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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.0.8.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.0.8.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..7f05b48e17 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.0.8.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +Git v1.7.0.8 Release Notes +========================== + +This is primarily to backport support for the new "add.ignoreErrors" +name given to the existing "add.ignore-errors" configuration variable. + +The next version, Git 1.7.4, and future versions, will support both +old and incorrect name and the new corrected name, but without this +backport, users who want to use the new name "add.ignoreErrors" in +their repositories cannot use older versions of Git. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.1.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.1.3.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..5b18518449 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.1.3.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +Git v1.7.1.3 Release Notes +========================== + +This is primarily to backport support for the new "add.ignoreErrors" +name given to the existing "add.ignore-errors" configuration variable. + +The next version, Git 1.7.4, and future versions, will support both +old and incorrect name and the new corrected name, but without this +backport, users who want to use the new name "add.ignoreErrors" in +their repositories cannot use older versions of Git. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.2.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.2.4.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..f7950a4c04 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.2.4.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +Git v1.7.2.4 Release Notes +========================== + +This is primarily to backport support for the new "add.ignoreErrors" +name given to the existing "add.ignore-errors" configuration variable. + +The next version, Git 1.7.4, and future versions, will support both +old and incorrect name and the new corrected name, but without this +backport, users who want to use the new name "add.ignoreErrors" in +their repositories cannot use older versions of Git. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.3.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.3.3.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..9b2b2448df --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.3.3.txt @@ -0,0 +1,54 @@ +Git v1.7.3.3 Release Notes +========================== + +In addition to the usual fixes, this release also includes support for +the new "add.ignoreErrors" name given to the existing "add.ignore-errors" +configuration variable. + +The next version, Git 1.7.4, and future versions, will support both +old and incorrect name and the new corrected name, but without this +backport, users who want to use the new name "add.ignoreErrors" in +their repositories cannot use older versions of Git. + +Fixes since v1.7.3.2 +-------------------- + + * "git apply" segfaulted when a bogus input is fed to it. + + * Running "git cherry-pick --ff" on a root commit segfaulted. + + * "diff", "blame" and friends incorrectly applied textconv filters to + symlinks. + + * Highlighting of whitespace breakage in "diff" output was showing + incorrect amount of whitespaces when blank-at-eol is set and the line + consisted only of whitespaces and a TAB. + + * "diff" was overly inefficient when trying to find the line to use for + the function header (i.e. equivalent to --show-c-function of GNU diff). + + * "git imap-send" depends on libcrypto but our build rule relied on the + linker to implicitly link it via libssl, which was wrong. + + * "git merge-file" can be called from within a subdirectory now. + + * "git repack -f" expanded and recompressed non-delta objects in the + existing pack, which was wasteful. Use new "-F" option if you really + want to (e.g. when changing the pack.compression level). + + * "git rev-list --format="...%x00..." incorrectly chopped its output + at NUL. + + * "git send-email" did not correctly remove duplicate mail addresses from + the Cc: header that appear on the To: header. + + * The completion script (in contrib/completion) ignored lightweight tags + in __git_ps1(). + + * "git-blame" mode (in contrib/emacs) didn't say (require 'format-spec) + even though it depends on it; it didn't work with Emacs 22 or older + unless Gnus is used. + + * "git-p4" (in contrib/) did not correctly handle deleted files. + +Other minor fixes and documentation updates are also included. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.4.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..0a73e6dc0f --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.4.txt @@ -0,0 +1,132 @@ +Git v1.7.4 Release Notes (draft) +================================ + +Updates since v1.7.3 +-------------------- + + * The option parsers of various commands that create new branch (or + rename existing ones to a new name) were too loose and users were + allowed to call a branch with a name that begins with a dash by + creative abuse of their command line options, which only lead to + burn themselves. The name of a branch cannot begin with a dash + now. + + * System-wide fallback default attributes can be stored in + /etc/gitattributes; core.attributesfile configuration variable can + be used to customize the path to this file. + + * The thread structure generated by "git send-email" has changed + slightly. Setting the cover letter of the latest series as a reply + to the cover letter of the previous series with --in-reply-to used + to make the new cover letter and all the patches replies to the + cover letter of the previous series; this has been changed to make + the patches in the new series replies to the new cover letter. + + * Bash completion script in contrib/ has been adjusted to be also + usable by zsh. + + * "git blame" learned --show-email option to display the e-mail + addresses instead of the names of authors. + + * "git daemon" can be built in MinGW environment. + + * "git daemon" can take more than one --listen option to listen to + multiple addresses. + + * "git diff" and "git grep" learned how functions and subroutines + in Fortran look like. + + * "git mergetool" tells vim/gvim to show three-way diff by default + (use vimdiff2/gvimdiff2 as the tool name for old behaviour). + + * "git log -G<pattern>" limits the output to commits whose change has + added or deleted lines that match the given pattern. + + * "git read-tree" with no argument as a way to empty the index is + deprecated; we might want to remove it in the future. Users can + use the new --empty option to be more explicit instead. + + * "git repack -f" does not spend cycles to recompress objects in the + non-delta representation anymore (use -F if you really mean it when + e.g. you changed the compression level). + + * "git merge --log" used to limit the resulting merge log to 20 + entries; this is now customizable by giving e.g. "--log=47". + + * "git merge" may work better when all files were moved out of a + directory in one branch while a new file is created in place of that + directory in the other branch. + + * "git rebase --autosquash" can use SHA-1 object names to name which + commit to fix up (e.g. "fixup! e83c5163"). + + * The default "recursive" merge strategy learned --rename-threshold + option to influence the rename detection, similar to the -M option + of "git diff". E.g. "git merge -Xrename-threshold=50% ..." to use + this. + + * The "recursive" strategy also learned to ignore various whitespace + changes; the most notable is -Xignore-space-at-eol. + + * "git send-email" learned "--to-cmd", similar to "--cc-cmd", to read + recipient list from a command output. + + * "git send-email" learned to read and use "To:" from its input files. + + * you can extend "git shell", which is often used on boxes that allow + git-only login over ssh as login shell, with custom set of + commands. + + * "git submodule sync" updates metainformation for all submodules, + not just the ones that have been checked out. + + * gitweb can use custom 'highlight' command with its configuration file. + + +Also contains various documentation updates. + + +Fixes since v1.7.3 +------------------ + +All of the fixes in v1.7.3.X maintenance series are included in this +release, unless otherwise noted. + + * Smart HTTP transport used to incorrectly retry redirected POST + request with GET request (311e2ea006). + + * "git apply" did not correctly handle patches that only change modes + if told to apply while stripping leading paths with -p option (aae1f6ac). + + * "git apply" can deal with patches with timezone formatted with a + colon between the hours and minutes part (e.g. "-08:00" instead of + "-0800"). + + * "git checkout" removed an untracked file "foo" from the working + tree when switching to a branch that contains a tracked path + "foo/bar". Prevent this, just like the case where the conflicting + path were "foo" (c752e7f..7980872d). + + * "git diff --check" reported an incorrect line number for added + blank lines at the end of file (8837d335). + + * "git log --author=me --author=her" did not find commits written by + me or by her; instead it looked for commits written by me and by + her, which is impossible. + + * "git merge" into an unborn branch removed an untracked file "foo" + from the working tree when merged branch had "foo" (2caf20c..172b642). + + * "git push --progress" shows progress indicators now. + + * "git repack" places its temporary packs under $GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY/pack + instead of $GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY/ to avoid cross directory renames. + + * "git submodule update --recursive --other-flags" passes flags down + to its subinvocations. + +--- +exec >/var/tmp/1 +O=v1.7.3.2-450-g5b9c331 +echo O=$(git describe master) +git shortlog --no-merges ^maint ^$O master |