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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.3.5.txt | 34 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.4.1.txt | 27 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.4.txt | 138 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.4.5.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.4.5.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..eb6307dcbb --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.4.5.txt @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +Git v1.6.4.5 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.6.4.4 +-------------------- + + * Simplified base85 implementation. + + * An overlong line after ".gitdir: " in a git file caused out of bounds + access to an array on the stack. + + * "git count-objects" did not handle packs larger than 4G. + + * "git rev-parse --parseopt --stop-at-non-option" did not stop at non option + when --keep-dashdash was in effect. + + * "gitweb" can sometimes be tricked into parrotting a filename argument + given in a request without properly quoting. + +Other minor fixes and documentation updates are included. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.5.9.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.5.9.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..bb469dd71e --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.5.9.txt @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +Git v1.6.5.9 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.6.5.8 +-------------------- + + * An overlong line after ".gitdir: " in a git file caused out of bounds + access to an array on the stack. + + * "git blame -L $start,$end" segfaulted when too large $start was given. + + * "git rev-parse --parseopt --stop-at-non-option" did not stop at non option + when --keep-dashdash was in effect. + + * "gitweb" can sometimes be tricked into parrotting a filename argument + given in a request without properly quoting. + +Other minor fixes and documentation updates are included. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.6.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.6.3.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..11483acaec --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.6.3.txt @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +Git v1.6.6.3 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.6.6.2 +-------------------- + + * An overlong line after ".gitdir: " in a git file caused out of bounds + access to an array on the stack. + + * "git bisect $path" did not correctly diagnose an error when given a + non-existent path. + + * "git blame -L $start,$end" segfaulted when too large $start was given. + + * "git imap-send" did not write draft box with CRLF line endings per RFC. + + * "git rev-parse --parseopt --stop-at-non-option" did not stop at non option + when --keep-dashdash was in effect. + + * "gitweb" can sometimes be tricked into parrotting a filename argument + given in a request without properly quoting. + +Other minor fixes and documentation updates are included. 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/1.7.0.9.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.0.9.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..bfb3166387 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.0.9.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Git v1.7.0.9 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.0.8 +-------------------- + + * "gitweb" can sometimes be tricked into parrotting a filename argument + given in a request without properly quoting. 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/1.7.1.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.1.4.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..7c734b4f7b --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.1.4.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Git v1.7.1.4 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.1.3 +-------------------- + + * "gitweb" can sometimes be tricked into parrotting a filename argument + given in a request without properly quoting. 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/1.7.2.5.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.2.5.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..bf976c40db --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.2.5.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Git v1.7.2.5 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.2.4 +-------------------- + + * "gitweb" can sometimes be tricked into parrotting a filename argument + given in a request without properly quoting. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.3.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.3.2.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..5c93b85af4 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.3.2.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Git v1.7.3.2 Release Notes +========================== + +This is primarily to push out many documentation fixes accumulated since +the 1.7.3.1 release. 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/1.7.3.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.3.4.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..e57f7c176d --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.3.4.txt @@ -0,0 +1,45 @@ +Git v1.7.3.4 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.3.3 +-------------------- + + * Smart HTTP transport used to incorrectly retry redirected POST + request with GET request. + + * "git apply" did not correctly handle patches that only change modes + if told to apply while stripping leading paths with -p option. + + * "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 cherry-pick" or "git revert" refused to work when a path that + would be modified by the operation was stat-dirty without a real + difference in the contents of the file. + + * "git diff --check" reported an incorrect line number for added + blank lines at the end of file. + + * "git imap-send" failed to build under NO_OPENSSL. + + * Setting log.decorate configuration variable to "0" or "1" to mean + "false" or "true" did not work. + + * "git push" over dumb HTTP protocol did not work against WebDAV + servers that did not terminate a collection name with a slash. + + * "git tag -v" did not work with GPG signatures in rfc1991 mode. + + * The post-receive-email sample hook was accidentally broken in 1.7.3.3 + update. + + * "gitweb" can sometimes be tricked into parrotting a filename argument + given in a request without properly quoting. + +Other minor fixes and documentation updates are also included. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.3.5.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.3.5.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..40f3ba5795 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.3.5.txt @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +Git 1.7.3.5 Release Notes +========================= + + * The xfuncname pattern used by "git diff" and "git grep" to show the + last notable line in context were broken for python and ruby for a long + time. + + * "git merge" into an unborn branch removed an untracked file "foo" from + the working tree when merged branch had "foo" (this fix was already in + 1.7.3.3 but was omitted from the release notes by mistake). + + * "git status -s" did not quote unprintable characters in paths as + documented. + + * "git am --abort" used to always reset to the commit at the beginning of + the last "am" invocation that has stopped, losing any unrelated commits + that may have been made since then. Now it refrains from doing so and + instead issues a warning. + + * "git blame" incorrectly reused bogusly cached result of textconv + filter for files from the working tree. + + * "git commit" used to abort after the user edited the log message + when the committer information was not correctly set up. It now + aborts before starting the editor. + + * "git commit --date=invalid" used to silently ignore the incorrectly + specified date; it is now diagnosed as an error. + + * "git rebase --skip" to skip the last commit in a series used to fail + to run post-rewrite hook and to copy notes from old commits that have + successfully been rebased so far. Now it do (backmerge ef88ad2). + + * "gitweb" tried to show a wrong feed logo when none was specified. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.4.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.4.1.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..79923a6d2f --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.4.1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +Git v1.7.4.1 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.4 +------------------ + + * On Windows platform, the codepath to spawn a new child process forgot + to first flush the output buffer. + + * "git bundle" did not use OFS_DELTA encoding, making its output a few + per-cent larger than necessarily. + + * The option to tell "git clone" to recurse into the submodules was + misspelled with an underscore "--recurse_submodules". + + * "git diff --cached HEAD" before the first commit does what an end user + would expect (namely, show what would be committed without further "git + add"). + + * "git fast-import" didn't accept the command to ask for "notes" feature + to be present in its input stream, even though it was capable of the + feature. + + * "git fsck" gave up scanning loose object files in directories with + garbage files. + +And other minor fixes and documentation updates. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.4.txt index 05e8a43a3b..d5bca731b5 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.4.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.4.txt @@ -1,22 +1,77 @@ -Git v1.7.4 Release Notes (draft) -================================ +Git v1.7.4 Release Notes +======================== Updates since v1.7.3 -------------------- - * The option parsers of various commands that create new branch (or + * The documentation Makefile now assumes by default asciidoc 8 and + docbook-xsl >= 1.73. If you have older versions, you can set + ASCIIDOC7 and ASCIIDOC_ROFF, respectively. + + * The option parsers of various commands that create new branches (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. + allowed to give a branch a name that begins with a dash by creative + abuse of their command line options, which only led to burning + 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 + /etc/gitattributes; the core.attributesfile configuration variable can be used to customize the path to this file. - * "git diff" and "git grep" learned how functions and subroutines - in Fortran look like. + * 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. + + * The Bash completion script in contrib/ has been adjusted to be usable with + Bash 4 (options with '=value' didn't complete). It has been also made + usable with zsh. + + * Different pagers can be chosen depending on which subcommand is + being run under the pager, using the "pager.<subcommand>" variable. + + * The hardcoded tab-width of 8 that is used in whitespace breakage checks is now + configurable via the attributes mechanism. + + * Support of case insensitive filesystems (i.e. "core.ignorecase") has + been improved. For example, the gitignore mechanism didn't pay attention + to case insensitivity. + + * The <tree>:<path> syntax for naming a blob in a tree, and the :<path> + syntax for naming a blob in the index (e.g. "master:Makefile", + ":hello.c") have been extended. You can start <path> with "./" to + implicitly have the (sub)directory you are in prefixed to the + lookup. Similarly, ":../Makefile" from a subdirectory would mean + "the Makefile of the parent directory in the index". + + * "git blame" learned the --show-email option to display the e-mail + addresses instead of the names of authors. + + * "git commit" learned the --fixup and --squash options to help later invocation + of interactive rebase. + + * Command line options to "git cvsimport" whose names are in capital + letters (-A, -M, -R and -S) can now be specified as the default in + the .git/config file by their longer names (cvsimport.authorsFile, + cvsimport.mergeRegex, cvsimport.trackRevisions, cvsimport.ignorePaths). + + * "git daemon" can be built in the MinGW environment. + + * "git daemon" can take more than one --listen option to listen to + multiple addresses. + + * "git describe --exact-match" was optimized not to read commit + objects unnecessarily. + + * "git diff" and "git grep" learned what functions and subroutines + in Fortran, Pascal and Perl look like. + + * "git fetch" learned the "--recurse-submodules" option. + + * "git mergetool" tells vim/gvim to show a three-way diff by default + (use vimdiff2/gvimdiff2 as the tool name for old behavior). * "git log -G<pattern>" limits the output to commits whose change has added or deleted lines that match the given pattern. @@ -25,30 +80,77 @@ Updates since v1.7.3 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 + e.g. after you changed the core.compression variable setting). + * "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 merge" learned the "--abort" option, synonymous to + "git reset --merge" when a merge is in progress. + + * "git notes" learned the "merge" subcommand to merge notes refs. + In addition to the default manual conflict resolution, there are + also several notes merge strategies for automatically resolving + notes merge conflicts. + + * "git rebase --autosquash" can use SHA-1 object names to name the + commit which is to be fixed up (e.g. "fixup! e83c5163"). + + * The default "recursive" merge strategy learned the --rename-threshold + option to influence the rename detection, similar to the -M option + of "git diff". From the "git merge" frontend, the "-X<strategy option>" + interface, e.g. "git merge -Xrename-threshold=50% ...", can be used + to trigger 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 + the 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 + git-only login over ssh as login shell, with a custom set of commands. + * The current branch name in "git status" output can be colored differently + from the generic header color by setting the "color.status.branch" variable. + + * "git submodule sync" updates metainformation for all submodules, + not just the ones that have been checked out. + + * gitweb can use a custom 'highlight' command with its configuration file. + + * other gitweb updates. + + 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 +All of the fixes in the v1.7.3.X maintenance series are included in this release, unless otherwise noted. * "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 push --progress" shows progress indicators now. + + * "git rebase -i" showed a confusing error message when given a + branch name that does not exist. + + * "git repack" places its temporary packs under $GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY/pack + instead of $GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY/ to avoid cross directory renames. ---- -exec >/var/tmp/1 -O=v1.7.3 -O=v1.7.3.1-42-g34289ec -echo O=$(git describe master) -git shortlog --no-merges ^maint ^$O master + * "git submodule update --recursive --other-flags" passes flags down + to its subinvocations. |