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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.5.txt | 36 |
1 files changed, 33 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.5.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.5.txt index 64372df755..2c96f4d831 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.5.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.5.txt @@ -10,12 +10,25 @@ Updates since v1.7.4 * Various vcs-svn enhancements. + * Update to more modern HP-UX port. + + * "git apply -v" reports offset lines when the patch does not apply at + the exact location recorded in the diff output. + + * "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 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 checkout" performed on detached HEAD gives a warning and an + 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 custom merge strategy, similar to "git rebase". @@ -23,15 +36,23 @@ Updates since v1.7.4 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 grep --no-index" did not honor pathspecs correctly, returning paths outside the specified area. + * "git log" family of commands now understand globbing pathspecs. You + can say "git log -- '*.txt'" for example. + * "git rev-list --objects $revs -- $pathspec" would limit the objects listed in its output properly with the pathspec, in preparation for narrow clones. - * "git log" family of commands now understand globbing pathspecs. You - can say "git log -- '*.txt'" for example. + * "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. * "git rerere" learned a new subcommand "remaining", that is similar to "status" that lists the paths that had conflicts that are known to @@ -52,6 +73,15 @@ 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. + * 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 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 clone /no/such/path" did not fail correctly (jk/fail-null/clone). * "git checkout $other_branch" silently removed untracked symbolic links @@ -75,6 +105,6 @@ release, unless otherwise noted. --- exec >/var/tmp/1 -O=v1.7.4.1-224-g66ecd2d +O=v1.7.4.1-265-gd0ef5a7 echo O=$(git describe 'master') git shortlog --no-merges ^maint ^$O master |