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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.2.txt index 5d08021a8d..8497e051de 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.2.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.2.txt @@ -4,6 +4,25 @@ Git v1.8.0.2 Release Notes Fixes since v1.8.0.1 -------------------- + * Various codepaths have workaround for a common misconfiguration to + spell "UTF-8" as "utf8", but it was not used uniformly. Most + notably, mailinfo (which is used by "git am") lacked this support. + + * We failed to mention a file without any content change but whose + permission bit was modified, or (worse yet) a new file without any + content in the "git diff --stat" output. + + * When "--stat-count" hides a diffstat for binary contents, the total + number of added and removed lines at the bottom was computed + incorrectly. + + * When "--stat-count" hides a diffstat for unmerged paths, the total + number of affected files at the bottom of the "diff --stat" output + was computed incorrectly. + + * "diff --shortstat" miscounted the total number of affected files + when there were unmerged paths. + * "git p4" used to try expanding malformed "$keyword$" that spans across multiple lines. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.3.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..92b1e4b363 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.3.txt @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +Git v1.8.0.3 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.8.0.2 +-------------------- + + * "git log -p -S<string>" did not apply the textconv filter while + looking for the <string>. + + * In the documentation, some invalid example e-mail addresses were + formatted into mailto: links. + +Also contains many documentation updates backported from the 'master' +branch that is preparing for the upcoming 1.8.1 release. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.1.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.1.1.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..0dc37dcdd4 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.1.1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ +Git 1.8.1.1 Release Notes +========================= + +Fixes since v1.8.1 +------------------ + + * After failing to create a temporary file using mkstemp(), failing + pathname was not reported correctly on some platforms. + + * http transport was wrong to ask for the username when the + authentication is done by certificate identity. + + * After "git add -N" and then writing a tree object out of the + index, the cache-tree data structure got corrupted. + + * "git pack-refs" that ran in parallel to another process that + created new refs had a race that can lose new ones. + + * When a line to be wrapped has a solid run of non space characters + whose length exactly is the wrap width, "git shortlog -w" failed + to add a newline after such a line. + + * "gitweb", when sorting by age to show repositories with new + activities first, used to sort repositories with absolutely + nothing in it early, which was not very useful. + + * Some scripted programs written in Python did not get updated when + PYTHON_PATH changed. + + * We have been carrying a translated and long-unmaintained copy of an + old version of the tutorial; removed. + + * Portability issues in many self-test scripts have been addressed. + + +Also contains other minor fixes and documentation updates. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.1.txt index c507b129bb..d6f9555923 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.1.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.1.txt @@ -29,24 +29,17 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * Command-line completion scripts for tcsh and zsh have been added. - * A new remote-helper interface for Mercurial has been added to - contrib/remote-helpers. + * "git-prompt" scriptlet (in contrib/completion) can be told to paint + pieces of the hints in the prompt string in colors. + + * Some documentation pages that used to ship only in the plain text + format are now formatted in HTML as well. * We used to have a workaround for a bug in ancient "less" that causes it to exit without any output when the terminal is resized. The bug has been fixed in "less" version 406 (June 2007), and the workaround has been removed in this release. - * Some documentation pages that used to ship only in the plain text - format are now formatted in HTML as well. - - * "git-prompt" scriptlet (in contrib/completion) can be told to paint - pieces of the hints in the prompt string in colors. - - * A new configuration variable "diff.context" can be used to - give the default number of context lines in the patch output, to - override the hardcoded default of 3 lines. - * When "git checkout" checks out a branch, it tells the user how far behind (or ahead) the new branch is relative to the remote tracking branch it builds upon. The message now also advises how to sync @@ -60,13 +53,17 @@ UI, Workflows & Features API regression but it is expected that nobody will notice it in practice. - * "git log -p -S<string>" now looks for the <string> after applying - the textconv filter (if defined); earlier it inspected the contents - of the blobs without filtering. + * A new configuration variable "diff.context" can be used to + give the default number of context lines in the patch output, to + override the hardcoded default of 3 lines. * "git format-patch" learned the "--notes=<ref>" option to give notes for the commit after the three-dash lines in its output. + * "git log -p -S<string>" now looks for the <string> after applying + the textconv filter (if defined); earlier it inspected the contents + of the blobs without filtering. + * "git log --grep=<pcre>" learned to honor the "grep.patterntype" configuration set to "perl". @@ -116,11 +113,20 @@ Foreign Interface * The remote helper interface to interact with subversion repositories (one of the GSoC 2012 projects) has been merged. + * A new remote-helper interface for Mercurial has been added to + contrib/remote-helpers. + + * The documentation for git(1) was pointing at a page at an external + site for the list of authors that no longer existed. The link has + been updated to point at an alternative site. + Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. * Compilation on Cygwin with newer header files are supported now. + * A couple of low-level implementation updates on MinGW. + * The logic to generate the initial advertisement from "upload-pack" (i.e. what is invoked by "git fetch" on the other side of the connection) to list what refs are available in the repository has @@ -146,55 +152,44 @@ details). * The configuration parser had an unnecessary hardcoded limit on variable names that was not checked consistently. - (merge 0971e99 bw/config-lift-variable-name-length-limit later to maint). * The "say" function in the test scaffolding incorrectly allowed "echo" to interpret "\a" as if it were a C-string asking for a BEL output. - (merge 7bc0911 jc/test-say-color-avoid-echo-escape later to maint). * "git mergetool" feeds /dev/null as a common ancestor when dealing with an add/add conflict, but p4merge backend cannot handle it. Work it around by passing a temporary empty file. - (merge 3facc60 da/mergetools-p4 later to maint). * "git log -F -E --grep='<ere>'" failed to use the given <ere> pattern as extended regular expression, and instead looked for the string literally. - (merge 727b6fc jc/grep-pcre-loose-ends~1 later to maint). * "git grep -e pattern <tree>" asked the attribute system to read "<tree>:.gitattributes" file in the working tree, which was nonsense. - (merge 55c6168 nd/grep-true-path later to maint). * A symbolic ref refs/heads/SYM was not correctly removed with "git branch -d SYM"; the command removed the ref pointed by SYM instead. - (merge 13baa9f rs/branch-del-symref later to maint). * Update "remote tracking branch" in the documentation to "remote-tracking branch". - (merge a6d3bde mm/maint-doc-remote-tracking later to maint). * "git pull --rebase" run while the HEAD is detached tried to find the upstream branch of the detached HEAD (which by definition does not exist) and emitted unnecessary error messages. - (merge e980765 ph/pull-rebase-detached later to maint). * The refs/replace hierarchy was not mentioned in the repository-layout docs. - (merge 11fbe18 po/maint-refs-replace-docs later to maint). * Various rfc2047 quoting issues around a non-ASCII name on the From: line in the output from format-patch have been corrected. - (merge 25dc8da js/format-2047 later to maint). * Sometimes curl_multi_timeout() function suggested a wrong timeout value when there is no file descriptor to wait on and the http transport ended up sleeping for minutes in select(2) system call. A workaround has been added for this. - (merge 7202b81 sz/maint-curl-multi-timeout later to maint). * For a fetch refspec (or the result of applying wildcard on one), we always want the RHS to map to something inside "refs/" @@ -203,7 +198,6 @@ details). * "git diff -G<pattern>" did not honor textconv filter when looking for changes. - (merge b1c2f57 jk/maint-diff-grep-textconv later to maint). * Some HTTP servers ask for auth only during the actual packing phase (not in ls-remote phase); this is not really a recommended @@ -213,41 +207,35 @@ details). * "git p4" used to try expanding malformed "$keyword$" that spans across multiple lines. - (merge 6b2bf41 pw/maint-p4-rcs-expansion-newline later to maint). * Syntax highlighting in "gitweb" was not quite working. - (merge 048b399 rh/maint-gitweb-highlight-ext later to maint). * RSS feed from "gitweb" had a xss hole in its title output. - (merge 0f0ecf6 jk/maint-gitweb-xss later to maint). * "git config --path $key" segfaulted on "[section] key" (a boolean "true" spelled without "=", not "[section] key = true"). - (merge 962c38e cn/config-missing-path later to maint). * "git checkout -b foo" while on an unborn branch did not say "Switched to a new branch 'foo'" like other cases. - (merge afa8c07 jk/checkout-out-of-unborn later to maint). + + * Various codepaths have workaround for a common misconfiguration to + spell "UTF-8" as "utf8", but it was not used uniformly. Most + notably, mailinfo (which is used by "git am") lacked this support. * We failed to mention a file without any content change but whose permission bit was modified, or (worse yet) a new file without any content in the "git diff --stat" output. - (merge de9095955 lt/diff-stat-show-0-lines later to maint). * When "--stat-count" hides a diffstat for binary contents, the total number of added and removed lines at the bottom was computed incorrectly. - (merge de9095955 lt/diff-stat-show-0-lines later to maint). * When "--stat-count" hides a diffstat for unmerged paths, the total number of affected files at the bottom of the "diff --stat" output was computed incorrectly. - (merge de9095955 lt/diff-stat-show-0-lines later to maint). * "diff --shortstat" miscounted the total number of affected files when there were unmerged paths. - (merge de9095955 lt/diff-stat-show-0-lines later to maint). * "update-ref -d --deref SYM" to delete a ref through a symbolic ref that points to it did not remove it correctly. - (merge b274a71 jh/update-ref-d-through-symref later to maint). diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..a6eb139150 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.txt @@ -0,0 +1,219 @@ +Git v1.8.2 Release Notes +======================== + +Backward compatibility notes +---------------------------- + +In the upcoming major release (tentatively called 1.8.2), we will +change the behavior of the "git push" command. + +When "git push [$there]" does not say what to push, we have used the +traditional "matching" semantics so far (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. + + +Updates since v1.8.1 +-------------------- + +UI, Workflows & Features + + * Initial ports to QNX and z/OS UNIX System Services have started. + + * Output from the tests is coloured using "green is okay, yellow is + questionable, red is bad and blue is informative" scheme. + + * In bare repositories, "git shortlog" and other commands now read + mailmap files from the tip of the history, to help running these + tools in server settings. + + * Color specifiers, e.g. "%C(blue)Hello%C(reset)", used in the + "--format=" option of "git log" and friends can be disabled when + the output is not sent to a terminal by prefixing them with + "auto,", e.g. "%C(auto,blue)Hello%C(auto,reset)". + + * Scripts can ask Git that wildcard patterns in pathspecs they give do + not have any significance, i.e. take them as literal strings. + + * The pathspec code learned to grok "foo/**/bar" as a pattern that + matches "bar" in 0-or-more levels of subdirectory in "foo". + + * "git cherry-pick" can be used to replay a root commit to an unborn + branch. + + * "git fetch --mirror" and fetch that uses other forms of refspec + with wildcard used to attempt to update a symbolic ref that match + the wildcard on the receiving end, which made little sense (the + real ref that is pointed at by the symbolic ref would be updated + anyway). Symbolic refs no longer are affected by such a fetch. + + * "git format-patch" now detects more cases in which a whole branch + is being exported, and uses the description for the branch, when + asked to write a cover letter for the series. + + * "git push" now requires "-f" to update a tag, even if it is a + fast-forward, as tags are meant to be fixed points. + + * When "git rebase" fails to generate patches to be applied (e.g. due + to oom), it failed to detect the failure and instead behaved as if + there were nothing to do. A workaround to use a temporary file has + been applied, but we probably would want to revisit this later, as + it hurts the common case of not failing at all. + + * "git submodule" started learning a new mode to integrate with the + tip of the remote branch (as opposed to integrating with the commit + recorded in the superproject's gitlink). + + +Foreign Interface + + * "git fast-export" has been updated for its use in the context of + the remote helper interface. + + * A new remote helper to interact with bzr has been added to contrib/. + + +Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. + + * "git fsck" has been taught to be pickier about entries in tree + objects that should not be there, e.g. ".", ".git", and "..". + + * Matching paths with common forms of pathspecs that contain wildcard + characters has been optimized further. + + * The implementation of "imap-send" has been updated to reuse xml + quoting code from http-push codepath. + + * There is a simple-minded checker for the test scripts in t/ + directory to catch most common mistakes (it is not enabled by + default). + + +Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups. + + +Fixes since v1.8.1 +------------------ + +Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.8.1 in the maintenance +track are contained in this release (see release notes to them for +details). + + * An element on GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES list that does not name the + real path to a directory (i.e. a symbolic link) could have caused + the GIT_DIR discovery logic to escape the ceiling. + (merge 059b379 mh/ceiling later to maint). + + * When attempting to read the XDG-style $HOME/.config/git/config and + finding that $HOME/.config/git is a file, we gave a wrong error + message, instead of treating the case as "a custom config file does + not exist there" and moving on. + (merge 8f2bbe4 jn/warn-on-inaccessible-loosen later to maint). + + * The behaviour visible to the end users was confusing, when they + attempt to kill a process spawned in the editor that was in turn + launched by Git with SIGINT (or SIGQUIT), as Git would catch that + signal and die. We ignore these signals now. + (merge 1250857 pf/editor-ignore-sigint later to maint). + + * After failing to create a temporary file using mkstemp(), failing + pathname was not reported correctly on some platforms. + (merge f7be59b jc/mkstemp-more-careful-error-reporting later to maint). + + * The attribute mechanism didn't allow limiting attributes to be + applied to only a single directory itself with "path/" like the + exclude mechanism does. + (merge 94bc671 ja/directory-attrs later to maint). + + * "git apply" misbehaved when fixing whitespace breakages by removing + excess trailing blank lines. + (merge 5de7166 jc/apply-trailing-blank-removal later to maint). + + * A tar archive created by "git archive" recorded a directory in a + way that made NetBSD's implementation of "tar" sometimes unhappy. + (merge 22f0dcd rs/leave-base-name-in-name-field-of-tar later to maint). + + * When "git clone --separate-git-dir=$over_there" is interrupted, it + failed to remove the real location of the $GIT_DIR it created. + This was most visible when interrupting a submodule update. + (merge 9be1980 jl/interrupt-clone-remove-separate-git-dir later to maint). + + * The way "git svn" asked for password using SSH_ASKPASS and + GIT_ASKPASS was not in line with the rest of the system. + (merge e9263e4 ss/svn-prompt later to maint). + + * The --graph code fell into infinite loop when asked to do what the + code did not expect. + (merge 656197a mk/maint-graph-infinity-loop later to maint). + + * http transport was wrong to ask for the username when the + authentication is done by certificate identity. + (merge 75e9a40 rb/http-cert-cred-no-username-prompt later to maint). + + * "git pack-refs" that ran in parallel to another process that + created new refs had a nasty race. + (merge b3f1280 jk/repack-ref-racefix later to maint). + + * After "git add -N" and then writing a tree object out of the + index, the cache-tree data structure got corrupted. + (merge eec3e7e nd/invalidate-i-t-a-cache-tree later to maint). + + * "git merge --no-edit" computed who were involved in the work done + on the side branch, even though that information is to be discarded + without getting seen in the editor. + (merge 9bcbb1c jc/maint-fmt-merge-msg-no-edit-lose-credit later to maint). + + * "git merge" started calling prepare-commit-msg hook like "git + commit" does some time ago, but forgot to pay attention to the exit + status of the hook. + (merge 3e4141d ap/merge-stop-at-prepare-commit-msg-failure later to maint). + + * "gitweb", when sorting by age to show repositories with new + activities first, used to sort repositories with absolutely + nothing in it early, which was not very useful. + (merge 28dae18 md/gitweb-sort-by-age later to maint). + + * "gitweb"'s code to sanitize control characters before passing it to + "highlight" filter lost known-to-be-safe control characters by + mistake. + (merge 0e901d2 os/gitweb-highlight-uncaptured later to maint). + + * When a line to be wrapped has a solid run of non space characters + whose length exactly is the wrap width, "git shortlog -w" failed + to add a newline after such a line. + (merge e0db176 sp/shortlog-missing-lf later to maint). + + * Some shells do not behave correctly when IFS is unset; work it + around by explicitly setting it to the default value. + (merge 393050c jc/maint-fbsd-sh-ifs-workaround later to maint). + + * Some scripted programs written in Python did not get updated when + PYTHON_PATH changed. + (cherry-pick 96a4647fca54031974cd6ad1 later to maint). + + * When autoconf is used, any build on a different commit always ran + "config.status --recheck" even when unnecessary. + (merge 1226504 jn/less-reconfigure later to maint). + + * We have been carrying a translated and long-unmaintained copy of an + old version of the tutorial; removed. + (merge 0a85441 ta/remove-stale-translated-tut later to maint). + + * t4014, t9502 and t0200 tests had various portability issues that + broke on OpenBSD. + (merge 27f6342 jc/maint-test-portability later to maint). + + * t9020 and t3600 tests had various portability issues. + (merge 5a02966 jc/test-portability later to maint). + + * t9200 runs "cvs init" on a directory that already exists, but a + platform can configure this fail for the current user (e.g. you + need to be in the cvsadmin group on NetBSD 6.0). + (merge 8666df0 jc/test-cvs-no-init-in-existing-dir later to maint). + + * t9020 and t9810 had a few non-portable shell script construct. + (merge 2797914 tb/test-t9020-no-which later to maint). + (merge 6f4e505 tb/test-t9810-no-sed-i later to maint). |