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-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.2.1.txt6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.0.2.txt6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.1.3.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.1.4.txt3
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.1.txt6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.3.txt16
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.4.txt23
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.txt48
8 files changed, 64 insertions, 48 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.2.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.2.1.txt
index ebf20e22a7..d41984df0b 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.2.1.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.2.1.txt
@@ -45,9 +45,3 @@ Fixes since v1.5.2
- 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 $O..refs/heads/maint
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.0.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.0.2.txt
index e1e24b3295..7d8fb85e1b 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.0.2.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.0.2.txt
@@ -79,9 +79,3 @@ Fixes since v1.6.0.1
packfile.
Also contains many documentation updates.
-
---
-exec >/var/tmp/1
-O=v1.6.0.1-78-g3632cfc
-echo O=$(git describe maint)
-git shortlog --no-merges $O..maint
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.1.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.1.3.txt
index 6f0bde156a..cd08d8174e 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.1.3.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.1.3.txt
@@ -26,7 +26,3 @@ Fixes since v1.6.1.2
* RPM binary package installed the html manpages in a wrong place.
Also includes minor documentation fixes and updates.
-
-
---
-git shortlog --no-merges v1.6.1.2-33-gc789350..
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.1.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.1.4.txt
index 0ce6316d75..ccbad794c0 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.1.4.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.1.4.txt
@@ -39,6 +39,3 @@ Fixes since v1.6.1.3
This fix was first merged to 1.6.2.3.
Also includes minor documentation fixes and updates.
-
---
-git shortlog --no-merges v1.6.1.3..
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.1.txt
index adb7ccab0a..7b152a6fdc 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.1.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.1.txt
@@ -278,9 +278,3 @@ release, unless otherwise noted.
* "gitweb" did not mark non-ASCII characters imported from external HTML fragments
correctly.
-
---
-exec >/var/tmp/1
-O=v1.6.1-rc3-74-gf66bc5f
-echo O=$(git describe master)
-git shortlog --no-merges $O..master ^maint
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.3.txt
index 8d4f879458..ecda427a35 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.3.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.3.txt
@@ -4,6 +4,18 @@ Git 1.7.12.3 Release Notes
Fixes since v1.7.12.2
---------------------
+ * "git am" mishandled a patch attached as application/octet-stream
+ (e.g. not text/*); Content-Transfer-Encoding (e.g. base64) was not
+ honored correctly.
+
+ * It was unclear in the documentation for "git blame" that it is
+ unnecessary for users to use the "--follow" option.
+
+ * A repository created with "git clone --single" had its fetch
+ refspecs set up just like a clone without "--single", leading the
+ subsequent "git fetch" to slurp all the other branches, defeating
+ the whole point of specifying "only this branch".
+
* "git fetch" over http had an old workaround for an unlikely server
misconfiguration; it turns out that this hurts debuggability of the
configuration in general, and has been reverted.
@@ -12,6 +24,10 @@ Fixes since v1.7.12.2
is much less common, and did not advertise the more common "gzip" on
its Accept-Encoding header.
+ * "git receive-pack" (the counterpart to "git push") did not give
+ progress output while processing objects it received to the puser
+ when run over the smart-http protocol.
+
* "git status" honored the ignore=dirty settings in .gitmodules but
"git commit" didn't.
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.4.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..c6da3cc939
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.4.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+Git 1.7.12.4 Release Notes
+==========================
+
+Fixes since v1.7.12.3
+---------------------
+
+ * "git fetch" over the dumb-http revision walker could segfault when
+ curl's multi interface was used.
+
+ * It was possible to give specific paths for "asciidoc" and other
+ tools in the documentation toolchain, but not for "xmlto".
+
+ * "gitweb" did not give the correct committer timezone in its feed
+ output due to a typo.
+
+ * The "-Xours" (and similarly -Xtheirs) backend option to "git
+ merge -s recursive" was ignored for binary files. Now it is
+ honored.
+
+ * The "binary" synthetic attribute made "diff" to treat the path as
+ binary, but not "merge".
+
+Also contains many documentation updates.
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.txt
index 2528bc379a..43883c14f0 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.txt
@@ -4,16 +4,18 @@ Git v1.8.0 Release Notes
Backward compatibility notes
----------------------------
-In the next major release, we will change the behavior of the "git
-push" command. When "git push [$there]" does not say what to push, we
-have used the traditional "matching" semantics so far (all your branches were
-sent to the remote as long as there already are branches of the same
-name over there). We will now use the "simple" semantics, that pushes the
-current branch to the branch with the same name only when the current
+In the next major release (not *this* one), we will change the
+behavior of the "git push" command.
+
+When "git push [$there]" does not say what to push, we have used the
+traditional "matching" semantics so far (all your branches were sent
+to the remote as long as there already are branches of the same name
+over there). We will use the "simple" semantics that pushes the
+current branch to the branch with the same name, only when the current
branch is set to integrate with that remote branch. There is a user
preference configuration variable "push.default" to change this, and
"git push" will warn about the upcoming change until you set this
-variable.
+variable in this release.
"git branch --set-upstream" is deprecated and may be removed in a
relatively distant future. "git branch [-u|--set-upstream-to]" has
@@ -35,7 +37,7 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
* When "git am" sanitizes the "Subject:" line, we strip the prefix from
"Re: subject" and also from a less common "re: subject", but left
- the even less common "RE: subject" intact. We strip that now, too.
+ the even less common "RE: subject" intact. Now we strip that too.
* It was tempting to say "git branch --set-upstream origin/master",
but that tells Git to arrange the local branch "origin/master" to
@@ -62,6 +64,8 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
* "git grep" learned to use a non-standard pattern type by default if
a configuration variable tells it to.
+ * Accumulated updates to "git gui" has been merged.
+
* "git log -g" learned the "--grep-reflog=<pattern>" option to limit
its output to commits with a reflog message that matches the given
pattern.
@@ -73,9 +77,6 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
with the mergetool.$name.cmd configuration variable even for built-in
mergetool backends.
- * The "-Xours" backend option to "git merge -s recursive" now takes
- effect even on binary files.
-
* "git rebase -i" learned the "--edit-todo" option to open an editor
to edit the instruction sheet.
@@ -88,7 +89,7 @@ Foreign Interface
encountering a conflict during "p4 submit".
-Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. (please report possible regressions)
+Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
* Git ships with a fall-back regexp implementation for platforms with
buggy regexp library, but it was easy for people to keep using their
@@ -153,10 +154,9 @@ to them for details).
* When "git am" is fed an input that has multiple "Content-type: ..."
header, it did not grok charset= attribute correctly.
- * A patch attached as application/octet-stream (e.g. not text/*) were
- mishandled, not correctly honoring Content-Transfer-Encoding
- (e.g. base64).
- (merge 9d55b2e lt/mailinfo-handle-attachment-more-sanely later to maint).
+ * "git am" mishandled a patch attached as application/octet-stream
+ (e.g. not text/*); Content-Transfer-Encoding (e.g. base64) was not
+ honored correctly.
* "git blame MAKEFILE" run in a history that has "Makefile" but not
"MAKEFILE" should say "No such file MAKEFILE in HEAD", but got
@@ -169,7 +169,6 @@ to them for details).
* It was unclear in the documentation for "git blame" that it is
unnecessary for users to use the "--follow" option.
- (merge e5dce96 jc/blame-follows-renames later to maint).
* Output from "git branch -v" contains "(no branch)" that could be
localized, but the code to align it along with the names of
@@ -184,7 +183,6 @@ to them for details).
refspecs set up just like a clone without "--single", leading the
subsequent "git fetch" to slurp all the other branches, defeating
the whole point of specifying "only this branch".
- (merge 31b808a rt/maint-clone-single later to maint).
* Documentation talked about "first line of commit log" when it meant
the title of the commit. The description was clarified by defining
@@ -208,12 +206,13 @@ to them for details).
* "git fetch" over http had an old workaround for an unlikely server
misconfiguration; it turns out that this hurts debuggability of the
configuration in general, and has been reverted.
- (merge 6ac964a sp/maint-http-info-refs-no-retry later to maint).
* "git fetch" over http advertised that it supports "deflate", which
is much less common, and did not advertise the more common "gzip" on
its Accept-Encoding header.
- (merge aa90b96 sp/maint-http-enable-gzip later to maint).
+
+ * "git fetch" over the dumb-http revision walker could segfault when
+ curl's multi interface was used.
* "git gc --auto" notified the user that auto-packing has triggered
even under the "--quiet" option.
@@ -227,13 +226,15 @@ to them for details).
--author or --committer, it showed commits that mention either A or
B (or both) instead.
+ * The "-Xours" backend option to "git merge -s recursive" was ignored
+ for binary files.
+
* "git p4", when "--use-client-spec" and "--detect-branches" are used
together, misdetected branches.
* "git receive-pack" (the counterpart to "git push") did not give
progress output while processing objects it received to the puser
when run over the smart-http protocol.
- (merge 74eb32d jk/receive-pack-unpack-error-to-pusher later to maint).
* When you misspell the command name you give to the "exec" action in
the "git rebase -i" instruction sheet you were told that 'rebase' is not a
@@ -258,8 +259,9 @@ to them for details).
* "git submodule frotz" was not diagnosed as "frotz" being an unknown
subcommand to "git submodule"; the user instead got a complaint
that "git submodule status" was run with an unknown path "frotz".
- (merge af9c9f9 rr/maint-submodule-unknown-cmd later to maint).
* "git status" honored the ignore=dirty settings in .gitmodules but
"git commit" didn't.
- (merge 8f6811e os/commit-submodule-ignore later to maint).
+
+ * "gitweb" did not give the correct committer timezone in its feed
+ output due to a typo.