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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/1.7.5.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.5.txt index 56c3863f04..987919c321 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.5.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.5.txt @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -Git v1.7.5 Release Notes (draft) +Git v1.7.5 Release Notes ======================== Updates since v1.7.4 @@ -8,32 +8,102 @@ Updates since v1.7.4 * 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 cherry-pick" and "git revert" can be told to use custom merge + * "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". - * "rev-list --objects $revs -- $pathspec" would limit the objects listed - in its output properly with the pathspec, in preparation for narrow - clones. + * "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" family of commands now understand globbing pathspecs. You + * "git log" type commands now understand globbing pathspecs. You can say "git log -- '*.txt'" for example. - * "git rerere" learned a new subcommand "remaining", that is similar to - "status" that lists the paths that had conflicts that 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. + * "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 -- $pathspec" now limits the objects listed + in its output properly with the pathspec, in preparation for narrow + clones. + + * "git push" with no parameters gives better advice messages when + "tracking" is used as the push.default semantics or there is no remote + configured yet. * A possible value to the "push.default" configuration variable, 'tracking', gained a synonym that more naturally describes what it does, 'upstream'. + * "git rerere" learned a new subcommand "remaining" that is similar to + "status" and lists the paths that had conflicts which are known to + rerere, but excludes the paths that have already been marked as + resolved in the index from its output. "git mergetool" has been + updated to use this facility. + Also contains various documentation updates. @@ -43,14 +113,20 @@ Fixes since v1.7.4 All of the fixes in the v1.7.4.X maintenance series are included in this release, unless otherwise noted. - * "git merge" triggers prepare-commit-msg hook. Earlier, only "git - commit" to conclude an interrupted merge triggered the hook, leading to - an inconsistent overall user experience (js/maint-merge-use-prepare-commit-msg-hook). - - ---- -exec >/var/tmp/1 -O=v1.7.4 -O=v1.7.4.1-140-g8978166 -echo O=$(git describe 'master') -git shortlog --no-merges ^maint ^$O master + * "git fetch" from a client that is mostly following the remote + needlessly told all of its refs to the server for both sides to + compute the set of objects that need to be transferred efficiently, + instead of stopping when the server heard enough. In a project with + many tags, this turns out to be extremely wasteful, especially over + the smart HTTP transport (sp/maint-{upload,fetch}-pack-stop-early~1). + + * "git fetch" run from a repository that uses the same repository as + its alternate object store as the repository it is fetching from + did not tell the server that it already has access to objects + reachable from the refs in their common alternate object store, + causing it to fetch unnecessary objects (jc/maint-fetch-alt). + + * "git remote add --mirror" created a configuration that is suitable for + doing both a mirror fetch and a mirror push at the same time, which + made little sense. We now warn and require the command line to specify + either --mirror=fetch or --mirror=push. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.6.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.6.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..3e08bd917e --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.6.txt @@ -0,0 +1,79 @@ +Git v1.7.5 Release Notes (draft) +======================== + +Updates since v1.7.5 +-------------------- + + * Various git-svn updates. + + * When an object "$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. + + * "git blame" learned "--abbrev[=<n>]" option to control the minimum + number of hexdigits shown for commit object names. + + * "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. + + * "git format-patch" learned "--quiet" option to suppress the output of + the names of generated files. + + * "git merge" learned "-" as a short-hand for "the previous branch", just + like the way "git checkout -" works. + + * "git pack-object" now takes core.bigfilethreashold into account, just + like fast-imoprt does. + + * "git reflog" allows options like "--format=.." to be given. + + * "git stash apply" can now apply to a working tree with changes as long + as there is no overlapping change as the stash being applied. + + * "git stash apply @{99999}" now is diagnosed as an error, unless you + really have that many stash entries. + +Also contains various documentation updates. + + +Fixes since v1.7.5 +------------------ + +Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes in 1.7.5.X maintenance track are +included in this release. + + * The "--date=relative" output format used to say "X years, 12 months" + when it should have said "X+1 years". + (merge mg/x-years-12-months later) + + * "git config" used to choke with an insanely long line. + (merge ef/maint-strbuf-init later) + + * 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. + (merge jh/dirstat for the above two later) + + * "git format-patch" when run with "--quiet" option used to produce a + nonsense result that consists of alternating empty output. + (merge early part of cn/format-patch-quiet later) + + * "git stash -p --no-keep-index" and "git stash --no-keep-index -p" now + mean the same thing. + (merge dm/stash-k-i-p later) + + * "git upload-pack" (hence "git push" over git native protocol) had a + subtle race condition that could lead to a deadlock. + (merge jk/maint-upload-pack-shallow later) + +--- +exec >/var/tmp/1 +echo O=$(git describe master) +O=v1.7.5 +git shortlog --no-merges ^maint ^$O master |