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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.txt | 45 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.txt | 81 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.4.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..3a640c2d4d --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.4.txt @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +Git v1.7.11.4 Release Notes +=========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.11.3 +--------------------- + + * "$GIT_DIR/COMMIT_EDITMSG" file that is used to hold the commit log + message user edits was not documented. + + * The advise() function did not use varargs correctly to format + its message. + + * When "git am" failed, old timers knew to check .git/rebase-apply/patch + to see what went wrong, but we never told the users about it. + + * "git commit-tree" learned a more natural "-p <parent> <tree>" order + of arguments long time ago, but recently forgot it by mistake. + + * "git diff --no-ext-diff" did not output anything for a typechange + filepair when GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF is in effect. + + * In 1.7.9 era, we taught "git rebase" about the raw timestamp format + but we did not teach the same trick to "filter-branch", which rolled + a similar logic on its own. + + * When "git submodule add" clones a submodule repository, it can get + confused where to store the resulting submodule repository in the + superproject's .git/ directory when there is a symbolic link in the + path to the current directory. + +Also contains minor typofixes and documentation updates. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.5.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.5.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..0a2ed855c5 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.5.txt @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ +Git v1.7.11.5 Release Notes +=========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.11.4 +--------------------- + + * The Makefile rule to create assembly output (primarily for + debugging purposes) did not create it next to the source. + + * The code to avoid mistaken attempt to add the object directory + itself as its own alternate could read beyond end of a string while + comparison. + + * On some architectures, "block-sha1" did not compile correctly + when compilers inferred alignment guarantees from our source we + did not intend to make. + + * When talking to a remote running ssh on IPv6 enabled host, whose + address is spelled as "[HOST]:PORT", we did not parse the address + correctly and failed to connect. + + * git-blame.el (in compat/) have been updated to use Elisp more + correctly. + + * "git checkout <branchname>" to come back from a detached HEAD state + incorrectly computed reachability of the detached HEAD, resulting + in unnecessary warnings. + + * "git mergetool" did not support --tool-help option to give the list + of supported backends, like "git difftool" does. + + * "git grep" stopped spawning an external "grep" long time ago, but a + duplicated test to check internal and external "grep" was left + behind. + +Also contains minor typofixes and documentation updates. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.6.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.6.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..e548a59824 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.6.txt @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +Git v1.7.11.6 Release Notes +=========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.11.5 +--------------------- + +This is primarily documentation and low-impact code clarification. + + - "ciabot" script (in contrib/) has been updated with extensive + documentation. + + - The "--rebase" option to "git pull" can be abbreviated to "-r", + but we didn't document it. + + - It was generally understood that "--long-option"s to many of our + subcommands can be abbreviated to the unique prefix, but it was not + easy to find it described for new readers of the documentation set. + + - The "--topo-order", "--date-order" (and the lack of either means + the default order) options to "rev-list" and "log" family of + commands were poorly described in the documentation. + + - Older parts of the documentation described as if having a regular + file in .git/refs/ hierarchy were the only way to have branches and + tags, which is not true for quite some time. + + - A utility shell function test_seq has been added as a replacement + for the 'seq' utility found on some platforms. + + - Fallback 'getpass' implementation made unportable use of stdio API. + + - "git commit --amend" let the user edit the log message and then + died when the human-readable committer name was given + insufficiently by getpwent(3). diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.txt index 904561de18..010d8c7de4 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.txt @@ -51,10 +51,6 @@ UI, Workflows & Features read. The error message in this case was updated to give better hints to the user. - * git native protocol agents learned to show software version over - the wire, so that the server log can be examined to see the vintage - distribution of clients. - * "git help -w $cmd" can show HTML version of documentation for "git-$cmd" by setting help.htmlpath to somewhere other than the default location where the build procedure installs them locally; @@ -117,6 +113,9 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. (please report possible regressions) cycles after showing the first change to find the next one, only to discard it. + * "git svn" got a large-looking code reorganization at the last + minute before the code freeze. + Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups. @@ -128,42 +127,10 @@ 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 mergetool" did not support --tool-help option to give the list - of supported backends, like "git difftool" does. - (merge 109859e jc/mergetool-tool-help later to maint). - - * "$GIT_DIR/COMMIT_EDITMSG" file that is used to hold the commit log - message user edits was not documented. - (merge 41f597d jk/maint-commit-document-editmsg later to maint). + * "git submodule add" was confused when the superproject did not have + its repository in its usual place in the working tree and GIT_DIR + and GIT_WORK_TREE was used to access it. * "git commit --amend" let the user edit the log message and then died when the human-readable committer name was given insufficiently by getpwent(3). - (merge f20f387 jk/maint-commit-check-committer-early later to maint). - - * The advise() function did not use varargs correctly to format - its message. - (merge 447b99c jk/maint-advise-vaddf later to maint). - - * "git commit-tree" learned a more natural "-p <parent> <tree>" order - of arguments long time ago, but recently forgot it by mistake. - (merge 4b7518a kk/maint-commit-tree later to maint). - - * "git diff --no-ext-diff" did not output anything for a typechange - filepair when GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF is in effect. - (merge c12f82a jv/maint-no-ext-diff later to maint). - - * When "git am" failed, old timers knew to check .git/rebase-apply/patch - to see what went wrong, but we never told the users about it. - (merge 14bf2d5 pg/maint-1.7.9-am-where-is-patch later to maint). - - * When "git submodule add" clones a submodule repository, it can get - confused where to store the resulting submodule repository in the - superproject's .git/ directory when there is a symbolic link in the - path to the current directory. - (merge 6eafa6d jl/maint-1.7.10-recurse-submodules-with-symlink later to maint). - - * In 1.7.9 era, we taught "git rebase" about the raw timestamp format - but we did not teach the same trick to "filter-branch", which rolled - a similar logic on its own. - (merge 44b85e89 jc/maint-filter-branch-epoch-date later to maint). diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..2f41e992d8 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,81 @@ +Git v1.8.0 Release Notes +======================== + +Backward compatibility notes +---------------------------- + +In the next major release, we will change the behaviour of the "git +push" command. When "git push [$there]" does not say what to push, we +have used the traditional "matching" semantics (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. + + +Updates since v1.7.12 +--------------------- + +UI, Workflows & Features + + * "git difftool --dir-diff" learned to use symbolic links to prepare + temporary copy of the working tree when available. + + * "git grep" learned to use a non-standard pattern type by default if + a configuration variable tells it to. + +Foreign Interface + + * "git svn" has been updated to work with SVN 1.7. + + +Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. (please report possible regressions) + + * The "check-docs" build target has been updated and greatly + simplified. + + * The documentation in the TeXinfo format was using indented output + for materials meant to be examples that are better typeset in + monospace. + +Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups. + + +Fixes since v1.7.12 +------------------- + +Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.7.12 in the +maintenance track are contained in this release (see release notes +to them for details). + + + * When "git push" triggered the automatic gc on the receiving end, a + message from "git prune" that said it was removing cruft leaked to + the standard output, breaking the communication protocol. + (merge 4b7f2fa bc/receive-pack-stdout-protection later to maint). + + * "git diff" had a confusion between taking data from a path in the + working tree and taking data from an object that happens to have + name 0{40} recorded in a tree. + (merge c479d14 jk/maint-null-in-trees later to maint). + + * The output from "git diff -B" for a file that ends with an + incomplete line did not put "\ No newline..." on a line of its own. + + * "git send-email" did not unquote encoded words that appear on the + header correctly, and lost "_" from strings. + (merge b622d4d tr/maint-send-email-2047 later to maint). + + * When the user gives an argument that can be taken as both a + revision name and a pathname without disambiguating with "--", we + used to give a help message "Use '--' to separate". The message + has been clarified to show where that '--' goes on the command + line. + (merge 4d4b573 mm/die-with-dashdash-help later to maint). + + * "gitweb" when used with PATH_INFO failed to notice directories with + SP (and other characters that need URL-style quoting) in them. + (merge cacfc09 js/gitweb-path-info-unquote later to maint). |