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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.txt index 0c64700c36..067c476e3c 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.txt @@ -6,6 +6,15 @@ Updates since v1.7.11 UI, Workflows & Features + * Git can be told to normalize pathnames it read from readdir(3) and + all arguments it got from the command line into precomposed UTF-8 + (assuming that they come as decomposed UTF-8), in order to work + around issues on Mac OS. + + I think there still are other places that need conversion + (e.g. paths that are read from stdin for some commands), but this + should be a good first step in the right direction. + * Per-user $HOME/.gitconfig file can optionally be stored in $HOME/.config/git/config instead, which is in line with XDG. @@ -59,6 +68,12 @@ UI, Workflows & Features Foreign Interface + * "mediawiki" remote helper (in contrib/) learned to handle file + attachments. + + * vcs-svn has been updated to clean-up compilation, lift 32-bit + limitations, etc. + Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. (please report possible regressions) @@ -67,6 +82,11 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. (please report possible regressions) * We no longer use AsciiDoc7 syntax in our documentation and favor a more modern style. + * "git am --rebasing" codepath was taught to grab authorship, log + message and the patch text directly out of existing commits. This + will help rebasing commits that have confusing "diff" output in + their log messages. + * "git index-pack" and "git pack-objects" use streaming API to read from the object store to avoid having to hold a large blob object in-core while they are doing their thing. @@ -86,6 +106,19 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.7.11 in the maintenance releases are contained in this release (see release notes to them for details). + * "git show"'s auto-walking behaviour was an unreliable and + unpredictable hack; it now behaves just like "git log" does when it + walks. + (merge c5941f1 tr/maint-show-walk later to maint). + + * "git diff", "git status" and anything that internally uses the + comparison machinery was utterly broken when the difference + involved a file with "-" as its name. This was due to the way "git + diff --no-index" was incorrectly bolted on to the system, making + any comparison that involves a file "-" at the root level + incorrectly read from the standard input. + (merge 4682d85 jc/refactor-diff-stdin later to maint). + * We did not have test to make sure "git rebase" without extra options filters out an empty commit in the original history. (merge 2b5ba7b mz/empty-rebase-test later to maint). |