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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.5.2.txt | 20 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/1.9.txt | 55 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.5.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.5.2.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..3ac4984f10 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.5.2.txt @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +Git v1.8.5.2 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.8.5.1 +-------------------- + + * "git diff -- ':(icase)makefile'" was unnecessarily rejected at the + command line parser. + + * "git cat-file --batch-check=ok" did not check the existence of + the named object. + + * "git am --abort" sometimes complained about not being able to write + a tree with an 0{40} object in it. + + * Two processes creating loose objects at the same time could have + failed unnecessarily when the name of their new objects started + with the same byte value, due to a race condition. + +Also contains typofixes, documentation updates and trivial code clean-ups. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.9.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.9.txt index 9debcc41eb..a966ab4887 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.9.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.9.txt @@ -15,6 +15,13 @@ Read-only support for experimental loose-object format, in which users could optionally choose to write in their loose objects for a short while between v1.4.3 to v1.5.3 era, has been dropped. +The meanings of "--tags" option to "git fetch" has changed; the +command fetches tags _in addition to_ what are fetched by the same +command line without the option. + +A handful of ancient commands that have long been deprecated are +finally gone (repo-config, tar-tree, lost-found, and peek-remote). + Backward compatibility notes (for Git 2.0) ------------------------------------------ @@ -68,7 +75,7 @@ Updates since v1.8.5 Foreign interfaces, subsystems and ports. - * The HTTP transport, when talking GSS-Negotinate, uses "100 + * The HTTP transport, when talking GSS-Negotiate, uses "100 Continue" response to avoid having to rewind and resend a large payload, which may not be always doable. @@ -77,6 +84,10 @@ Foreign interfaces, subsystems and ports. UI, Workflows & Features + * "gitweb" learned to treat ref hierarchies other than refs/heads as + if they are additional branch namespaces (e.g. refs/changes/ in + Gerrit). + * "git for-each-ref --format=..." learned a few formatting directives; e.g. "%(color:red)%(HEAD)%(color:reset) %(refname:short) %(subject)". @@ -91,9 +102,19 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * "git rev-parse --parseopt" learned a new "--stuck-long" option to help scripts parse options with an optional parameter. + * The "--tags" option to "git fetch" no longer tells the command to + fetch _only_ the tags. It instead fetches tags _in addition to_ + what are fetched by the same command line without the option. + Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. + * The deprecated parse-options macro OPT_BOOLEAN has been removed; + use OPT_BOOL or OPT_COUNTUP in new code. + + * A few duplicate implementations of prefix/suffix string comparison + functions have been unified to starts_with() and ends_with(). + * The new PERLLIB_EXTRA makefile variable can be used to specify additional directories Perl modules (e.g. the ones necessary to run git-svn) are installed on the platform when building. @@ -103,6 +124,11 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. point out of the reflog entries for the remote-tracking branch the work has been based on. + * A third-party "receive-pack" (the responder to "git push") can + advertise the "no-thin" capability to tell "git push" not to use + the thin-pack optimization. Our receive-pack has always been + capable of accepting and fattening a thin-pack, and will continue + not to ask "git push" to use a non-thin pack. Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. @@ -115,6 +141,33 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.8.5 in the maintenance track are contained in this release (see the maintenance releases' notes for details). + * "git mv A B/", when B does not exist as a directory, should error + out, but it didn't. + (merge c57f628 mm/mv-file-to-no-such-dir-with-slash later to maint). + + * A workaround to an old bug in glibc prior to glibc 2.17 has been + retired; this would remove a side effect of the workaround that + corrupts system error messages in non-C locales. + + * SSL-related options were not passed correctly to underlying socket + layer in "git send-email". + (merge 5508f3e tr/send-email-ssl later to maint). + + * "git commit -v" appends the patch to the log message before + editing, and then removes the patch when the editor returned + control. However, the patch was not stripped correctly when the + first modified path was a submodule. + (merge 1a72cfd jl/commit-v-strip-marker later to maint). + + * "git fetch --depth=0" was a no-op, and was silently ignored. + Diagnose it as an error. + (merge 5594bca nd/transport-positive-depth-only later to maint). + + * Remote repository URL expressed in scp-style host:path notation are + parsed more carefully (e.g. "foo/bar:baz" is local, "[::1]:/~user" asks + to connect to user's home directory on host at address ::1. + (merge a2036d7 tb/clone-ssh-with-colon-for-port later to maint). + * "git diff -- ':(icase)makefile'" was unnecessarily rejected at the command line parser. (merge 887c6c1 nd/magic-pathspec later to maint). |