes" should + match "a/b/foo.c" but it didn't). + + * Customized color specification was parsed incorrectly when + numeric color values are used. This was fixed in 1.5.4.1. + diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.4.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.4.2.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..21d0df59fb --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.4.2.txt @@ -0,0 +1,43 @@ +GIT v1.5.4.2 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.5.4 +------------------ + + * The configuration parser was not prepared to see string + valued variables misspelled as boolean and segfaulted. + + * Temporary files left behind due to interrupted object + transfers were not cleaned up with "git prune". + + * "git config --unset" was confused when the unset variables + were spelled with continuation lines in the config file. + + * The merge message detection in "git cvsimport" did not catch + a message that began with "Merge...". + + * "git status" suggests "git rm --cached" for unstaging the + earlier "git add" before the initial commit. + + * "git status" output was incorrect during a partial commit. + + * "git bisect" refused to start when the HEAD was detached. + + * "git bisect" allowed a wildcard character in the commit + message expanded while writing its log file. + + * Manual pages were not formatted correctly with docbook xsl + 1.72; added a workaround. + + * "git-commit -C $tag" used to work but rewrite in C done in + 1.5.4 broke it. This was fixed in 1.5.4.1. + + * An entry in the .gitattributes file that names a pattern in a + subdirectory of the directory it is in did not match + correctly (e.g. pattern "b/*.c" in "a/.gitattributes" should + match "a/b/foo.c" but it didn't). This was fixed in 1.5.4.1. + + * Customized color specification was parsed incorrectly when + numeric color values are used. This was fixed in 1.5.4.1. + + * http transport misbehaved when linked with curl-gnutls. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.4.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.4.3.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..b0fc67fb2a --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.4.3.txt @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +GIT v1.5.4.3 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.5.4.2 +-------------------- + + * RPM spec used to pull in everything with 'git'. This has been + changed so that 'git' package contains just the core parts, + and we now supply 'git-all' metapackage to slurp in everything. + This should match end user's expectation better. + + * When some refs failed to update, git-push reported "failure" + which was unclear if some other refs were updated or all of + them failed atomically (the answer is the former). Reworded + the message to clarify this. + + * "git clone" from a repository whose HEAD was misconfigured + did not set up the remote properly. Now it tries to do + better. + + * Updated git-push documentation to clarify what "matching" + means, in order to reduce user confusion. + + * Updated git-add documentation to clarify "add -u" operates in + the current subdirectory you are in, just like other commands. + + * git-gui updates to work on OSX and Windows better. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.4.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.4.4.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..323c1a88c7 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.4.4.txt @@ -0,0 +1,66 @@ +GIT v1.5.4.4 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.5.4.3 +-------------------- + + * Building and installing with an overtight umask such as 077 made + installed templates unreadable by others, while the rest of the install + are done in a way that is friendly to umask 022. + + * "git cvsexportcommit -w $cvsdir" misbehaved when GIT_DIR is set to a + relative directory. + + * "git http-push" had an invalid memory access that could lead it to + segfault. + + * When "git rebase -i" gave control back to the user for a commit that is + marked to be edited, it just said "modify it with commit --amend", + without saying what to do to continue after modifying it. Give an + explicit instruction to run "rebase --continue" to be more helpful. + + * "git send-email" in 1.5.4.3 issued a bogus empty In-Reply-To: header. + + * "git bisect" showed mysterious "won't bisect on seeked tree" error message. + This was leftover from Cogito days to prevent "bisect" starting from a + cg-seeked state. We still keep the Cogito safety, but running "git bisect + start" when another bisect was in effect will clean up and start over. + + * "git push" with an explicit PATH to receive-pack did not quite work if + receive-pack was not on usual PATH. We earlier fixed the same issue + with "git fetch" and upload-pack, but somehow forgot to do so in the + other direction. + + * git-gui's info dialog was not displayed correctly when the user tries + to commit nothing (i.e. without staging anything). + + * "git revert" did not properly fail when attempting to run with a + dirty index. + + * "git merge --no-commit --no-ff <other>" incorrectly made commits. + + * "git merge --squash --no-ff <other>", which is a nonsense combination + of options, was not rejected. + + * "git ls-remote" and "git remote show" against an empty repository + failed, instead of just giving an empty result (regression). + + * "git fast-import" did not handle a renamed path whose name needs to be + quoted, due to a bug in unquote_c_style() function. + + * "git cvsexportcommit" was confused when multiple files with the same + basename needed to be pushed out in the same commit. + + * "git daemon" did not send early errors to syslog. + + * "git log --merge" did not work well with --left-right option. + + * "git svn" prompted for client cert password every time it accessed the + server. + + * The reset command in "git fast-import" data stream was documented to + end with an optional LF, but it actually required one. + + * "git svn dcommit/rebase" did not honor --rewrite-root option. + +Also included are a handful documentation updates. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.4.5.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.4.5.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..bbd130e36d --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.4.5.txt @@ -0,0 +1,56 @@ +GIT v1.5.4.5 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.5.4.4 +-------------------- + + * "git fetch there" when the URL information came from the Cogito style + branches/there file did not update refs/heads/there (regression in + 1.5.4). + + * Bogus refspec configuration such as "remote.there.fetch = =" were not + detected as errors (regression in 1.5.4). + + * You couldn't specify a custom editor whose path contains a whitespace + via GIT_EDITOR (and core.editor). + + * The subdirectory filter to "git filter-branch" mishandled a history + where the subdirectory becomes empty and then later becomes non-empty. + + * "git shortlog" gave an empty line if the original commit message was + malformed (e.g. a botched import from foreign SCM). Now it finds the + first non-empty line and uses it for better information. + + * When the user fails to give a revision parameter to "git svn", an error + from the Perl interpreter was issued because the script lacked proper + error checking. + + * After "git rebase" stopped due to conflicts, if the user played with + "git reset" and friends, "git rebase --abort" failed to go back to the + correct commit. + + * Additional work trees prepared with git-new-workdir (in contrib/) did + not share git-svn metadata directory .git/svn with the original. + + * "git-merge-recursive" did not mark addition of the same path with + different filemodes correctly as a conflict. + + * "gitweb" gave malformed URL when pathinfo stype paths are in use. + + * "-n" stands for "--no-tags" again for "git fetch". + + * "git format-patch" did not detect the need to add 8-bit MIME header + when the user used format.header configuration. + + * "rev~" revision specifier used to mean "rev", which was inconsistent + with how "rev^" worked. Now "rev~" is the same as "rev~1" (hence it + also is the same as "rev^1"), and "rev~0" is the same as "rev^0" + (i.e. it has to be a commit). + + * "git quiltimport" did not grok empty lines, lines in "file -pNNN" + format to specify the prefix levels and lines with trailing comments. + + * "git rebase -m" triggered pre-commit verification, which made + "rebase --continue" impossible. + +As usual, it also comes with many documentation fixes and clarifications. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.4.6.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.4.6.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..3e3c3e55a3 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.4.6.txt @@ -0,0 +1,43 @@ +GIT v1.5.4.6 Release Notes +========================== + +I personally do not think there is any reason anybody should want to +run v1.5.4.X series these days, because 'master' version is always +more stable than any tagged released version of git. + +This is primarily to futureproof "git-shell" to accept requests +without a dash between "git" and subcommand name (e.g. "git +upload-pack") which the newer client will start to make sometime in +the future. + +Fixes since v1.5.4.5 +-------------------- + + * Command line option "-n" to "git-repack" was not correctly parsed. + + * Error messages from "git-apply" when the patchfile cannot be opened + have been improved. + + * Error messages from "git-bisect" when given nonsense revisions have + been improved. + + * reflog syntax that uses time e.g. "HEAD@{10 seconds ago}:path" did not + stop parsing at the closing "}". + + * "git rev-parse --symbolic-full-name ^master^2" printed solitary "^", + but it should print nothing. + + * "git apply" did not enforce "match at the beginning" correctly. + + * a path specification "a/b" in .gitattributes file should not match + "sub/a/b", but it did. + + * "git log --date-order --topo-order" did not override the earlier + date-order with topo-order as expected. + + * "git fast-export" did not export octopus merges correctly. + + * "git archive --prefix=$path/" mishandled gitattributes. + +As usual, it also comes with many documentation fixes and clarifications. + diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.4.7.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.4.7.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..9065a0e273 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.4.7.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +GIT v1.5.4.7 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since 1.5.4.7 +------------------- + + * Removed support for an obsolete gitweb request URI, whose + implementation ran "git diff" Porcelain, instead of using plumbing, + which would have run an external diff command specified in the + repository configuration as the gitweb user. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.4.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..f1323b6174 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.4.txt @@ -0,0 +1,377 @@ +GIT v1.5.4 Release Notes +======================== + +Removal +------- + + * "git svnimport" was removed in favor of "git svn". It is still there + in the source tree (contrib/examples) but unsupported. + + * As git-commit and git-status have been rewritten, "git runstatus" + helper script lost all its users and has been removed. + + +Temporarily disabled +-------------------- + + * "git http-push" is known not to work well with cURL library older + than 7.16, and we had reports of repository corruption. It is + disabled on such platforms for now. Unfortunately, 1.5.3.8 shares + the same issue. In other words, this does not mean you will be + fine if you stick to an older git release. For now, please do not + use http-push from older git with cURL older than 7.16 if you + value your data. A proper fix will hopefully materialize in + later versions. + + +Deprecation notices +------------------- + + * From v1.6.0, git will by default install dashed form of commands + (e.g. "git-commit") outside of users' normal $PATH, and will install + only selected commands ("git" itself, and "gitk") in $PATH. This + implies: + + - Using dashed forms of git commands (e.g. "git-commit") from the + command line has been informally deprecated since early 2006, but + now it officially is, and will be removed in the future. Use + dash-less forms (e.g. "git commit") instead. + + - Using dashed forms from your scripts, without first prepending the + return value from "git --exec-path" to the scripts' PATH, has been + informally deprecated since early 2006, but now it officially is. + + - Use of dashed forms with "PATH=$(git --exec-path):$PATH; export + PATH" early in your script is not deprecated with this change. + + Users are strongly encouraged to adjust their habits and scripts now + to prepare for this change. + + * The post-receive hook was introduced in March 2007 to supersede + the post-update hook, primarily to overcome the command line length + limitation of the latter. Use of post-update hook will be deprecated + in future versions of git, starting from v1.6.0. + + * "git lost-found" was deprecated in favor of "git fsck"'s --lost-found + option, and will be removed in the future. + + * "git peek-remote" is deprecated, as "git ls-remote" was written in C + and works for all transports; "git peek-remote" will be removed in + the future. + + * "git repo-config" which was an old name for "git config" command + has been supported without being advertised for a long time. The + next feature release will remove it. + + * From v1.6.0, the repack.usedeltabaseoffset config option will default + to true, which will give denser packfiles (i.e. more efficient storage). + The downside is that git older than version 1.4.4 will not be able + to directly use a repository packed using this setting. + + * From v1.6.0, the pack.indexversion config option will default to 2, + which is slightly more efficient, and makes repacking more immune to + data corruptions. Git older than version 1.5.2 may revert to version 1 + of the pack index with a manual "git index-pack" to be able to directly + access corresponding pack files. + + +Updates since v1.5.3 +-------------------- + + * Comes with much improved gitk, with i18n. + + * Comes with git-gui 0.9.2 with i18n. + + * gitk is now merged as a subdirectory of git.git project, in + preparation for its i18n. + + * progress displays from many commands are a lot nicer to the eye. + Transfer commands show throughput data. + + * many commands that pay attention to per-directory .gitignore now do + so lazily, which makes the usual case go much faster. + + * Output processing for '--pretty=format:<user format>' has been + optimized. + + * Rename detection of diff family while detecting exact matches has + been greatly optimized. + + * Rename detection of diff family tries to make more natural looking + pairing. Earlier, if multiple identical rename sources were + found in the preimage, the source used was picked pretty much at random. + + * Value "true" for color.diff and color.status configuration used to + mean "always" (even when the output is not going to a terminal). + This has been corrected to mean the same thing as "auto". + + * "git diff" Porcelain now respects diff.external configuration, which + is another way to specify GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF. + + * "git diff" can be told to use different prefixes other than + "a/" and "b/" e.g. "git diff --src-prefix=l/ --dst-prefix=k/". + + * "git diff" sometimes did not quote paths with funny + characters properly. + + * "git log" (and any revision traversal commands) misbehaved + when --diff-filter is given but was not asked to actually + produce diff. + + * HTTP proxy can be specified per remote repository using + remote.*.httpproxy configuration, or global http.proxy configuration + variable. + + * Various Perforce importer updates. + + * Example update and post-receive hooks have been improved. + + * Any command that wants to take a commit object name can now use + ":/string" syntax to name a commit. + + * "git reset" is now built-in and its output can be squelched with -q. + + * "git reset --hard" does not make any sense in a bare + repository, but did not error out; fixed. + + * "git send-email" can optionally talk over ssmtp and use SMTP-AUTH. + + * "git rebase" learned --whitespace option. + + * In "git rebase", when you decide not to replay a particular change + after the command stopped with a conflict, you can say "git rebase + --skip" without first running "git reset --hard", as the command now + runs it for you. + + * "git rebase --interactive" mode can now work on detached HEAD. + + * Other minor to serious bugs in "git rebase -i" have been fixed. + + * "git rebase" now detaches head during its operation, so after a + successful "git rebase" operation, the reflog entry branch@{1} for + the current branch points at the commit before the rebase was + started. + + * "git rebase -i" also triggers rerere to help your repeated merges. + + * "git merge" can call the "post-merge" hook. + + * "git pack-objects" can optionally run deltification with multiple + threads. + + * "git archive" can optionally substitute keywords in files marked with + export-subst attribute. + + * "git cherry-pick" made a misguided attempt to repeat the original + command line in the generated log message, when told to cherry-pick a + commit by naming a tag that points at it. It does not anymore. + + * "git for-each-ref" learned %(xxxdate:<date-format>) syntax to show the + various date fields in different formats. + + * "git gc --auto" is a low-impact way to automatically run a variant of + "git repack" that does not lose unreferenced objects (read: safer + than the usual one) after the user accumulates too many loose + objects. + + * "git clean" has been rewritten in C. + + * You need to explicitly set clean.requireForce to "false" to allow + "git clean" without -f to do any damage (lack of the configuration + variable used to mean "do not require -f option to lose untracked + files", but we now use the safer default). + + * The kinds of whitespace errors "git diff" and "git apply" notice (and + fix) can be controlled via 'core.whitespace' configuration variable + and 'whitespace' attribute in .gitattributes file. + + * "git push" learned --dry-run option to show what would happen if a + push is run. + + * "git push" does not update a tracking ref on the local side when the + remote refused to update the corresponding ref. + + * "git push" learned --mirror option. This is to push the local refs + one-to-one to the remote, and deletes refs from the remote that do + not exist anymore in the repository on the pushing side. + + * "git push" can remove a corrupt ref at the remote site with the usual + ":ref" refspec. + + * "git remote" knows --mirror mode. This is to set up configuration to + push into a remote repository to store local branch heads to the same + branch on the remote side, and remove branch heads locally removed + from local repository at the same time. Suitable for pushing into a + back-up repository. + + * "git remote" learned "rm" subcommand. + + * "git cvsserver" can be run via "git shell". Also, "cvs" is + recognized as a synonym for "git cvsserver", so that CVS users + can be switched to git just by changing their login shell. + + * "git cvsserver" acts more like receive-pack by running post-receive + and post-update hooks. + + * "git am" and "git rebase" are far less verbose. + + * "git pull" learned to pass --[no-]ff option to underlying "git + merge". + + * "git pull --rebase" is a different way to integrate what you fetched + into your current branch. + + * "git fast-export" produces data-stream that can be fed to fast-import + to reproduce the history recorded in a git repository. + + * "git add -i" takes pathspecs to limit the set of files to work on. + + * "git add -p" is a short-hand to go directly to the selective patch + subcommand in the interactive command loop and to exit when done. + + * "git add -i" UI has been colorized. The interactive prompt + and menu can be colored by setting color.interactive + configuration. The diff output (including the hunk picker) + are colored with color.diff configuration. + + * "git commit --allow-empty" allows you to create a single-parent + commit that records the same tree as its parent, overriding the usual + safety valve. + + * "git commit --amend" can amend a merge that does not change the tree + from its first parent. + + * "git commit" used to unconditionally strip comment lines that + began with '#' and removed excess blank lines. This behavior has + been made configurable. + + * "git commit" has been rewritten in C. + + * "git stash random-text" does not create a new stash anymore. It was + a UI mistake. Use "git stash save random-text", or "git stash" + (without extra args) for that. + + * "git stash clear extra-text" does not clear the whole stash + anymore. It is tempting to expect "git stash clear stash@{2}" + to drop only a single named stash entry, and it is rude to + discard everything when that is asked (but not provided). + + * "git prune --expire <time>" can exempt young loose objects from + getting pruned. + + * "git branch --contains <commit>" can list branches that are + descendants of a given commit. + + * "git log" learned --early-output option to help interactive GUI + implementations. + + * "git bisect" learned "skip" action to mark untestable commits. + + * "git bisect visualize" learned a shorter synonym "git bisect view". + + * "git bisect visualize" runs "git log" in a non-windowed + environments. It also can be told what command to run (e.g. "git + bisect visualize tig"). + + * "git format-patch" learned "format.numbered" configuration variable + to automatically turn --numbered option on when more than one commits + are formatted. + + * "git ls-files" learned "--exclude-standard" to use the canned set of + exclude files. + + * "git tag -a -f existing" begins the editor session using the existing + annotation message. + + * "git tag -m one -m bar" (multiple -m options) behaves similarly to + "git commit"; the parameters to -m options are formatted as separate + paragraphs. + + * The format "git show" outputs an annotated tag has been updated to + include "Tagger: " and "Date: " lines from the tag itself. Strictly + speaking this is a backward incompatible change, but this is a + reasonable usability fix and people's scripts shouldn't have been + relying on the exact output from "git show" Porcelain anyway. + + * "git cvsimport" did not notice errors from underlying "cvsps" + and produced a corrupt import silently. + + * "git cvsexportcommit" learned -w option to specify and switch to the + CVS working directory. + + * "git checkout" from a subdirectory learned to use "../path" to allow + checking out a path outside the current directory without cd'ing up. + + * "git checkout" from and to detached HEAD leaves a bit more + information in the reflog. + + * "git send-email --dry-run" shows full headers for easier diagnosis. + + * "git merge-ours" is now built-in. + + * "git svn" learned "info" and "show-externals" subcommands. + + * "git svn" run from a subdirectory failed to read settings from the + .git/config. + + * "git svn" learned --use-log-author option, which picks up more + descriptive name from From: and Signed-off-by: lines in the commit + message. + + * "git svn" wasted way too much disk to record revision mappings + between svn and git; a new representation that is much more compact + for this information has been introduced to correct this. + + * "git svn" left temporary index files it used without cleaning them + up; this was corrected. + + * "git status" from a subdirectory now shows relative paths, which + makes copy-and-pasting for git-checkout/git-add/git-rm easier. The + traditional behavior to show the full path relative to the top of + the work tree can be had by setting status.relativepaths + configuration variable to false. + + * "git blame" kept text for each annotated revision in core needlessly; + this has been corrected. + + * "git shortlog" learned to default to HEAD when the standard input is + a terminal and the user did not give any revision parameter. + + * "git shortlog" learned "-e" option to show e-mail addresses as well as + authors' names. + + * "git help" learned "-w" option to show documentation in browsers. + + * In addition there are quite a few internal clean-ups. Notably: + + - many fork/exec have been replaced with run-command API, + brought from the msysgit effort. + + - introduction and more use of the option parser API. + + - enhancement and more use of the strbuf API. + + * Makefile tweaks to support HP-UX is in. + +Fixes since v1.5.3 +------------------ + +All of the fixes in v1.5.3 maintenance series are included in +this release, unless otherwise noted. + +These fixes are only in v1.5.4 and not backported to v1.5.3 maintenance +series. + + * The way "git diff --check" behaves is much more consistent with the way + "git apply --whitespace=warn" works. + + * "git svn" talking with the SVN over HTTP will correctly quote branch + and project names. + + * "git config" did not work correctly on platforms that define + REG_NOMATCH to an even number. + + * Recent versions of AsciiDoc 8 has a change to break our + documentation; a workaround has been implemented. + + * "git diff --color-words" colored context lines in a wrong color. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.5.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.5.1.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..7de419708f --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.5.1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,44 @@ +GIT v1.5.5.1 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.5.5 +------------------ + + * "git archive --prefix=$path/" mishandled gitattributes. + + * "git fetch -v" that fetches into FETCH_HEAD did not report the summary + the same way as done for updating the tracking refs. + + * "git svn" misbehaved when the configuration file customized the "git + log" output format using format.pretty. + + * "git submodule status" leaked an unnecessary error message. + + * "git log --date-order --topo-order" did not override the earlier + date-order with topo-order as expected. + + * "git bisect good $this" did not check the validity of the revision + given properly. + + * "url.<there>.insteadOf" did not work correctly. + + * "git clean" ran inside subdirectory behaved as if the directory was + explicitly specified for removal by the end user from the top level. + + * "git bisect" from a detached head leaked an unnecessary error message. + + * "git bisect good $a $b" when $a is Ok but $b is bogus should have + atomically failed before marking $a as good. + + * "git fmt-merge-msg" did not clean up leading empty lines from commit + log messages like "git log" family does. + + * "git am" recorded a commit with empty Subject: line without + complaining. + + * when given a commit log message whose first paragraph consists of + multiple lines, "git rebase" squashed it into a single line. + + * "git remote add $bogus_name $url" did not complain properly. + +Also comes with various documentation updates. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.5.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.5.2.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..391a7b02ea --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.5.2.txt @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +GIT v1.5.5.2 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.5.5.1 +-------------------- + + * "git repack -n" was mistakenly made no-op earlier. + + * "git imap-send" wanted to always have imap.host even when use of + imap.tunnel made it unnecessary. + + * reflog syntax that uses time e.g. "HEAD@{10 seconds ago}:path" did not + stop parsing at the closing "}". + + * "git rev-parse --symbolic-full-name ^master^2" printed solitary "^", + but it should print nothing. + + * "git commit" did not detect when it failed to write tree objects. + + * "git fetch" sometimes transferred too many objects unnecessarily. + + * a path specification "a/b" in .gitattributes file should not match + "sub/a/b". + + * various gitweb fixes. + +Also comes with various documentation updates. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.5.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.5.3.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..f22f98b734 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.5.3.txt @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +GIT v1.5.5.3 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.5.5.2 +-------------------- + + * "git send-email --compose" did not notice that non-ascii contents + needed some MIME magic. + + * "git fast-export" did not export octopus merges correctly. + +Also comes with various documentation updates. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.5.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.5.4.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..2d0279ecce --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.5.4.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +GIT v1.5.5.4 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.5.5.4 +-------------------- + + * "git name-rev --all" used to segfault. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.5.5.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.5.5.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..30fa3615c7 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.5.5.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +GIT v1.5.5.5 Release Notes +========================== + +I personally do not think there is any reason anybody should want to +run v1.5.5.X series these days, because 'master' version is always +more stable than any tagged released version of git. + +This is primarily to futureproof "git-shell" to accept requests +without a dash between "git" and subcommand name (e.g. "git +upload-pack") which the newer client will start to make sometime in +the future. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.5.6.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.5.6.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..d5e85cb70e --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.5.6.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +GIT v1.5.5.6 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since 1.5.5.5 +------------------- + + * Removed support for an obsolete gitweb request URI, whose + implementation ran "git diff" Porcelain, instead of using plumbing, + which would have run an external diff command specified in the + repository configuration as the gitweb user. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.5.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.5.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..2932212488 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.5.txt @@ -0,0 +1,207 @@ +GIT v1.5.5 Release Notes +======================== + +Updates since v1.5.4 +-------------------- + +(subsystems) + + * Comes with git-gui 0.10.1 + +(portability) + + * We shouldn't ask for BSD group ownership semantics by setting g+s bit + on directories on older BSD systems that refuses chmod() by non root + users. BSD semantics is the default there anyway. + + * Bunch of portability improvement patches coming from an effort to port + to Solaris has been applied. + +(performance) + + * On platforms with suboptimal qsort(3) implementation, there + is an option to use more reasonable substitute we ship with + our software. + + * New configuration variable "pack.packsizelimit" can be used + in place of command line option --max-pack-size. + + * "git fetch" over the native git protocol used to make a + connection to find out the set of current remote refs and + another to actually download the pack data. We now use only + one connection for these tasks. + + * "git commit" does not run lstat(2) more than necessary + anymore. + +(usability, bells and whistles) + + * Bash completion script (in contrib) are aware of more commands and + options. + + * You can be warned when core.autocrlf conversion is applied in + such a way that results in an irreversible conversion. + + * A catch-all "color.ui" configuration variable can be used to + enable coloring of all color-capable commands, instead of + individual ones such as "color.status" and "color.branch". + + * The commands refused to take absolute pathnames where they + require pathnames relative to the work tree or the current + subdirectory. They now can take absolute pathnames in such a + case as long as the pathnames do not refer outside of the + work tree. E.g. "git add $(pwd)/foo" now works. + + * Error messages used to be sent to stderr, only to get hidden, + when $PAGER was in use. They now are sent to stdout along + with the command output to be shown in the $PAGER. + + * A pattern "foo/" in .gitignore file now matches a directory + "foo". Pattern "foo" also matches as before. + + * bash completion's prompt helper function can talk about + operation in-progress (e.g. merge, rebase, etc.). + + * Configuration variables "url.<usethis>.insteadof = <otherurl>" can be + used to tell "git-fetch" and "git-push" to use different URL than what + is given from the command line. + + * "git add -i" behaves better even before you make an initial commit. + + * "git am" refused to run from a subdirectory without a good reason. + + * After "git apply --whitespace=fix" fixes whitespace errors in a patch, + a line before the fix can appear as a context or preimage line in a + later patch, causing the patch not to apply. The command now knows to + see through whitespace fixes done to context lines to successfully + apply such a patch series. + + * "git branch" (and "git checkout -b") to branch from a local branch can + optionally set "branch.<name>.merge" to mark the new branch to build on + the other local branch, when "branch.autosetupmerge" is set to + "always", or when passing the command line option "--track" (this option + was ignored when branching from local branches). By default, this does + not happen when branching from a local branch. + + * "git checkout" to switch to a branch that has "branch.<name>.merge" set + (i.e. marked to build on another branch) reports how much the branch + and the other branch diverged. + + * When "git checkout" has to update a lot of paths, it used to be silent + for 4 seconds before it showed any progress report. It is now a bit + more impatient and starts showing progress report early. + + * "git commit" learned a new hook "prepare-commit-msg" that can + inspect what is going to be committed and prepare the commit + log message template to be edited. + + * "git cvsimport" can now take more than one -M options. + + * "git describe" learned to limit the tags to be used for + naming with --match option. + + * "git describe --contains" now barfs when the named commit + cannot be described. + + * "git describe --exact-match" describes only commits that are tagged. + + * "git describe --long" describes a tagged commit as $tag-0-$sha1, + instead of just showing the exact tagname. + + * "git describe" warns when using a tag whose name and path contradict + with each other. + + * "git diff" learned "--relative" option to limit and output paths + relative to the current directory when working in a subdirectory. + + * "git diff" learned "--dirstat" option to show birds-eye-summary of + changes more concisely than "--diffstat". + + * "git format-patch" learned --cover-letter option to generate a cover + letter template. + + * "git gc" learned --quiet option. + + * "git gc" now automatically prunes unreachable objects that are two + weeks old or older. + + * "git gc --auto" can be disabled more easily by just setting gc.auto + to zero. It also tolerates more packfiles by default. + + * "git grep" now knows "--name-only" is a synonym for the "-l" option. + + * "git help <alias>" now reports "'git <alias>' is alias to <what>", + instead of saying "No manual entry for git-<alias>". + + * "git help" can use different backends to show manual pages and this can + be configured using "man.viewer" configuration. + + * "gitk" does not restore window position from $HOME/.gitk anymore (it + still restores the size). + + * "git log --grep=<what>" learned "--fixed-strings" option to look for + <what> without treating it as a regular expression. + + * "git gui" learned an auto-spell checking. + + * "git push <somewhere> HEAD" and "git push <somewhere> +HEAD" works as + expected; they push the current branch (and only the current branch). + In addition, HEAD can be written as the value of "remote.<there>.push" + configuration variable. + + * When the configuration variable "pack.threads" is set to 0, "git + repack" auto detects the number of CPUs and uses that many threads. + + * "git send-email" learned to prompt for passwords + interactively. + + * "git send-email" learned an easier way to suppress CC + recipients. + + * "git stash" learned "pop" command, that applies the latest stash and + removes it from the stash, and "drop" command to discard the named + stash entry. + + * "git submodule" learned a new subcommand "summary" to show the + symmetric difference between the HEAD version and the work tree version + of the submodule commits. + + * Various "git cvsimport", "git cvsexportcommit", "git cvsserver", + "git svn" and "git p4" improvements. + +(internal) + + * Duplicated code between git-help and git-instaweb that + launches user's preferred browser has been refactored. + + * It is now easier to write test scripts that records known + breakages. + + * "git checkout" is rewritten in C. + + * "git remote" is rewritten in C. + + * Two conflict hunks that are separated by a very short span of common + lines are now coalesced into one larger hunk, to make the result easier + to read. + + * Run-command API's use of file descriptors is documented clearer and + is more consistent now. + + * diff output can be sent to FILE * that is different from stdout. This + will help reimplementing more things in C. + +Fixes since v1.5.4 +------------------ + +All of the fixes in v1.5.4 maintenance series are included in +this release, unless otherwise noted. + + * "git-http-push" did not allow deletion of remote ref with the usual + "push <remote> :<branch>" syntax. + + * "git-rebase --abort" did not go back to the right location if + "git-reset" was run during the "git-rebase" session. + + * "git imap-send" without setting imap.host did not error out but + segfaulted. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.6.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.6.1.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..4864b16445 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.6.1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +GIT v1.5.6.1 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.5.6 +------------------ + +* Last minute change broke loose object creation on AIX. + +* (performance fix) We used to make $GIT_DIR absolute path early in the + programs but keeping it relative to the current directory internally + gives 1-3 per-cent performance boost. + +* bash completion knows the new --graph option to git-log family. + + +* git-diff -c/--cc showed unnecessary "deletion" lines at the context + boundary. + +* git-for-each-ref ignored %(object) and %(type) requests for tag + objects. + +* git-merge usage had a typo. + +* Rebuilding of git-svn metainfo database did not take rewriteRoot + option into account. + +* Running "git-rebase --continue/--skip/--abort" before starting a + rebase gave nonsense error messages. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.6.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.6.2.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..5902a85a78 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.6.2.txt @@ -0,0 +1,40 @@ +GIT v1.5.6.2 Release Notes +========================== + +Futureproof +----------- + + * "git-shell" accepts requests without a dash between "git" and + subcommand name (e.g. "git upload-pack") which the newer client will + start to make sometime in the future. + +Fixes since v1.5.6.1 +-------------------- + +* "git clone" from a remote that is named with url.insteadOf setting in + $HOME/.gitconfig did not work well. + +* "git describe --long --tags" segfaulted when the described revision was + tagged with a lightweight tag. + +* "git diff --check" did not report the result via its exit status + reliably. + +* When remote side used to have branch 'foo' and git-fetch finds that now + it has branch 'foo/bar', it refuses to lose the existing remote tracking + branch and its reflog. The error message has been improved to suggest + pruning the remote if the user wants to proceed and get the latest set + of branches from the remote, including such 'foo/bar'. + +* "git reset file" should mean the same thing as "git reset HEAD file", + but we required disambiguating -- even when "file" is not ambiguous. + +* "git show" segfaulted when an annotated tag that points at another + annotated tag was given to it. + +* Optimization for a large import via "git-svn" introduced in v1.5.6 had a + serious memory and temporary file leak, which made it unusable for + moderately large import. + +* "git-svn" mangled remote nickname used in the configuration file + unnecessarily. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.6.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.6.3.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..f61dd3504a --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.6.3.txt @@ -0,0 +1,52 @@ +GIT v1.5.6.3 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.5.6.2 +-------------------- + +* Setting core.sharedrepository to traditional "true" value was supposed to make + the repository group writable but should not affect permission for others. + However, since 1.5.6, it was broken to drop permission for others when umask is + 022, making the repository unreadable by others. + +* Setting GIT_TRACE will report spawning of external process via run_command(). + +* Using an object with very deep delta chain pinned memory needed for extracting + intermediate base objects unnecessarily long, leading to excess memory usage. + +* Bash completion script did not notice '--' marker on the command + line and tried the relatively slow "ref completion" even when + completing arguments after one. + +* Registering a non-empty blob racily and then truncating the working + tree file for it confused "racy-git avoidance" logic into thinking + that the path is now unchanged. + +* The section that describes attributes related to git-archive were placed + in a wrong place in the gitattributes(5) manual page. + +* "git am" was not helpful to the users when it detected that the committer + information is not set up properly yet. + +* "git clone" had a leftover debugging fprintf(). + +* "git clone -q" was not quiet enough as it used to and gave object count + and progress reports. + +* "git clone" marked downloaded packfile with .keep; this could be a + good thing if the remote side is well packed but otherwise not, + especially for a project that is not really big. + +* "git daemon" used to call syslog() from a signal handler, which + could raise signals of its own but generally is not reentrant. This + was fixed by restructuring the code to report syslog() after the handler + returns. + +* When "git push" tries to remove a remote ref, and corresponding + tracking ref is missing, we used to report error (i.e. failure to + remove something that does not exist). + +* "git mailinfo" (hence "git am") did not handle commit log messages in a + MIME multipart mail correctly. + +Contains other various documentation fixes. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.6.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.6.4.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..d8968f1ecb --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.6.4.txt @@ -0,0 +1,47 @@ +GIT v1.5.6.4 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.5.6.3 +-------------------- + +* Various commands could overflow its internal buffer on a platform + with small PATH_MAX value in a repository that has contents with + long pathnames. + +* There wasn't a way to make --pretty=format:%<> specifiers to honor + .mailmap name rewriting for authors and committers. Now you can with + %aN and %cN. + +* Bash completion wasted too many cycles; this has been optimized to be + usable again. + +* Bash completion lost ref part when completing something like "git show + pu:Makefile". + +* "git-cvsserver" did not clean up its temporary working area after annotate + request. + +* "git-daemon" called syslog() from its signal handler, which was a + no-no. + +* "git-fetch" into an empty repository used to remind that the fetch will + be huge by saying "no common commits", but this was an unnecessary + noise; it is already known by the user anyway. + +* "git-http-fetch" would have segfaulted when pack idx file retrieved + from the other side was corrupt. + +* "git-index-pack" used too much memory when dealing with a deep delta chain. + +* "git-mailinfo" (hence "git-am") did not correctly handle in-body [PATCH] + line to override the commit title taken from the mail Subject header. + +* "git-rebase -i -p" lost parents that are not involved in the history + being rewritten. + +* "git-rm" lost track of where the index file was when GIT_DIR was + specified as a relative path. + +* "git-rev-list --quiet" was not quiet as advertised. + +Contains other various documentation fixes. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.6.5.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.6.5.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..47ca172462 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.6.5.txt @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +GIT v1.5.6.5 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.5.6.4 +-------------------- + +* "git cvsimport" used to spit out "UNKNOWN LINE..." diagnostics to stdout. + +* "git commit -F filename" and "git tag -F filename" run from subdirectories + did not read the right file. + +* "git init --template=" with blank "template" parameter linked files + under root directories to .git, which was a total nonsense. Instead, it + means "I do not want to use anything from the template directory". + +* "git diff-tree" and other diff plumbing ignored diff.renamelimit configuration + variable when the user explicitly asked for rename detection. + +* "git name-rev --name-only" did not work when "--stdin" option was in effect. + +* "git show-branch" mishandled its 8th branch. + +* Addition of "git update-index --ignore-submodules" that happened during + 1.5.6 cycle broke "git update-index --ignore-missing". + +* "git send-email" did not parse charset from an existing Content-type: + header properly. + +Contains other various documentation fixes. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.6.6.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.6.6.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..79da23db5a --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.6.6.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +GIT v1.5.6.6 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since 1.5.6.5 +------------------- + + * Removed support for an obsolete gitweb request URI, whose + implementation ran "git diff" Porcelain, instead of using plumbing, + which would have run an external diff command specified in the + repository configuration as the gitweb user. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.6.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.6.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..e143d8d61b --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.6.txt @@ -0,0 +1,115 @@ +GIT v1.5.6 Release Notes +======================== + +Updates since v1.5.5 +-------------------- + +(subsystems) + +* Comes with updated gitk and git-gui. + +(portability) + +* git will build on AIX better than before now. + +* core.ignorecase configuration variable can be used to work better on + filesystems that are not case sensitive. + +* "git init" now autodetects the case sensitivity of the filesystem and + sets core.ignorecase accordingly. + +* cpio is no longer used; neither "curl" binary (libcurl is still used). + +(documentation) + +* Many freestanding documentation pages have been converted and made + available to "git help" (aka "man git<something>") as section 7 of + the manual pages. This means bookmarks to some HTML documentation + files may need to be updated (eg "tutorial.html" became + "gittutorial.html"). + +(performance) + +* "git clone" was rewritten in C. This will hopefully help cloning a + repository with insane number of refs. + +* "git rebase --onto $there $from $branch" used to switch to the tip of + $branch only to immediately reset back to $from, smudging work tree + files unnecessarily. This has been optimized. + +* Object creation codepath in "git-svn" has been optimized by enhancing + plumbing commands git-cat-file and git-hash-object. + +(usability, bells and whistles) + +* "git add -p" (and the "patch" subcommand of "git add -i") can choose to + apply (or not apply) mode changes independently from contents changes. + +* "git bisect help" gives longer and more helpful usage information. + +* "git bisect" does not use a special branch "bisect" anymore; instead, it + does its work on a detached HEAD. + +* "git branch" (and "git checkout -b") can be told to set up + branch.<name>.rebase automatically, so that later you can say "git pull" + and magically cause "git pull --rebase" to happen. + +* "git branch --merged" and "git branch --no-merged" can be used to list + branches that have already been merged (or not yet merged) to the + current branch. + +* "git cherry-pick" and "git revert" can add a sign-off. + +* "git commit" mentions the author identity when you are committing + somebody else's changes. + +* "git diff/log --dirstat" output is consistent between binary and textual + changes. + +* "git filter-branch" rewrites signed tags by demoting them to annotated. + +* "git format-patch --no-binary" can produce a patch that lack binary + changes (i.e. cannot be used to propagate the whole changes) meant only + for reviewing. + +* "git init --bare" is a synonym for "git --bare init" now. + +* "git gc --auto" honors a new pre-auto-gc hook to temporarily disable it. + +* "git log --pretty=tformat:<custom format>" gives a LF after each entry, + instead of giving a LF between each pair of entries which is how + "git log --pretty=format:<custom format>" works. + +* "git log" and friends learned the "--graph" option to show the ancestry + graph at the left margin of the output. + +* "git log" and friends can be told to use date format that is different + from the default via 'log.date' configuration variable. + +* "git send-email" now can send out messages outside a git repository. + +* "git send-email --compose" was made aware of rfc2047 quoting. + +* "git status" can optionally include output from "git submodule + summary". + +* "git svn" learned --add-author-from option to propagate the authorship + by munging the commit log message. + +* new object creation and looking up in "git svn" has been optimized. + +* "gitweb" can read from a system-wide configuration file. + +(internal) + +* "git unpack-objects" and "git receive-pack" is now more strict about + detecting breakage in the objects they receive over the wire. + + +Fixes since v1.5.5 +------------------ + +All of the fixes in v1.5.5 maintenance series are included in +this release, unless otherwise noted. + +And there are too numerous small fixes to otherwise note here ;-) diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.0.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.0.1.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..49d7a1cafa --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.0.1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ +GIT v1.6.0.1 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.6.0 +------------------ + +* "git diff --cc" did not honor content mangling specified by + gitattributes and core.autocrlf when reading from the work tree. + +* "git diff --check" incorrectly detected new trailing blank lines when + whitespace check was in effect. + +* "git for-each-ref" tried to dereference NULL when asked for '%(body)" on + a tag with a single incomplete line as its payload. + +* "git format-patch" peeked before the beginning of a string when + "format.headers" variable is empty (a misconfiguration). + +* "git help help" did not work correctly. + +* "git mailinfo" (hence "git am") was unhappy when MIME multipart message + contained garbage after the finishing boundary. + +* "git mailinfo" also was unhappy when the "From: " line only had a bare + e-mail address. + +* "git merge" did not refresh the index correctly when a merge resulted in + a fast-forward. + +* "git merge" did not resolve a truly trivial merges that can be done + without content level merges. + +* "git svn dcommit" to a repository with URL that has embedded usernames + did not work correctly. + +Contains other various documentation fixes. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.0.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.0.2.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..e1e24b3295 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.0.2.txt @@ -0,0 +1,87 @@ +GIT v1.6.0.2 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.6.0.1 +-------------------- + +* Installation on platforms that needs .exe suffix to git-* programs were + broken in 1.6.0.1. + +* Installation on filesystems without symbolic links support did not + work well. + +* In-tree documentations and test scripts now use "git foo" form to set a + better example, instead of the "git-foo" form (which is an acceptable + form if you have "PATH=$(git --exec-path):$PATH" in your script) + +* Many commands did not use the correct working tree location when used + with GIT_WORK_TREE environment settings. + +* Some systems need to use compatibility fnmatch and regex libraries + independent from each other; the compat/ area has been reorganized to + allow this. + + +* "git apply --unidiff-zero" incorrectly applied a -U0 patch that inserts + a new line before the second line. + +* "git blame -c" did not exactly work like "git annotate" when range + boundaries are involved. + +* "git checkout file" when file is still unmerged checked out contents from + a random high order stage, which was confusing. + +* "git clone $there $here/" with extra trailing slashes after explicit + local directory name $here did not work as expected. + +* "git diff" on tracked contents with CRLF line endings did not drive "less" + intelligently when showing added or removed lines. + +* "git diff --dirstat -M" did not add changes in subdirectories up + correctly for renamed paths. + +* "git diff --cumulative" did not imply "--dirstat". + +* "git for-each-ref refs/heads/" did not work as expected. + +* "git gui" allowed users to feed patch without any context to be applied. + +* "git gui" botched parsing "diff" output when a line that begins with two + dashes and a space gets removed or a line that begins with two pluses + and a space gets added. + +* "git gui" translation updates and i18n fixes. + +* "git index-pack" is more careful against disk corruption while completing + a thin pack. + +* "git log -i --grep=pattern" did not ignore case; neither "git log -E + --grep=pattern" triggered extended regexp. + +* "git log --pretty="%ad" --date=short" did not use short format when + showing the timestamp. + +* "git log --author=author" match incorrectly matched with the + timestamp part of "author " line in commit objects. + +* "git log -F --author=author" did not work at all. + +* Build procedure for "git shell" that used stub versions of some + functions and globals was not understood by linkers on some platforms. + +* "git stash" was fooled by a stat-dirty but otherwise unmodified paths + and refused to work until the user refreshed the index. + +* "git svn" was broken on Perl before 5.8 with recent fixes to reduce + use of temporary files. + +* "git verify-pack -v" did not work correctly when given more than one + packfile. + +Also contains many documentation updates. + +-- +exec >/var/tmp/1 +O=v1.6.0.1-78-g3632cfc +echo O=$(git describe maint) +git shortlog --no-merges $O..maint diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.0.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.0.3.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..ae0577836a --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.0.3.txt @@ -0,0 +1,117 @@ +GIT v1.6.0.3 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.6.0.2 +-------------------- + +* "git archive --format=zip" did not honor core.autocrlf while + --format=tar did. + +* Continuing "git rebase -i" was very confused when the user left modified + files in the working tree while resolving conflicts. + +* Continuing "git rebase -i" was also very confused when the user left + some staged changes in the index after "edit". + +* "git rebase -i" now honors the pre-rebase hook, just like the + other rebase implementations "git rebase" and "git rebase -m". + +* "git rebase -i" incorrectly aborted when there is no commit to replay. + +* Behaviour of "git diff --quiet" was inconsistent with "diff --exit-code" + with the output redirected to /dev/null. + +* "git diff --no-index" on binary files no longer outputs a bogus + "diff --git" header line. + +* "git diff" hunk header patterns with multiple elements separated by LF + were not used correctly. + +* Hunk headers in "git diff" default to using extended regular + expressions, fixing some of the internal patterns on non-GNU + platforms. + +* New config "diff.*.xfuncname" exposes extended regular expressions + for user specified hunk header patterns. + +* "git gc" when ejecting otherwise unreachable objects from packfiles into + loose form leaked memory. + +* "git index-pack" was recently broken and mishandled objects added by + thin-pack completion processing under memory pressure. + +* "git index-pack" was recently broken and misbehaved when run from inside + .git/objects/pack/ directory. + +* "git stash apply sash@{1}" was fixed to error out. Prior versions + would have applied stash@{0} incorrectly. + +* "git stash apply" now offers a better suggestion on how to continue + if the working tree is currently dirty. + +* "git for-each-ref --format=%(subject)" fixed for commits with no + no newline in the message body. + +* "git remote" fixed to protect printf from user input. + +* "git remote show -v" now displays all URLs of a remote. + +* "git checkout -b branch" was confused when branch already existed. + +* "git checkout -q" once again suppresses the locally modified file list. + +* "git clone -q", "git fetch -q" asks remote side to not send + progress messages, actually making their output quiet. + +* Cross-directory renames are no longer used when creating packs. This + allows more graceful behavior on filesystems like sshfs. + +* Stale temporary files under $GIT_DIR/objects/pack are now cleaned up + automatically by "git prune". + +* "git merge" once again removes directories after the last file has + been removed from it during the merge. + +* "git merge" did not allocate enough memory for the structure itself when + enumerating the parents of the resulting commit. + +* "git blame -C -C" no longer segfaults while trying to pass blame if + it encounters a submodule reference. + +* "git rm" incorrectly claimed that you have local modifications when a + path was merely stat-dirty. + +* "git svn" fixed to display an error message when 'set-tree' failed, + instead of a Perl compile error. + +* "git submodule" fixed to handle checking out a different commit + than HEAD after initializing the submodule. + +* The "git commit" error message when there are still unmerged + files present was clarified to match "git write-tree". + +* "git init" was confused when core.bare or core.sharedRepository are set + in system or user global configuration file by mistake. When --bare or + --shared is given from the command line, these now override such + settings made outside the repositories. + +* Some segfaults due to uncaught NULL pointers were fixed in multiple + tools such as apply, reset, update-index. + +* Solaris builds now default to OLD_ICONV=1 to avoid compile warnings; + Solaris 8 does not define NEEDS_LIBICONV by default. + +* "Git.pm" tests relied on unnecessarily more recent version of Perl. + +* "gitweb" triggered undef warning on commits without log messages. + +* "gitweb" triggered undef warnings on missing trees. + +* "gitweb" now removes PATH_INFO from its URLs so users don't have + to manually set the URL in the gitweb configuration. + +* Bash completion removed support for legacy "git-fetch", "git-push" + and "git-pull" as these are no longer installed. Dashless form + ("git fetch") is still however supported. + +Many other documentation updates. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.0.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.0.4.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..d522661d31 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.0.4.txt @@ -0,0 +1,39 @@ +GIT v1.6.0.4 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.6.0.3 +-------------------- + +* 'git add -p' said "No changes" when only binary files were changed. + +* 'git archive' did not work correctly in bare repositories. + +* 'git checkout -t -b newbranch' when you are on detached HEAD was broken. + +* when we refuse to detect renames because there are too many new or + deleted files, 'git diff' did not say how many there are. + +* 'git push --mirror' tried and failed to push the stash; there is no + point in sending it to begin with. + +* 'git push' did not update the remote tracking reference if the corresponding + ref on the remote end happened to be already up to date. + +* 'git pull $there $branch:$current_branch' did not work when you were on + a branch yet to be born. + +* when giving up resolving a conflicted merge, 'git reset --hard' failed + to remove new paths from the working tree. + +* 'git send-email' had a small fd leak while scanning directory. + +* 'git status' incorrectly reported a submodule directory as an untracked + directory. + +* 'git svn' used deprecated 'git-foo' form of subcommand invocation. + +* 'git update-ref -d' to remove a reference did not honor --no-deref option. + +* Plugged small memleaks here and there. + +* Also contains many documentation updates. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.0.5.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.0.5.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..a08bb96738 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.0.5.txt @@ -0,0 +1,56 @@ +GIT v1.6.0.5 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.6.0.4 +-------------------- + +* "git checkout" used to crash when your HEAD was pointing at a deleted + branch. + +* "git checkout" from an un-checked-out state did not allow switching out + of the current branch. + +* "git diff" always allowed GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF and --no-ext-diff was no-op for + the command. + +* Giving 3 or more tree-ish to "git diff" is supposed to show the combined + diff from second and subsequent trees to the first one, but the order was + screwed up. + +* "git fast-export" did not export all tags. + +* "git ls-files --with-tree=<tree>" did not work with options other + than -c, most notably with -m. + +* "git pack-objects" did not make its best effort to honor --max-pack-size + option when a single first object already busted the given limit and + placed many objects in a single pack. + +* "git-p4" fast import frontend was too eager to trigger its keyword expansion + logic, even on a keyword-looking string that does not have closing '$' on the + same line. + +* "git push $there" when the remote $there is defined in $GIT_DIR/branches/$there + behaves more like what cg-push from Cogito used to work. + +* when giving up resolving a conflicted merge, "git reset --hard" failed + to remove new paths from the working tree. + +* "git tag" did not complain when given mutually incompatible set of options. + +* The message constructed in the internal editor was discarded when "git + tag -s" failed to sign the message, which was often caused by the user + not configuring GPG correctly. + +* "make check" cannot be run without sparse; people may have meant to say + "make test" instead, so suggest that. + +* Internal diff machinery had a corner case performance bug that choked on + a large file with many repeated contents. + +* "git repack" used to grab objects out of packs marked with .keep + into a new pack. + +* Many unsafe call to sprintf() style varargs functions are corrected. + +* Also contains quite a few documentation updates. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.0.6.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.0.6.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..64ece1ffd5 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.0.6.txt @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +GIT v1.6.0.6 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since 1.6.0.5 +------------------- + + * "git fsck" had a deep recursion that wasted stack space. + + * "git fast-export" and "git fast-import" choked on an old style + annotated tag that lack the tagger information. + + * "git mergetool -- file" did not correctly skip "--" marker that + signals the end of options list. + + * "git show $tag" segfaulted when an annotated $tag pointed at a + nonexistent object. + + * "git show 2>error" when the standard output is automatically redirected + to the pager redirected the standard error to the pager as well; there + was no need to. + + * "git send-email" did not correctly handle list of addresses when + they had quoted comma (e.g. "Lastname, Givenname" <mail@addre.ss>). + + * Logic to discover branch ancestry in "git svn" was unreliable when + the process to fetch history was interrupted. + + * Removed support for an obsolete gitweb request URI, whose + implementation ran "git diff" Porcelain, instead of using plumbing, + which would have run an external diff command specified in the + repository configuration as the gitweb user. + +Also contains numerous documentation typofixes. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..de7ef166b6 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,258 @@ +GIT v1.6.0 Release Notes +======================== + +User visible changes +-------------------- + +With the default Makefile settings, most of the programs are now +installed outside your $PATH, except for "git", "gitk" and +some server side programs that need to be accessible for technical +reasons. Invoking a git subcommand as "git-xyzzy" from the command +line has been deprecated since early 2006 (and officially announced in +1.5.4 release notes); use of them from your scripts after adding +output from "git --exec-path" to the $PATH is still supported in this +release, but users are again strongly encouraged to adjust their +scripts to use "git xyzzy" form, as we will stop installing +"git-xyzzy" hardlinks for built-in commands in later releases. + +An earlier change to page "git status" output was overwhelmingly unpopular +and has been reverted. + +Source changes needed for porting to MinGW environment are now all in the +main git.git codebase. + +By default, packfiles created with this version uses delta-base-offset +encoding introduced in v1.4.4. Pack idx files are using version 2 that +allows larger packs and added robustness thanks to its CRC checking, +introduced in v1.5.2 and v1.4.4.5. If you want to keep your repositories +backwards compatible past these versions, set repack.useDeltaBaseOffset +to false or pack.indexVersion to 1, respectively. + +We used to prevent sample hook scripts shipped in templates/ from +triggering by default by relying on the fact that we install them as +unexecutable, but on some filesystems, this approach does not work. +They are now shipped with ".sample" suffix. If you want to activate +any of these samples as-is, rename them to drop the ".sample" suffix, +instead of running "chmod +x" on them. For example, you can rename +hooks/post-update.sample to hooks/post-update to enable the sample +hook that runs update-server-info, in order to make repositories +friendly to dumb protocols (i.e. HTTP). + +GIT_CONFIG, which was only documented as affecting "git config", but +actually affected all git commands, now only affects "git config". +GIT_LOCAL_CONFIG, also only documented as affecting "git config" and +not different from GIT_CONFIG in a useful way, is removed. + +The ".dotest" temporary area "git am" and "git rebase" use is now moved +inside the $GIT_DIR, to avoid mistakes of adding it to the project by +accident. + +An ancient merge strategy "stupid" has been removed. + + +Updates since v1.5.6 +-------------------- + +(subsystems) + +* git-p4 in contrib learned "allowSubmit" configuration to control on + which branch to allow "submit" subcommand. + +* git-gui learned to stage changes per-line. + +(portability) + +* Changes for MinGW port have been merged, thanks to Johannes Sixt and + gangs. + +* Sample hook scripts shipped in templates/ are now suffixed with + *.sample. + +* perl's in-place edit (-i) does not work well without backup files on Windows; + some tests are rewritten to cope with this. + +(documentation) + +* Updated howto/update-hook-example + +* Got rid of usage of "git-foo" from the tutorial and made typography + more consistent. + +* Disambiguating "--" between revs and paths is finally documented. + +(performance, robustness, sanity etc.) + +* index-pack used too much memory when dealing with a deep delta chain. + This has been optimized. + +* reduced excessive inlining to shrink size of the "git" binary. + +* verify-pack checks the object CRC when using version 2 idx files. + +* When an object is corrupt in a pack, the object became unusable even + when the same object is available in a loose form, We now try harder to + fall back to these redundant objects when able. In particular, "git + repack -a -f" can be used to fix such a corruption as long as necessary + objects are available. + +* Performance of "git-blame -C -C" operation is vastly improved. + +* git-clone does not create refs in loose form anymore (it behaves as + if you immediately ran git-pack-refs after cloning). This will help + repositories with insanely large number of refs. + +* core.fsyncobjectfiles configuration can be used to ensure that the loose + objects created will be fsync'ed (this is only useful on filesystems + that does not order data writes properly). + +* "git commit-tree" plumbing can make Octopus with more than 16 parents. + "git commit" has been capable of this for quite some time. + +(usability, bells and whistles) + +* even more documentation pages are now accessible via "man" and "git help". + +* A new environment variable GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES can be used to stop + the discovery process of the toplevel of working tree; this may be useful + when you are working in a slow network disk and are outside any working tree, + as bash-completion and "git help" may still need to run in these places. + +* By default, stash entries never expire. Set reflogexpire in [gc + "refs/stash"] to a reasonable value to get traditional auto-expiration + behaviour back + +* Longstanding latency issue with bash completion script has been + addressed. This will need to be backmerged to 'maint' later. + +* pager.<cmd> configuration variable can be used to enable/disable the + default paging behaviour per command. + +* "git-add -i" has a new action 'e/dit' to allow you edit the patch hunk + manually. + +* git-am records the original tip of the branch in ORIG_HEAD before it + starts applying patches. + +* git-apply can handle a patch that touches the same path more than once + much better than before. + +* git-apply can be told not to trust the line counts recorded in the input + patch but recount, with the new --recount option. + +* git-apply can be told to apply a patch to a path deeper than what the + patch records with --directory option. + +* git-archive can be told to omit certain paths from its output using + export-ignore attributes. + +* git-archive uses the zlib default compression level when creating + zip archive. + +* git-archive's command line options --exec and --remote can take their + parameters as separate command line arguments, similar to other commands. + IOW, both "--exec=path" and "--exec path" are now supported. + +* With -v option, git-branch describes the remote tracking statistics + similar to the way git-checkout reports by how many commits your branch + is ahead/behind. + +* git-branch's --contains option used to always require a commit parameter + to limit the branches with; it now defaults to list branches that + contains HEAD if this parameter is omitted. + +* git-branch's --merged and --no-merged option used to always limit the + branches relative to the HEAD, but they can now take an optional commit + argument that is used in place of HEAD. + +* git-bundle can read the revision arguments from the standard input. + +* git-cherry-pick can replay a root commit now. + +* git-clone can clone from a remote whose URL would be rewritten by + configuration stored in $HOME/.gitconfig now. + +* "git-clone --mirror" is a handy way to set up a bare mirror repository. + +* git-cvsserver learned to respond to "cvs co -c". + +* git-diff --check now checks leftover merge conflict markers. + +* "git-diff -p" learned to grab a better hunk header lines in + BibTex, Pascal/Delphi, and Ruby files and also pays attention to + chapter and part boundary in TeX documents. + +* When remote side used to have branch 'foo' and git-fetch finds that now + it has branch 'foo/bar', it refuses to lose the existing remote tracking + branch and its reflog. The error message has been improved to suggest + pruning the remote if the user wants to proceed and get the latest set + of branches from the remote, including such 'foo/bar'. + +* fast-export learned to export and import marks file; this can be used to + interface with fast-import incrementally. + +* fast-import and fast-export learned to export and import gitlinks. + +* "gitk" left background process behind after being asked to dig very deep + history and the user killed the UI; the process is killed when the UI goes + away now. + +* git-rebase records the original tip of branch in ORIG_HEAD before it is + rewound. + +* "git rerere" can be told to update the index with auto-reused resolution + with rerere.autoupdate configuration variable. + +* git-rev-parse learned $commit^! and $commit^@ notations used in "log" + family. These notations are available in gitk as well, because the gitk + command internally uses rev-parse to interpret its arguments. + +* git-rev-list learned --children option to show child commits it + encountered during the traversal, instead of showing parent commits. + +* git-send-mail can talk not just over SSL but over TLS now. + +* git-shortlog honors custom output format specified with "--pretty=format:". + +* "git-stash save" learned --keep-index option. This lets you stash away the + local changes and bring the changes staged in the index to your working + tree for examination and testing. + +* git-stash also learned branch subcommand to create a new branch out of + stashed changes. + +* git-status gives the remote tracking statistics similar to the way + git-checkout reports by how many commits your branch is ahead/behind. + +* "git-svn dcommit" is now aware of auto-props setting the subversion user + has. + +* You can tell "git status -u" to even more aggressively omit checking + untracked files with --untracked-files=no. + +* Original SHA-1 value for "update-ref -d" is optional now. + +* Error codes from gitweb are made more descriptive where possible, rather + than "403 forbidden" as we used to issue everywhere. + +(internal) + +* git-merge has been reimplemented in C. + + +Fixes since v1.5.6 +------------------ + +All of the fixes in v1.5.6 maintenance series are included in +this release, unless otherwise noted. + + * git-clone ignored its -u option; the fix needs to be backported to + 'maint'; + + * git-mv used to lose the distinction between changes that are staged + and that are only in the working tree, by staging both in the index + after moving such a path. + + * "git-rebase -i -p" rewrote the parents to wrong ones when amending + (either edit or squash) was involved, and did not work correctly + when fast forwarding. + diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.1.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.1.1.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..8c594ba02f --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.1.1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,59 @@ +GIT v1.6.1.1 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.6.1 +------------------ + +* "git add frotz/nitfol" when "frotz" is a submodule should have errored + out, but it didn't. + +* "git apply" took file modes from the patch text and updated the mode + bits of the target tree even when the patch was not about mode changes. + +* "git bisect view" on Cygwin did not launch gitk + +* "git checkout $tree" did not trigger an error. + +* "git commit" tried to remove COMMIT_EDITMSG from the work tree by mistake. + +* "git describe --all" complained when a commit is described with a tag, + which was nonsense. + +* "git diff --no-index --" did not trigger no-index (aka "use git-diff as + a replacement of diff on untracked files") behaviour. + +* "git format-patch -1 HEAD" on a root commit failed to produce patch + text. + +* "git fsck branch" did not work as advertised; instead it behaved the same + way as "git fsck". + +* "git log --pretty=format:%s" did not handle a multi-line subject the + same way as built-in log listers (i.e. shortlog, --pretty=oneline, etc.) + +* "git daemon", and "git merge-file" are more careful when freopen fails + and barf, instead of going on and writing to unopened filehandle. + +* "git http-push" did not like some RFC 4918 compliant DAV server + responses. + +* "git merge -s recursive" mistakenly overwritten an untracked file in the + work tree upon delete/modify conflict. + +* "git merge -s recursive" didn't leave the index unmerged for entries with + rename/delete conflicts. + +* "git merge -s recursive" clobbered untracked files in the work tree. + +* "git mv -k" with more than one erroneous paths misbehaved. + +* "git read-tree -m -u" hence branch switching incorrectly lost a + subdirectory in rare cases. + +* "git rebase -i" issued an unnecessary error message upon a user error of + marking the first commit to be "squash"ed. + +* "git shortlog" did not format a commit message with multi-line + subject correctly. + +Many documentation updates. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.1.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.1.2.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..be37cbb858 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.1.2.txt @@ -0,0 +1,39 @@ +GIT v1.6.1.2 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.6.1.1 +-------------------- + +* The logic for rename detection in internal diff used by commands like + "git diff" and "git blame" has been optimized to avoid loading the same + blob repeatedly. + +* We did not allow writing out a blob that is larger than 2GB for no good + reason. + +* "git format-patch -o $dir", when $dir is a relative directory, used it + as relative to the root of the work tree, not relative to the current + directory. + +* v1.6.1 introduced an optimization for "git push" into a repository (A) + that borrows its objects from another repository (B) to avoid sending + objects that are available in repository B, when they are not yet used + by repository A. However the code on the "git push" sender side was + buggy and did not work when repository B had new objects that are not + known by the sender. This caused pushing into a "forked" repository + served by v1.6.1 software using "git push" from v1.6.1 sometimes did not + work. The bug was purely on the "git push" sender side, and has been + corrected. + +* "git status -v" did not paint its diff output in colour even when + color.ui configuration was set. + +* "git ls-tree" learned --full-tree option to help Porcelain scripts that + want to always see the full path regardless of the current working + directory. + +* "git grep" incorrectly searched in work tree paths even when they are + marked as assume-unchanged. It now searches in the index entries. + +* "git gc" with no grace period needlessly ejected packed but unreachable + objects in their loose form, only to delete them right away. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.1.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.1.3.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..6f0bde156a --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.1.3.txt @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ +GIT v1.6.1.3 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.6.1.2 +-------------------- + +* "git diff --binary | git apply" pipeline did not work well when + a binary blob is changed to a symbolic link. + +* Some combinations of -b/-w/--ignore-space-at-eol to "git diff" did + not work as expected. + +* "git grep" did not pass the -I (ignore binary) option when + calling out an external grep program. + +* "git log" and friends include HEAD to the set of starting points + when --all is given. This makes a difference when you are not + on any branch. + +* "git mv" to move an untracked file to overwrite a tracked + contents misbehaved. + +* "git merge -s octopus" with many potential merge bases did not + work correctly. + +* RPM binary package installed the html manpages in a wrong place. + +Also includes minor documentation fixes and updates. + + +-- +git shortlog --no-merges v1.6.1.2-33-gc789350.. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.1.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.1.4.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..0ce6316d75 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.1.4.txt @@ -0,0 +1,44 @@ +GIT v1.6.1.4 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.6.1.3 +-------------------- + +* .gitignore learned to handle backslash as a quoting mechanism for + comment introduction character "#". + This fix was first merged to 1.6.2.1. + +* "git fast-export" produced wrong output with some parents missing from + commits, when the history is clock-skewed. + +* "git fast-import" sometimes failed to read back objects it just wrote + out and aborted, because it failed to flush stale cached data. + +* "git-ls-tree" and "git-diff-tree" used a pathspec correctly when + deciding to descend into a subdirectory but they did not match the + individual paths correctly. This caused pathspecs "abc/d ab" to match + "abc/0" ("abc/d" made them decide to descend into the directory "abc/", + and then "ab" incorrectly matched "abc/0" when it shouldn't). + This fix was first merged to 1.6.2.3. + +* import-zips script (in contrib) did not compute the common directory + prefix correctly. + This fix was first merged to 1.6.2.2. + +* "git init" segfaulted when given an overlong template location via + the --template= option. + This fix was first merged to 1.6.2.4. + +* "git repack" did not error out when necessary object was missing in the + repository. + +* git-repack (invoked from git-gc) did not work as nicely as it should in + a repository that borrows objects from neighbours via alternates + mechanism especially when some packs are marked with the ".keep" flag + to prevent them from being repacked. + This fix was first merged to 1.6.2.3. + +Also includes minor documentation fixes and updates. + +-- +git shortlog --no-merges v1.6.1.3.. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.1.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..adb7ccab0a --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,286 @@ +GIT v1.6.1 Release Notes +======================== + +Updates since v1.6.0 +-------------------- + +When some commands (e.g. "git log", "git diff") spawn pager internally, we +used to make the pager the parent process of the git command that produces +output. This meant that the exit status of the whole thing comes from the +pager, not the underlying git command. We swapped the order of the +processes around and you will see the exit code from the command from now +on. + +(subsystems) + +* gitk can call out to git-gui to view "git blame" output; git-gui in turn + can run gitk from its blame view. + +* Various git-gui updates including updated translations. + +* Various gitweb updates from repo.or.cz installation. + +* Updates to emacs bindings. + +(portability) + +* A few test scripts used nonportable "grep" that did not work well on + some platforms, e.g. Solaris. + +* Sample pre-auto-gc script has OS X support. + +* Makefile has support for (ancient) FreeBSD 4.9. + +(performance) + +* Many operations that are lstat(3) heavy can be told to pre-execute + necessary lstat(3) in parallel before their main operations, which + potentially gives much improved performance for cold-cache cases or in + environments with weak metadata caching (e.g. NFS). + +* The underlying diff machinery to produce textual output has been + optimized, which would result in faster "git blame" processing. + +* Most of the test scripts (but not the ones that try to run servers) + can be run in parallel. + +* Bash completion of refnames in a repository with massive number of + refs has been optimized. + +* Cygwin port uses native stat/lstat implementations when applicable, + which leads to improved performance. + +* "git push" pays attention to alternate repositories to avoid sending + unnecessary objects. + +* "git svn" can rebuild an out-of-date rev_map file. + +(usability, bells and whistles) + +* When you mistype a command name, git helpfully suggests what it guesses + you might have meant to say. help.autocorrect configuration can be set + to a non-zero value to accept the suggestion when git can uniquely + guess. + +* The packfile machinery hopefully is more robust when dealing with + corrupt packs if redundant objects involved in the corruption are + available elsewhere. + +* "git add -N path..." adds the named paths as an empty blob, so that + subsequent "git diff" will show a diff as if they are creation events. + +* "git add" gained a built-in synonym for people who want to say "stage + changes" instead of "add contents to the staging area" which amounts + to the same thing. + +* "git apply" learned --include=paths option, similar to the existing + --exclude=paths option. + +* "git bisect" is careful about a user mistake and suggests testing of + merge base first when good is not a strict ancestor of bad. + +* "git bisect skip" can take a range of commits. + +* "git blame" re-encodes the commit metainfo to UTF-8 from i18n.commitEncoding + by default. + +* "git check-attr --stdin" can check attributes for multiple paths. + +* "git checkout --track origin/hack" used to be a syntax error. It now + DWIMs to create a corresponding local branch "hack", i.e. acts as if you + said "git checkout --track -b hack origin/hack". + +* "git checkout --ours/--theirs" can be used to check out one side of a + conflicting merge during conflict resolution. + +* "git checkout -m" can be used to recreate the initial conflicted state + during conflict resolution. + +* "git cherry-pick" can also utilize rerere for conflict resolution. + +* "git clone" learned to be verbose with -v + +* "git commit --author=$name" can look up author name from existing + commits. + +* output from "git commit" has been reworded in a more concise and yet + more informative way. + +* "git count-objects" reports the on-disk footprint for packfiles and + their corresponding idx files. + +* "git daemon" learned --max-connections=<count> option. + +* "git daemon" exports REMOTE_ADDR to record client address, so that + spawned programs can act differently on it. + +* "git describe --tags" favours closer lightweight tags than farther + annotated tags now. + +* "git diff" learned to mimic --suppress-blank-empty from GNU diff via a + configuration option. + +* "git diff" learned to put more sensible hunk headers for Python, + HTML and ObjC contents. + +* "git diff" learned to vary the a/ vs b/ prefix depending on what are + being compared, controlled by diff.mnemonicprefix configuration. + +* "git diff" learned --dirstat-by-file to count changed files, not number + of lines, when summarizing the global picture. + +* "git diff" learned "textconv" filters --- a binary or hard-to-read + contents can be munged into human readable form and the difference + between the results of the conversion can be viewed (obviously this + cannot produce a patch that can be applied, so this is disabled in + format-patch among other things). + +* "--cached" option to "git diff has an easier to remember synonym "--staged", + to ask "what is the difference between the given commit and the + contents staged in the index?" + +* "git for-each-ref" learned "refname:short" token that gives an + unambiguously abbreviated refname. + +* Auto-numbering of the subject lines is the default for "git + format-patch" now. + +* "git grep" learned to accept -z similar to GNU grep. + +* "git help" learned to use GIT_MAN_VIEWER environment variable before + using "man" program. + +* "git imap-send" can optionally talk SSL. + +* "git index-pack" is more careful against disk corruption while + completing a thin pack. + +* "git log --check" and "git log --exit-code" passes their underlying diff + status with their exit status code. + +* "git log" learned --simplify-merges, a milder variant of --full-history; + "gitk --simplify-merges" is easier to view than with --full-history. + +* "git log" learned "--source" to show what ref each commit was reached + from. + +* "git log" also learned "--simplify-by-decoration" to show the + birds-eye-view of the topology of the history. + +* "git log --pretty=format:" learned "%d" format element that inserts + names of tags that point at the commit. + +* "git merge --squash" and "git merge --no-ff" into an unborn branch are + noticed as user errors. + +* "git merge -s $strategy" can use a custom built strategy if you have a + command "git-merge-$strategy" on your $PATH. + +* "git pull" (and "git fetch") can be told to operate "-v"erbosely or + "-q"uietly. + +* "git push" can be told to reject deletion of refs with receive.denyDeletes + configuration. + +* "git rebase" honours pre-rebase hook; use --no-verify to bypass it. + +* "git rebase -p" uses interactive rebase machinery now to preserve the merges. + +* "git reflog expire branch" can be used in place of "git reflog expire + refs/heads/branch". + +* "git remote show $remote" lists remote branches one-per-line now. + +* "git send-email" can be given revision range instead of files and + maildirs on the command line, and automatically runs format-patch to + generate patches for the given revision range. + +* "git submodule foreach" subcommand allows you to iterate over checked + out submodules. + +* "git submodule sync" subcommands allows you to update the origin URL + recorded in submodule directories from the toplevel .gitmodules file. + +* "git svn branch" can create new branches on the other end. + +* "gitweb" can use more saner PATH_INFO based URL. + +(internal) + +* "git hash-object" learned to lie about the path being hashed, so that + correct gitattributes processing can be done while hashing contents + stored in a temporary file. + +* various callers of git-merge-recursive avoid forking it as an external + process. + +* Git class defined in "Git.pm" can be subclasses a bit more easily. + +* We used to link GNU regex library as a compatibility layer for some + platforms, but it turns out it is not necessary on most of them. + +* Some path handling routines used fixed number of buffers used alternately + but depending on the call depth, this arrangement led to hard to track + bugs. This issue is being addressed. + + +Fixes since v1.6.0 +------------------ + +All of the fixes in v1.6.0.X maintenance series are included in this +release, unless otherwise noted. + +* Porcelains implemented as shell scripts were utterly confused when you + entered to a subdirectory of a work tree from sideways, following a + symbolic link (this may need to be backported to older releases later). + +* Tracking symbolic links would work better on filesystems whose lstat() + returns incorrect st_size value for them. + +* "git add" and "git update-index" incorrectly allowed adding S/F when S + is a tracked symlink that points at a directory D that has a path F in + it (we still need to fix a similar nonsense when S is a submodule and F + is a path in it). + +* "git am" after stopping at a broken patch lost --whitespace, -C, -p and + --3way options given from the command line initially. + +* "git diff --stdin" used to take two trees on a line and compared them, + but we dropped support for such a use case long time ago. This has + been resurrected. + +* "git filter-branch" failed to rewrite a tag name with slashes in it. + +* "git http-push" did not understand URI scheme other than opaquelocktoken + when acquiring a lock from the server (this may need to be backported to + older releases later). + +* After "git rebase -p" stopped with conflicts while replaying a merge, + "git rebase --continue" did not work (may need to be backported to older + releases). + +* "git revert" records relative to which parent a revert was made when + reverting a merge. Together with new documentation that explains issues + around reverting a merge and merging from the updated branch later, this + hopefully will reduce user confusion (this may need to be backported to + older releases later). + +* "git rm --cached" used to allow an empty blob that was added earlier to + be removed without --force, even when the file in the work tree has + since been modified. + +* "git push --tags --all $there" failed with generic usage message without + telling saying these two options are incompatible. + +* "git log --author/--committer" match used to potentially match the + timestamp part, exposing internal implementation detail. Also these did + not work with --fixed-strings match at all. + +* "gitweb" did not mark non-ASCII characters imported from external HTML fragments + correctly. + +-- +exec >/var/tmp/1 +O=v1.6.1-rc3-74-gf66bc5f +echo O=$(git describe master) +git shortlog --no-merges $O..master ^maint diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.2.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.2.1.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..dfa36416af --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.2.1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +GIT v1.6.2.1 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.6.2 +------------------ + +* .gitignore learned to handle backslash as a quoting mechanism for + comment introduction character "#". + +* timestamp output in --date=relative mode used to display timestamps that + are long time ago in the default mode; it now uses "N years M months + ago", and "N years ago". + +* git-add -i/-p now works with non-ASCII pathnames. + +* "git hash-object -w" did not read from the configuration file from the + correct .git directory. + +* git-send-email learned to correctly handle multiple Cc: addresses. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.2.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.2.2.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..fafa9986b0 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.2.2.txt @@ -0,0 +1,45 @@ +GIT v1.6.2.2 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.6.2.1 +-------------------- + +* A longstanding confusing description of what --pickaxe option of + git-diff does has been clarified in the documentation. + +* "git-blame -S" did not quite work near the commits that were given + on the command line correctly. + +* "git diff --pickaxe-regexp" did not count overlapping matches + correctly. + +* "git diff" did not feed files in work-tree representation to external + diff and textconv. + +* "git-fetch" in a repository that was not cloned from anywhere said + it cannot find 'origin', which was hard to understand for new people. + +* "git-format-patch --numbered-files --stdout" did not have to die of + incompatible options; it now simply ignores --numbered-files as no files + are produced anyway. + +* "git-ls-files --deleted" did not work well with GIT_DIR&GIT_WORK_TREE. + +* "git-read-tree A B C..." without -m option has been broken for a long + time. + +* git-send-email ignored --in-reply-to when --no-thread was given. + +* 'git-submodule add' did not tolerate extra slashes and ./ in the path it + accepted from the command line; it now is more lenient. + +* git-svn misbehaved when the project contained a path that began with + two dashes. + +* import-zips script (in contrib) did not compute the common directory + prefix correctly. + +* miscompilation of negated enum constants by old gcc (2.9) affected the + codepaths to spawn subprocesses. + +Many small documentation updates are included as well. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.2.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.2.3.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..4d3c1ac91c --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.2.3.txt @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +GIT v1.6.2.3 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.6.2.2 +-------------------- + +* Setting an octal mode value to core.sharedrepository configuration to + restrict access to the repository to group members did not work as + advertised. + +* A fairly large and trivial memory leak while rev-list shows list of + reachable objects has been identified and plugged. + +* "git-commit --interactive" did not abort when underlying "git-add -i" + signaled a failure. + +* git-repack (invoked from git-gc) did not work as nicely as it should in + a repository that borrows objects from neighbours via alternates + mechanism especially when some packs are marked with the ".keep" flag + to prevent them from being repacked. + +Many small documentation updates are included as well. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.2.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.2.4.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..f4bf1d0986 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.2.4.txt @@ -0,0 +1,39 @@ +GIT v1.6.2.4 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.6.2.3 +-------------------- + +* The configuration parser had a buffer overflow while parsing an overlong + value. + +* pruning reflog entries that are unreachable from the tip of the ref + during "git reflog prune" (hence "git gc") was very inefficient. + +* "git-add -p" lacked a way to say "q"uit to refuse staging any hunks for + the remaining paths. You had to say "d" and then ^C. + +* "git-checkout <tree-ish> <submodule>" did not update the index entry at + the named path; it now does. + +* "git-fast-export" choked when seeing a tag that does not point at commit. + +* "git init" segfaulted when given an overlong template location via + the --template= option. + +* "git-ls-tree" and "git-diff-tree" used a pathspec correctly when + deciding to descend into a subdirectory but they did not match the + individual paths correctly. This caused pathspecs "abc/d ab" to match + "abc/0" ("abc/d" made them decide to descend into the directory "abc/", + and then "ab" incorrectly matched "abc/0" when it shouldn't). + +* "git-merge-recursive" was broken when a submodule entry was involved in + a criss-cross merge situation. + +Many small documentation updates are included as well. + +--- +exec >/var/tmp/1 +echo O=$(git describe maint) +O=v1.6.2.3-38-g318b847 +git shortlog --no-merges $O..maint diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.2.5.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.2.5.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..b23f9e95d1 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.2.5.txt @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +GIT v1.6.2.5 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.6.2.4 +-------------------- + +* "git apply" mishandled if you fed a git generated patch that renames + file A to B and file B to A at the same time. + +* "git diff -c -p" (and "diff --cc") did not expect to see submodule + differences and instead refused to work. + +* "git grep -e '('" segfaulted, instead of diagnosing a mismatched + parentheses error. + +* "git fetch" generated packs with offset-delta encoding when both ends of + the connection are capable of producing one; this cannot be read by + ancient git and the user should be able to disable this by setting + repack.usedeltabaseoffset configuration to false. + + diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.2.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..ad060f4f89 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.2.txt @@ -0,0 +1,164 @@ +GIT v1.6.2 Release Notes +======================== + +With the next major release, "git push" into a branch that is +currently checked out will be refused by default. You can choose +what should happen upon such a push by setting the configuration +variable receive.denyCurrentBranch in the receiving repository. + +To ease the transition plan, the receiving repository of such a +push running this release will issue a big warning when the +configuration variable is missing. Please refer to: + + http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitFaq#non-bare + http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/107758/focus=108007 + +for more details on the reason why this change is needed and the +transition plan. + +For a similar reason, "git push $there :$killed" to delete the branch +$killed in a remote repository $there, if $killed branch is the current +branch pointed at by its HEAD, gets a large warning. You can choose what +should happen upon such a push by setting the configuration variable +receive.denyDeleteCurrent in the receiving repository. + + +Updates since v1.6.1 +-------------------- + +(subsystems) + +* git-svn updates. + +* gitweb updates, including a new patch view and RSS/Atom feed + improvements. + +* (contrib/emacs) git.el now has commands for checking out a branch, + creating a branch, cherry-picking and reverting commits; vc-git.el + is not shipped with git anymore (it is part of official Emacs). + +(performance) + +* pack-objects autodetects the number of CPUs available and uses threaded + version. + +(usability, bells and whistles) + +* automatic typo correction works on aliases as well + +* @{-1} is a way to refer to the last branch you were on. This is + accepted not only where an object name is expected, but anywhere + a branch name is expected and acts as if you typed the branch name. + E.g. "git branch --track mybranch @{-1}", "git merge @{-1}", and + "git rev-parse --symbolic-full-name @{-1}" would work as expected. + +* When refs/remotes/origin/HEAD points at a remote tracking branch that + has been pruned away, many git operations issued warning when they + internally enumerated the refs. We now warn only when you say "origin" + to refer to that pruned branch. + +* The location of .mailmap file can be configured, and its file format was + enhanced to allow mapping an incorrect e-mail field as well. + +* "git add -p" learned 'g'oto action to jump directly to a hunk. + +* "git add -p" learned to find a hunk with given text with '/'. + +* "git add -p" optionally can be told to work with just the command letter + without Enter. + +* when "git am" stops upon a patch that does not apply, it shows the + title of the offending patch. + +* "git am --directory=<dir>" and "git am --reject" passes these options + to underlying "git apply". + +* "git am" learned --ignore-date option. + +* "git blame" aligns author names better when they are spelled in + non US-ASCII encoding. + +* "git clone" now makes its best effort when cloning from an empty + repository to set up configuration variables to refer to the remote + repository. + +* "git checkout -" is a shorthand for "git checkout @{-1}". + +* "git cherry" defaults to whatever the current branch is tracking (if + exists) when the <upstream> argument is not given. + +* "git cvsserver" can be told not to add extra "via git-CVS emulator" to + the commit log message it serves via gitcvs.commitmsgannotation + configuration. + +* "git cvsserver" learned to handle 'noop' command some CVS clients seem + to expect to work. + +* "git diff" learned a new option --inter-hunk-context to coalesce close + hunks together and show context between them. + +* The definition of what constitutes a word for "git diff --color-words" + can be customized via gitattributes, command line or a configuration. + +* "git diff" learned --patience to run "patience diff" algorithm. + +* "git filter-branch" learned --prune-empty option that discards commits + that do not change the contents. + +* "git fsck" now checks loose objects in alternate object stores, instead + of misreporting them as missing. + +* "git gc --prune" was resurrected to allow "git gc --no-prune" and + giving non-default expiration period e.g. "git gc --prune=now". + +* "git grep -w" and "git grep" for fixed strings have been optimized. + +* "git mergetool" learned -y(--no-prompt) option to disable prompting. + +* "git rebase -i" can transplant a history down to root to elsewhere + with --root option. + +* "git reset --merge" is a new mode that works similar to the way + "git checkout" switches branches, taking the local changes while + switching to another commit. + +* "git submodule update" learned --no-fetch option. + +* "git tag" learned --contains that works the same way as the same option + from "git branch". + + +Fixes since v1.6.1 +------------------ + +All of the fixes in v1.6.1.X maintenance series are included in this +release, unless otherwise noted. + +Here are fixes that this release has, but have not been backported to +v1.6.1.X series. + +* "git-add sub/file" when sub is a submodule incorrectly added the path to + the superproject. + +* "git bundle" did not exclude annotated tags even when a range given + from the command line wanted to. + +* "git filter-branch" unnecessarily refused to work when you had + checked out a different commit from what is recorded in the superproject + index in a submodule. + +* "git filter-branch" incorrectly tried to update a nonexistent work tree + at the end when it is run in a bare repository. + +* "git gc" did not work if your repository was created with an ancient git + and never had any pack files in it before. + +* "git mergetool" used to ignore autocrlf and other attributes + based content rewriting. + +* branch switching and merges had a silly bug that did not validate + the correct directory when making sure an existing subdirectory is + clean. + +* "git -p cmd" when cmd is not a built-in one left the display in funny state + when killed in the middle. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.3.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.3.1.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..2400b72ef7 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.3.1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +GIT v1.6.3.1 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.6.3 +------------------ + +* "git checkout -b new-branch" with a staged change in the index + incorrectly primed the in-index cache-tree, resulting a wrong tree + object to be written out of the index. This is a grave regression + since the last 1.6.2.X maintenance release. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.3.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.3.2.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..b2f3f0293c --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.3.2.txt @@ -0,0 +1,61 @@ +GIT v1.6.3.2 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.6.3.1 +-------------------- + + * A few codepaths picked up the first few bytes from an sha1[] by + casting the (char *) pointer to (int *); GCC 4.4 did not like this, + and aborted compilation. + + * Some unlink(2) failures went undiagnosed. + + * The "recursive" merge strategy misbehaved when faced rename/delete + conflicts while coming up with an intermediate merge base. + + * The low-level merge algorithm did not handle a degenerate case of + merging a file with itself using itself as the common ancestor + gracefully. It should produce the file itself, but instead + produced an empty result. + + * GIT_TRACE mechanism segfaulted when tracing a shell-quoted aliases. + + * OpenBSD also uses st_ctimspec in "struct stat", instead of "st_ctim". + + * With NO_CROSS_DIRECTORY_HARDLINKS, "make install" can be told not to + create hardlinks between $(gitexecdir)/git-$builtin_commands and + $(bindir)/git. + + * command completion code in bash did not reliably detect that we are + in a bare repository. + + * "git add ." in an empty directory complained that pathspec "." did not + match anything, which may be technically correct, but not useful. We + silently make it a no-op now. + + * "git add -p" (and "patch" action in "git add -i") was broken when + the first hunk that adds a line at the top was split into two and + both halves are marked to be used. + + * "git blame path" misbehaved at the commit where path became file + from a directory with some files in it. + + * "git for-each-ref" had a segfaulting bug when dealing with a tag object + created by an ancient git. + + * "git format-patch -k" still added patch numbers if format.numbered + configuration was set. + + * "git grep --color ''" did not terminate. The command also had + subtle bugs with its -w option. + + * http-push had a small use-after-free bug. + + * "git push" was converting OFS_DELTA pack representation into less + efficient REF_DELTA representation unconditionally upon transfer, + making the transferred data unnecessarily larger. + + * "git remote show origin" segfaulted when origin was still empty. + +Many other general usability updates around help text, diagnostic messages +and documentation are included as well. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.3.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.3.3.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..1c28398bb6 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.3.3.txt @@ -0,0 +1,38 @@ +GIT v1.6.3.3 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.6.3.2 +-------------------- + + * "git archive" running on Cygwin can get stuck in an infinite loop. + + * "git daemon" did not correctly parse the initial line that carries + virtual host request information. + + * "git diff --textconv" leaked memory badly when the textconv filter + errored out. + + * The built-in regular expressions to pick function names to put on + hunk header lines for java and objc were very inefficiently written. + + * in certain error situations git-fetch (and git-clone) on Windows didn't + detect connection abort and ended up waiting indefinitely. + + * import-tars script (in contrib) did not import symbolic links correctly. + + * http.c used CURLOPT_SSLKEY even on libcURL version 7.9.2, even though + it was only available starting 7.9.3. + + * low-level filelevel merge driver used return value from strdup() + without checking if we ran out of memory. + + * "git rebase -i" left stray closing parenthesis in its reflog message. + + * "git remote show" did not show all the URLs associated with the named + remote, even though "git remote -v" did. Made them consistent by + making the former show all URLs. + + * "whitespace" attribute that is set was meant to detect all errors known + to git, but it told git to ignore trailing carriage-returns. + +Includes other documentation fixes. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.3.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.3.4.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..cad461bc76 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.3.4.txt @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ +GIT v1.6.3.4 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.6.3.3 +-------------------- + + * "git add --no-ignore-errors" did not override configured + add.ignore-errors configuration. + + * "git apply --whitespace=fix" did not fix trailing whitespace on an + incomplete line. + + * "git branch" opened too many commit objects unnecessarily. + + * "git checkout -f $commit" with a path that is a file (or a symlink) in + the work tree to a commit that has a directory at the path issued an + unnecessary error message. + + * "git diff -c/--cc" was very inefficient in coalescing the removed lines + shared between parents. + + * "git diff -c/--cc" showed removed lines at the beginning of a file + incorrectly. + + * "git remote show nickname" did not honor configured + remote.nickname.uploadpack when inspecting the branches at the remote. + + * "git request-pull" when talking to the terminal for a preview + showed some of the output in the pager. + + * "git request-pull start nickname [end]" did not honor configured + remote.nickname.uploadpack when it ran git-ls-remote against the remote + repository to learn the current tip of branches. + +Includes other documentation updates and minor fixes. + diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.3.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..418c685cf8 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.3.txt @@ -0,0 +1,182 @@ +GIT v1.6.3 Release Notes +======================== + +With the next major release, "git push" into a branch that is +currently checked out will be refused by default. You can choose +what should happen upon such a push by setting the configuration +variable receive.denyCurrentBranch in the receiving repository. + +To ease the transition plan, the receiving repository of such a +push running this release will issue a big warning when the +configuration variable is missing. Please refer to: + + http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitFaq#non-bare + http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/107758/focus=108007 + +for more details on the reason why this change is needed and the +transition plan. + +For a similar reason, "git push $there :$killed" to delete the branch +$killed in a remote repository $there, if $killed branch is the current +branch pointed at by its HEAD, gets a large warning. You can choose what +should happen upon such a push by setting the configuration variable +receive.denyDeleteCurrent in the receiving repository. + +When the user does not tell "git push" what to push, it has always +pushed matching refs. For some people it is unexpected, and a new +configuration variable push.default has been introduced to allow +changing a different default behaviour. To advertise the new feature, +a big warning is issued if this is not configured and a git push without +arguments is attempted. + + +Updates since v1.6.2 +-------------------- + +(subsystems) + +* various git-svn updates. + +* git-gui updates, including an update to Russian translation, and a + fix to an infinite loop when showing an empty diff. + +* gitk updates, including an update to Russian translation and improved Windows + support. + +(performance) + +* many uses of lstat(2) in the codepath for "git checkout" have been + optimized out. + +(usability, bells and whistles) + +* Boolean configuration variable yes/no can be written as on/off. + +* rsync:/path/to/repo can be used to run git over rsync for local + repositories. It may not be useful in practice; meant primarily for + testing. + +* http transport learned to prompt and use password when fetching from or + pushing to http://user@host.xz/ URL. + +* (msysgit) progress output that is sent over the sideband protocol can + be handled appropriately in Windows console. + +* "--pretty=<style>" option to the log family of commands can now be + spelled as "--format=<style>". In addition, --format=%formatstring + is a short-hand for --pretty=tformat:%formatstring. + +* "--oneline" is a synonym for "--pretty=oneline --abbrev-commit". + +* "--graph" to the "git log" family can draw the commit ancestry graph + in colors. + +* If you realize that you botched the patch when you are editing hunks + with the 'edit' action in git-add -i/-p, you can abort the editor to + tell git not to apply it. + +* @{-1} is a new way to refer to the last branch you were on introduced in + 1.6.2, but the initial implementation did not teach this to a few + commands. Now the syntax works with "branch -m @{-1} newname". + +* git-archive learned --output=<file> option. + +* git-archive takes attributes from the tree being archived; strictly + speaking, this is an incompatible behaviour change, but is a good one. + Use --worktree-attributes option to allow it to read attributes from + the work tree as before (deprecated git-tar tree command always reads + attributes from the work tree). + +* git-bisect shows not just the number of remaining commits whose goodness + is unknown, but also shows the estimated number of remaining rounds. + +* You can give --date=<format> option to git-blame. + +* "git-branch -r" shows HEAD symref that points at a remote branch in + interest of each tracked remote repository. + +* "git-branch -v -v" is a new way to get list of names for branches and the + "upstream" branch for them. + +* git-config learned -e option to open an editor to edit the config file + directly. + +* git-clone runs post-checkout hook when run without --no-checkout. + +* git-difftool is now part of the officially supported command, primarily + maintained by David Aguilar. + +* git-for-each-ref learned a new "upstream" token. + +* git-format-patch can be told to use attachment with a new configuration, + format.attach. + +* git-format-patch can be told to produce deep or shallow message threads. + +* git-format-patch can be told to always add sign-off with a configuration + variable. + +* git-format-patch learned format.headers configuration to add extra + header fields to the output. This behaviour is similar to the existing + --add-header=<header> option of the command. + +* git-format-patch gives human readable names to the attached files, when + told to send patches as attachments. + +* git-grep learned to highlight the found substrings in color. + +* git-imap-send learned to work around Thunderbird's inability to easily + disable format=flowed with a new configuration, imap.preformattedHTML. + +* git-rebase can be told to rebase the series even if your branch is a + descendant of the commit you are rebasing onto with --force-rebase + option. + +* git-rebase can be told to report diffstat with the --stat option. + +* Output from git-remote command has been vastly improved. + +* "git remote update --prune $remote" updates from the named remote and + then prunes stale tracking branches. + +* git-send-email learned --confirm option to review the Cc: list before + sending the messages out. + +(developers) + +* Test scripts can be run under valgrind. + +* Test scripts can be run with installed git. + +* Makefile learned 'coverage' option to run the test suites with + coverage tracking enabled. + +* Building the manpages with docbook-xsl between 1.69.1 and 1.71.1 now + requires setting DOCBOOK_SUPPRESS_SP to work around a docbook-xsl bug. + This workaround used to be enabled by default, but causes problems + with newer versions of docbook-xsl. In addition, there are a few more + knobs you can tweak to work around issues with various versions of the + docbook-xsl package. See comments in Documentation/Makefile for details. + +* Support for building and testing a subset of git on a system without a + working perl has been improved. + + +Fixes since v1.6.2 +------------------ + +All of the fixes in v1.6.2.X maintenance series are included in this +release, unless otherwise noted. + +Here are fixes that this release has, but have not been backported to +v1.6.2.X series. + +* "git-apply" rejected a patch that swaps two files (i.e. renames A to B + and B to A at the same time). May need to be backported by cherry + picking d8c81df and then 7fac0ee). + +* The initial checkout did not read the attributes from the .gitattribute + file that is being checked out. + +* git-gc spent excessive amount of time to decide if an object appears + in a locally existing pack (if needed, backport by merging 69e020a). diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.4.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.4.1.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..e439e45b96 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.4.1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,46 @@ +GIT v1.6.4.1 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.6.4 +------------------ + + * An unquoted value in the configuration file, when it contains more than + one whitespaces in a row, got them replaced with a single space. + + * "git am" used to accept a single piece of e-mail per file (not a mbox) + as its input, but multiple input format support in v1.6.4 broke it. + Apparently many people have been depending on this feature. + + * The short help text for "git filter-branch" command was a single long + line, wrapped by terminals, and was hard to read. + + * The "recursive" strategy of "git merge" segfaulted when a merge has + more than one merge-bases, and merging of these merge-bases involves + a rename/rename or a rename/add conflict. + + * "git pull --rebase" did not use the right fork point when the + repository has already fetched from the upstream that rewinds the + branch it is based on in an earlier fetch. + + * Explain the concept of fast-forward more fully in "git push" + documentation, and hint to refer to it from an error message when the + command refuses an update to protect the user. + + * The default value for pack.deltacachesize, used by "git repack", is now + 256M, instead of unbounded. Otherwise a repack of a moderately sized + repository would needlessly eat into swap. + + * Document how "git repack" (hence "git gc") interacts with a repository + that borrows its objects from other repositories (e.g. ones created by + "git clone -s"). + + * "git show" on an annotated tag lacked a delimiting blank line between + the tag itself and the contents of the object it tags. + + * "git verify-pack -v" erroneously reported number of objects with too + deep delta depths as "chain length 0" objects. + + * Long names of authors and committers outside US-ASCII were sometimes + incorrectly shown in "gitweb". + +Other minor documentation updates are included. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.4.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.4.2.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..c11ec0115c --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.4.2.txt @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ +GIT v1.6.4.2 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.6.4.1 +-------------------- + +* --date=relative output between 1 and 5 years ago rounded the number of + years when saying X years Y months ago, instead of rounding it down. + +* "git add -p" did not handle changes in executable bits correctly + (a regression around 1.6.3). + +* "git apply" did not honor GNU diff's convention to mark the creation/deletion + event with UNIX epoch timestamp on missing side. + +* "git checkout" incorrectly removed files in a directory pointed by a + symbolic link during a branch switch that replaces a directory with + a symbolic link. + +* "git clean -d -f" happily descended into a subdirectory that is managed by a + separate git repository. It now requires two -f options for safety. + +* "git fetch/push" over http transports had two rather grave bugs. + +* "git format-patch --cover-letter" did not prepare the cover letter file + for use with non-ASCII strings when there are the series contributors with + non-ASCII names. + +* "git pull origin branch" and "git fetch origin && git merge origin/branch" + left different merge messages in the resulting commit. + +Other minor documentation updates are included. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.4.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.4.3.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..5643e6537d --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.4.3.txt @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +GIT v1.6.4.3 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.6.4.2 +-------------------- + +* "git clone" from an empty repository gave unnecessary error message, + even though it did everything else correctly. + +* "git cvsserver" invoked git commands via "git-foo" style, which has long + been deprecated. + +* "git fetch" and "git clone" had an extra sanity check to verify the + presence of the corresponding *.pack file before downloading *.idx + file by issuing a HEAD request. Github server however sometimes + gave 500 (Internal server error) response to HEAD even if a GET + request for *.pack file to the same URL would have succeeded, and broke + clone over HTTP from some of their repositories. As a workaround, this + verification has been removed (as it is not absolutely necessary). + +* "git grep" did not like relative pathname to refer outside the current + directory when run from a subdirectory. + +* an error message from "git push" was formatted in a very ugly way. + +* "git svn" did not quote the subversion user name correctly when + running its author-prog helper program. + +Other minor documentation updates are included. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.4.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.4.4.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..0ead45fc72 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.4.4.txt @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +GIT v1.6.4.4 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.6.4.4 +-------------------- + +* The workaround for Github server that sometimes gave 500 (Internal server + error) response to HEAD requests in 1.6.4.3 introduced a regression that + caused re-fetching projects over http to segfault in certain cases due + to uninitialized pointer being freed. + +* "git pull" on an unborn branch used to consider anything in the work + tree and the index discardable. + +* "git diff -b/w" did not work well on the incomplete line at the end of + the file, due to an incorrect hashing of lines in the low-level xdiff + routines. + +* "git checkout-index --prefix=$somewhere" used to work when $somewhere is + a symbolic link to a directory elsewhere, but v1.6.4.2 broke it. + +* "git unpack-objects --strict", invoked when receive.fsckobjects + configuration is set in the receiving repository of "git push", did not + properly check the objects, especially the submodule links, it received. + +Other minor documentation updates are included. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.4.5.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.4.5.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..eb6307dcbb --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.4.5.txt @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +Git v1.6.4.5 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.6.4.4 +-------------------- + + * Simplified base85 implementation. + + * An overlong line after ".gitdir: " in a git file caused out of bounds + access to an array on the stack. + + * "git count-objects" did not handle packs larger than 4G. + + * "git rev-parse --parseopt --stop-at-non-option" did not stop at non option + when --keep-dashdash was in effect. + + * "gitweb" can sometimes be tricked into parrotting a filename argument + given in a request without properly quoting. + +Other minor fixes and documentation updates are included. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.4.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..7a904419f7 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.4.txt @@ -0,0 +1,147 @@ +GIT v1.6.4 Release Notes +======================== + +With the next major release, "git push" into a branch that is +currently checked out will be refused by default. You can choose +what should happen upon such a push by setting the configuration +variable receive.denyCurrentBranch in the receiving repository. + +To ease the transition plan, the receiving repository of such a +push running this release will issue a big warning when the +configuration variable is missing. Please refer to: + + http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitFaq#non-bare + http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/107758/focus=108007 + +for more details on the reason why this change is needed and the +transition plan. + +For a similar reason, "git push $there :$killed" to delete the branch +$killed in a remote repository $there, if $killed branch is the current +branch pointed at by its HEAD, gets a large warning. You can choose what +should happen upon such a push by setting the configuration variable +receive.denyDeleteCurrent in the receiving repository. + + +Updates since v1.6.3 +-------------------- + +(subsystems) + + * gitweb Perl style clean-up. + + * git-svn updates, including a new --authors-prog option to map author + names by invoking an external program, 'git svn reset' to unwind + 'git svn fetch', support for more than one branches, documenting + of the useful --minimize-url feature, new "git svn gc" command, etc. + +(portability) + + * We feed iconv with "UTF-8" instead of "utf8"; the former is + understood more widely. Similarly updated test scripts to use + encoding names more widely understood (e.g. use "ISO8859-1" instead + of "ISO-8859-1"). + + * Various portability fixes/workarounds for different vintages of + SunOS, IRIX, and Windows. + + * Git-over-ssh transport on Windows supports PuTTY plink and TortoisePlink. + +(performance) + + * Many repeated use of lstat() are optimized out in "checkout" codepath. + + * git-status (and underlying git-diff-index --cached) are optimized + to take advantage of cache-tree information in the index. + +(usability, bells and whistles) + + * "git add --edit" lets users edit the whole patch text to fine-tune what + is added to the index. + + * "git am" accepts StGIT series file as its input. + + * "git bisect skip" skips to a more randomly chosen place in the hope + to avoid testing a commit that is too close to a commit that is + already known to be untestable. + + * "git cvsexportcommit" learned -k option to stop CVS keywords expansion + + * "git fast-export" learned to handle history simplification more + gracefully. + + * "git fast-export" learned an option --tag-of-filtered-object to handle + dangling tags resulting from history simplification more usefully. + + * "git grep" learned -p option to show the location of the match using the + same context hunk marker "git diff" uses. + + * https transport can optionally be told that the used client + certificate is password protected, in which case it asks the + password only once. + + * "git imap-send" is IPv6 aware. + + * "git log --graph" draws graphs more compactly by using horizontal lines + when able. + + * "git log --decorate" shows shorter refnames by stripping well-known + refs/* prefix. + + * "git push $name" honors remote.$name.pushurl if present before + using remote.$name.url. In other words, the URL used for fetching + and pushing can be different. + + * "git send-email" understands quoted aliases in .mailrc files (might + have to be backported to 1.6.3.X). + + * "git send-email" can fetch the sender address from the configuration + variable "sendmail.from" (and "sendmail.<identity>.from"). + + * "git show-branch" can color its output. + + * "add" and "update" subcommands to "git submodule" learned --reference + option to use local clone with references. + + * "git submodule update" learned --rebase option to update checked + out submodules by rebasing the local changes. + + * "gitweb" can optionally use gravatar to adorn author/committer names. + +(developers) + + * A major part of the "git bisect" wrapper has moved to C. + + * Formatting with the new version of AsciiDoc 8.4.1 is now supported. + +Fixes since v1.6.3 +------------------ + +All of the fixes in v1.6.3.X maintenance series are included in this +release, unless otherwise noted. + +Here are fixes that this release has, but have not been backported to +v1.6.3.X series. + + * "git diff-tree -r -t" used to omit new or removed directories from + the output. df533f3 (diff-tree -r -t: include added/removed + directories in the output, 2009-06-13) may need to be cherry-picked + to backport this fix. + + * The way Git.pm sets up a Repository object was not friendly to callers + that chdir around. It now internally records the repository location + as an absolute path when autodetected. + + * Removing a section with "git config --remove-section", when its + section header has a variable definition on the same line, lost + that variable definition. + + * "git rebase -p --onto" used to always leave side branches of a merge + intact, even when both branches are subject to rewriting. + + * "git repack" used to faithfully follow grafts and considered true + parents recorded in the commit object unreachable from the commit. + After such a repacking, you cannot remove grafts without corrupting + the repository. + + * "git send-email" did not detect erroneous loops in alias expansion. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.5.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.5.1.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..309ba181b2 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.5.1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +GIT v1.6.5.1 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.6.5 +------------------ + + * An corrupt pack could make codepath to read objects into an + infinite loop. + + * Download throughput display was always shown in KiB/s but on fast links + it is more appropriate to show it in MiB/s. + + * "git grep -f filename" used uninitialized variable and segfaulted. + + * "git clone -b branch" gave a wrong commit object name to post-checkout + hook. + + * "git pull" over http did not work on msys. + +Other minor documentation updates are included. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.5.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.5.2.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..aa7ccce3a2 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.5.2.txt @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +GIT v1.6.5.2 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.6.5.1 +-------------------- + + * Installation of templates triggered a bug in busybox when using tar + implementation from it. + + * "git add -i" incorrectly ignored paths that are already in the index + if they matched .gitignore patterns. + + * "git describe --always" should have produced some output even there + were no tags in the repository, but it didn't. + + * "git ls-files" when showing tracked files incorrectly paid attention + to the exclude patterns. + +Other minor documentation updates are included. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.5.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.5.3.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..b2fad1b22e --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.5.3.txt @@ -0,0 +1,63 @@ +Git v1.6.5.3 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.6.5.2 +-------------------- + + * info/grafts file didn't ignore trailing CR at the end of lines. + + * Packages generated on newer FC were unreadable by older versions of + RPM as the new default is to use stronger hash. + + * output from "git blame" was unreadable when the file ended in an + incomplete line. + + * "git add -i/-p" didn't handle deletion of empty files correctly. + + * "git clone" takes up to two parameters, but did not complain when + given more arguments than necessary and silently ignored them. + + * "git cvsimport" did not read files given as command line arguments + correctly when it is run from a subdirectory. + + * "git diff --color-words -U0" didn't work correctly. + + * The handling of blank lines at the end of file by "git diff/apply + --whitespace" was inconsistent with the other kinds of errors. + They are now colored, warned against, and fixed the same way as others. + + * There was no way to allow blank lines at the end of file without + allowing extra blanks at the end of lines. You can use blank-at-eof + and blank-at-eol whitespace error class to specify them separately. + The old trailing-space error class is now a short-hand to set both. + + * "-p" option to "git format-patch" was supposed to suppress diffstat + generation, but it was broken since 1.6.1. + + * "git imap-send" did not compile cleanly with newer OpenSSL. + + * "git help -a" outside of a git repository was broken. + + * "git ls-files -i" was supposed to be inverse of "git ls-files" without -i + with respect to exclude patterns, but it was broken since 1.6.5.2. + + * "git ls-remote" outside of a git repository over http was broken. + + * "git rebase -i" gave bogus error message when the command word was + misspelled. + + * "git receive-pack" that is run in response to "git push" did not run + garbage collection nor update-server-info, but in larger hosting sites, + these almost always need to be run. To help site administrators, the + command now runs "gc --auto" and "u-s-i" by setting receive.autogc + and receive.updateserverinfo configuration variables, respectively. + + * Release notes spelled the package name with incorrect capitalization. + + * "gitweb" did not escape non-ascii characters correctly in the URL. + + * "gitweb" showed "patch" link even for merge commits. + + * "gitweb" showed incorrect links for blob line numbers in pathinfo mode. + +Other minor documentation updates are included. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.5.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.5.4.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..d3a2a3e712 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.5.4.txt @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ +Git v1.6.5.4 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.6.5.3 +-------------------- + + * "git help" (without argument) used to check if you are in a directory + under git control. There was no breakage in behaviour per-se, but this + was unnecessary. + + * "git prune-packed" gave progress output even when its standard error is + not connected to a terminal; this caused cron jobs that run it to + produce crufts. + + * "git pack-objects --all-progress" is an option to ask progress output + from write-object phase _if_ progress output were to be produced, and + shouldn't have forced the progress output. + + * "git apply -p<n> --directory=<elsewhere>" did not work well for a + non-default value of n. + + * "git merge foo HEAD" was misparsed as an old-style invocation of the + command and produced a confusing error message. As it does not specify + any other branch to merge, it shouldn't be mistaken as such. We will + remove the old style "git merge <message> HEAD <commit>..." syntax in + future versions, but not in this release, + + * "git merge -m <message> <branch>..." added the standard merge message + on its own after user-supplied message, which should have overridden the + standard one. + +Other minor documentation updates are included. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.5.5.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.5.5.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..ecfc57d875 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.5.5.txt @@ -0,0 +1,49 @@ +Git v1.6.5.5 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.6.5.4 +-------------------- + + * Manual pages can be formatted with older xmlto again. + + * GREP_OPTIONS exported from user's environment could have broken + our scripted commands. + + * In configuration files, a few variables that name paths can begin with + ~/ and ~username/ and they are expanded as expected. This is not a + bugfix but 1.6.6 will have this and without backporting users cannot + easily use the same ~/.gitconfig across versions. + + * "git diff -B -M" did the same computation to hash lines of contents + twice, and held onto memory after it has used the data in it + unnecessarily before it freed. + + * "git diff -B" and "git diff --dirstat" was not counting newly added + contents correctly. + + * "git format-patch revisions... -- path" issued an incorrect error + message that suggested to use "--" on the command line when path + does not exist in the current work tree (it is a separate matter if + it makes sense to limit format-patch with pathspecs like that + without using the --full-diff option). + + * "git grep -F -i StRiNg" did not work as expected. + + * Enumeration of available merge strategies iterated over the list of + commands in a wrong way, sometimes producing an incorrect result. + + * "git shortlog" did not honor the "encoding" header embedded in the + commit object like "git log" did. + + * Reading progress messages that come from the remote side while running + "git pull" is given precedence over reading the actual pack data to + prevent garbled progress message on the user's terminal. + + * "git rebase" got confused when the log message began with certain + strings that looked like Subject:, Date: or From: header. + + * "git reset" accidentally run in .git/ directory checked out the + work tree contents in there. + + +Other minor documentation updates are included. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.5.6.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.5.6.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..a9eaf76f62 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.5.6.txt @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +Git v1.6.5.6 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.6.5.5 +-------------------- + + * "git add -p" had a regression since v1.6.5.3 that broke deletion of + non-empty files. + + * "git archive -o o.zip -- Makefile" produced an archive in o.zip + but in POSIX tar format. + + * Error message given to "git pull --rebase" when the user didn't give + enough clue as to what branch to integrate with still talked about + "merging with" the branch. + + * Error messages given by "git merge" when the merge resulted in a + fast-forward still were in plumbing lingo, even though in v1.6.5 + we reworded messages in other cases. + + * The post-upload-hook run by upload-pack in response to "git fetch" has + been removed, due to security concerns (the hook first appeared in + 1.6.5). diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.5.7.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.5.7.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..dc5302c21c --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.5.7.txt @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +Git v1.6.5.7 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.6.5.6 +-------------------- + +* If a user specifies a color for a <slot> (i.e. a class of things to show + in a particular color) that is known only by newer versions of git + (e.g. "color.diff.func" was recently added for upcoming 1.6.6 release), + an older version of git should just ignore them. Instead we diagnosed + it as an error. + +* With help.autocorrect set to non-zero value, the logic to guess typos + in the subcommand name misfired and ran a random nonsense command. + +* If a command is run with an absolute path as a pathspec inside a bare + repository, e.g. "rev-list HEAD -- /home", the code tried to run + strlen() on NULL, which is the result of get_git_work_tree(), and + segfaulted. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.5.8.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.5.8.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..8b24bebb96 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.5.8.txt @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +Git v1.6.5.8 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.6.5.7 +-------------------- + +* "git count-objects" did not handle packfiles that are bigger than 4G on + platforms with 32-bit off_t. + +* "git rebase -i" did not abort cleanly if it failed to launch the editor. + +* "git blame" did not work well when commit lacked the author name. + +* "git fast-import" choked when handling a tag that points at an object + that is not a commit. + +* "git reset --hard" did not work correctly when GIT_WORK_TREE environment + variable is used to point at the root of the true work tree. + +* "git grep" fed a buffer that is not NUL-terminated to underlying + regexec(). + +* "git checkout -m other" while on a branch that does not have any commit + segfaulted, instead of failing. + +* "git branch -a other" should have diagnosed the command as an error. + +Other minor documentation updates are also included. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.5.9.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.5.9.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..bb469dd71e --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.5.9.txt @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +Git v1.6.5.9 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.6.5.8 +-------------------- + + * An overlong line after ".gitdir: " in a git file caused out of bounds + access to an array on the stack. + + * "git blame -L $start,$end" segfaulted when too large $start was given. + + * "git rev-parse --parseopt --stop-at-non-option" did not stop at non option + when --keep-dashdash was in effect. + + * "gitweb" can sometimes be tricked into parrotting a filename argument + given in a request without properly quoting. + +Other minor fixes and documentation updates are included. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.5.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.5.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..ee141c19ad --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.5.txt @@ -0,0 +1,169 @@ +GIT v1.6.5 Release Notes +======================== + +In git 1.7.0, which was planned to be the release after 1.6.5, "git +push" into a branch that is currently checked out will be refused by +default. + +You can choose what should happen upon such a push by setting the +configuration variable receive.denyCurrentBranch in the receiving +repository. + +Also, "git push $there :$killed" to delete the branch $killed in a remote +repository $there, when $killed branch is the current branch pointed at by +its HEAD, will be refused by default. + +You can choose what should happen upon such a push by setting the +configuration variable receive.denyDeleteCurrent in the receiving +repository. + +To ease the transition plan, the receiving repository of such a +push running this release will issue a big warning when the +configuration variable is missing. Please refer to: + + http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitFaq#non-bare + http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/107758/focus=108007 + +for more details on the reason why this change is needed and the +transition plan. + +Updates since v1.6.4 +-------------------- + +(subsystems) + + * various updates to gitk, git-svn and gitweb. + +(portability) + + * more improvements on mingw port. + + * mingw will also give FRSX as the default value for the LESS + environment variable when the user does not have one. + + * initial support to compile git on Windows with MSVC. + +(performance) + + * On major platforms, the system can be compiled to use with Linus's + block-sha1 implementation of the SHA-1 hash algorithm, which + outperforms the default fallback implementation we borrowed from + Mozilla. + + * Unnecessary inefficiency in deepening of a shallow repository has + been removed. + + * "git clone" does not grab objects that it does not need (i.e. + referenced only from refs outside refs/heads and refs/tags + hierarchy) anymore. + + * The "git" main binary used to link with libcurl, which then dragged + in a large number of external libraries. When using basic plumbing + commands in scripts, this unnecessarily slowed things down. We now + implement http/https/ftp transfer as a separate executable as we + used to. + + * "git clone" run locally hardlinks or copies the files in .git/ to + newly created repository. It used to give new mtime to copied files, + but this delayed garbage collection to trigger unnecessarily in the + cloned repository. We now preserve mtime for these files to avoid + this issue. + +(usability, bells and whistles) + + * Human writable date format to various options, e.g. --since=yesterday, + master@{2000.09.17}, are taught to infer some omitted input properly. + + * A few programs gave verbose "advice" messages to help uninitiated + people when issuing error messages. An infrastructure to allow + users to squelch them has been introduced, and a few such messages + can be silenced now. + + * refs/replace/ hierarchy is designed to be usable as a replacement + of the "grafts" mechanism, with the added advantage that it can be + transferred across repositories. + + * "git am" learned to optionally ignore whitespace differences. + + * "git am" handles input e-mail files that has CRLF line endings sensibly. + + * "git am" learned "--scissors" option to allow you to discard early part + of an incoming e-mail. + + * "git archive -o output.zip" works without being told what format to + use with an explicit "--format=zip".option. + + * "git checkout", "git reset" and "git stash" learned to pick and + choose to use selected changes you made, similar to "git add -p". + + * "git clone" learned a "-b" option to pick a HEAD to check out + different from the remote's default branch. + + * "git clone" learned --recursive option. + + * "git clone" from a local repository on a different filesystem used to + copy individual object files without preserving the old timestamp, giving + them extra lifetime in the new repository until they gc'ed. + + * "git commit --dry-run $args" is a new recommended way to ask "what would + happen if I try to commit with these arguments." + + * "git commit --dry-run" and "git status" shows conflicted paths in a + separate section to make them easier to spot during a merge. + + * "git cvsimport" now supports password-protected pserver access even + when the password is not taken from ~/.cvspass file. + + * "git fast-export" learned --no-data option that can be useful when + reordering commits and trees without touching the contents of + blobs. + + * "git fast-import" has a pair of new front-end in contrib/ area. + + * "git init" learned to mkdir/chdir into a directory when given an + extra argument (i.e. "git init this"). + + * "git instaweb" optionally can use mongoose as the web server. + + * "git log --decorate" can optionally be told with --decorate=full to + give the reference name in full. + + * "git merge" issued an unnecessarily scary message when it detected + that the merge may have to touch the path that the user has local + uncommitted changes to. The message has been reworded to make it + clear that the command aborted, without doing any harm. + + * "git push" can be told to be --quiet. + + * "git push" pays attention to url.$base.pushInsteadOf and uses a URL + that is derived from the URL used for fetching. + + * informational output from "git reset" that lists the locally modified + paths is made consistent with that of "git checkout $another_branch". + + * "git submodule" learned to give submodule name to scripts run with + "foreach" subcommand. + + * various subcommands to "git submodule" learned --recursive option. + + * "git submodule summary" learned --files option to compare the work + tree vs the commit bound at submodule path, instead of comparing + the index. + + * "git upload-pack", which is the server side support for "git clone" and + "git fetch", can call a new post-upload-pack hook for statistics purposes. + +(developers) + + * With GIT_TEST_OPTS="--root=/p/a/t/h", tests can be run outside the + source directory; using tmpfs may give faster turnaround. + + * With NO_PERL_MAKEMAKER set, DESTDIR= is now honoured, so you can + build for one location, and install into another location to tar it + up. + +Fixes since v1.6.4 +------------------ + +All of the fixes in v1.6.4.X maintenance series are included in this +release, unless otherwise noted. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.6.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.6.1.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..f1d0a4ae2d --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.6.1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@ +Git v1.6.6.1 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.6.6 +------------------ + + * "git blame" did not work well when commit lacked the author name. + + * "git branch -a name" wasn't diagnosed as an error. + + * "git count-objects" did not handle packfiles that are bigger than 4G on + platforms with 32-bit off_t. + + * "git checkout -m other" while on a branch that does not have any commit + segfaulted, instead of failing. + + * "git fast-import" choked when fed a tag that do not point at a + commit. + + * "git grep" finding from work tree files could have fed garbage to + the underlying regexec(3). + + * "git grep -L" didn't show empty files (they should never match, and + they should always appear in -L output as unmatching). + + * "git rebase -i" did not abort cleanly if it failed to launch the editor. + + * "git reset --hard" did not work correctly when GIT_WORK_TREE environment + variable is used to point at the root of the true work tree. + + * http-backend was not listed in the command list in the documentation. + + * Building on FreeBSD (both 7 and 8) needs OLD_ICONV set in the Makefile + + * "git checkout -m some-branch" while on an unborn branch crashed. + +Other minor documentation updates are included. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.6.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.6.2.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..4eaddc0106 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.6.2.txt @@ -0,0 +1,46 @@ +Git v1.6.6.2 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.6.6.1 +-------------------- + + * recursive merge didn't correctly diagnose its own programming errors, + and instead caused the caller to segfault. + + * The new "smart http" aware clients probed the web servers to see if + they support smart http, but did not fall back to dumb http transport + correctly with some servers. + + * Time based reflog syntax e.g. "@{yesterday}" didn't diagnose a misspelled + time specification and instead assumed "@{now}". + + * "git archive HEAD -- no-such-directory" produced an empty archive + without complaining. + + * "git blame -L start,end -- file" misbehaved when given a start that is + larger than the number of lines in the file. + + * "git checkout -m" didn't correctly call custom merge backend supplied + by the end user. + + * "git config -f <file>" misbehaved when run from a subdirectory. + + * "git cvsserver" didn't like having regex metacharacters (e.g. '+') in + CVSROOT environment. + + * "git fast-import" did not correctly handle large blobs that may + bust the pack size limit. + + * "git gui" is supposed to work even when launched from inside a .git + directory. + + * "git gui" misbehaved when applying a hunk that ends with deletion. + + * "git imap-send" did not honor imap.preformattedHTML as documented. + + * "git log" family incorrectly showed the commit notes unconditionally by + mistake, which was especially irritating when running "git log --oneline". + + * "git status" shouldn't require an write access to the repository. + +Other minor documentation updates are included. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.6.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.6.3.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..11483acaec --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.6.3.txt @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +Git v1.6.6.3 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.6.6.2 +-------------------- + + * An overlong line after ".gitdir: " in a git file caused out of bounds + access to an array on the stack. + + * "git bisect $path" did not correctly diagnose an error when given a + non-existent path. + + * "git blame -L $start,$end" segfaulted when too large $start was given. + + * "git imap-send" did not write draft box with CRLF line endings per RFC. + + * "git rev-parse --parseopt --stop-at-non-option" did not stop at non option + when --keep-dashdash was in effect. + + * "gitweb" can sometimes be tricked into parrotting a filename argument + given in a request without properly quoting. + +Other minor fixes and documentation updates are included. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.6.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.6.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..c50b59c495 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.6.txt @@ -0,0 +1,224 @@ +Git v1.6.6 Release Notes +======================== + +Notes on behaviour change +------------------------- + + * In this release, "git fsck" defaults to "git fsck --full" and + checks packfiles, and because of this it will take much longer to + complete than before. If you prefer a quicker check only on loose + objects (the old default), you can say "git fsck --no-full". This + has been supported by 1.5.4 and newer versions of git, so it is + safe to write it in your script even if you use slightly older git + on some of your machines. + +Preparing yourselves for compatibility issues in 1.7.0 +------------------------------------------------------ + +In git 1.7.0, which is planned to be the release after 1.6.6, there will +be a handful of behaviour changes that will break backward compatibility. + +These changes were discussed long time ago and existing behaviours have +been identified as more problematic to the userbase than keeping them for +the sake of backward compatibility. + +When necessary, a transition strategy for existing users has been designed +not to force them running around setting configuration variables and +updating their scripts in order to either keep the traditional behaviour +or adjust to the new behaviour, on the day their sysadmin decides to install +the new version of git. When we switched from "git-foo" to "git foo" in +1.6.0, even though the change had been advertised and the transition +guide had been provided for a very long time, the users procrastinated +during the entire transition period, and ended up panicking on the day +their sysadmins updated their git installation. We are trying to avoid +repeating that unpleasantness in the 1.7.0 release. + +For changes decided to be in 1.7.0, commands that will be affected +have been much louder to strongly discourage such procrastination, and +they continue to be in this release. If you have been using recent +versions of git, you would have seen warnings issued when you used +features whose behaviour will change, with a clear instruction on how +to keep the existing behaviour if you want to. You hopefully are +already well prepared. + +Of course, we have also been giving "this and that will change in +1.7.0; prepare yourselves" warnings in the release notes and +announcement messages for the past few releases. Let's see how well +users will fare this time. + + * "git push" into a branch that is currently checked out (i.e. pointed by + HEAD in a repository that is not bare) will be refused by default. + + Similarly, "git push $there :$killed" to delete the branch $killed + in a remote repository $there, when $killed branch is the current + branch pointed at by its HEAD, will be refused by default. + + Setting the configuration variables receive.denyCurrentBranch and + receive.denyDeleteCurrent to 'ignore' in the receiving repository + can be used to override these safety features. Versions of git + since 1.6.2 have issued a loud warning when you tried to do these + operations without setting the configuration, so repositories of + people who still need to be able to perform such a push should + already have been future proofed. + + Please refer to: + + http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitFaq#non-bare + http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/107758/focus=108007 + + for more details on the reason why this change is needed and the + transition process that already took place so far. + + * "git send-email" will not make deep threads by default when sending a + patch series with more than two messages. All messages will be sent + as a reply to the first message, i.e. cover letter. Git 1.6.6 (this + release) will issue a warning about the upcoming default change, when + it uses the traditional "deep threading" behaviour as the built-in + default. To squelch the warning but still use the "deep threading" + behaviour, give --chain-reply-to option or set sendemail.chainreplyto + to true. + + It has been possible to configure send-email to send "shallow thread" + by setting sendemail.chainreplyto configuration variable to false. + The only thing 1.7.0 release will do is to change the default when + you haven't configured that variable. + + * "git status" will not be "git commit --dry-run". This change does not + affect you if you run the command without pathspec. + + Nobody sane found the current behaviour of "git status Makefile" useful + nor meaningful, and it confused users. "git commit --dry-run" has been + provided as a way to get the current behaviour of this command since + 1.6.5. + + * "git diff" traditionally treated various "ignore whitespace" options + only as a way to filter the patch output. "git diff --exit-code -b" + exited with non-zero status even if all changes were about changing the + amount of whitespace and nothing else. and "git diff -b" showed the + "diff --git" header line for such a change without patch text. + + In 1.7.0, the "ignore whitespaces" will affect the semantics of the + diff operation itself. A change that does not affect anything but + whitespaces will be reported with zero exit status when run with + --exit-code, and there will not be "diff --git" header for such a + change. + + +Updates since v1.6.5 +-------------------- + +(subsystems) + + * various gitk updates including use of themed widgets under Tk 8.5, + Japanese translation, a fix to a bug when running "gui blame" from + a subdirectory, etc. + + * various git-gui updates including new translations, wm states fixes, + Tk bug workaround after quitting, improved heuristics to trigger gc, + etc. + + * various git-svn updates. + + * "git fetch" over http learned a new mode that is different from the + traditional "dumb commit walker". + +(portability) + + * imap-send can be built on mingw port. + +(performance) + + * "git diff -B" has smaller memory footprint. + +(usability, bells and whistles) + + * The object replace mechanism can be bypassed with --no-replace-objects + global option given to the "git" program. + + * In configuration files, a few variables that name paths can begin with ~/ + and ~username/ and they are expanded as expected. + + * "git subcmd -h" now shows short usage help for many more subcommands. + + * "git bisect reset" can reset to an arbitrary commit. + + * "git checkout frotz" when there is no local branch "frotz" but there + is only one remote tracking branch "frotz" is taken as a request to + start the named branch at the corresponding remote tracking branch. + + * "git commit -c/-C/--amend" can be told with a new "--reset-author" option + to ignore authorship information in the commit it is taking the message + from. + + * "git describe" can be told to add "-dirty" suffix with "--dirty" option. + + * "git diff" learned --submodule option to show a list of one-line logs + instead of differences between the commit object names. + + * "git diff" learned to honor diff.color.func configuration to paint + function name hint printed on the hunk header "@@ -j,k +l,m @@" line + in the specified color. + + * "git fetch" learned --all and --multiple options, to run fetch from + many repositories, and --prune option to remove remote tracking + branches that went stale. These make "git remote update" and "git + remote prune" less necessary (there is no plan to remove "remote + update" nor "remote prune", though). + + * "git fsck" by default checks the packfiles (i.e. "--full" is the + default); you can turn it off with "git fsck --no-full". + + * "git grep" can use -F (fixed strings) and -i (ignore case) together. + + * import-tars contributed fast-import frontend learned more types of + compressed tarballs. + + * "git instaweb" knows how to talk with mod_cgid to apache2. + + * "git log --decorate" shows the location of HEAD as well. + + * "git log" and "git rev-list" learned to take revs and pathspecs from + the standard input with the new "--stdin" option. + + * "--pretty=format" option to "log" family of commands learned: + + . to wrap text with the "%w()" specifier. + . to show reflog information with "%g[sdD]" specifier. + + * "git notes" command to annotate existing commits. + + * "git merge" (and "git pull") learned --ff-only option to make it fail + if the merge does not result in a fast-forward. + + * "git mergetool" learned to use p4merge. + + * "git rebase -i" learned "reword" that acts like "edit" but immediately + starts an editor to tweak the log message without returning control to + the shell, which is done by "edit" to give an opportunity to tweak the + contents. + + * "git send-email" can be told with "--envelope-sender=auto" to use the + same address as "From:" address as the envelope sender address. + + * "git send-email" will issue a warning when it defaults to the + --chain-reply-to behaviour without being told by the user and + instructs to prepare for the change of the default in 1.7.0 release. + + * In "git submodule add <repository> <path>", <path> is now optional and + inferred from <repository> the same way "git clone <repository>" does. + + * "git svn" learned to read SVN 1.5+ and SVK merge tickets. + + * "git svn" learned to recreate empty directories tracked only by SVN. + + * "gitweb" can optionally render its "blame" output incrementally (this + requires JavaScript on the client side). + + * Author names shown in gitweb output are links to search commits by the + author. + +Fixes since v1.6.5 +------------------ + +All of the fixes in v1.6.5.X maintenance series are included in this +release, unless otherwise noted. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.0.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.0.1.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..8ff5bcada8 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.0.1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ +Git v1.7.0.1 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.0 +------------------ + + * In a freshly created repository "rev-parse HEAD^0" complained that + it is dangling symref, even though "rev-parse HEAD" didn't. + + * "git show :no-such-name" tried to access the index without bounds + check, leading to a potential segfault. + + * Message from "git cherry-pick" was harder to read and use than necessary + when it stopped due to conflicting changes. + + * We referred to ".git/refs/" throughout the documentation when we + meant to talk about abstract notion of "ref namespace". Because + people's repositories often have packed refs these days, this was + confusing. + + * "git diff --output=/path/that/cannot/be/written" did not correctly + error out. + + * "git grep -e -pattern-that-begin-with-dash paths..." could not be + spelled as "git grep -- -pattern-that-begin-with-dash paths..." which + would be a GNU way to use "--" as "end of options". + + * "git grep" compiled with threading support tried to access an + uninitialized mutex on boxes with a single CPU. + + * "git stash pop -q --index" failed because the unnecessary --index + option was propagated to "git stash drop" that is internally run at the + end. + +And other minor fixes and documentation updates. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.0.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.0.2.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..fcb46ca6a4 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.0.2.txt @@ -0,0 +1,40 @@ +Git v1.7.0.2 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.0.1 +-------------------- + + * GIT_PAGER was not honored consistently by some scripted Porcelains, most + notably "git am". + + * updating working tree files after telling git to add them to the + index and while it is still working created garbage object files in + the repository without diagnosing it as an error. + + * "git bisect -- pathspec..." did not diagnose an error condition properly when + the simplification with given pathspec made the history empty. + + * "git rev-list --cherry-pick A...B" now has an obvious optimization when the + histories haven't diverged (i.e. when one end is an ancestor of the other). + + * "git diff --quiet -w" did not work as expected. + + * "git fast-import" didn't work with a large input, as it lacked support + for producing the pack index in v2 format. + + * "git imap-send" didn't use CRLF line endings over the imap protocol + when storing its payload to the draft box, violating RFC 3501. + + * "git log --format='%w(x,y,z)%b'" and friends that rewrap message + has been optimized for utf-8 payload. + + * Error messages generated on the receiving end did not come back to "git + push". + + * "git status" in 1.7.0 lacked the optimization we used to have in 1.6.X series + to speed up scanning of large working tree. + + * "gitweb" did not diagnose parsing errors properly while reading tis configuration + file. + +And other minor fixes and documentation updates. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.0.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.0.3.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..3b355737c0 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.0.3.txt @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +Git v1.7.0.3 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.0.2 +-------------------- + + * Object files are created in a more ACL friendly way in repositories + where group permission is ACL controlled. + + * "git add -i" didn't handle a deleted path very well. + + * "git blame" padded line numbers with one extra SP when the total number + of lines was one less than multiple of ten due to an off-by-one error. + + * "git fetch --all/--multi" used to discard information for remotes that + are fetched earlier. + + * "git log --author=me --grep=it" tried to find commits that have "it" + or are written by "me", instead of the ones that have "it" _and_ are + written by "me". + + * "git log -g branch" misbehaved when there was no entries in the reflog + for the named branch. + + * "git mailinfo" (hence "git am") incorrectly removed initial indent from + paragraphs. + + * "git prune" and "git reflog" (hence "git gc" as well) didn't honor + an instruction never to expire by setting gc.reflogexpire to never. + + * "git push" misbehaved when branch.<name>.merge was configured without + matching branch.<name>.remote. + +And other minor fixes and documentation updates. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.0.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.0.4.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..cf7f60e60d --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.0.4.txt @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +Git v1.7.0.4 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.0.3 +-------------------- + + * Optimized ntohl/htonl on big-endian machines were broken. + + * Color values given to "color.<cmd>.<slot>" configuration can now have + more than one attributes (e.g. "bold ul"). + + * "git add -u nonexistent-path" did not complain. + + * "git apply --whitespace=fix" didn't work well when an early patch in + a patch series adds trailing blank lines and a later one depended on + such a block of blank lines at the end. + + * "git fast-export" didn't check error status and stop when marks file + cannot be opened. + + * "git format-patch --ignore-if-in-upstream" gave unwarranted errors + when the range was empty, instead of silently finishing. + + * "git remote prune" did not detect remote tracking refs that became + dangling correctly. + +And other minor fixes and documentation updates. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.0.5.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.0.5.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..3149c91b7b --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.0.5.txt @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +Git v1.7.0.5 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.0.4 +-------------------- + + * "git daemon" failed to compile on platforms without sockaddr_storage type. + + * Output from "git rev-list --pretty=oneline" was unparsable when a + commit did not have any message, which is abnormal but possible in a + repository converted from foreign scm. + + * "git stash show <commit-that-is-not-a-stash>" gave an error message + that was not so useful. Reworded the message to "<it> is not a + stash". + + * Python scripts in contrib/ area now start with "#!/usr/bin/env python" + to honor user's PATH. + + * "git imap-send" used to mistake any line that begins with "From " as a + message separator in format-patch output. + + * Smart http server backend failed to report an internal server error and + infinitely looped instead after output pipe was closed. + +And other minor fixes and documentation updates. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.0.6.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.0.6.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..b2852b67d0 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.0.6.txt @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +Git v1.7.0.6 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.0.5 +-------------------- + + * "git diff --stat" used "int" to count the size of differences, + which could result in overflowing. + + * "git rev-list --abbrev-commit" defaulted to 40-byte abbreviations, unlike + newer tools in the git toolset. + +And other minor fixes and documentation updates. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.0.7.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.0.7.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..d0cb7ca7e2 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.0.7.txt @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +Git v1.7.0.7 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.0.6 +-------------------- + + * "make NO_CURL=NoThanks install" was broken. + + * An overlong line after ".gitdir: " in a git file caused out of bounds + access to an array on the stack. + + * "git config --path conf.var" to attempt to expand a variable conf.var + that uses "~/" short-hand segfaulted when $HOME environment variable + was not set. + +And other minor fixes and documentation updates. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.0.8.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.0.8.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..7f05b48e17 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.0.8.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +Git v1.7.0.8 Release Notes +========================== + +This is primarily to backport support for the new "add.ignoreErrors" +name given to the existing "add.ignore-errors" configuration variable. + +The next version, Git 1.7.4, and future versions, will support both +old and incorrect name and the new corrected name, but without this +backport, users who want to use the new name "add.ignoreErrors" in +their repositories cannot use older versions of Git. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.0.9.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.0.9.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..bfb3166387 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.0.9.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Git v1.7.0.9 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.0.8 +-------------------- + + * "gitweb" can sometimes be tricked into parrotting a filename argument + given in a request without properly quoting. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..0bb8c0b2a2 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,214 @@ +Git v1.7.0 Release Notes +======================== + +Notes on behaviour change +------------------------- + + * "git push" into a branch that is currently checked out (i.e. pointed at by + HEAD in a repository that is not bare) is refused by default. + + Similarly, "git push $there :$killed" to delete the branch $killed + in a remote repository $there, when $killed branch is the current + branch pointed at by its HEAD, will be refused by default. + + Setting the configuration variables receive.denyCurrentBranch and + receive.denyDeleteCurrent to 'ignore' in the receiving repository + can be used to override these safety features. + + * "git send-email" does not make deep threads by default when sending a + patch series with more than two messages. All messages will be sent + as a reply to the first message, i.e. cover letter. + + It has been possible already to configure send-email to send "shallow thread" + by setting sendemail.chainreplyto configuration variable to false. The + only thing this release does is to change the default when you haven't + configured that variable. + + * "git status" is not "git commit --dry-run" anymore. This change does + not affect you if you run the command without argument. + + * "git diff" traditionally treated various "ignore whitespace" options + only as a way to filter the patch output. "git diff --exit-code -b" + exited with non-zero status even if all changes were about changing the + amount of whitespace and nothing else; and "git diff -b" showed the + "diff --git" header line for such a change without patch text. + + In this release, the "ignore whitespaces" options affect the semantics + of the diff operation. A change that does not affect anything but + whitespaces is reported with zero exit status when run with + --exit-code, and there is no "diff --git" header for such a change. + + * External diff and textconv helpers are now executed using the shell. + This makes them consistent with other programs executed by git, and + allows you to pass command-line parameters to the helpers. Any helper + paths containing spaces or other metacharacters now need to be + shell-quoted. The affected helpers are GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF in the + environment, and diff.*.command and diff.*.textconv in the config + file. + + * The --max-pack-size argument to 'git repack', 'git pack-objects', and + 'git fast-import' was assuming the provided size to be expressed in MiB, + unlike the corresponding config variable and other similar options accepting + a size value. It is now expecting a size expressed in bytes, with a possible + unit suffix of 'k', 'm', or 'g'. + +Updates since v1.6.6 +-------------------- + +(subsystems) + + * "git fast-import" updates; adds "option" and "feature" to detect the + mismatch between fast-import and the frontends that produce the input + stream. + + * "git svn" support of subversion "merge tickets" and miscellaneous fixes. + + * "gitk" and "git gui" translation updates. + + * "gitweb" updates (code clean-up, load checking etc.) + +(portability) + + * Some more MSVC portability patches for msysgit port. + + * Minimum Pthreads emulation for msysgit port. + +(performance) + + * More performance improvement patches for msysgit port. + +(usability, bells and whistles) + + * More commands learned "--quiet" and "--[no-]progress" options. + + * Various commands given by the end user (e.g. diff.type.textconv, + and GIT_EDITOR) can be specified with command line arguments. E.g. it + is now possible to say "[diff "utf8doc"] textconv = nkf -w". + + * "sparse checkout" feature allows only part of the work tree to be + checked out. + + * HTTP transfer can use authentication scheme other than basic + (i.e./e.g. digest). + + * Switching from a version of superproject that used to have a submodule + to another version of superproject that no longer has it did not remove + the submodule directory when it should (namely, when you are not + interested in the submodule at all and didn't clone/checkout). + + * A new attribute conflict-marker-size can be used to change the size of + the conflict markers from the default 7; this is useful when tracked + contents (e.g. git-merge documentation) have strings that resemble the + conflict markers. + + * A new syntax "<branch>@{upstream}" can be used on the command line to + substitute the name of the "upstream" of the branch. Missing branch + defaults to the current branch, so "git fetch && git merge @{upstream}" + will be equivalent to "git pull". + + * "git am --resolved" has a synonym "git am --continue". + + * "git branch --set-upstream" can be used to update the (surprise!) upstream, + i.e. where the branch is supposed to pull and merge from (or rebase onto). + + * "git checkout A...B" is a way to detach HEAD at the merge base between + A and B. + + * "git checkout -m path" to reset the work tree file back into the + conflicted state works even when you already ran "git add path" and + resolved the conflicts. + + * "git commit --date='<date>'" can be used to override the author date + just like "git commit --author='<name> <email>'" can be used to + override the author identity. + + * "git commit --no-status" can be used to omit the listing of the index + and the work tree status in the editor used to prepare the log message. + + * "git commit" warns a bit more aggressively until you configure user.email, + whose default value almost always is not (and fundamentally cannot be) + what you want. + + * "git difftool" has been extended to make it easier to integrate it + with gitk. + + * "git fetch --all" can now be used in place of "git remote update". + + * "git grep" does not rely on external grep anymore. It can use more than + one thread to accelerate the operation. + + * "git grep" learned "--quiet" option. + + * "git log" and friends learned "--glob=heads/*" syntax that is a more + flexible way to complement "--branches/--tags/--remotes". + + * "git merge" learned to pass options specific to strategy-backends. E.g. + + - "git merge -Xsubtree=path/to/directory" can be used to tell the subtree + strategy how much to shift the trees explicitly. + + - "git merge -Xtheirs" can be used to auto-merge as much as possible, + while discarding your own changes and taking merged version in + conflicted regions. + + * "git push" learned "git push origin --delete branch", a syntactic sugar + for "git push origin :branch". + + * "git push" learned "git push --set-upstream origin forker:forkee" that + lets you configure your "forker" branch to later pull from "forkee" + branch at "origin". + + * "git rebase --onto A...B" means the history is replayed on top of the + merge base between A and B. + + * "git rebase -i" learned new action "fixup" that squashes the change + but does not affect existing log message. + + * "git rebase -i" also learned --autosquash option that is useful + together with the new "fixup" action. + + * "git remote" learned set-url subcommand that updates (surprise!) url + for an existing remote nickname. + + * "git rerere" learned "forget path" subcommand. Together with "git + checkout -m path" it will be useful when you recorded a wrong + resolution. + + * Use of "git reset --merge" has become easier when resetting away a + conflicted mess left in the work tree. + + * "git rerere" had rerere.autoupdate configuration but there was no way + to countermand it from the command line; --no-rerere-autoupdate option + given to "merge", "revert", etc. fixes this. + + * "git status" learned "-s(hort)" output format. + +(developers) + + * The infrastructure to build foreign SCM interface has been updated. + + * Many more commands are now built-in. + + * THREADED_DELTA_SEARCH is no more. If you build with threads, delta + compression will always take advantage of it. + +Fixes since v1.6.6 +------------------ + +All of the fixes in v1.6.6.X maintenance series are included in this +release, unless otherwise noted. + + * "git branch -d branch" used to refuse deleting the branch even when + the branch is fully merged to its upstream branch if it is not merged + to the current branch. It now deletes it in such a case. + + * "filter-branch" command incorrectly said --prune-empty and --filter-commit + were incompatible; the latter should be read as --commit-filter. + + * When using "git status" or asking "git diff" to compare the work tree + with something, they used to consider that a checked-out submodule with + uncommitted changes is not modified; this could cause people to forget + committing these changes in the submodule before committing in the + superproject. They now consider such a change as a modification and + "git diff" will append a "-dirty" to the work tree side when generating + patch output or when used with the --submodule option. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.1.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.1.1.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..3f6b3148a3 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.1.1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,96 @@ +Git v1.7.1.1 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.1 +------------------ + + * Authentication over http transport can now be made lazily, in that the + request can first go to a URL without username, get a 401 response and + then the client will ask for the username to use. + + * We used to mistakenly think "../work" is a subdirectory of the current + directory when we are in "../work-xyz". + + * The attribute mechanism now allows an entry that uses an attribute + macro that set/unset one attribute, immediately followed by an + overriding setting; this makes attribute macros much easier to use. + + * We didn't recognize timezone "Z" as a synonym for "UTC" (75b37e70). + + * In 1.7.0, read-tree and user commands that use the mechanism such as + checkout and merge were fixed to handle switching between branches one + of which has a file while the other has a directory at the same path + correctly even when there are some "confusing" pathnames in them. But + the algorithm used for this fix was suboptimal and had a terrible + performance degradation especially in larger trees. + + * "git am -3" did not show diagnosis when the patch in the message was corrupt. + + * After "git apply --whitespace=fix" removed trailing blank lines in an + patch in a patch series, it failed to apply later patches that depend + on the presence of such blank lines. + + * "git bundle --stdin" segfaulted. + + * "git checkout" and "git rebase" overwrote paths that are marked "assume + unchanged". + + * "git commit --amend" on a commit with an invalid author-name line that + lacks the display name didn't work. + + * "git describe" did not tie-break tags that point at the same commit + correctly; newer ones are preferred by paying attention to the + tagger date now. + + * "git diff" used to tell underlying xdiff machinery to work very hard to + minimize the output, but this often was spending too many extra cycles + for very little gain. + + * "git diff --color" did not paint extended diff headers per line + (i.e. the coloring escape sequence didn't end at the end of line), + which confused "less -R". + + * "git fetch" over HTTP verifies the downloaded packfiles more robustly. + + * The memory usage by "git index-pack" (run during "git fetch" and "git + push") got leaner. + + * "GIT_DIR=foo.git git init --bare bar.git" created foo.git instead of bar.git. + + * "git log --abbrev=$num --format='%h' ignored --abbrev=$num. + + * "git ls-files ../out/side/cwd" refused to work. + + * "git merge --log" used to replace the custom message given by "-m" with + the shortlog, instead of appending to it. + + * "git notes copy" without any other argument segfaulted. + + * "git pull" accepted "--dry-run", gave it to underlying "git fetch" but + ignored the option itself, resulting in a bogus attempt to merge + unrelated commit. + + * "git rebase" did not faithfully reproduce a malformed author ident, that + is often seen in a repository converted from foreign SCMs. + + * "git reset --hard" started from a wrong directory and a working tree in + a nonstandard location is in use got confused. + + * "git send-email" lacked a way to specify the domainname used in the + EHLO/HELO exchange, causing rejected connection from picky servers. + It learned --smtp-domain option to solve this issue. + + * "git send-email" did not declare a content-transfer-encoding and + content-type even when its payload needs to be sent in 8-bit. + + * "git show -C -C" and other corner cases lost diff metainfo output + in 1.7.0. + + * "git stash" incorrectly lost paths in the working tree that were + previously removed from the index. + + * "git status" stopped refreshing the index by mistake in 1.7.1. + + * "git status" showed excess "hints" even when advice.statusHints is set to false. + +And other minor fixes and documentation updates. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.1.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.1.2.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..61ba14e262 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.1.2.txt @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +Git v1.7.1.2 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.1.1 +-------------------- + + * "git commit" did not honor GIT_REFLOG_ACTION environment variable, resulting + reflog messages for cherry-pick and revert actions to be recorded as "commit". + + * "git clone/fetch/pull" issued an incorrect error message when a ref and + a symref that points to the ref were updated at the same time. This + obviously would update them to the same value, and should not result in + an error condition. + + * "git diff" inside a tree with many pathnames that have certain + characters has become very slow in 1.7.0 by mistake. + + * "git rev-parse --parseopt --stop-at-non-option" did not stop at non option + when --keep-dashdash was in effect. + + * An overlong line after ".gitdir: " in a git file caused out of bounds + access to an array on the stack. + + * "git config --path conf.var" to attempt to expand a variable conf.var + that uses "~/" short-hand segfaulted when $HOME environment variable + was not set. + +And other minor fixes and documentation updates. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.1.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.1.3.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..5b18518449 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.1.3.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +Git v1.7.1.3 Release Notes +========================== + +This is primarily to backport support for the new "add.ignoreErrors" +name given to the existing "add.ignore-errors" configuration variable. + +The next version, Git 1.7.4, and future versions, will support both +old and incorrect name and the new corrected name, but without this +backport, users who want to use the new name "add.ignoreErrors" in +their repositories cannot use older versions of Git. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.1.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.1.4.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..7c734b4f7b --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.1.4.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Git v1.7.1.4 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.1.3 +-------------------- + + * "gitweb" can sometimes be tricked into parrotting a filename argument + given in a request without properly quoting. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.1.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..9d89fedb36 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,89 @@ +Git v1.7.1 Release Notes +======================== + +Updates since v1.7.0 +-------------------- + + * Eric Raymond is the maintainer of updated CIAbot scripts, in contrib/. + + * gitk updates. + + * Some commands (e.g. svn and http interfaces) that interactively ask + for a password can be told to use an external program given via + GIT_ASKPASS. + + * Conflict markers that lead the common ancestor in diff3-style output + now have a label, which hopefully would help third-party tools that + expect one. + + * Comes with an updated bash-completion script. + + * "git am" learned "--keep-cr" option to handle inputs that are + a mixture of changes to files with and without CRLF line endings. + + * "git cvsimport" learned -R option to leave revision mapping between + CVS revisions and resulting git commits. + + * "git diff --submodule" notices and describes dirty submodules. + + * "git for-each-ref" learned %(symref), %(symref:short) and %(flag) + tokens. + + * "git hash-object --stdin-paths" can take "--no-filters" option now. + + * "git init" can be told to look at init.templatedir configuration + variable (obviously that has to come from either /etc/gitconfig or + $HOME/.gitconfig). + + * "git grep" learned "--no-index" option, to search inside contents that + are not managed by git. + + * "git grep" learned --color=auto/always/never. + + * "git grep" learned to paint filename and line-number in colors. + + * "git log -p --first-parent -m" shows one-parent diff for merge + commits, instead of showing combined diff. + + * "git merge-file" learned to use custom conflict marker size and also + to use the "union merge" behaviour. + + * "git notes" command has been rewritten in C and learned many commands + and features to help you carry notes forward across rebases and amends. + + * "git request-pull" identifies the commit the request is relative to in + a more readable way. + + * "git reset" learned "--keep" option that lets you discard commits + near the tip while preserving your local changes in a way similar + to how "git checkout branch" does. + + * "git status" notices and describes dirty submodules. + + * "git svn" should work better when interacting with repositories + with CRLF line endings. + + * "git imap-send" learned to support CRAM-MD5 authentication. + + * "gitweb" installation procedure can use "minified" js/css files + better. + + * Various documentation updates. + +Fixes since v1.7.0 +------------------ + +All of the fixes in v1.7.0.X maintenance series are included in this +release, unless otherwise noted. + + * "git add frotz/nitfol" did not complain when the entire frotz/ directory + was ignored. + + * "git diff --stat" used "int" to count the size of differences, + which could result in overflowing. + + * "git rev-list --pretty=oneline" didn't terminate a record with LF for + commits without any message. + + * "git rev-list --abbrev-commit" defaulted to 40-byte abbreviations, unlike + newer tools in the git toolset. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.2.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.2.1.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..1103c47a4f --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.2.1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +Git v1.7.2.1 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.2 +------------------ + + * "git instaweb" wasn't useful when your Apache was installed under a + name other than apache2 (e.g. "httpd"). + + * Similarly, "git web--browse" (invoked by "git help -w") learned that + chrome browser is sometimes called google-chrome. + + * An overlong line after ".gitdir: " in a git file caused out of bounds + access to an array on the stack. + + * "git config --path conf.var" to attempt to expand a variable conf.var + that uses "~/" short-hand segfaulted when $HOME environment variable + was not set. + + * Documentation on Cygwin failed to build. + + * The error message from "git pull blarg" when 'blarg' is an unknown + remote name has been improved. + +And other minor fixes and documentation updates. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.2.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.2.2.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..71eb6a8b0a --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.2.2.txt @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +Git v1.7.2.2 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.2.1 +-------------------- + + * Object transfer over smart http transport deadlocked the client when + the remote HTTP server returned a failure, instead of erroring it out. + + * git-gui honors custom textconv filters when showing diff and blame; + + * git diff --relative=subdir (without the necessary trailing /) did not + work well; + + * "git diff-files -p --submodule" was recently broken; + + * "git checkout -b n ':/token'" did not work; + + * "git index-pack" (hence "git fetch/clone/pull/push") enabled the object + replacement machinery by mistake (it never should have); + +And other minor fixes and documentation updates. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.2.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.2.3.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..610960cfe1 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.2.3.txt @@ -0,0 +1,39 @@ +Git v1.7.2.3 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.2.2 +-------------------- + + * When people try insane things such as delta-compressing 4GiB files, we + threw an assertion failure. + + * "git archive" gave the full commit ID for "$Format:%h$". + + * "git fetch --tags" did not fetch tags when remote.<nick>.tagopt was set + to --no-tags. The command line option now overrides the configuration + setting. + + * "git for-each-ref --format='%(objectname:short)'" has been completely + broken for a long time. + + * "git gc" incorrectly pruned a rerere record that was created long + time ago but still is actively and repeatedly used. + + * "git log --follow -M -p" was seriously broken in 1.7.2, reporting + assertion failure. + + * Running "git log" with an incorrect option started pager nevertheless, + forcing the user to dismiss it. + + * "git rebase" did not work well when the user has diff.renames + configuration variable set. + + * An earlier (and rather old) fix to "git rebase" against a rebased + upstream broke a more normal, non rebased upstream case rather badly, + attempting to re-apply patches that are already accepted upstream. + + * "git submodule sync" forgot to update the superproject's config file + when submodule URL changed. + + * "git pack-refs --all --prune" did not remove a directory that has + become empty. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.2.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.2.4.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..f7950a4c04 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.2.4.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +Git v1.7.2.4 Release Notes +========================== + +This is primarily to backport support for the new "add.ignoreErrors" +name given to the existing "add.ignore-errors" configuration variable. + +The next version, Git 1.7.4, and future versions, will support both +old and incorrect name and the new corrected name, but without this +backport, users who want to use the new name "add.ignoreErrors" in +their repositories cannot use older versions of Git. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.2.5.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.2.5.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..bf976c40db --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.2.5.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Git v1.7.2.5 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.2.4 +-------------------- + + * "gitweb" can sometimes be tricked into parrotting a filename argument + given in a request without properly quoting. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.2.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..15cf01178c --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.2.txt @@ -0,0 +1,151 @@ +Git v1.7.2 Release Notes +======================== + +Updates since v1.7.1 +-------------------- + + * core.eol configuration and text/eol attributes are the new way to control + the end of line conventions for files in the working tree. + + * core.autocrlf has been made safer - it will now only handle line + endings for new files and files that are LF-only in the + repository. To normalize content that has been checked in with + CRLF, use the new eol/text attributes. + + * The whitespace rules used in "git apply --whitespace" and "git diff" + gained a new member in the family (tab-in-indent) to help projects with + policy to indent only with spaces. + + * When working from a subdirectory, by default, git does not look for its + metadirectory ".git" across filesystems, primarily to help people who + have invocations of git in their custom PS1 prompts, as being outside + of a git repository would look for ".git" all the way up to the root + directory, and NFS mounts are often slow. DISCOVERY_ACROSS_FILESYSTEM + environment variable can be used to tell git not to stop at a + filesystem boundary. + + * Usage help messages generated by parse-options library (i.e. most + of the Porcelain commands) are sent to the standard output now. + + * ':/<string>' notation to look for a commit now takes regular expression + and it is not anchored at the beginning of the commit log message + anymore (this is a backward incompatible change). + + * "git" wrapper learned "-c name=value" option to override configuration + variable from the command line. + + * Improved portability for various platforms including older SunOS, + HP-UX 10/11, AIX, Tru64, etc. and platforms with Python 2.4. + + * The message from "git am -3" has been improved when conflict + resolution ended up making the patch a no-op. + + * "git blame" applies the textconv filter to the contents it works + on, when available. + + * "git checkout --orphan newbranch" is similar to "-b newbranch" but + prepares to create a root commit that is not connected to any existing + commit. + + * "git cherry-pick" learned to pick a range of commits + (e.g. "cherry-pick A..B" and "cherry-pick --stdin"), so did "git + revert"; these do not support the nicer sequencing control "rebase + [-i]" has, though. + + * "git cherry-pick" and "git revert" learned --strategy option to specify + the merge strategy to be used when performing three-way merges. + + * "git cvsserver" can be told to use pserver; its password file can be + stored outside the repository. + + * The output from the textconv filter used by "git diff" can be cached to + speed up their reuse. + + * "git diff --word-diff=<mode>" extends the existing "--color-words" + option, making it more useful in color-challenged environments. + + * The regexp to detect function headers used by "git diff" for PHP has + been enhanced for visibility modifiers (public, protected, etc.) to + better support PHP5. + + * "diff.noprefix" configuration variable can be used to implicitly + ask for "diff --no-prefix" behaviour. + + * "git for-each-ref" learned "%(objectname:short)" that gives the object + name abbreviated. + + * "git format-patch" learned --signature option and format.signature + configuration variable to customize the e-mail signature used in the + output. + + * Various options to "git grep" (e.g. --count, --name-only) work better + with binary files. + + * "git grep" learned "-Ovi" to open the files with hits in your editor. + + * "git help -w" learned "chrome" and "chromium" browsers. + + * "git log --decorate" shows commit decorations in various colours. + + * "git log --follow <path>" follows across copies (it used to only follow + renames). This may make the processing more expensive. + + * "git log --pretty=format:<template>" specifier learned "% <something>" + magic that inserts a space only when %<something> expands to a + non-empty string; this is similar to "%+<something>" magic, but is + useful in a context to generate a single line output. + + * "git notes prune" learned "-n" (dry-run) and "-v" options, similar to + what "git prune" has. + + * "git patch-id" can be fed a mbox without getting confused by the + signature line in the format-patch output. + + * "git remote" learned "set-branches" subcommand. + + * "git rev-list A..B" learned --ancestry-path option to further limit + the result to the commits that are on the ancestry chain between A and + B (i.e. commits that are not descendants of A are excluded). + + * "git show -5" is equivalent to "git show --do-walk 5"; this is similar + to the update to make "git show master..next" walk the history, + introduced in 1.6.4. + + * "git status [-s] --ignored" can be used to list ignored paths. + + * "git status -s -b" shows the current branch in the output. + + * "git status" learned "--ignore-submodules" option. + + * Various "gitweb" enhancements and clean-ups, including syntax + highlighting, "plackup" support for instaweb, .fcgi suffix to run + it as FastCGI script, etc. + + * The test harness has been updated to produce TAP-friendly output. + + * Many documentation improvement patches are also included. + + +Fixes since v1.7.1 +------------------ + +All of the fixes in v1.7.1.X maintenance series are included in this +release, unless otherwise noted. + + * We didn't URL decode "file:///path/to/repo" correctly when path/to/repo + had percent-encoded characters (638794c, 9d2e942, ce83eda, 3c73a1d). + + * "git clone" did not configure remote.origin.url correctly for bare + clones (df61c889). + + * "git diff --graph" works better with "--color-words" and other options + (81fa024..4297c0a). + + * "git diff" could show ambiguous abbreviation of blob object names on + its "index" line (3e5a188). + + * "git reset --hard" started from a wrong directory and a working tree in + a nonstandard location is in use got confused (560fb6a1). + + * "git read-tree -m A B" used to switch to branch B while retaining + local changes added an incorrect cache-tree information (b1f47514). diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.3.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.3.1.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..002c93b961 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.3.1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +Git v1.7.3.1 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.3 +------------------ + + * "git stash show stash@{$n}" was accidentally broken in 1.7.3 ("git + stash show" without any argument still worked, though). + + * "git stash branch $branch stash@{$n}" was accidentally broken in + 1.7.3 and started dropping the named stash even when branch creation + failed. + +And other minor fixes and documentation updates. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.3.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.3.2.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..5c93b85af4 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.3.2.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Git v1.7.3.2 Release Notes +========================== + +This is primarily to push out many documentation fixes accumulated since +the 1.7.3.1 release. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.3.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.3.3.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..9b2b2448df --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.3.3.txt @@ -0,0 +1,54 @@ +Git v1.7.3.3 Release Notes +========================== + +In addition to the usual fixes, this release also includes support for +the new "add.ignoreErrors" name given to the existing "add.ignore-errors" +configuration variable. + +The next version, Git 1.7.4, and future versions, will support both +old and incorrect name and the new corrected name, but without this +backport, users who want to use the new name "add.ignoreErrors" in +their repositories cannot use older versions of Git. + +Fixes since v1.7.3.2 +-------------------- + + * "git apply" segfaulted when a bogus input is fed to it. + + * Running "git cherry-pick --ff" on a root commit segfaulted. + + * "diff", "blame" and friends incorrectly applied textconv filters to + symlinks. + + * Highlighting of whitespace breakage in "diff" output was showing + incorrect amount of whitespaces when blank-at-eol is set and the line + consisted only of whitespaces and a TAB. + + * "diff" was overly inefficient when trying to find the line to use for + the function header (i.e. equivalent to --show-c-function of GNU diff). + + * "git imap-send" depends on libcrypto but our build rule relied on the + linker to implicitly link it via libssl, which was wrong. + + * "git merge-file" can be called from within a subdirectory now. + + * "git repack -f" expanded and recompressed non-delta objects in the + existing pack, which was wasteful. Use new "-F" option if you really + want to (e.g. when changing the pack.compression level). + + * "git rev-list --format="...%x00..." incorrectly chopped its output + at NUL. + + * "git send-email" did not correctly remove duplicate mail addresses from + the Cc: header that appear on the To: header. + + * The completion script (in contrib/completion) ignored lightweight tags + in __git_ps1(). + + * "git-blame" mode (in contrib/emacs) didn't say (require 'format-spec) + even though it depends on it; it didn't work with Emacs 22 or older + unless Gnus is used. + + * "git-p4" (in contrib/) did not correctly handle deleted files. + +Other minor fixes and documentation updates are also included. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.3.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.3.4.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..e57f7c176d --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.3.4.txt @@ -0,0 +1,45 @@ +Git v1.7.3.4 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.3.3 +-------------------- + + * Smart HTTP transport used to incorrectly retry redirected POST + request with GET request. + + * "git apply" did not correctly handle patches that only change modes + if told to apply while stripping leading paths with -p option. + + * "git apply" can deal with patches with timezone formatted with a + colon between the hours and minutes part (e.g. "-08:00" instead of + "-0800"). + + * "git checkout" removed an untracked file "foo" from the working + tree when switching to a branch that contains a tracked path + "foo/bar". Prevent this, just like the case where the conflicting + path were "foo" (c752e7f..7980872d). + + * "git cherry-pick" or "git revert" refused to work when a path that + would be modified by the operation was stat-dirty without a real + difference in the contents of the file. + + * "git diff --check" reported an incorrect line number for added + blank lines at the end of file. + + * "git imap-send" failed to build under NO_OPENSSL. + + * Setting log.decorate configuration variable to "0" or "1" to mean + "false" or "true" did not work. + + * "git push" over dumb HTTP protocol did not work against WebDAV + servers that did not terminate a collection name with a slash. + + * "git tag -v" did not work with GPG signatures in rfc1991 mode. + + * The post-receive-email sample hook was accidentally broken in 1.7.3.3 + update. + + * "gitweb" can sometimes be tricked into parrotting a filename argument + given in a request without properly quoting. + +Other minor fixes and documentation updates are also included. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.3.5.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.3.5.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..40f3ba5795 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.3.5.txt @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +Git 1.7.3.5 Release Notes +========================= + + * The xfuncname pattern used by "git diff" and "git grep" to show the + last notable line in context were broken for python and ruby for a long + time. + + * "git merge" into an unborn branch removed an untracked file "foo" from + the working tree when merged branch had "foo" (this fix was already in + 1.7.3.3 but was omitted from the release notes by mistake). + + * "git status -s" did not quote unprintable characters in paths as + documented. + + * "git am --abort" used to always reset to the commit at the beginning of + the last "am" invocation that has stopped, losing any unrelated commits + that may have been made since then. Now it refrains from doing so and + instead issues a warning. + + * "git blame" incorrectly reused bogusly cached result of textconv + filter for files from the working tree. + + * "git commit" used to abort after the user edited the log message + when the committer information was not correctly set up. It now + aborts before starting the editor. + + * "git commit --date=invalid" used to silently ignore the incorrectly + specified date; it is now diagnosed as an error. + + * "git rebase --skip" to skip the last commit in a series used to fail + to run post-rewrite hook and to copy notes from old commits that have + successfully been rebased so far. Now it do (backmerge ef88ad2). + + * "gitweb" tried to show a wrong feed logo when none was specified. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.3.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..309c33181f --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.3.txt @@ -0,0 +1,76 @@ +Git v1.7.3 Release Notes +======================== + +Updates since v1.7.2 +-------------------- + + * git-gui, now at version 0.13.0, got various updates and a new + maintainer, Pat Thoyts. + + * Gitweb allows its configuration to change per each request; it used to + read the configuration once upon startup. + + * When git finds a corrupt object, it now reports the file that contains + it. + + * "git checkout -B <it>" is a shorter way to say "git branch -f <it>" + followed by "git checkout <it>". + + * When "git checkout" or "git merge" refuse to proceed in order to + protect local modification to your working tree, they used to stop + after showing just one path that might be lost. They now show all, + in a format that is easier to read. + + * "git clean" learned "-e" ("--exclude") option. + + * Hunk headers produced for C# files by "git diff" and friends show more + relevant context than before. + + * diff.ignoresubmodules configuration variable can be used to squelch the + differences in submodules reported when running commands (e.g. "diff", + "status", etc.) at the superproject level. + + * http.useragent configuration can be used to lie who you are to your + restrictive firewall. + + * "git rebase --strategy <s>" learned "-X" option to pass extra options + that are understood by the chosen merge strategy. + + * "git rebase -i" learned "exec" that you can insert into the insn sheet + to run a command between its steps. + + * "git rebase" between branches that have many binary changes that do + not conflict should be faster. + + * "git rebase -i" peeks into rebase.autosquash configuration and acts as + if you gave --autosquash from the command line. + + +Also contains various documentation updates. + + +Fixes since v1.7.2 +------------------ + +All of the fixes in v1.7.2.X maintenance series are included in this +release, unless otherwise noted. + + * "git merge -s recursive" (which is the default) did not handle cases + where a directory becomes a file (or vice versa) very well. + + * "git fetch" and friends were accidentally broken for url with "+" in + its path, e.g. "git://git.gnome.org/gtk+". + + * "git fetch $url" (i.e. without refspecs) was broken for quite some + time, if the current branch happen to be tracking some remote. + + * "git ls-tree dir dirgarbage", when "dir" was a directory, + incorrectly recursed into "dir". + + * "git note remove" created unnecessary extra commit when named object + did not have any note to begin with. + + * "git rebase" did not work well if you had diff.noprefix configured. + + * "git -c foo=bar subcmd" did not work well for subcmd that is not + implemented as a built-in command. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.4.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.4.1.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..79923a6d2f --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.4.1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +Git v1.7.4.1 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.4 +------------------ + + * On Windows platform, the codepath to spawn a new child process forgot + to first flush the output buffer. + + * "git bundle" did not use OFS_DELTA encoding, making its output a few + per-cent larger than necessarily. + + * The option to tell "git clone" to recurse into the submodules was + misspelled with an underscore "--recurse_submodules". + + * "git diff --cached HEAD" before the first commit does what an end user + would expect (namely, show what would be committed without further "git + add"). + + * "git fast-import" didn't accept the command to ask for "notes" feature + to be present in its input stream, even though it was capable of the + feature. + + * "git fsck" gave up scanning loose object files in directories with + garbage files. + +And other minor fixes and documentation updates. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.4.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.4.2.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..ef4ce1fcd3 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.4.2.txt @@ -0,0 +1,58 @@ +Git v1.7.4.2 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.4.1 +-------------------- + + * Many documentation updates to match "git cmd -h" output and the + git-cmd manual page. + + * We used to keep one file descriptor open for each and every packfile + that we have a mmap window on it (read: "in use"), even when for very + tiny packfiles. We now close the file descriptor early when the entire + packfile fits inside one mmap window. + + * "git bisect visualize" tried to run "gitk" in windowing + environments even when "gitk" is not installed, resulting in a + strange error message. + + * "git clone /no/such/path" did not fail correctly. + + * "git commit" did not correctly error out when the user asked to use a + non existent file as the commit message template. + + * "git diff --stat -B" ran on binary files counted the changes in lines, + which was nonsensical. + + * "git diff -M" opportunistically detected copies, which was not + necessarily a good thing, especially when it is internally run by + recursive merge. + + * "git difftool" didn't tell (g)vimdiff that the files it is reading are + to be opened read-only. + + * "git merge" didn't pay attention to prepare-commit-msg hook, even + though if a merge is conflicted and manually resolved, the subsequent + "git commit" would have triggered the hook, which was inconsistent. + + * "git patch-id" (and commands like "format-patch --ignore-in-upstream" + that use it as their internal logic) handled changes to files that end + with incomplete lines incorrectly. + + * The official value to tell "git push" to push the current branch back + to update the upstream branch it forked from is now called "upstream". + The old name "tracking" is and will be supported. + + * "git submodule update" used to honor the --merge/--rebase option (or + corresponding configuration variables) even for a newly cloned + subproject, which made no sense (so/submodule-no-update-first-time). + + * gitweb's "highlight" interface mishandled tabs. + + * gitweb didn't understand timezones with GMT offset that is not + multiple of a whole hour. + + * gitweb had a few forward-incompatible syntactic constructs and + also used incorrect variable when showing the file mode in a diff. + +And other minor fixes and documentation updates. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.4.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.4.3.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..02a3d5bdf6 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.4.3.txt @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ +Git v1.7.4.3 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.4.2 +-------------------- + + * "git apply" used to confuse lines updated by previous hunks as lines + that existed before when applying a hunk, contributing misapplication + of patches with offsets. + + * "git branch --track" (and "git checkout --track --branch") used to + allow setting up a random non-branch that does not make sense to follow + as the "upstream". The command correctly diagnoses it as an error. + + * "git checkout $other_branch" silently removed untracked symbolic links + in the working tree that are in the way in order to check out paths + under it from the named branch. + + * "git cvsimport" did not bail out immediately when the cvs server cannot + be reached, spewing unnecessary error messages that complain about the + server response that it never got. + + * "git diff --quiet" did not work very well with the "--diff-filter" + option. + + * "git grep -n" lacked a long-hand synonym --line-number. + + * "git stash apply" reported the result of its operation by running + "git status" from the top-level of the working tree; it should (and + now does) run it from the user's working directory. + +And other minor fixes and documentation updates. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.4.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.4.4.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..ff06e04a58 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.4.4.txt @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ +Git v1.7.4.4 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.4.3 +-------------------- + + * Compilation of sha1_file.c on BSD platforms were broken due to our + recent use of getrlimit() without including <sys/resource.h>. + + * "git config" did not diagnose incorrect configuration variable names. + + * "git format-patch" did not wrap a long subject line that resulted from + rfc2047 encoding. + + * "git instaweb" should work better again with plackup. + + * "git log --max-count=4 -Sfoobar" now shows 4 commits that changes the + number of occurrences of string "foobar"; it used to scan only for 4 + commits and then emitted only matching ones. + + * "git log --first-parent --boundary $c^..$c" segfaulted on a merge. + + * "git pull" into an empty branch should have behaved as if + fast-forwarding from emptiness to the version being pulled, with + the usual protection against overwriting untracked files. + + * "git submodule" that is run while a merge in the superproject is in + conflicted state tried to process each conflicted submodule up to + three times. + + * "git status" spent all the effort to notice racily-clean index entries + but didn't update the index file to help later operations go faster in + some cases. + +And other minor fixes and documentation updates. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.4.5.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.4.5.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..b7a0eeb22f --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.4.5.txt @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +Git v1.7.4.5 Release Notes +========================== + +This contains only minor documentation fixes accumulated since 1.7.4.4. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.4.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..d5bca731b5 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.4.txt @@ -0,0 +1,156 @@ +Git v1.7.4 Release Notes +======================== + +Updates since v1.7.3 +-------------------- + + * The documentation Makefile now assumes by default asciidoc 8 and + docbook-xsl >= 1.73. If you have older versions, you can set + ASCIIDOC7 and ASCIIDOC_ROFF, respectively. + + * The option parsers of various commands that create new branches (or + rename existing ones to a new name) were too loose and users were + allowed to give a branch a name that begins with a dash by creative + abuse of their command line options, which only led to burning + themselves. The name of a branch cannot begin with a dash now. + + * System-wide fallback default attributes can be stored in + /etc/gitattributes; the core.attributesfile configuration variable can + be used to customize the path to this file. + + * The thread structure generated by "git send-email" has changed + slightly. Setting the cover letter of the latest series as a reply + to the cover letter of the previous series with --in-reply-to used + to make the new cover letter and all the patches replies to the + cover letter of the previous series; this has been changed to make + the patches in the new series replies to the new cover letter. + + * The Bash completion script in contrib/ has been adjusted to be usable with + Bash 4 (options with '=value' didn't complete). It has been also made + usable with zsh. + + * Different pagers can be chosen depending on which subcommand is + being run under the pager, using the "pager.<subcommand>" variable. + + * The hardcoded tab-width of 8 that is used in whitespace breakage checks is now + configurable via the attributes mechanism. + + * Support of case insensitive filesystems (i.e. "core.ignorecase") has + been improved. For example, the gitignore mechanism didn't pay attention + to case insensitivity. + + * The <tree>:<path> syntax for naming a blob in a tree, and the :<path> + syntax for naming a blob in the index (e.g. "master:Makefile", + ":hello.c") have been extended. You can start <path> with "./" to + implicitly have the (sub)directory you are in prefixed to the + lookup. Similarly, ":../Makefile" from a subdirectory would mean + "the Makefile of the parent directory in the index". + + * "git blame" learned the --show-email option to display the e-mail + addresses instead of the names of authors. + + * "git commit" learned the --fixup and --squash options to help later invocation + of interactive rebase. + + * Command line options to "git cvsimport" whose names are in capital + letters (-A, -M, -R and -S) can now be specified as the default in + the .git/config file by their longer names (cvsimport.authorsFile, + cvsimport.mergeRegex, cvsimport.trackRevisions, cvsimport.ignorePaths). + + * "git daemon" can be built in the MinGW environment. + + * "git daemon" can take more than one --listen option to listen to + multiple addresses. + + * "git describe --exact-match" was optimized not to read commit + objects unnecessarily. + + * "git diff" and "git grep" learned what functions and subroutines + in Fortran, Pascal and Perl look like. + + * "git fetch" learned the "--recurse-submodules" option. + + * "git mergetool" tells vim/gvim to show a three-way diff by default + (use vimdiff2/gvimdiff2 as the tool name for old behavior). + + * "git log -G<pattern>" limits the output to commits whose change has + added or deleted lines that match the given pattern. + + * "git read-tree" with no argument as a way to empty the index is + deprecated; we might want to remove it in the future. Users can + use the new --empty option to be more explicit instead. + + * "git repack -f" does not spend cycles to recompress objects in the + non-delta representation anymore (use -F if you really mean it + e.g. after you changed the core.compression variable setting). + + * "git merge --log" used to limit the resulting merge log to 20 + entries; this is now customizable by giving e.g. "--log=47". + + * "git merge" may work better when all files were moved out of a + directory in one branch while a new file is created in place of that + directory in the other branch. + + * "git merge" learned the "--abort" option, synonymous to + "git reset --merge" when a merge is in progress. + + * "git notes" learned the "merge" subcommand to merge notes refs. + In addition to the default manual conflict resolution, there are + also several notes merge strategies for automatically resolving + notes merge conflicts. + + * "git rebase --autosquash" can use SHA-1 object names to name the + commit which is to be fixed up (e.g. "fixup! e83c5163"). + + * The default "recursive" merge strategy learned the --rename-threshold + option to influence the rename detection, similar to the -M option + of "git diff". From the "git merge" frontend, the "-X<strategy option>" + interface, e.g. "git merge -Xrename-threshold=50% ...", can be used + to trigger this. + + * The "recursive" strategy also learned to ignore various whitespace + changes; the most notable is -Xignore-space-at-eol. + + * "git send-email" learned "--to-cmd", similar to "--cc-cmd", to read + the recipient list from a command output. + + * "git send-email" learned to read and use "To:" from its input files. + + * you can extend "git shell", which is often used on boxes that allow + git-only login over ssh as login shell, with a custom set of + commands. + + * The current branch name in "git status" output can be colored differently + from the generic header color by setting the "color.status.branch" variable. + + * "git submodule sync" updates metainformation for all submodules, + not just the ones that have been checked out. + + * gitweb can use a custom 'highlight' command with its configuration file. + + * other gitweb updates. + + +Also contains various documentation updates. + + +Fixes since v1.7.3 +------------------ + +All of the fixes in the v1.7.3.X maintenance series are included in this +release, unless otherwise noted. + + * "git log --author=me --author=her" did not find commits written by + me or by her; instead it looked for commits written by me and by + her, which is impossible. + + * "git push --progress" shows progress indicators now. + + * "git rebase -i" showed a confusing error message when given a + branch name that does not exist. + + * "git repack" places its temporary packs under $GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY/pack + instead of $GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY/ to avoid cross directory renames. + + * "git submodule update --recursive --other-flags" passes flags down + to its subinvocations. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.5.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.5.1.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..c6ebd76d19 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.5.1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,47 @@ +Git v1.7.5.1 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.5 +------------------ + + * When an object "$tree:$path" does not exist, if $path does exist in the + subtree of $tree that corresponds to the subdirectory the user is in, + git now suggests using "$tree:./$path" in addition to the advice to use + the full path from the root of the working tree. + + * The "--date=relative" output format used to say "X years, 12 months" + when it should have said "X+1 years". + + * The smart-HTTP transfer was broken in 1.7.5 when the client needs + to issue a small POST (which uses content-length) and then a large + POST (which uses chunked) back to back. + + * "git clean" used to fail on an empty directory that is not readable, + even though rmdir(2) could remove such a directory. Now we attempt it + as the last resort. + + * The "--dirstat" option of "diff" family of commands used to totally + ignore a change that only rearranged lines within a file. Such a + change now counts as at least a minimum but non zero change. + + * The "--dirstat" option of "diff" family of commands used to use the + pathname in the original, instead of the pathname in the result, + when renames are involved. + + * "git pack-object" did not take core.bigfilethreashold into account + (unlike fast-import); now it does. + + * "git reflog" ignored options like "--format=.." on the command line. + + * "git stash apply" used to refuse to work if there was any change in + the working tree, even when the change did not overlap with the change + the stash recorded. + + * "git stash apply @{99999}" was not diagnosed as an error, even when you + did not have that many stash entries. + + * An error message from "git send-email" to diagnose a broken SMTP + connection configuration lacked a space between "hello=<smtp-domain>" + and "port=<smtp-server-port>". + +And other minor fixes and documentation updates. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.5.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.5.2.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..b985b07da5 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.5.2.txt @@ -0,0 +1,42 @@ +Git v1.7.5.2 Release Notes +========================== + +The release notes to 1.7.5.1 forgot to mention: + + * "git stash -p --no-keep-index" and "git stash --no-keep-index -p" now + mean the same thing. + + * "git upload-pack" (hence "git push" over git native protocol) had a + subtle race condition that could lead to a deadlock. + +Fixes since v1.7.5.1 +-------------------- + + * "git cvsimport" did not know that CVSNT stores its password file in a + location different from the traditional CVS. + + * "git diff-files" did not show the mode information from the working + tree side of an unmerged path correctly. + + * "git diff -M --cached" used to use unmerged path as a possible rename + source candidate, which made no sense. + + * "git format-patch" did not quote RFC822 special characters in the + email address (e.g From: Junio C. Hamano <jch@example.com>, not + From: "Junio C. Hamano" <jch@example.com>). + + * "git format-patch" when run with "--quiet" option used to produce a + nonsense result that consists of alternating empty output. + + * "git merge-one-file" did not honor GIT_WORK_TREE settings when + handling a "both sides added, differently" conflict. + + * "git mergetool" did not handle conflicted submoudules gracefully. + + * "git-p4" (in contrib) used a wrong base image while merge a file that + was added on both branches differently. + + * "git rebase -i -p" failed to preserve the history when there is a + redundant merge created with the --no-ff option. + +And other minor fixes and documentation updates. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.5.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.5.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..987919c321 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.5.txt @@ -0,0 +1,132 @@ +Git v1.7.5 Release Notes +======================== + +Updates since v1.7.4 +-------------------- + + * Various MinGW portability fixes. + + * Various git-p4 enhancements (in contrib). + + * Various vcs-svn, git-svn and gitk enhancements and fixes. + + * Various git-gui updates (0.14.0). + + * Update to more modern HP-UX port. + + * The codebase is getting prepared for i18n/l10n; no translated + strings nor translation mechanism in the code yet, but the strings + are being marked for l10n. + + * The bash completion script can now complete symmetric difference + for "git diff" command, e.g. "git diff ...bra<TAB>". + + * The default minimum length of abbreviated and unique object names + can now be configured by setting the core.abbrev configuration + variable. + + * "git apply -v" reports offset lines when the patch does not apply at + the exact location recorded in the diff output. + + * "git config" used to be also known as "git repo-config", but the old + name is now officially deprecated. + + * "git checkout --detach <commit>" is a more user friendly synonym for + "git checkout <commit>^0". + + * "git checkout" performed on detached HEAD gives a warning and + advice when the commit being left behind will become unreachable from + any branch or tag. + + * "git cherry-pick" and "git revert" can be told to use a custom merge + strategy, similar to "git rebase". + + * "git cherry-pick" remembers which commit failed to apply when it is + stopped by conflicts, making it unnecessary to use "commit -c $commit" + to conclude it. + + * "git cvsimport" bails out immediately when the cvs server cannot be + reached, without spewing unnecessary error messages that complain about + the server response it never got. + + * "git fetch" vs "git upload-pack" transfer learned 'no-done' + protocol extension to save one round-trip after the content + negotiation is done. This saves one HTTP RPC, reducing the overall + latency for a trivial fetch. + + * "git fetch" can be told to recursively fetch submodules on-demand. + + * "git grep -f <filename>" learned to treat "-" as "read from the + standard input stream". + + * "git grep --no-index" did not honor pathspecs correctly, returning + paths outside the specified area. + + * "git init" learned the --separate-git-dir option to allow the git + directory for a new repository created elsewhere and linked via the + gitdir mechanism. This is primarily to help submodule support later + to switch between a branch of superproject that has the submodule + and another that does not. + + * "git log" type commands now understand globbing pathspecs. You + can say "git log -- '*.txt'" for example. + + * "git log" family of commands learned --cherry and --cherry-mark + options that can be used to view two diverged branches while omitting + or highlighting equivalent changes that appear on both sides of a + symmetric difference (e.g. "log --cherry A...B"). + + * A lazy "git merge" that didn't say what to merge used to be an error. + When run on a branch that has an upstream defined, however, the command + now merges from the configured upstream. + + * "git mergetool" learned how to drive "beyond compare 3" as well. + + * "git rerere forget" without pathspec used to forget all the saved + conflicts that relate to the current merge; it now requires you to + give it pathspecs. + + * "git rev-list --objects $revs -- $pathspec" now limits the objects listed + in its output properly with the pathspec, in preparation for narrow + clones. + + * "git push" with no parameters gives better advice messages when + "tracking" is used as the push.default semantics or there is no remote + configured yet. + + * A possible value to the "push.default" configuration variable, + 'tracking', gained a synonym that more naturally describes what it + does, 'upstream'. + + * "git rerere" learned a new subcommand "remaining" that is similar to + "status" and lists the paths that had conflicts which are known to + rerere, but excludes the paths that have already been marked as + resolved in the index from its output. "git mergetool" has been + updated to use this facility. + +Also contains various documentation updates. + + +Fixes since v1.7.4 +------------------ + +All of the fixes in the v1.7.4.X maintenance series are included in this +release, unless otherwise noted. + + * "git fetch" from a client that is mostly following the remote + needlessly told all of its refs to the server for both sides to + compute the set of objects that need to be transferred efficiently, + instead of stopping when the server heard enough. In a project with + many tags, this turns out to be extremely wasteful, especially over + the smart HTTP transport (sp/maint-{upload,fetch}-pack-stop-early~1). + + * "git fetch" run from a repository that uses the same repository as + its alternate object store as the repository it is fetching from + did not tell the server that it already has access to objects + reachable from the refs in their common alternate object store, + causing it to fetch unnecessary objects (jc/maint-fetch-alt). + + * "git remote add --mirror" created a configuration that is suitable for + doing both a mirror fetch and a mirror push at the same time, which + made little sense. We now warn and require the command line to specify + either --mirror=fetch or --mirror=push. |