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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.1.txt | 39 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.txt | 38 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.txt | 156 |
5 files changed, 251 insertions, 38 deletions
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/1.7.7.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.1.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..02d7c02a00 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,39 @@ +Git v1.7.7.1 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.7 +------------------ + + * "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 $tree" when run with multiple threads had an unsafe access to + the object database that should have been protected with mutex. + + * The "--ancestry-path" option to "git log" and friends misbehaved in a + history with complex criss-cross merges and showed an uninteresting + side history as well. + + * Test t1304 assumed LOGNAME is always set, which may not be true on + some systems. + + * Tests with --valgrind failed to find "mergetool" scriptlets. + + * "git patch-id" miscomputed the patch-id in a patch that has a line longer + than 1kB. + + * When an "exec" insn failed after modifying the index and/or the working + tree during "rebase -i", we now check and warn that the changes need to + be cleaned up. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.txt index 6e83082c14..7655cccfaa 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.txt @@ -130,43 +130,5 @@ Fixes since v1.7.6 Unless otherwise noted, all fixes in the 1.7.6.X maintenance track are included in this release. - * The error reporting logic of "git am" when the command is fed a file - whose mail-storage format is unknown was fixed. - (merge dff4b0e gb/maint-am-patch-format-error-message later to 'maint'). - - * "git branch --set-upstream @{-1} foo" did not expand @{-1} correctly. - (merge e9d4f74 mg/branch-set-upstream-previous later to 'maint'). - * "git branch -m" and "git checkout -b" incorrectly allowed the tip of the branch that is currently checked out updated. - (merge 55c4a67 ci/forbid-unwanted-current-branch-update later to 'maint'). - - * "git check-ref-format --print" used to parrot a candidate string that - began with a slash (e.g. /refs/heads/master) without stripping it, to make - the result a suitably normalized string the caller can append to "$GIT_DIR/". - (merge f3738c1 mh/check-ref-format-print-normalize later to 'maint'). - - * "git clone" failed to clone locally from a ".git" file that itself - is not a directory but is a pointer to one. - (merge 9b0ebc7 nd/maint-clone-gitdir later to 'maint'). - - * "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. - (merge e6baf4a1 jc/maint-clone-alternates later to 'maint'). - - * "git describe --dirty" did not refresh the index before checking the - state of the working tree files. - (cherry-pick bb57148 ac/describe-dirty-refresh later to 'maint'). - - * "git ls-files ../$path" that is run from a subdirectory reported errors - incorrectly when there is no such path that matches the given pathspec. - (merge 0f64bfa cb/maint-ls-files-error-report later to 'maint'). - --- -exec >/var/tmp/1 -echo O=$(git describe master) -O=v1.7.7-rc0-185-gb648557 -git log --first-parent --oneline $O..master -echo -git shortlog --no-merges ^maint ^$O master diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..dcd2467427 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.txt @@ -0,0 +1,156 @@ +Git v1.7.8 Release Notes (draft) +================================ + +Updates since v1.7.7 +-------------------- + + * Some git-svn and git-gui updates. + + * 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". + + * On some BSD systems, adding +s bit on directories is detrimental + (it is not necessary on BSD to begin with). The installation + procedure has been updated to take this into account. + + * 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". + + * 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 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 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. + + * "git ls-remote" learned to respond to "-h"(elp) requests. + + * "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 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. + + * "mediawiki" remote helper can interact with (surprise!) MediaWiki + with "git fetch" & "git push". + + * "gitweb" leaked unescaped control characters from syntax hiliter + outputs. + + +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. + + * We used to drop error messages from libcurl on certain kinds of + errors. + (merge be22d92eac8 jn/maint-http-error-message later to maint). + + * 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. + (merge 6cdf022 sp/smart-http-failure 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). + + * 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. + (merge baf18fc nd/maint-autofix-tag-in-head later to maint). + + * "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. + (merge 8557263 jc/apply-blank-at-eof-fix later to maint). + + + * "git remote rename $a $b" were not careful to match the remote name + against $a (i.e. source side of the remote nickname). + (merge b52d00aed mz/remote-rename later to maint). + + * "git diff --[num]stat" used to use the number of lines of context + different from the default, potentially giving different results from + "git diff | diffstat" and confusing the users. + (merge f01cae918 jc/maint-diffstat-numstat-context later to maint). + + * "git merge" did not understand ":/<pattern>" as a way to name a commit. + + * "git mergetool" learned to use its arguments as pathspec, not a path to + the file that may not even have any conflict. + (merge 6d9990a jm/mergetool-pathspec later to maint). + + * "gitweb" used to produce a non-working link while showing the contents + of a blob, when JavaScript actions are enabled. + (merge 2b07ff3ff ps/gitweb-js-with-lineno later to maint). + +--- +exec >/var/tmp/1 +O=v1.7.7-324-g47d45a5 +echo O=$(git describe --always master) +git log --first-parent --oneline --reverse ^$O master +echo +git shortlog --no-merges ^$O master |