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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..951eb7cb08 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.5.2.txt @@ -0,0 +1,57 @@ +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 add -p" did not work correctly when a hunk is split and then + one of them was given to the editor. + + * "git add -u" did not resolve a conflict where our history deleted and + their history modified the same file, and the working tree resolved to + keep a file. + + * "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. + + * The option name parser in "git fast-import" used prefix matches for + some options where it shouldn't, and accepted non-existent options, + e.g. "--relative-marksmith" or "--forceps". + + * "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. + + * In "git merge", per-branch branch.<name>.mergeoptions configuration + variables did not override the fallback default merge.<option> + configuration variables such as merge.ff, merge.log, etc. + + * "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/1.7.5.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.5.3.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..9c03353af2 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.5.3.txt @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ +Git v1.7.5.3 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.5.2 +-------------------- + + * The bash completion scripts should correctly work using zsh's bash + completion emulation layer now. + + * Setting $(prefix) in config.mak did not affect where etc/gitconfig + file is read from, even though passing it from the command line of + $(MAKE) did. + + * The logic to handle "&" (expand to UNIX username) in GECOS field + miscounted the length of the name it formatted. + + * "git cherry-pick -s resolve" failed to cherry-pick a root commit. + + * "git diff --word-diff" misbehaved when diff.suppress-blank-empty was + in effect. + + * "git log --stdin path" with an input that has additional pathspec + used to corrupt memory. + + * "git send-pack" (hence "git push") over smalt-HTTP protocol could + deadlock when the client side pack-object died early. + + * Compressed tarball gitweb generates used to be made with the timestamp + of the tarball generation; this was bad because snapshot from the same + tree should result in a same tarball. + +And other minor fixes and documentation updates. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.5.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.5.4.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..cf3f455ced --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.5.4.txt @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +Git v1.7.5.4 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.5.3 +-------------------- + + * The single-key mode of "git add -p" was easily fooled into thinking + that it was told to add everthing ('a') when up-arrow was pressed by + mistake. + + * Setting a git command that uses custom configuration via "-c var=val" + as an alias caused a crash due to a realloc(3) failure. + + * "git diff -C -C" used to disable the rename detection entirely when + there are too many copy candidate paths in the tree; now it falls + back to "-C" when doing so would keep the copy candidate paths + under the rename detection limit. + + * "git rerere" did not diagnose a corrupt MERGE_RR file in some cases. + +And other minor fixes and documentation updates. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.6.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.6.1.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..42e46ab17f --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.6.1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,63 @@ +Git v1.7.6.1 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.6 +------------------ + + * Various codepaths that invoked zlib deflate/inflate assumed that these + functions can compress or uncompress more than 4GB data in one call on + platforms with 64-bit long, which has been corrected. + + * "git unexecutable" reported that "unexecutable" was not found, even + though the actual error was that "unexecutable" was found but did + not have a proper she-bang line to be executed. + + * Error exits from $PAGER were silently ignored. + + * "git checkout -b <branch>" was confused when attempting to create a + branch whose name ends with "-g" followed by hexadecimal digits, + and refused to work. + + * "git checkout -b <branch>" sometimes wrote a bogus reflog entry, + causing later "git checkout -" to fail. + + * "git diff --cc" learned to correctly ignore binary files. + + * "git diff -c/--cc" mishandled a deletion that resolves a conflict, and + looked in the working tree instead. + + * "git fast-export" forgot to quote pathnames with unsafe characters + in its output. + + * "git fetch" over smart-http transport used to abort when the + repository was updated between the initial connection and the + subsequent object transfer. + + * "git fetch" did not recurse into submodules in subdirectories. + + * "git ls-tree" did not error out when asked to show a corrupt tree. + + * "git pull" without any argument left an extra whitespace after the + command name in its reflog. + + * "git push --quiet" was not really quiet. + + * "git rebase -i -p" incorrectly dropped commits from side branches. + + * "git reset [<commit>] paths..." did not reset the index entry correctly + for unmerged paths. + + * "git submodule add" did not allow a relative repository path when + the superproject did not have any default remote url. + + * "git submodule foreach" failed to correctly give the standard input to + the user-supplied command it invoked. + + * submodules that the user has never showed interest in by running + "git submodule init" was incorrectly marked as interesting by "git + submodule sync". + + * "git submodule update --quiet" was not really quiet. + + * "git tag -l <glob>..." did not take multiple glob patterns from the + command line. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.6.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.6.2.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..67ae414965 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.6.2.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Git v1.7.6.2 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.6.1 +-------------------- + + * v1.7.6.1 broke "git push --quiet"; it used to be a no-op against an old + version of Git running on the other end, but v1.7.6.1 made it abort. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.6.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.6.3.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..95971831b9 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.6.3.txt @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +Git v1.7.6.3 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.6.2 +-------------------- + + * "git -c var=value subcmd" misparsed the custom configuration when + value contained an equal sign. + + * "git fetch" had a major performance regression, wasting many + needless cycles in a repository where there is no submodules + present. This was especially bad, when there were many refs. + + * "git reflog $refname" did not default to the "show" subcommand as + the documentation advertised the command to do. + + * "git reset" did not leave meaningful log message in the reflog. + + * "git status --ignored" did not show ignored items when there is no + untracked items. + + * "git tag --contains $commit" was unnecessarily inefficient. + +Also contains minor fixes and documentation updates. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.6.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.6.4.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..e19acac2da --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.6.4.txt @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ +Git v1.7.6.4 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.6.3 +-------------------- + + * The error reporting logic of "git am" when the command is fed a file + whose mail-storage format is unknown was fixed. + + * "git branch --set-upstream @{-1} foo" did not expand @{-1} correctly. + + * "git check-ref-format --print" used to parrot a candidate string that + began with a slash (e.g. /refs/heads/master) without stripping it, to make + the result a suitably normalized string the caller can append to "$GIT_DIR/". + + * "git clone" failed to clone locally from a ".git" file that itself + is not a directory but is a pointer to one. + + * "git clone" from a local repository that borrows from another + object store using a relative path in its objects/info/alternates + file did not adjust the alternates in the resulting repository. + + * "git describe --dirty" did not refresh the index before checking the + state of the working tree files. + + * "git ls-files ../$path" that is run from a subdirectory reported errors + incorrectly when there is no such path that matches the given pathspec. + + * "git mergetool" could loop forever prompting when nothing can be read + from the standard input. + +Also contains minor fixes and documentation updates. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.6.5.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.6.5.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..6713132a9e --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.6.5.txt @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +Git v1.7.6.5 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.6.4 +-------------------- + + * The date parser did not accept timezone designators that lack minutes + part and also has a colon between "hh:mm". + + * After fetching from a remote that has very long refname, the reporting + output could have corrupted by overrunning a static buffer. + + * "git mergetool" did not use its arguments as pathspec, but as a path to + the file that may not even have any conflict. + + * "git name-rev --all" tried to name all _objects_, naturally failing to + describe many blobs and trees, instead of showing only commits as + advertised in its documentation. + + * "git remote rename $a $b" were not careful to match the remote name + against $a (i.e. source side of the remote nickname). + + * "gitweb" used to produce a non-working link while showing the contents + of a blob, when JavaScript actions are enabled. + +Also contains minor fixes and documentation updates. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.6.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.6.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..9ec498ea39 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.6.txt @@ -0,0 +1,136 @@ +Git v1.7.6 Release Notes +======================== + +Updates since v1.7.5 +-------------------- + + * Various git-svn updates. + + * Updates the way content tags are handled in gitweb. Also adds + a UI to choose common timezone for displaying the dates. + + * Similar to branch names, tagnames that begin with "-" are now + disallowed. + + * Clean-up of the C part of i18n (but not l10n---please wait) + continues. + + * The scripting part of the codebase is getting prepared for i18n/l10n. + + * Pushing and pulling from a repository with large number of refs that + point to identical commits are optimized by not listing the same commit + during the common ancestor negotiation exchange with the other side. + + * Adding a file larger than core.bigfilethreshold (defaults to 1/2 Gig) + using "git add" will send the contents straight to a packfile without + having to hold it and its compressed representation both at the same + time in memory. + + * Processes spawned by "[alias] <name> = !process" in the configuration + can inspect GIT_PREFIX environment variable to learn where in the + working tree the original command was invoked. + + * A magic pathspec ":/" tells a command that limits its operation to + the current directory when ran from a subdirectory to work on the + entire working tree. In general, ":/path/to/file" would be relative + to the root of the working tree hierarchy. + + After "git reset --hard; edit Makefile; cd t/", "git add -u" would + be a no-op, but "git add -u :/" would add the updated contents of + the Makefile at the top level. If you want to name a path in the + current subdirectory whose unusual name begins with ":/", you can + name it by "./:/that/path" or by "\:/that/path". + + * "git blame" learned "--abbrev[=<n>]" option to control the minimum + number of hexdigits shown for commit object names. + + * "git blame" learned "--line-porcelain" that is less efficient but is + easier to parse. + + * Aborting "git commit --interactive" discards updates to the index + made during the interactive session. + + * "git commit" learned a "--patch" option to directly jump to the + per-hunk selection UI of the interactive mode. + + * "git diff" and its family of commands learned --dirstat=0 to show + directories that contribute less than 0.1% of changes. + + * "git diff" and its family of commands learned --dirstat=lines mode to + assess damage to the directory based on number of lines in the patch + output, not based on the similarity numbers. + + * "git format-patch" learned "--quiet" option to suppress the output of + the names of generated files. + + * "git format-patch" quotes people's names when it has RFC822 special + characters in it, e.g. "Junio C. Hamano" <jch@example.com>. Earlier + it was up to the user to do this when using its output. + + * "git format-patch" can take an empty --subject-prefix now. + + * "git grep" learned the "-P" option to take pcre regular expressions. + + * "git log" and friends learned a new "--notes" option to replace the + "--show-notes" option. Unlike "--show-notes", "--notes=<ref>" does + not imply showing the default notes. + + * They also learned a log.abbrevCommit configuration variable to augment + the --abbrev-commit command line option. + + * "git ls-remote" learned "--exit-code" option to consider it a + different kind of error when no remote ref to be shown. + + * "git merge" learned "-" as a short-hand for "the previous branch", just + like the way "git checkout -" works. + + * "git merge" uses "merge.ff" configuration variable to decide to always + create a merge commit (i.e. --no-ff, aka merge.ff=no), refuse to create + a merge commit (i.e. --ff-only, aka merge.ff=only). Setting merge.ff=yes + (or not setting it at all) restores the default behaviour of allowing + fast-forward to happen when possible. + + * p4-import (from contrib) learned a new option --preserve-user. + + * "git read-tree -m" learned "--dry-run" option that reports if a merge + would fail without touching the index nor the working tree. + + * "git rebase" that does not specify on top of which branch to rebase + the current branch now uses @{upstream} of the current branch. + + * "git rebase" finished either normally or with --abort did not + update the reflog for HEAD to record the event to come back to + where it started from. + + * "git remote add -t only-this-branch --mirror=fetch" is now allowed. Earlier + a fetch-mode mirror meant mirror everything, but now it only means refs are + not renamed. + + * "git rev-list --count" used with "--cherry-mark" counts the cherry-picked + commits separately, producing more a useful output. + + * "git submodule update" learned "--force" option to get rid of local + changes in submodules and replace them with the up-to-date version. + + * "git status" and friends ignore .gitmodules file while the file is + still in a conflicted state during a merge, to avoid using information + that is not final and possibly corrupt with conflict markers. + +Also contains various documentation updates and minor miscellaneous +changes. + + +Fixes since v1.7.5 +------------------ + +Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes in 1.7.5.X maintenance track are +included in this release. + + * "git config" used to choke with an insanely long line. + (merge ef/maint-strbuf-init later) + + * "git diff --quiet" did not work well with --diff-filter. + (merge jk/diff-not-so-quick later) + + * "git status -z" did not default to --porcelain output format. + (merge bc/maint-status-z-to-use-porcelain later) diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.1.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..ac9b838e25 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,60 @@ +Git v1.7.7.1 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.7 +------------------ + + * On some BSD systems, adding +s bit on directories is detrimental + (it is not necessary on BSD to begin with). "git init --shared" + has been updated to take this into account without extra makefile + settings on platforms the Makefile knows about. + + * After incorrectly written third-party tools store a tag object in + HEAD, git diagnosed it as a repository corruption and refused to + proceed in order to avoid spreading the damage. We now gracefully + recover from such a situation by pretending as if the commit that + is pointed at by the tag were in HEAD. + + * "git apply --whitespace=error" did not bother to report the exact + line number in the patch that introduced new blank lines at the end + of the file. + + * "git apply --index" did not check corrupted patch. + + * "git checkout $tree $directory/" resurrected paths locally removed or + modified only in the working tree in $directory/ that did not appear + in $directory of the given $tree. They should have been kept intact. + + * "git diff $tree $path" used to apply the pathspec at the output stage, + reading the whole tree, wasting resources. + + * The code to check for updated submodules during a "git fetch" of the + superproject had an unnecessary quadratic loop. + + * "git fetch" from a large bundle did not enable the progress output. + + * When "git fsck --lost-and-found" found that an empty blob object in the + object store is unreachable, it incorrectly reported an error after + writing the lost blob out successfully. + + * "git filter-branch" did not refresh the index before checking that the + working tree was clean. + + * "git grep $tree" when run with multiple threads had an unsafe access to + the object database that should have been protected with mutex. + + * The "--ancestry-path" option to "git log" and friends misbehaved in a + history with complex criss-cross merges and showed an uninteresting + side history as well. + + * Test t1304 assumed LOGNAME is always set, which may not be true on + some systems. + + * Tests with --valgrind failed to find "mergetool" scriptlets. + + * "git patch-id" miscomputed the patch-id in a patch that has a line longer + than 1kB. + + * When an "exec" insn failed after modifying the index and/or the working + tree during "rebase -i", we now check and warn that the changes need to + be cleaned up. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.2.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..e6bbef2f01 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.2.txt @@ -0,0 +1,44 @@ +Git v1.7.7.2 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.7.1 +-------------------- + + * We used to drop error messages from libcurl on certain kinds of + errors. + + * Error report from smart HTTP transport, when the connection was + broken in the middle of a transfer, showed a useless message on + a corrupt packet. + + * "git fetch --prune" was unsafe when used with refspecs from the + command line. + + * The attribute mechanism did not use case insensitive match when + core.ignorecase was set. + + * "git bisect" did not notice when it failed to update the working tree + to the next commit to be tested. + + * "git config --bool --get-regexp" failed to separate the variable name + and its value "true" when the variable is defined without "= true". + + * "git remote rename $a $b" were not careful to match the remote name + against $a (i.e. source side of the remote nickname). + + * "git mergetool" did not use its arguments as pathspec, but as a path to + the file that may not even have any conflict. + + * "git diff --[num]stat" used to use the number of lines of context + different from the default, potentially giving different results from + "git diff | diffstat" and confusing the users. + + * "git pull" and "git rebase" did not work well even when GIT_WORK_TREE is + set correctly with GIT_DIR if the current directory is outside the working + tree. + + * "git send-email" did not honor the configured hostname when restarting + the HELO/EHLO exchange after switching TLS on. + + * "gitweb" used to produce a non-working link while showing the contents + of a blob, when JavaScript actions are enabled. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.3.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..09301f0957 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.3.txt @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +Git v1.7.7.3 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.7.2 +-------------------- + + * Adjust the "quick-install-doc" procedures as preformatted + html/manpage are no longer in the source repository. + + * The logic to optimize the locality of the data in a pack introduced in + 1.7.7 was grossly inefficient. + + * The logic to filter out forked projects in the project list in + "gitweb" was broken for some time. + + * "git branch -m/-M" advertised to update RENAME_REF ref in the + commit log message that introduced the feature but not anywhere in + the documentation, and never did update such a ref anyway. This + undocumented misfeature that did not exist has been excised. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.4.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..e5234485e7 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.4.txt @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +Git v1.7.7.4 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.7.3 +-------------------- + + * A few header dependencies were missing from the Makefile. + + * Some newer parts of the code used C99 __VA_ARGS__ while we still + try to cater to older compilers. + + * "git name-rev --all" tried to name all _objects_, naturally failing to + describe many blobs and trees, instead of showing only commits as + advertised in its documentation. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.5.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.5.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..7b0931987b --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.5.txt @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +Git v1.7.7.5 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.7.4 +-------------------- + + * After fetching from a remote that has very long refname, the reporting + output could have corrupted by overrunning a static buffer. + + * "git checkout" and "git merge" treated in-tree .gitignore and exclude + file in $GIT_DIR/info/ directory inconsistently when deciding which + untracked files are ignored and expendable. + +Also contains minor fixes and documentation updates. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..7655cccfaa --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.txt @@ -0,0 +1,134 @@ +Git v1.7.7 Release Notes +======================== + +Updates since v1.7.6 +-------------------- + + * The scripting part of the codebase is getting prepared for i18n/l10n. + + * Interix, Cygwin and Minix ports got updated. + + * Various updates to git-p4 (in contrib/), fast-import, and git-svn. + + * Gitweb learned to read from /etc/gitweb-common.conf when it exists, + before reading from gitweb_config.perl or from /etc/gitweb.conf + (this last one is read only when per-repository gitweb_config.perl + does not exist). + + * Various codepaths that invoked zlib deflate/inflate assumed that these + functions can compress or uncompress more than 4GB data in one call on + platforms with 64-bit long, which has been corrected. + + * Git now recognizes loose objects written by other implementations that + use a non-standard window size for zlib deflation (e.g. Agit running on + Android with 4kb window). We used to reject anything that was not + deflated with 32kb window. + + * Interaction between the use of pager and coloring of the output has + been improved, especially when a command that is not built-in was + involved. + + * "git am" learned to pass the "--exclude=<path>" option through to underlying + "git apply". + + * You can now feed many empty lines before feeding an mbox file to + "git am". + + * "git archive" can be told to pass the output to gzip compression and + produce "archive.tar.gz". + + * "git bisect" can be used in a bare repository (provided that the test + you perform per each iteration does not need a working tree, of + course). + + * The length of abbreviated object names in "git branch -v" output + now honors the core.abbrev configuration variable. + + * "git check-attr" can take relative paths from the command line. + + * "git check-attr" learned an "--all" option to list the attributes for a + given path. + + * "git checkout" (both the code to update the files upon checking out a + different branch and the code to checkout a specific set of files) learned + to stream the data from object store when possible, without having to + read the entire contents of a file into memory first. An earlier round + of this code that is not in any released version had a large leak but + now it has been plugged. + + * "git clone" can now take a "--config key=value" option to set the + repository configuration options that affect the initial checkout. + + * "git commit <paths>..." now lets you feed relative pathspecs that + refer to outside your current subdirectory. + + * "git diff --stat" learned a --stat-count option to limit the output of + a diffstat report. + + * "git diff" learned a "--histogram" option to use a different diff + generation machinery stolen from jgit, which might give better + performance. + + * "git diff" had a weird worst case behaviour that can be triggered + when comparing files with potentially many places that could match. + + * "git fetch", "git push" and friends no longer show connection + errors for addresses that couldn't be connected to when at least one + address succeeds (this is arguably a regression but a deliberate + one). + + * "git grep" learned "--break" and "--heading" options, to let users mimic + the output format of "ack". + + * "git grep" learned a "-W" option that shows wider context using the same + logic used by "git diff" to determine the hunk header. + + * Invoking the low-level "git http-fetch" without "-a" option (which + git itself never did---normal users should not have to worry about + this) is now deprecated. + + * The "--decorate" option to "git log" and its family learned to + highlight grafted and replaced commits. + + * "git rebase master topci" no longer spews usage hints after giving + the "fatal: no such branch: topci" error message. + + * The recursive merge strategy implementation got a fairly large + fix for many corner cases that may rarely happen in real world + projects (it has been verified that none of the 16000+ merges in + the Linux kernel history back to v2.6.12 is affected with the + corner case bugs this update fixes). + + * "git stash" learned an "--include-untracked option". + + * "git submodule update" used to stop at the first error updating a + submodule; it now goes on to update other submodules that can be + updated, and reports the ones with errors at the end. + + * "git push" can be told with the "--recurse-submodules=check" option to + refuse pushing of the supermodule, if any of its submodules' + commits hasn't been pushed out to their remotes. + + * "git upload-pack" and "git receive-pack" learned to pretend that only a + subset of the refs exist in a repository. This may help a site to + put many tiny repositories into one repository (this would not be + useful for larger repositories as repacking would be problematic). + + * "git verify-pack" has been rewritten to use the "index-pack" machinery + that is more efficient in reading objects in packfiles. + + * test scripts for gitweb tried to run even when CGI-related perl modules + are not installed; they now exit early when the latter are unavailable. + +Also contains various documentation updates and minor miscellaneous +changes. + + +Fixes since v1.7.6 +------------------ + +Unless otherwise noted, all fixes in the 1.7.6.X maintenance track are +included in this release. + + * "git branch -m" and "git checkout -b" incorrectly allowed the tip + of the branch that is currently checked out updated. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.1.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..0e8bd9f5ee --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +Git v1.7.8.1 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.8.1 +-------------------- + + * In some codepaths (notably, checkout and merge), the ignore patterns + recorded in $GIT_DIR/info/exclude were not honored. They now are. + + * After fetching from a remote that has very long refname, the reporting + output could have corrupted by overrunning a static buffer. + + * "git checkout" and "git merge" treated in-tree .gitignore and exclude + file in $GIT_DIR/info/ directory inconsistently when deciding which + untracked files are ignored and expendable. + +Also contains minor fixes and documentation updates. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..b4d90bba0f --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.txt @@ -0,0 +1,161 @@ +Git v1.7.8 Release Notes +======================== + +Updates since v1.7.7 +-------------------- + + * Some git-svn, git-gui, git-p4 (in contrib) and msysgit updates. + + * Updates to bash completion scripts. + + * The build procedure has been taught to take advantage of computed + dependency automatically when the complier supports it. + + * The date parser now accepts timezone designators that lack minutes + part and also has a colon between "hh:mm". + + * The contents of the /etc/mailname file, if exists, is used as the + default value of the hostname part of the committer/author e-mail. + + * "git am" learned how to read from patches generated by Hg. + + * "git archive" talking with a remote repository can report errors + from the remote side in a more informative way. + + * "git branch" learned an explicit --list option to ask for branches + listed, optionally with a glob matching pattern to limit its output. + + * "git check-attr" learned "--cached" option to look at .gitattributes + files from the index, not from the working tree. + + * Variants of "git cherry-pick" and "git revert" that take multiple + commits learned to "--continue" and "--abort". + + * "git daemon" gives more human readble error messages to clients + using ERR packets when appropriate. + + * Errors at the network layer is logged by "git daemon". + + * "git diff" learned "--minimal" option to spend extra cycles to come + up with a minimal patch output. + + * "git diff" learned "--function-context" option to show the whole + function as context that was affected by a change. + + * "git difftool" can be told to skip launching the tool for a path by + answering 'n' to its prompt. + + * "git fetch" learned to honor transfer.fsckobjects configuration to + validate the objects that were received from the other end, just like + "git receive-pack" (the receiving end of "git push") does. + + * "git fetch" makes sure that the set of objects it received from the + other end actually completes the history before updating the refs. + "git receive-pack" (the receiving end of "git push") learned to do the + same. + + * "git fetch" learned that fetching/cloning from a regular file on the + filesystem is not necessarily a request to unpack a bundle file; the + file could be ".git" with "gitdir: <path>" in it. + + * "git for-each-ref" learned "%(contents:subject)", "%(contents:body)" + and "%(contents:signature)". The last one is useful for signed tags. + + * "git grep" used to incorrectly pay attention to .gitignore files + scattered in the directory it was working in even when "--no-index" + option was used. It no longer does this. The "--exclude-standard" + option needs to be given to explicitly activate the ignore + mechanism. + + * "git grep" learned "--untracked" option, where given patterns are + searched in untracked (but not ignored) files as well as tracked + files in the working tree, so that matches in new but not yet + added files do not get missed. + + * The recursive merge backend no longer looks for meaningless + existing merges in submodules unless in the outermost merge. + + * "git log" and friends learned "--children" option. + + * "git ls-remote" learned to respond to "-h"(elp) requests. + + * "mediawiki" remote helper can interact with (surprise!) MediaWiki + with "git fetch" & "git push". + + * "git merge" learned the "--edit" option to allow users to edit the + merge commit log message. + + * "git rebase -i" can be told to use special purpose editor suitable + only for its insn sheet via sequence.editor configuration variable. + + * "git send-email" learned to respond to "-h"(elp) requests. + + * "git send-email" allows the value given to sendemail.aliasfile to begin + with "~/" to refer to the $HOME directory. + + * "git send-email" forces use of Authen::SASL::Perl to work around + issues between Authen::SASL::Cyrus and AUTH PLAIN/LOGIN. + + * "git stash" learned "--include-untracked" option to stash away + untracked/ignored cruft from the working tree. + + * "git submodule clone" does not leak an error message to the UI + level unnecessarily anymore. + + * "git submodule update" learned to honor "none" as the value for + submodule.<name>.update to specify that the named submodule should + not be checked out by default. + + * When populating a new submodule directory with "git submodule init", + the $GIT_DIR metainformation directory for submodules is created inside + $GIT_DIR/modules/<name>/ directory of the superproject and referenced + via the gitfile mechanism. This is to make it possible to switch + between commits in the superproject that has and does not have the + submodule in the tree without re-cloning. + + * "gitweb" leaked unescaped control characters from syntax hiliter + outputs. + + * "gitweb" can be told to give custom string at the end of the HTML + HEAD element. + + * "gitweb" now has its own manual pages. + + +Also contains other documentation updates and minor code cleanups. + + +Fixes since v1.7.7 +------------------ + +Unless otherwise noted, all fixes in the 1.7.7.X maintenance track are +included in this release. + + * HTTP transport did not use pushurl correctly, and also did not tell + what host it is trying to authenticate with when asking for + credentials. + (merge deba493 jk/http-auth later to maint). + + * "git blame" was aborted if started from an uncommitted content and + the path had the textconv filter in effect. + (merge 8518088 ss/blame-textconv-fake-working-tree later to maint). + + * Adding many refs to the local repository in one go (e.g. "git fetch" + that fetches many tags) and looking up a ref by name in a repository + with too many refs were unnecessarily slow. + (merge 17d68a54d jp/get-ref-dir-unsorted later to maint). + + * Report from "git commit" on untracked files was confused under + core.ignorecase option. + (merge 395c7356 jk/name-hash-dirent later to maint). + + * "git merge" did not understand ":/<pattern>" as a way to name a commit. + + " "git push" on the receiving end used to call post-receive and post-update + hooks for attempted removal of non-existing refs. + (merge 160b81ed ph/push-to-delete-nothing later to maint). + + * Help text for "git remote set-url" and "git remote set-branches" + were misspelled. + (merge c49904e fc/remote-seturl-usage-fix later to maint). + (merge 656cdf0 jc/remote-setbranches-usage-fix later to maint). diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..ee72a845fe --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.txt @@ -0,0 +1,113 @@ +Git v1.7.9 Release Notes (draft) +======================== + +Updates since v1.7.8 +-------------------- + + * gitk updates accumulated since early 2011. + + * git-gui updated to 0.16.0. + + * git-p4 (in contrib/) updates. + + * Porcelain commands like "git reset" did not distinguish deletions + and type-changes from ordinary modification, and reported them with + the same 'M' moniker. They now use 'D' (for deletion) and 'T' (for + type-change) to match "git status -s" and "git diff --name-status". + + * "git add" learned to stream large files directly into a packfile + instead of writing them into individual loose object files. + + * "git branch -m <current branch> HEAD" is an obvious no-op and is + now allowed. + + * "git checkout -B <current branch> <elsewhere>" is a more intuitive + way to spell "git reset --keep <elsewhere>". + + * "git checkout" and "git merge" learned "--no-overwrite-ignore" option + to tell Git that untracked and ignored files are not expendable. + + * "git commit --amend" learned "--no-edit" option to say that the + user is amending the tree being recorded, without updating the + commit log message. + + * fsck and prune are relatively lengthy operations that still go + silent while making the end-user wait. They learned to give progress + output like other slow operations. + + * The set of built-in function-header patterns for various languages + knows MATLAB. + + * "git pull" can be used to fetch and merge an annotated/signed tag, + instead of the tip of a topic branch. The GPG signature from the + signed tag is recorded in the resulting merge commit for later + auditing. + + * "git branch --edit-description" can be used to add descriptive text + to explain what a topic branch is about. + + * "git fmt-merge-msg" learned to take the branch description into + account when preparing a merge summary that "git merge" records + when merging a local branch. + + * "git request-pull" has been updated to convey more information + useful for integrators to decide if a topic is worth merging and + what is pulled is indeed what the requestor asked to pull, + including: + + - the tip of the branch being requested to be merged; + - the branch description describing what the topic is about; + - the contents of the annotated tag, when requesting to pull a tag. + + * "git pull" learned to notice 'pull.rebase' configuration variable, + which serves as a global fallback for setting 'branch.<name>.rebase' + configuration variable per branch. + + * "git tag" learned "--cleanup" option to control how the whitespaces + and empty lines in tag message are cleaned up. + + * "gitweb" learned to show side-by-side diff. + +Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups. + + +Fixes since v1.7.8 +------------------ + + * The function header pattern for files with "diff=cpp" attribute did + not consider "type *funcname(type param1,..." as the beginning of a + function. + (merge 37e7793 tr/userdiff-c-returns-pointer later to maint). + + * LF-to-CRLF streaming filter used when checking out a large-ish blob + fell into an infinite loop with a rare input. + (merge 284e3d2 cn/maint-lf-to-crlf-filter later to maint). + + * "git archive" mistakenly allowed remote clients to ask for commits + that are not at the tip of any ref. + (merge 7b51c33 jk/maint-upload-archive later to maint). + + * "git apply --check" did not error out when given an empty input + without any patch. + (merge cc64b31 bc/maint-apply-check-no-patch later to maint). + + * The error message from "git diff" and "git status" when they fail + to inspect changes in submodules did not report which submodule they + had trouble with. + (merge 6a5ceda jl/submodule-status-failure-report later to maint). + + * "fast-import" did not correctly update an existing notes tree, + possibly corrupting the fan-out. + + * When a "reword" action in "git rebase -i" failed to run "commit --amend", + we did not give the control back to the user to resolve the situation, and + instead kept the original commit log message. + (merge 0becb3e aw/rebase-i-stop-on-failure-to-amend later to maint). + +-- +exec >/var/tmp/1 +O=v1.7.8-282-ga2add85 +echo O=$(git describe master) +git log --first-parent --oneline --reverse ^$O master +echo +git shortlog --no-merges ^$O ^maint master |