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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.2.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.2.1.txt index ebf20e22a7..d41984df0b 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.2.1.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.2.1.txt @@ -45,9 +45,3 @@ Fixes since v1.5.2 - git-fastimport --import-marks was broken; fixed. - A lot of documentation updates, clarifications and fixes. - --- -exec >/var/tmp/1 -O=v1.5.2-65-g996e2d6 -echo O=`git describe refs/heads/maint` -git shortlog --no-merges $O..refs/heads/maint diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.0.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.0.2.txt index e1e24b3295..7d8fb85e1b 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.0.2.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.0.2.txt @@ -79,9 +79,3 @@ Fixes since v1.6.0.1 packfile. Also contains many documentation updates. - --- -exec >/var/tmp/1 -O=v1.6.0.1-78-g3632cfc -echo O=$(git describe maint) -git shortlog --no-merges $O..maint diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.1.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.1.3.txt index 6f0bde156a..cd08d8174e 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.1.3.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.1.3.txt @@ -26,7 +26,3 @@ Fixes since v1.6.1.2 * RPM binary package installed the html manpages in a wrong place. Also includes minor documentation fixes and updates. - - --- -git shortlog --no-merges v1.6.1.2-33-gc789350.. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.1.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.1.4.txt index 0ce6316d75..ccbad794c0 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.1.4.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.1.4.txt @@ -39,6 +39,3 @@ Fixes since v1.6.1.3 This fix was first merged to 1.6.2.3. Also includes minor documentation fixes and updates. - --- -git shortlog --no-merges v1.6.1.3.. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.1.txt index adb7ccab0a..7b152a6fdc 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.1.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.1.txt @@ -278,9 +278,3 @@ release, unless otherwise noted. * "gitweb" did not mark non-ASCII characters imported from external HTML fragments correctly. - --- -exec >/var/tmp/1 -O=v1.6.1-rc3-74-gf66bc5f -echo O=$(git describe master) -git shortlog --no-merges $O..master ^maint diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.1.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..806a965a1b --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,78 @@ +Git v1.7.10.1 Release Notes +=========================== + +Additions since v1.7.10 +----------------------- + +Localization message files for Danish and German have been added. + + +Fixes since v1.7.10 +------------------- + + * "git add -p" is not designed to deal with unmerged paths but did + not exclude them and tried to apply funny patches only to fail. + + * "git blame" started missing quite a few changes from the origin + since we stopped using the diff minimalization by default in v1.7.2 + era. + + * When PATH contains an unreadable directory, alias expansion code + did not kick in, and failed with an error that said "git-subcmd" + was not found. + + * "git clean -d -f" (not "-d -f -f") is supposed to protect nested + working trees of independent git repositories that exist in the + current project working tree from getting removed, but the + protection applied only to such working trees that are at the + top-level of the current project by mistake. + + * "git commit --author=$name" did not tell the name that was being + recorded in the resulting commit to hooks, even though it does do + so when the end user overrode the authorship via the + "GIT_AUTHOR_NAME" environment variable. + + * When "git commit --template F" errors out because the user did not + touch the message, it claimed that it aborts due to "empty + message", which was utterly wrong. + + * The regexp configured with diff.wordregex was incorrectly reused + across files. + + * An age-old corner case bug in combine diff (only triggered with -U0 + and the hunk at the beginning of the file needs to be shown) has + been fixed. + + * Rename detection logic used to match two empty files as renames + during merge-recursive, leading to unnatural mismerges. + + * The parser in "fast-import" did not diagnose ":9" style references + that is not followed by required SP/LF as an error. + + * When "git fetch" encounters repositories with too many references, + the command line of "fetch-pack" that is run by a helper + e.g. remote-curl, may fail to hold all of them. Now such an + internal invocation can feed the references through the standard + input of "fetch-pack". + + * "git fetch" that recurses into submodules on demand did not check + if it needs to go into submodules when non branches (most notably, + tags) are fetched. + + * "log -p --graph" used with "--stat" had a few formatting error. + + * Running "notes merge --commit" failed to perform correctly when run + from any directory inside $GIT_DIR/. When "notes merge" stops with + conflicts, $GIT_DIR/NOTES_MERGE_WORKTREE is the place a user edits + to resolve it. + + * The 'push to upstream' implementation was broken in some corner + cases. "git push $there" without refspec, when the current branch + is set to push to a remote different from $there, used to push to + $there using the upstream information to a remote unreleated to + $there. + + * Giving "--continue" to a conflicted "rebase -i" session skipped a + commit that only results in changes to submodules. + +Also contains minor fixes and documentation updates. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.2.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..7a7e9d6fd1 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.2.txt @@ -0,0 +1,85 @@ +Git v1.7.10.2 Release Notes +=========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.10.1 +--------------------- + + * The test scaffolding for git-daemon was flaky. + + * The test scaffolding for fast-import was flaky. + + * The filesystem boundary was not correctly reported when .git directory + discovery stopped at a mount point. + + * HTTP transport that requires authentication did not work correctly when + multiple connections are used simultaneously. + + * Minor memory leak during unpack_trees (hence "merge" and "checkout" + to check out another branch) has been plugged. + + * In the older days, the header "Conflicts:" in "cherry-pick" and "merge" + was separated by a blank line from the list of paths that follow for + readability, but when "merge" was rewritten in C, we lost it by + mistake. Remove the newline from "cherry-pick" to make them match + again. + + * The command line parser choked "git cherry-pick $name" when $name can + be both revision name and a pathname, even though $name can never be a + path in the context of the command. + + * The "include.path" facility in the configuration mechanism added in + 1.7.10 forgot to interpret "~/path" and "~user/path" as it should. + + * "git config --rename-section" to rename an existing section into a + bogus one did not check the new name. + + * The "diff --no-index" codepath used limited-length buffers, risking + pathnames getting truncated. Update it to use the strbuf API. + + * The report from "git fetch" said "new branch" even for a non branch + ref. + + * The http-backend (the server side of the smart http transfer) used + to overwrite GIT_COMMITTER_NAME and GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL with the + value obtained from REMOTE_USER unconditionally, making it + impossible for the server side site-specific customization to use + different identity sources to affect the names logged. It now uses + REMOTE_USER only as a fallback value. + + * "log --graph" was not very friendly with "--stat" option and its + output had line breaks at wrong places. + + * Octopus merge strategy did not reduce heads that are recorded in the + final commit correctly. + + * "git push" over smart-http lost progress output a few releases ago; + this release resurrects it. + + * The error and advice messages given by "git push" when it fails due + to non-ff were not very helpful to new users; it has been broken + into three cases, and each is given a separate advice message. + + * The insn sheet given by "rebase -i" did not make it clear that the + insn lines can be re-ordered to affect the order of the commits in + the resulting history. + + * "git repack" used to write out unreachable objects as loose objects + when repacking, even if such loose objects will immediately pruned + due to its age. + + * A contrib script "rerere-train" did not work out of the box unless + user futzed with her $PATH. + + * "git rev-parse --show-prefix" used to emit nothing when run at the + top-level of the working tree, but now it gives a blank line. + + * The i18n of error message "git stash save" was not properly done. + + * "git submodule" used a sed script that some platforms mishandled. + + * When using a Perl script on a system where "perl" found on user's + $PATH could be ancient or otherwise broken, we allow builders to + specify the path to a good copy of Perl with $PERL_PATH. The + gitweb test forgot to use that Perl when running its test. + +Also contains minor fixes and documentation updates. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.3.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..703fbf1d60 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.3.txt @@ -0,0 +1,43 @@ +Git v1.7.10.3 Release Notes +=========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.10.2 +--------------------- + + * The message file for German translation has been updated a bit. + + * Running "git checkout" on an unborn branch used to corrupt HEAD. + + * When checking out another commit from an already detached state, we + used to report all commits that are not reachable from any of the + refs as lossage, but some of them might be reachable from the new + HEAD, and there is no need to warn about them. + + * Some time ago, "git clone" lost the progress output for its + "checkout" phase; when run without any "--quiet" option, it should + give progress to the lengthy operation. + + * The directory path used in "git diff --no-index", when it recurses + down, was broken with a recent update after v1.7.10.1 release. + + * "log -z --pretty=tformat:..." did not terminate each record with + NUL. The fix is not entirely correct when the output also asks for + --patch and/or --stat, though. + + * The DWIM behaviour for "log --pretty=format:%gd -g" was somewhat + broken and gave undue precedence to configured log.date, causing + "git stash list" to show "stash@{time stamp string}". + + * "git status --porcelain" ignored "--branch" option by mistake. The + output for "git status --branch -z" was also incorrect and did not + terminate the record for the current branch name with NUL as asked. + + * When a submodule repository uses alternate object store mechanism, + some commands that were started from the superproject did not + notice it and failed with "No such object" errors. The subcommands + of "git submodule" command that recursed into the submodule in a + separate process were OK; only the ones that cheated and peeked + directly into the submodule's repository from the primary process + were affected. + +Also contains minor fixes and documentation updates. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.4.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..326670df6e --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.4.txt @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +Git v1.7.10.4 Release Notes +=========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.10.3 +--------------------- + + * The message file for Swedish translation has been updated a bit. + + * A name taken from mailmap was copied into an internal buffer + incorrectly and could overun the buffer if it is too long. + + * A malformed commit object that has a header line chomped in the + middle could kill git with a NULL pointer dereference. + + * An author/committer name that is a single character was mishandled + as an invalid name by mistake. + + * The progress indicator for a large "git checkout" was sent to + stderr even if it is not a terminal. + + * "git grep -e '$pattern'", unlike the case where the patterns are + read from a file, did not treat individual lines in the given + pattern argument as separate regular expressions as it should. + + * When "git rebase" was given a bad commit to replay the history on, + its error message did not correctly give the command line argument + it had trouble parsing. + +Also contains minor fixes and documentation updates. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.5.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.5.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..4db1770e38 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.5.txt @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +Git v1.7.10.5 Release Notes +=========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.10.4 +--------------------- + + * "git fast-export" did not give a readable error message when the + same mark erroneously appeared twice in the --import-marks input. + + * "git rebase -p" used to pay attention to rebase.autosquash which + was wrong. "git rebase -p -i" should, but "git rebase -p" by + itself should not. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..58100bf04e --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.txt @@ -0,0 +1,219 @@ +Git v1.7.10 Release Notes +========================= + +Compatibility Notes +------------------- + + * From this release on, the "git merge" command in an interactive + session will start an editor when it automatically resolves the + merge for the user to explain the resulting commit, just like the + "git commit" command does when it wasn't given a commit message. + + If you have a script that runs "git merge" and keeps its standard + input and output attached to the user's terminal, and if you do not + want the user to explain the resulting merge commits, you can + export GIT_MERGE_AUTOEDIT environment variable set to "no", like + this: + + #!/bin/sh + GIT_MERGE_AUTOEDIT=no + export GIT_MERGE_AUTOEDIT + + to disable this behavior (if you want your users to explain their + merge commits, you do not have to do anything). Alternatively, you + can give the "--no-edit" option to individual invocations of the + "git merge" command if you know everybody who uses your script has + Git v1.7.8 or newer. + + * The "--binary/-b" options to "git am" have been a no-op for quite a + while and were deprecated in mid 2008 (v1.6.0). When you give these + options to "git am", it will now warn and ask you not to use them. + + * When you do not tell which branches and tags to push to the "git + push" command in any way, the command used "matching refs" rule to + update remote branches and tags with branches and tags with the + same name you locally have. In future versions of Git, this will + change to push out only your current branch according to either the + "upstream" or the "current" rule. Although "upstream" may be more + powerful once the user understands Git better, the semantics + "current" gives is simpler and easier to understand for beginners + and may be a safer and better default option. We haven't decided + yet which one to switch to. + + +Updates since v1.7.9 +-------------------- + +UI, Workflows & Features + + * various "gitk" updates. + - show the path to the top level directory in the window title + - update preference edit dialog + - display file list correctly when directories are given on command line + - make "git-describe" output in the log message into a clickable link + - avoid matching the UNIX timestamp part when searching all fields + - give preference to symbolic font names like sans & monospace + - allow comparing two commits using a mark + - "gitk" honors log.showroot configuration. + + * Teams for localizing the messages from the Porcelain layer of + commands are starting to form, thanks to Jiang Xin who volunteered + to be the localization coordinator. Translated messages for + simplified Chinese, Swedish and Portuguese are available. + + * The configuration mechanism learned an "include" facility; an + assignment to the include.path pseudo-variable causes the named + file to be included in-place when Git looks up configuration + variables. + + * A content filter (clean/smudge) used to be just a way to make the + recorded contents "more useful", and allowed to fail; a filter can + now optionally be marked as "required". + + * Options whose names begin with "--no-" (e.g. the "--no-verify" + option of the "git commit" command) can be negated by omitting + "no-" from its name, e.g. "git commit --verify". + + * "git am" learned to pass "-b" option to underlying "git mailinfo", so + that a bracketed string other than "PATCH" at the beginning can be kept. + + * "git clone" learned "--single-branch" option to limit cloning to a + single branch (surprise!); tags that do not point into the history + of the branch are not fetched. + + * "git clone" learned to detach the HEAD in the resulting repository + when the user specifies a tag with "--branch" (e.g., "--branch=v1.0"). + Clone also learned to print the usual "detached HEAD" advice in such + a case, similar to "git checkout v1.0". + + * When showing a patch while ignoring whitespace changes, the context + lines are taken from the postimage, in order to make it easier to + view the output. + + * "git diff --stat" learned to adjust the width of the output on + wider terminals, and give more columns to pathnames as needed. + + * "diff-highlight" filter (in contrib/) was updated to produce more + aesthetically pleasing output. + + * "fsck" learned "--no-dangling" option to omit dangling object + information. + + * "git log -G" and "git log -S" learned to pay attention to the "-i" + option. With "-i", "log -G" ignores the case when finding patch + hunks that introduce or remove a string that matches the given + pattern. Similarly with "-i", "log -S" ignores the case when + finding the commit the given block of text appears or disappears + from the file. + + * "git merge" in an interactive session learned to spawn the editor + by default to let the user edit the auto-generated merge message, + to encourage people to explain their merges better. Legacy scripts + can export GIT_MERGE_AUTOEDIT=no to retain the historical behavior. + Both "git merge" and "git pull" can be given --no-edit from the + command line to accept the auto-generated merge message. + + * The advice message given when the user didn't give enough clue on + what to merge to "git pull" and "git merge" has been updated to + be more concise and easier to understand. + + * "git push" learned the "--prune" option, similar to "git fetch". + + * The whole directory that houses a top-level superproject managed by + "git submodule" can be moved to another place. + + * "git symbolic-ref" learned the "--short" option to abbreviate the + refname it shows unambiguously. + + * "git tag --list" can be given "--points-at <object>" to limit its + output to those that point at the given object. + + * "gitweb" allows intermediate entries in the directory hierarchy + that leads to a project to be clicked, which in turn shows the + list of projects inside that directory. + + * "gitweb" learned to read various pieces of information for the + repositories lazily, instead of reading everything that could be + needed (including the ones that are not necessary for a specific + task). + + * Project search in "gitweb" shows the substring that matched in the + project name and description highlighted. + + * HTTP transport learned to authenticate with a proxy if needed. + + * A new script "diffall" is added to contrib/; it drives an + external tool to perform a directory diff of two Git revisions + in one go, unlike "difftool" that compares one file at a time. + +Foreign Interface + + * Improved handling of views, labels and branches in "git-p4" (in contrib). + + * "git-p4" (in contrib) suffered from unnecessary merge conflicts when + p4 expanded the embedded $RCS$-like keywords; it can be now told to + unexpand them. + + * Some "git-svn" updates. + + * "vcs-svn"/"svn-fe" learned to read dumps with svn-deltas and + support incremental imports. + + * "git difftool/mergetool" learned to drive DeltaWalker. + +Performance + + * Unnecessary calls to parse_object() "git upload-pack" makes in + response to "git fetch", have been eliminated, to help performance + in repositories with excessive number of refs. + +Internal Implementation (please report possible regressions) + + * Recursive call chains in "git index-pack" to deal with long delta + chains have been flattened, to reduce the stack footprint. + + * Use of add_extra_ref() API is now gone, to make it possible to + cleanly restructure the overall refs API. + + * The command line parser of "git pack-objects" now uses parse-options + API. + + * The test suite supports the new "test_pause" helper function. + + * Parallel to the test suite, there is a beginning of performance + benchmarking framework. + + * t/Makefile is adjusted to prevent newer versions of GNU make from + running tests in seemingly random order. + + * The code to check if a path points at a file beyond a symbolic link + has been restructured to be thread-safe. + + * When pruning directories that has become empty during "git prune" + and "git prune-packed", call closedir() that iterates over a + directory before rmdir() it. + +Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups. + + +Fixes since v1.7.9 +------------------ + +Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.7.9 in the maintenance +releases are contained in this release (see release notes to them for +details). + + * Build with NO_PERL_MAKEMAKER was broken and Git::I18N did not work + with versions of Perl older than 5.8.3. + (merge 5eb660e ab/perl-i18n later to maint). + + * "git tag -s" honored "gpg.program" configuration variable since + 1.7.9, but "git tag -v" and "git verify-tag" didn't. + (merge a2c2506 az/verify-tag-use-gpg-config later to maint). + + * "configure" script learned to take "--with-sane-tool-path" from the + command line to record SANE_TOOL_PATH (used to avoid broken platform + tools in /usr/bin) in config.mak.autogen. This may be useful for + people on Solaris who have saner tools outside /usr/xpg[46]/bin. + + * zsh port of bash completion script needed another workaround. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.1.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..577eccaacd --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +Git v1.7.11.1 Release Notes +=========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.11 +------------------- + + * The cross links in the HTML version of manual pages were broken. + +Also contains minor typofixes and documentation updates. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.2.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..a0d24d1270 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.2.txt @@ -0,0 +1,53 @@ +Git v1.7.11.2 Release Notes +=========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.11.1 +--------------------- + + * On Cygwin, the platform pread(2) is not thread safe, just like our + own compat/ emulation, and cannot be used in the index-pack + program. Makefile variable NO_THREAD_SAFE_PREAD can be defined to + avoid use of this function in a threaded program. + + * "git add" allows adding a regular file to the path where a + submodule used to exist, but "git update-index" does not allow an + equivalent operation to Porcelain writers. + + * "git archive" incorrectly computed the header checksum; the symptom + was observed only when using pathnames with hi-bit set. + + * "git blame" did not try to make sure that the abbreviated commit + object names in its output are unique. + + * Running "git bundle verify" on a bundle that records a complete + history said "it requires these 0 commits". + + * "git clone --single-branch" to clone a single branch did not limit + the cloning to the specified branch. + + * "git diff --no-index" did not correctly handle relative paths and + did not correctly give exit codes when run under "--quiet" option. + + * "git diff --no-index" did not work with pagers correctly. + + * "git diff COPYING HEAD:COPYING" gave a nonsense error message that + claimed that the treeish HEAD did not have COPYING in it. + + * When "git log" gets "--simplify-merges/by-decoration" together with + "--first-parent", the combination of these options makes the + simplification logic to use in-core commit objects that haven't + been examined for relevance, either producing incorrect result or + taking too long to produce any output. Teach the simplification + logic to ignore commits that the first-parent traversal logic + ignored when both are in effect to work around the issue. + + * "git ls-files --exclude=t -i" did not consider anything under t/ as + excluded, as it did not pay attention to exclusion of leading paths + while walking the index. Other two users of excluded() are also + updated. + + * "git request-pull $url dev" when the tip of "dev" branch was tagged + with "ext4-for-linus" used the contents from the tag in the output + but still asked the "dev" branch to be pulled, not the tag. + +Also contains minor typofixes and documentation updates. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.3.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..64494f89d9 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.3.txt @@ -0,0 +1,53 @@ +Git v1.7.11.3 Release Notes +=========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.11.3 +--------------------- + + * The error message from "git push $there :bogo" (and its equivalent + "git push $there --delete bogo") mentioned that we tried and failed + to guess what ref is being deleted based on the LHS of the refspec, + which we don't. + + * A handful of files and directories we create had tighter than + necessary permission bits when the user wanted to have group + writability (e.g. by setting "umask 002"). + + * "commit --amend" used to refuse amending a commit with an empty log + message, with or without "--allow-empty-message". + + * "git commit --amend --only --" was meant to allow "Clever" people to + rewrite the commit message without making any change even when they + have already changes for the next commit added to their index, but + it never worked as advertised since it was introduced in 1.3.0 era. + + * Even though the index can record pathnames longer than 1<<12 bytes, + in some places we were not comparing them in full, potentially + replacing index entries instead of adding. + + * "git show"'s auto-walking behaviour was an unreliable and + unpredictable hack; it now behaves just like "git log" does when it + walks. + + * "git diff", "git status" and anything that internally uses the + comparison machinery was utterly broken when the difference + involved a file with "-" as its name. This was due to the way "git + diff --no-index" was incorrectly bolted on to the system, making + any comparison that involves a file "-" at the root level + incorrectly read from the standard input. + + * We did not have test to make sure "git rebase" without extra options + filters out an empty commit in the original history. + + * "git fast-export" produced an input stream for fast-import without + properly quoting pathnames when they contain SPs in them. + + * "git checkout --detach", when you are still on an unborn branch, + should be forbidden, but it wasn't. + + * Some implementations of Perl terminates "lines" with CRLF even when + the script is operating on just a sequence of bytes. Make sure to + use "$PERL_PATH", the version of Perl the user told Git to use, in + our tests to avoid unnecessary breakages in tests. + +Also contains minor typofixes and documentation updates. 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..ba7d3c3966 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.6.txt @@ -0,0 +1,84 @@ +Git v1.7.11.6 Release Notes +=========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.11.5 +--------------------- + + * "ciabot" script (in contrib/) has been updated with extensive + documentation. + + * "git foo" errored out with "Not a directory" when the user had a + non-directory on $PATH, and worse yet it masked an alias "foo" from + running. + + * When the user exports a non-default IFS without HT, scripts that + rely on being able to parse "ls-files -s | while read a b c..." + started to fail. Protect them from such a misconfiguration. + + * 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. + + * Documentation for the configuration file format had a confusing + example. + + * 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. + + * 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. + + * "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). + + * The exit status code from "git config" was way overspecified while + being incorrect. The implementation has been updated to give the + documented status for a case that was documented, and introduce a + new code for "all other errors". + + * 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 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. + + * The "--rebase" option to "git pull" can be abbreviated to "-r", + but we didn't document it. + + * 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. + + * The reflog entries left by "git rebase" and "git rebase -i" were + inconsistent (the interactive one gave an abbreviated object name). + + * "git send-email" did not unquote encoded words that appear on the + header correctly, and lost "_" from strings. + + * "git stash apply/pop" did not trigger "rerere" upon conflicts + unlike other mergy operations. + + * "git submodule <cmd> path" did not error out when the path to the + submodule was misspelt. + + * "git submodule update -f" did not update paths in the working tree + that has local changes. + (merge 01d4721 sz/submodule-force-update 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. + + * Fallback 'getpass' implementation made unportable use of stdio API. + + * A utility shell function test_seq has been added as a replacement + for the 'seq' utility found on some platforms. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.7.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.7.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..e7e79d999b --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.7.txt @@ -0,0 +1,46 @@ +Git v1.7.11.7 Release Notes +=========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.11.6 +--------------------- + + * The synopsis said "checkout [-B branch]" to make it clear the + branch name is a parameter to the option, but the heading for the + option description was "-B::", not "-B branch::", making the + documentation misleading. + + * Git ships with a fall-back regexp implementation for platforms with + buggy regexp library, but it was easy for people to keep using their + platform regexp. A new test has been added to check this. + + * "git apply -p0" did not parse pathnames on "diff --git" line + correctly. This caused patches that had pathnames in no other + places to be mistakenly rejected (most notably, binary patch that + does not rename nor change mode). Textual patches, renames or mode + changes have preimage and postimage pathnames in different places + in a form that can be parsed unambiguously and did not suffer from + this problem. + + * After "gitk" showed the contents of a tag, neither "Reread + references" nor "Reload" did not update what is shown as the + contents of it, when the user overwrote the tag with "git tag -f". + + * "git for-each-ref" did not currectly support more than one --sort + option. + + * "git log .." errored out saying it is both rev range and a path + when there is no disambiguating "--" is on the command line. + Update the command line parser to interpret ".." as a path in such + a case. + + * Pushing to smart HTTP server with recent Git fails without having + the username in the URL to force authentication, if the server is + configured to allow GET anonymously, while requiring authentication + for POST. + + * "git show --format='%ci'" did not give timestamp correctly for + commits created without human readable name on "committer" line. + (merge e27ddb6 jc/maint-ident-missing-human-name later to maint). + + * "git show --quiet" ought to be a synonym for "git show -s", but + wasn't. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..15b954ca4b --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.txt @@ -0,0 +1,139 @@ +Git v1.7.11 Release Notes +========================= + +Updates since v1.7.10 +--------------------- + +UI, Workflows & Features + + * A new mode for push, "simple", which is a cross between "current" + and "upstream", has been introduced. "git push" without any refspec + will push the current branch out to the same name at the remote + repository only when it is set to track the branch with the same + name over there. The plan is to make this mode the new default + value when push.default is not configured. + + * A couple of commands learned the "--column" option to produce + columnar output. + + * A third-party tool "git subtree" is distributed in contrib/ + + * A remote helper that acts as a proxy and caches ssl session for the + https:// transport is added to the contrib/ area. + + * Error messages given when @{u} is used for a branch without its + upstream configured have been clarified. + + * Even with the "-q"uiet option, "checkout" used to report setting up + tracking. Also "branch" learned the "-q"uiet option to squelch + informational message. + + * Your build platform may support hardlinks but you may prefer not to + use them, e.g. when installing to DESTDIR to make a tarball and + untarring on a filesystem that has poor support for hardlinks. + There is a Makefile option NO_INSTALL_HARDLINKS for you. + + * The smart-http backend used to always override GIT_COMMITTER_* + variables with REMOTE_USER and REMOTE_ADDR, but these variables are + now preserved when set. + + * "git am" learned the "--include" option, which is an opposite of + existing the "--exclude" option. + + * When "git am -3" needs to fall back to an application of the patch + to a synthesized preimage followed by a 3-way merge, the paths that + needed such treatment are now reported to the end user, so that the + result in them can be eyeballed with extra care. + + * The output from "diff/log --stat" used to always allocate 4 columns + to show the number of modified lines, but not anymore. + + * "git difftool" learned the "--dir-diff" option to spawn external + diff tools that can compare two directory hierarchies at a time + after populating two temporary directories, instead of running an + instance of the external tool once per a file pair. + + * The "fmt-merge-msg" command learned to list the primary contributors + involved in the side topic you are merging in a comment in the merge + commit template. + + * "git rebase" learned to optionally keep commits that do not + introduce any change in the original history. + + * "git push --recurse-submodules" learned to optionally look into the + histories of submodules bound to the superproject and push them + out. + + * A 'snapshot' request to "gitweb" honors If-Modified-Since: header, + based on the commit date. + + * "gitweb" learned to highlight the patch it outputs even more. + +Foreign Interface + + * "git svn" used to die with unwanted SIGPIPE when talking with an HTTP + server that uses keep-alive. + + * "git svn" learned to use platform specific authentication + providers, e.g. gnome-keyring, kwallet, etc. + + * "git p4" has been moved out of the contrib/ area and has seen more + work on importing labels as tags from (and exporting tags as labels + to) p4. + +Performance and Internal Implementation (please report possible regressions) + + * Bash completion script (in contrib/) have been cleaned up to make + future work on it simpler. + + * An experimental "version 4" format of the index file has been + introduced to reduce on-disk footprint and I/O overhead. + + * "git archive" learned to produce its output without reading the + blob object it writes out in memory in its entirety. + + * "git index-pack" that runs when fetching or pushing objects to + complete the packfile on the receiving end learned to use multiple + threads to do its job when available. + + * The code to compute hash values for lines used by the internal diff + engine was optimized on little-endian machines, using the same + trick the kernel folks came up with. + + * "git apply" had some memory leaks plugged. + + * Setting up a revision traversal with many starting points was + inefficient as these were placed in a date-order priority queue + one-by-one. Now they are collected in the queue unordered first, + and sorted immediately before getting used. + + * More lower-level commands learned to use the streaming API to read + from the object store without keeping everything in core. + + * The weighting parameters to suggestion command name typo have been + tweaked, so that "git tags" will suggest "tag?" and not "stage?". + + * Because "sh" on the user's PATH may be utterly broken on some + systems, run-command API now uses SHELL_PATH, not /bin/sh, when + spawning an external command (not applicable to Windows port). + + * The API to iterate over the refs/ hierarchy has been tweaked to + allow walking only a subset of it more efficiently. + +Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups. + + +Fixes since v1.7.10 +------------------- + +Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.7.10 in the maintenance +releases are contained in this release (see release notes to them for +details). + + * "git submodule init" used to report "registered for path ..." + even for submodules that were registered earlier. + (cherry-pick c1c259e jl/submodule-report-new-path-once later to maint). + + * "git diff --stat" used to fully count a binary file with modified + execution bits whose contents is unmodified, which was not quite + right. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.1.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..b8f04af19f --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,134 @@ +Git 1.7.12.1 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.12 +------------------- + + * "git apply -p0" did not parse pathnames on "diff --git" line + correctly. This caused patches that had pathnames in no other + places to be mistakenly rejected (most notably, binary patch that + does not rename nor change mode). Textual patches, renames or mode + changes have preimage and postimage pathnames in different places + in a form that can be parsed unambiguously and did not suffer from + this problem. + + * "git cherry-pick A C B" used to replay changes in A and then B and + then C if these three commits had committer timestamps in that + order, which is not what the user who said "A C B" naturally + expects. + + * "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). + + * Some capabilities were asked by fetch-pack even when upload-pack + did not advertise that they are available. fetch-pack has been + fixed not to do so. + + * "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. + + * "git for-each-ref" did not correctly support more than one --sort + option. + + * "git log .." errored out saying it is both rev range and a path + when there is no disambiguating "--" is on the command line. + Update the command line parser to interpret ".." as a path in such + a case. + + * 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. + + * "git prune" without "-v" used to warn about leftover temporary + files (which is an indication of an earlier aborted operation). + + * Pushing to smart HTTP server with recent Git fails without having + the username in the URL to force authentication, if the server is + configured to allow GET anonymously, while requiring authentication + for POST. + + * The reflog entries left by "git rebase" and "git rebase -i" were + inconsistent (the interactive one gave an abbreviated object name). + + * 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. + + * "git show --quiet" ought to be a synonym for "git show -s", but + wasn't. + + * "git show --format='%ci'" did not give timestamp correctly for + commits created without human readable name on "committer" line. + + * "git send-email" did not unquote encoded words that appear on the + header correctly, and lost "_" from strings. + + * The interactive prompt "git send-email" gives was error prone. It + asked "What e-mail address do you want to use?" with the address it + guessed (correctly) the user would want to use in its prompt, + tempting the user to say "y". But the response was taken as "No, + please use 'y' as the e-mail address instead", which is most + certainly not what the user meant. + + * "gitweb" when used with PATH_INFO failed to notice directories with + SP (and other characters that need URL-style quoting) in them. + + * 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. + + * When the user exports a non-default IFS without HT, scripts that + rely on being able to parse "ls-files -s | while read a b c..." + started to fail. Protect them from such a misconfiguration. + + * The attribute system may be asked for a path that itself or its + leading directories no longer exists in the working tree, and it is + fine if we cannot open .gitattribute file in such a case. Failure + to open per-directory .gitattributes with error status other than + ENOENT and ENOTDIR should be diagnosed, but it wasn't. + + * After "gitk" showed the contents of a tag, neither "Reread + references" nor "Reload" did not update what is shown as the + contents of it, when the user overwrote the tag with "git tag -f". + + * "ciabot" script (in contrib/) has been updated with extensive + documentation. + + * "git-jump" script (in contrib/) did not work well when + diff.noprefix or diff.mnemonicprefix is in effect. + + * 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. + + * Compatibility wrapper to learn the maximum number of file + descriptors we can open around sysconf(_SC_OPEN_MAX) and + getrlimit(RLIMIT_NO_FILE) has been introduced for portability. + + * We used curl_easy_strerror() without checking version of cURL, + breaking the build for versions before curl 7.12.0. + + * Code to work around MacOS X UTF-8 gotcha has been cleaned up. + + * Fallback 'getpass' implementation made unportable use of stdio API. + + * 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 synopsis said "checkout [-B branch]" to make it clear the + branch name is a parameter to the option, but the heading for the + option description was "-B::", not "-B branch::", making the + documentation misleading. + +Also contains numerous documentation updates. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.2.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..69255745e6 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.2.txt @@ -0,0 +1,40 @@ +Git 1.7.12.2 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.12.1 +--------------------- + + * When "git am" is fed an input that has multiple "Content-type: ..." + header, it did not grok charset= attribute correctly. + + * Even during a conflicted merge, "git blame $path" always meant to + blame uncommitted changes to the "working tree" version; make it + more useful by showing cleanly merged parts as coming from the other + branch that is being merged. + + * "git blame MAKEFILE" run in a history that has "Makefile" but not + "MAKEFILE" should say "No such file MAKEFILE in HEAD", but got + confused on a case insensitive filesystem and failed to do so. + + * "git fetch --all", when passed "--no-tags", did not honor the + "--no-tags" option while fetching from individual remotes (the same + issue existed with "--tags", but combination "--all --tags" makes + much less sense than "--all --no-tags"). + + * "git log/diff/format-patch --stat" showed the "N line(s) added" + comment in user's locale and caused careless submitters to send + patches with such a line in them to projects whose project language + is not their language, mildly irritating others. Localization to + the line has been disabled for now. + + * "git log --all-match --grep=A --grep=B" ought to show commits that + mention both A and B, but when these three options are used with + --author or --committer, it showed commits that mention either A or + B (or both) instead. + + * The subcommand to remove the definition of a remote in "git remote" + was named "rm" even though all other subcommands were spelled out. + Introduce "git remote remove" to remove confusion, and keep "rm" as + a backward compatible synonym. + +Also contains a handful of documentation updates. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.3.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..ecda427a35 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.3.txt @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +Git 1.7.12.3 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.12.2 +--------------------- + + * "git am" mishandled a patch attached as application/octet-stream + (e.g. not text/*); Content-Transfer-Encoding (e.g. base64) was not + honored correctly. + + * It was unclear in the documentation for "git blame" that it is + unnecessary for users to use the "--follow" option. + + * A repository created with "git clone --single" had its fetch + refspecs set up just like a clone without "--single", leading the + subsequent "git fetch" to slurp all the other branches, defeating + the whole point of specifying "only this branch". + + * "git fetch" over http had an old workaround for an unlikely server + misconfiguration; it turns out that this hurts debuggability of the + configuration in general, and has been reverted. + + * "git fetch" over http advertised that it supports "deflate", which + is much less common, and did not advertise the more common "gzip" on + its Accept-Encoding header. + + * "git receive-pack" (the counterpart to "git push") did not give + progress output while processing objects it received to the puser + when run over the smart-http protocol. + + * "git status" honored the ignore=dirty settings in .gitmodules but + "git commit" didn't. + +Also contains a handful of documentation updates. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.4.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..c6da3cc939 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.4.txt @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +Git 1.7.12.4 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.12.3 +--------------------- + + * "git fetch" over the dumb-http revision walker could segfault when + curl's multi interface was used. + + * It was possible to give specific paths for "asciidoc" and other + tools in the documentation toolchain, but not for "xmlto". + + * "gitweb" did not give the correct committer timezone in its feed + output due to a typo. + + * The "-Xours" (and similarly -Xtheirs) backend option to "git + merge -s recursive" was ignored for binary files. Now it is + honored. + + * The "binary" synthetic attribute made "diff" to treat the path as + binary, but not "merge". + +Also contains many documentation updates. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..010d8c7de4 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.txt @@ -0,0 +1,136 @@ +Git v1.7.12 Release Notes +========================= + +Updates since v1.7.11 +--------------------- + +UI, Workflows & Features + + * Git can be told to normalize pathnames it read from readdir(3) and + all arguments it got from the command line into precomposed UTF-8 + (assuming that they come as decomposed UTF-8), in order to work + around issues on Mac OS. + + I think there still are other places that need conversion + (e.g. paths that are read from stdin for some commands), but this + should be a good first step in the right direction. + + * Per-user $HOME/.gitconfig file can optionally be stored in + $HOME/.config/git/config instead, which is in line with XDG. + + * The value of core.attributesfile and core.excludesfile default to + $HOME/.config/git/attributes and $HOME/.config/git/ignore respectively + when these files exist. + + * Logic to disambiguate abbreviated object names have been taught to + take advantage of object types that are expected in the context, + e.g. XXXXXX in the "git describe" output v1.2.3-gXXXXXX must be a + commit object, not a blob nor a tree. This will help us prolong + the lifetime of abbreviated object names. + + * "git apply" learned to wiggle the base version and perform three-way + merge when a patch does not exactly apply to the version you have. + + * Scripted Porcelain writers now have access to the credential API via + the "git credential" plumbing command. + + * "git help" used to always default to "man" format even on platforms + where "man" viewer is not widely available. + + * "git clone --local $path" started its life as an experiment to + optionally use link/copy when cloning a repository on the disk, but + we didn't deprecate it after we made the option a no-op to always + use the optimization. The command learned "--no-local" option to + turn this off, as a more explicit alternative over use of file:// + URL. + + * "git fetch" and friends used to say "remote side hung up + unexpectedly" when they failed to get response they expect from the + other side, but one common reason why they don't get expected + response is that the remote repository does not exist or cannot be + read. The error message in this case was updated to give better + hints to the user. + + * "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; + the variable can even point at a http:// URL. + + * "git rebase [-i] --root $tip" can now be used to rewrite all the + history leading to "$tip" down to the root commit. + + * "git rebase -i" learned "-x <cmd>" to insert "exec <cmd>" after + each commit in the resulting history. + + * "git status" gives finer classification to various states of paths + in conflicted state and offer advice messages in its output. + + * "git submodule" learned to deal with nested submodule structure + where a module is contained within a module whose origin is + specified as a relative URL to its superproject's origin. + + * A rather heavy-ish "git completion" script has been split to create + a separate "git prompting" script, to help lazy-autoloading of the + completion part while making prompting part always available. + + * "gitweb" pays attention to various forms of credits that are + similar to "Signed-off-by:" lines in the commit objects and + highlights them accordingly. + + +Foreign Interface + + * "mediawiki" remote helper (in contrib/) learned to handle file + attachments. + + * "git p4" now uses "Jobs:" and "p4 move" when appropriate. + + * vcs-svn has been updated to clean-up compilation, lift 32-bit + limitations, etc. + + +Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. (please report possible regressions) + + * Some tests showed false failures caused by a bug in ecryptofs. + + * We no longer use AsciiDoc7 syntax in our documentation and favor a + more modern style. + + * "git am --rebasing" codepath was taught to grab authorship, log + message and the patch text directly out of existing commits. This + will help rebasing commits that have confusing "diff" output in + their log messages. + + * "git index-pack" and "git pack-objects" use streaming API to read + from the object store to avoid having to hold a large blob object + in-core while they are doing their thing. + + * Code to match paths with exclude patterns learned to avoid calling + fnmatch() by comparing fixed leading substring literally when + possible. + + * "git log -n 1 -- rarely-touched-path" was spending unnecessary + 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. + + +Fixes since v1.7.11 +------------------- + +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 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). diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.1.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..ac9b838e25 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,60 @@ +Git v1.7.7.1 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.7 +------------------ + + * On some BSD systems, adding +s bit on directories is detrimental + (it is not necessary on BSD to begin with). "git init --shared" + has been updated to take this into account without extra makefile + settings on platforms the Makefile knows about. + + * After incorrectly written third-party tools store a tag object in + HEAD, git diagnosed it as a repository corruption and refused to + proceed in order to avoid spreading the damage. We now gracefully + recover from such a situation by pretending as if the commit that + is pointed at by the tag were in HEAD. + + * "git apply --whitespace=error" did not bother to report the exact + line number in the patch that introduced new blank lines at the end + of the file. + + * "git apply --index" did not check corrupted patch. + + * "git checkout $tree $directory/" resurrected paths locally removed or + modified only in the working tree in $directory/ that did not appear + in $directory of the given $tree. They should have been kept intact. + + * "git diff $tree $path" used to apply the pathspec at the output stage, + reading the whole tree, wasting resources. + + * The code to check for updated submodules during a "git fetch" of the + superproject had an unnecessary quadratic loop. + + * "git fetch" from a large bundle did not enable the progress output. + + * When "git fsck --lost-and-found" found that an empty blob object in the + object store is unreachable, it incorrectly reported an error after + writing the lost blob out successfully. + + * "git filter-branch" did not refresh the index before checking that the + working tree was clean. + + * "git grep $tree" when run with multiple threads had an unsafe access to + the object database that should have been protected with mutex. + + * The "--ancestry-path" option to "git log" and friends misbehaved in a + history with complex criss-cross merges and showed an uninteresting + side history as well. + + * Test t1304 assumed LOGNAME is always set, which may not be true on + some systems. + + * Tests with --valgrind failed to find "mergetool" scriptlets. + + * "git patch-id" miscomputed the patch-id in a patch that has a line longer + than 1kB. + + * When an "exec" insn failed after modifying the index and/or the working + tree during "rebase -i", we now check and warn that the changes need to + be cleaned up. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.2.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..e6bbef2f01 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.2.txt @@ -0,0 +1,44 @@ +Git v1.7.7.2 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.7.1 +-------------------- + + * We used to drop error messages from libcurl on certain kinds of + errors. + + * Error report from smart HTTP transport, when the connection was + broken in the middle of a transfer, showed a useless message on + a corrupt packet. + + * "git fetch --prune" was unsafe when used with refspecs from the + command line. + + * The attribute mechanism did not use case insensitive match when + core.ignorecase was set. + + * "git bisect" did not notice when it failed to update the working tree + to the next commit to be tested. + + * "git config --bool --get-regexp" failed to separate the variable name + and its value "true" when the variable is defined without "= true". + + * "git remote rename $a $b" were not careful to match the remote name + against $a (i.e. source side of the remote nickname). + + * "git mergetool" did not use its arguments as pathspec, but as a path to + the file that may not even have any conflict. + + * "git diff --[num]stat" used to use the number of lines of context + different from the default, potentially giving different results from + "git diff | diffstat" and confusing the users. + + * "git pull" and "git rebase" did not work well even when GIT_WORK_TREE is + set correctly with GIT_DIR if the current directory is outside the working + tree. + + * "git send-email" did not honor the configured hostname when restarting + the HELO/EHLO exchange after switching TLS on. + + * "gitweb" used to produce a non-working link while showing the contents + of a blob, when JavaScript actions are enabled. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.3.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..09301f0957 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.3.txt @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +Git v1.7.7.3 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.7.2 +-------------------- + + * Adjust the "quick-install-doc" procedures as preformatted + html/manpage are no longer in the source repository. + + * The logic to optimize the locality of the data in a pack introduced in + 1.7.7 was grossly inefficient. + + * The logic to filter out forked projects in the project list in + "gitweb" was broken for some time. + + * "git branch -m/-M" advertised to update RENAME_REF ref in the + commit log message that introduced the feature but not anywhere in + the documentation, and never did update such a ref anyway. This + undocumented misfeature that did not exist has been excised. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.4.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..e5234485e7 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.4.txt @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +Git v1.7.7.4 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.7.3 +-------------------- + + * A few header dependencies were missing from the Makefile. + + * Some newer parts of the code used C99 __VA_ARGS__ while we still + try to cater to older compilers. + + * "git name-rev --all" tried to name all _objects_, naturally failing to + describe many blobs and trees, instead of showing only commits as + advertised in its documentation. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.5.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.5.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..7b0931987b --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.5.txt @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +Git v1.7.7.5 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.7.4 +-------------------- + + * After fetching from a remote that has very long refname, the reporting + output could have corrupted by overrunning a static buffer. + + * "git checkout" and "git merge" treated in-tree .gitignore and exclude + file in $GIT_DIR/info/ directory inconsistently when deciding which + untracked files are ignored and expendable. + +Also contains minor fixes and documentation updates. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.6.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.6.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..8df606d452 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.6.txt @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +Git v1.7.7.6 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.7.5 +-------------------- + + * The code to look up attributes for paths reused entries from a wrong + directory when two paths in question are in adjacent directories and + the name of the one directory is a prefix of the other. + + * A wildcard that matches deeper hierarchy given to the "diff-index" command, + e.g. "git diff-index HEAD -- '*.txt'", incorrectly reported additions of + matching files even when there is no change. + + * When producing a "thin pack" (primarily used in bundles and smart + HTTP transfers) out of a fully packed repository, we unnecessarily + avoided sending recent objects as a delta against objects we know + the other side has. + +Also contains minor fixes and documentation updates. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.7.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.7.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..e79118d063 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.7.txt @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +Git v1.7.7.7 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.7.6 +-------------------- + + * An error message from 'git bundle' had an unmatched single quote pair in it. + + * 'git diff --histogram' option was not described. + + * 'git imap-send' carried an unused dead code. + +Also contains minor fixes and documentation updates. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..7655cccfaa --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.txt @@ -0,0 +1,134 @@ +Git v1.7.7 Release Notes +======================== + +Updates since v1.7.6 +-------------------- + + * The scripting part of the codebase is getting prepared for i18n/l10n. + + * Interix, Cygwin and Minix ports got updated. + + * Various updates to git-p4 (in contrib/), fast-import, and git-svn. + + * Gitweb learned to read from /etc/gitweb-common.conf when it exists, + before reading from gitweb_config.perl or from /etc/gitweb.conf + (this last one is read only when per-repository gitweb_config.perl + does not exist). + + * Various codepaths that invoked zlib deflate/inflate assumed that these + functions can compress or uncompress more than 4GB data in one call on + platforms with 64-bit long, which has been corrected. + + * Git now recognizes loose objects written by other implementations that + use a non-standard window size for zlib deflation (e.g. Agit running on + Android with 4kb window). We used to reject anything that was not + deflated with 32kb window. + + * Interaction between the use of pager and coloring of the output has + been improved, especially when a command that is not built-in was + involved. + + * "git am" learned to pass the "--exclude=<path>" option through to underlying + "git apply". + + * You can now feed many empty lines before feeding an mbox file to + "git am". + + * "git archive" can be told to pass the output to gzip compression and + produce "archive.tar.gz". + + * "git bisect" can be used in a bare repository (provided that the test + you perform per each iteration does not need a working tree, of + course). + + * The length of abbreviated object names in "git branch -v" output + now honors the core.abbrev configuration variable. + + * "git check-attr" can take relative paths from the command line. + + * "git check-attr" learned an "--all" option to list the attributes for a + given path. + + * "git checkout" (both the code to update the files upon checking out a + different branch and the code to checkout a specific set of files) learned + to stream the data from object store when possible, without having to + read the entire contents of a file into memory first. An earlier round + of this code that is not in any released version had a large leak but + now it has been plugged. + + * "git clone" can now take a "--config key=value" option to set the + repository configuration options that affect the initial checkout. + + * "git commit <paths>..." now lets you feed relative pathspecs that + refer to outside your current subdirectory. + + * "git diff --stat" learned a --stat-count option to limit the output of + a diffstat report. + + * "git diff" learned a "--histogram" option to use a different diff + generation machinery stolen from jgit, which might give better + performance. + + * "git diff" had a weird worst case behaviour that can be triggered + when comparing files with potentially many places that could match. + + * "git fetch", "git push" and friends no longer show connection + errors for addresses that couldn't be connected to when at least one + address succeeds (this is arguably a regression but a deliberate + one). + + * "git grep" learned "--break" and "--heading" options, to let users mimic + the output format of "ack". + + * "git grep" learned a "-W" option that shows wider context using the same + logic used by "git diff" to determine the hunk header. + + * Invoking the low-level "git http-fetch" without "-a" option (which + git itself never did---normal users should not have to worry about + this) is now deprecated. + + * The "--decorate" option to "git log" and its family learned to + highlight grafted and replaced commits. + + * "git rebase master topci" no longer spews usage hints after giving + the "fatal: no such branch: topci" error message. + + * The recursive merge strategy implementation got a fairly large + fix for many corner cases that may rarely happen in real world + projects (it has been verified that none of the 16000+ merges in + the Linux kernel history back to v2.6.12 is affected with the + corner case bugs this update fixes). + + * "git stash" learned an "--include-untracked option". + + * "git submodule update" used to stop at the first error updating a + submodule; it now goes on to update other submodules that can be + updated, and reports the ones with errors at the end. + + * "git push" can be told with the "--recurse-submodules=check" option to + refuse pushing of the supermodule, if any of its submodules' + commits hasn't been pushed out to their remotes. + + * "git upload-pack" and "git receive-pack" learned to pretend that only a + subset of the refs exist in a repository. This may help a site to + put many tiny repositories into one repository (this would not be + useful for larger repositories as repacking would be problematic). + + * "git verify-pack" has been rewritten to use the "index-pack" machinery + that is more efficient in reading objects in packfiles. + + * test scripts for gitweb tried to run even when CGI-related perl modules + are not installed; they now exit early when the latter are unavailable. + +Also contains various documentation updates and minor miscellaneous +changes. + + +Fixes since v1.7.6 +------------------ + +Unless otherwise noted, all fixes in the 1.7.6.X maintenance track are +included in this release. + + * "git branch -m" and "git checkout -b" incorrectly allowed the tip + of the branch that is currently checked out updated. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.1.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..33dc948b94 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,38 @@ +Git v1.7.8.1 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.8 +------------------ + + * In some codepaths (notably, checkout and merge), the ignore patterns + recorded in $GIT_DIR/info/exclude were not honored. They now are. + + * "git apply --check" did not error out when given an empty input + without any patch. + + * "git archive" mistakenly allowed remote clients to ask for commits + that are not at the tip of any ref. + + * "git checkout" and "git merge" treated in-tree .gitignore and exclude + file in $GIT_DIR/info/ directory inconsistently when deciding which + untracked files are ignored and expendable. + + * LF-to-CRLF streaming filter used when checking out a large-ish blob + fell into an infinite loop with a rare input. + + * The function header pattern for files with "diff=cpp" attribute did + not consider "type *funcname(type param1,..." as the beginning of a + function. + + * The error message from "git diff" and "git status" when they fail + to inspect changes in submodules did not report which submodule they + had trouble with. + + * After fetching from a remote that has very long refname, the reporting + output could have corrupted by overrunning a static buffer. + + * "git pack-objects" avoids creating cyclic dependencies among deltas + when seeing a broken packfile that records the same object in both + the deflated form and as a delta. + +Also contains minor fixes and documentation updates. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.2.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..e74f4ef1ef --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.2.txt @@ -0,0 +1,71 @@ +Git v1.7.8.2 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.8.1 +-------------------- + + * Porcelain commands like "git reset" did not distinguish deletions + and type-changes from ordinary modification, and reported them with + the same 'M' moniker. They now use 'D' (for deletion) and 'T' (for + type-change) to match "git status -s" and "git diff --name-status". + + * The configuration file parser used for sizes (e.g. bigFileThreshold) + did not correctly interpret 'g' suffix. + + * The replacement implemention for snprintf used on platforms with + native snprintf that is broken did not use va_copy correctly. + + * LF-to-CRLF streaming filter replaced all LF with CRLF, which might + be techinically correct but not friendly to people who are trying + to recover from earlier mistakes of using CRLF in the repository + data in the first place. It now refrains from doing so for LF that + follows a CR. + + * git native connection going over TCP (not over SSH) did not set + SO_KEEPALIVE option which failed to receive link layer errors. + + * "git branch -m <current branch> HEAD" is an obvious no-op but was not + allowed. + + * "git checkout -m" did not recreate the conflicted state in a "both + sides added, without any common ancestor version" conflict + situation. + + * "git cherry-pick $commit" (not a range) created an unnecessary + sequencer state and interfered with valid workflow to use the + command during a session to cherry-pick multiple commits. + + * You could make "git commit" segfault by giving the "--no-message" + option. + + * "fast-import" did not correctly update an existing notes tree, + possibly corrupting the fan-out. + + * "git fetch-pack" accepted unqualified refs that do not begin with + refs/ by mistake and compensated it by matching the refspec with + tail-match, which was doubly wrong. This broke fetching from a + repository with a funny named ref "refs/foo/refs/heads/master" and a + 'master' branch with "git fetch-pack refs/heads/master", as the + command incorrectly considered the former a "match". + + * "git log --follow" did not honor the rename threshold score given + with the -M option (e.g. "-M50%"). + + * "git mv" gave suboptimal error/warning messages when it overwrites + target files. It also did not pay attention to "-v" option. + + * Authenticated "git push" over dumb HTTP were broken with a recent + change and failed without asking for password when username is + given. + + * "git push" to an empty repository over HTTP were broken with a + recent change to the ref handling. + + * "git push -v" forgot how to be verbose by mistake. It now properly + becomes verbose when asked to. + + * When a "reword" action in "git rebase -i" failed to run "commit --amend", + we did not give the control back to the user to resolve the situation, and + instead kept the original commit log message. + +Also contains minor fixes and documentation updates. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.3.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..a92714c14b --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.3.txt @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +Git v1.7.8.3 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.8.2 +-------------------- + + * Attempt to fetch from an empty file pretending it to be a bundle did + not error out correctly. + + * gitweb did not correctly fall back to configured $fallback_encoding + that is not 'latin1'. + + * "git clone --depth $n" did not catch a non-number given as $n as an + error. + +Also contains minor fixes and documentation updates. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.4.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..9bebdbf13d --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.4.txt @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +Git v1.7.8.4 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.8.3 +-------------------- + + * The code to look up attributes for paths reused entries from a wrong + directory when two paths in question are in adjacent directories and + the name of the one directory is a prefix of the other. + + * A wildcard that matches deeper hierarchy given to the "diff-index" command, + e.g. "git diff-index HEAD -- '*.txt'", incorrectly reported additions of + matching files even when there is no change. + + * When producing a "thin pack" (primarily used in bundles and smart + HTTP transfers) out of a fully packed repository, we unnecessarily + avoided sending recent objects as a delta against objects we know + the other side has. + + * "git send-email" did not properly treat sendemail.multiedit as a + boolean (e.g. setting it to "false" did not turn it off). + +Also contains minor fixes and documentation updates. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.5.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.5.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..011fd2a428 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.5.txt @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +Git v1.7.8.5 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.8.4 +-------------------- + + * Dependency on our thread-utils.h header file was missing for + objects that depend on it in the Makefile. + + * "git am" when fed an empty file did not correctly finish reading it + when it attempts to guess the input format. + + * "git grep -P" (when PCRE is enabled in the build) did not match the + beginning and the end of the line correctly with ^ and $. + + * "git rebase -m" tried to run "git notes copy" needlessly when + nothing was rewritten. + +Also contains minor fixes and documentation updates. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.6.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.6.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..d9bf2b741a --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.6.txt @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +Git v1.7.8.6 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.8.5 +-------------------- + + * An error message from 'git bundle' had an unmatched single quote pair in it. + + * 'git diff --histogram' option was not described. + + * Documentation for 'git rev-list' had minor formatting errors. + + * 'git imap-send' carried an unused dead code. + + * The way 'git fetch' implemented its connectivity check over + received objects was overly pessimistic, and wasted a lot of + cycles. + + * Various minor backports of fixes from the 'master' and the 'maint' + branch. + +Also contains minor fixes and documentation updates. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..b4d90bba0f --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.txt @@ -0,0 +1,161 @@ +Git v1.7.8 Release Notes +======================== + +Updates since v1.7.7 +-------------------- + + * Some git-svn, git-gui, git-p4 (in contrib) and msysgit updates. + + * Updates to bash completion scripts. + + * The build procedure has been taught to take advantage of computed + dependency automatically when the complier supports it. + + * The date parser now accepts timezone designators that lack minutes + part and also has a colon between "hh:mm". + + * The contents of the /etc/mailname file, if exists, is used as the + default value of the hostname part of the committer/author e-mail. + + * "git am" learned how to read from patches generated by Hg. + + * "git archive" talking with a remote repository can report errors + from the remote side in a more informative way. + + * "git branch" learned an explicit --list option to ask for branches + listed, optionally with a glob matching pattern to limit its output. + + * "git check-attr" learned "--cached" option to look at .gitattributes + files from the index, not from the working tree. + + * Variants of "git cherry-pick" and "git revert" that take multiple + commits learned to "--continue" and "--abort". + + * "git daemon" gives more human readble error messages to clients + using ERR packets when appropriate. + + * Errors at the network layer is logged by "git daemon". + + * "git diff" learned "--minimal" option to spend extra cycles to come + up with a minimal patch output. + + * "git diff" learned "--function-context" option to show the whole + function as context that was affected by a change. + + * "git difftool" can be told to skip launching the tool for a path by + answering 'n' to its prompt. + + * "git fetch" learned to honor transfer.fsckobjects configuration to + validate the objects that were received from the other end, just like + "git receive-pack" (the receiving end of "git push") does. + + * "git fetch" makes sure that the set of objects it received from the + other end actually completes the history before updating the refs. + "git receive-pack" (the receiving end of "git push") learned to do the + same. + + * "git fetch" learned that fetching/cloning from a regular file on the + filesystem is not necessarily a request to unpack a bundle file; the + file could be ".git" with "gitdir: <path>" in it. + + * "git for-each-ref" learned "%(contents:subject)", "%(contents:body)" + and "%(contents:signature)". The last one is useful for signed tags. + + * "git grep" used to incorrectly pay attention to .gitignore files + scattered in the directory it was working in even when "--no-index" + option was used. It no longer does this. The "--exclude-standard" + option needs to be given to explicitly activate the ignore + mechanism. + + * "git grep" learned "--untracked" option, where given patterns are + searched in untracked (but not ignored) files as well as tracked + files in the working tree, so that matches in new but not yet + added files do not get missed. + + * The recursive merge backend no longer looks for meaningless + existing merges in submodules unless in the outermost merge. + + * "git log" and friends learned "--children" option. + + * "git ls-remote" learned to respond to "-h"(elp) requests. + + * "mediawiki" remote helper can interact with (surprise!) MediaWiki + with "git fetch" & "git push". + + * "git merge" learned the "--edit" option to allow users to edit the + merge commit log message. + + * "git rebase -i" can be told to use special purpose editor suitable + only for its insn sheet via sequence.editor configuration variable. + + * "git send-email" learned to respond to "-h"(elp) requests. + + * "git send-email" allows the value given to sendemail.aliasfile to begin + with "~/" to refer to the $HOME directory. + + * "git send-email" forces use of Authen::SASL::Perl to work around + issues between Authen::SASL::Cyrus and AUTH PLAIN/LOGIN. + + * "git stash" learned "--include-untracked" option to stash away + untracked/ignored cruft from the working tree. + + * "git submodule clone" does not leak an error message to the UI + level unnecessarily anymore. + + * "git submodule update" learned to honor "none" as the value for + submodule.<name>.update to specify that the named submodule should + not be checked out by default. + + * When populating a new submodule directory with "git submodule init", + the $GIT_DIR metainformation directory for submodules is created inside + $GIT_DIR/modules/<name>/ directory of the superproject and referenced + via the gitfile mechanism. This is to make it possible to switch + between commits in the superproject that has and does not have the + submodule in the tree without re-cloning. + + * "gitweb" leaked unescaped control characters from syntax hiliter + outputs. + + * "gitweb" can be told to give custom string at the end of the HTML + HEAD element. + + * "gitweb" now has its own manual pages. + + +Also contains other documentation updates and minor code cleanups. + + +Fixes since v1.7.7 +------------------ + +Unless otherwise noted, all fixes in the 1.7.7.X maintenance track are +included in this release. + + * HTTP transport did not use pushurl correctly, and also did not tell + what host it is trying to authenticate with when asking for + credentials. + (merge deba493 jk/http-auth later to maint). + + * "git blame" was aborted if started from an uncommitted content and + the path had the textconv filter in effect. + (merge 8518088 ss/blame-textconv-fake-working-tree later to maint). + + * Adding many refs to the local repository in one go (e.g. "git fetch" + that fetches many tags) and looking up a ref by name in a repository + with too many refs were unnecessarily slow. + (merge 17d68a54d jp/get-ref-dir-unsorted later to maint). + + * Report from "git commit" on untracked files was confused under + core.ignorecase option. + (merge 395c7356 jk/name-hash-dirent later to maint). + + * "git merge" did not understand ":/<pattern>" as a way to name a commit. + + " "git push" on the receiving end used to call post-receive and post-update + hooks for attempted removal of non-existing refs. + (merge 160b81ed ph/push-to-delete-nothing later to maint). + + * Help text for "git remote set-url" and "git remote set-branches" + were misspelled. + (merge c49904e fc/remote-seturl-usage-fix later to maint). + (merge 656cdf0 jc/remote-setbranches-usage-fix later to maint). diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.1.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..6957183dbb --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,63 @@ +Git v1.7.9.1 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.9 +------------------ + + * The makefile allowed environment variable X seep into it result in + command names suffixed with unnecessary strings. + + * The set of included header files in compat/inet-{ntop,pton} + wrappers was updated for Windows some time ago, but in a way that + broke Solaris build. + + * rpmbuild noticed an unpackaged but installed *.mo file and failed. + + * Subprocesses spawned from various git programs were often left running + to completion even when the top-level process was killed. + + * "git add -e" learned not to show a diff for an otherwise unmodified + submodule that only has uncommitted local changes in the patch + prepared by for the user to edit. + + * Typo in "git branch --edit-description my-tpoic" was not diagnosed. + + * Using "git grep -l/-L" together with options -W or --break may not + make much sense as the output is to only count the number of hits + and there is no place for file breaks, but the latter options made + "-l/-L" to miscount the hits. + + * "git log --first-parent $pathspec" did not stay on the first parent + chain and veered into side branch from which the whole change to the + specified paths came. + + * "git merge --no-edit $tag" failed to honor the --no-edit option. + + * "git merge --ff-only $tag" failed because it cannot record the + required mergetag without creating a merge, but this is so common + operation for branch that is used _only_ to follow the upstream, so + it was changed to allow fast-forwarding without recording the mergetag. + + * "git mergetool" now gives an empty file as the common base version + to the backend when dealing with the "both sides added, differently" + case. + + * "git push -q" was not sufficiently quiet. + + * When "git push" fails to update any refs, the client side did not + report an error correctly to the end user. + + * "rebase" and "commit --amend" failed to work on commits with ancient + timestamps near year 1970. + + * When asking for a tag to be pulled, "request-pull" did not show the + name of the tag prefixed with "tags/", which would have helped older + clients. + + * "git submodule add $path" forgot to recompute the name to be stored + in .gitmodules when the submodule at $path was once added to the + superproject and already initialized. + + * Many small corner case bugs on "git tag -n" was corrected. + +Also contains minor fixes and documentation updates. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.2.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..e500da75dd --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.2.txt @@ -0,0 +1,69 @@ +Git v1.7.9.2 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.9.1 +-------------------- + + * Bash completion script (in contrib/) did not like a pattern that + begins with a dash to be passed to __git_ps1 helper function. + + * Adaptation of the bash completion script (in contrib/) for zsh + incorrectly listed all subcommands when "git <TAB><TAB>" was given + to ask for list of porcelain subcommands. + + * The build procedure for profile-directed optimized binary was not + working very well. + + * Some systems need to explicitly link -lcharset to get locale_charset(). + + * t5541 ignored user-supplied port number used for HTTP server testing. + + * The error message emitted when we see an empty loose object was + not phrased correctly. + + * The code to ask for password did not fall back to the terminal + input when GIT_ASKPASS is set but does not work (e.g. lack of X + with GUI askpass helper). + + * We failed to give the true terminal width to any subcommand when + they are invoked with the pager, i.e. "git -p cmd". + + * map_user() was not rewriting its output correctly, which resulted + in the user visible symptom that "git blame -e" sometimes showed + excess '>' at the end of email addresses. + + * "git checkout -b" did not allow switching out of an unborn branch. + + * When you have both .../foo and .../foo.git, "git clone .../foo" did not + favor the former but the latter. + + * "git commit" refused to create a commit when entries added with + "add -N" remained in the index, without telling Git what their content + in the next commit should be. We should have created the commit without + these paths. + + * "git diff --stat" said "files", "insertions", and "deletions" even + when it is showing one "file", one "insertion" or one "deletion". + + * The output from "git diff --stat" for two paths that have the same + amount of changes showed graph bars of different length due to the + way we handled rounding errors. + + * "git grep" did not pay attention to -diff (hence -binary) attribute. + + * The transport programs (fetch, push, clone)ignored --no-progress + and showed progress when sending their output to a terminal. + + * Sometimes error status detected by a check in an earlier phase of + "git receive-pack" (the other end of "git push") was lost by later + checks, resulting in false indication of success. + + * "git rev-list --verify" sometimes skipped verification depending on + the phase of the moon, which dates back to 1.7.8.x series. + + * Search box in "gitweb" did not accept non-ASCII characters correctly. + + * Search interface of "gitweb" did not show multiple matches in the same file + correctly. + +Also contains minor fixes and documentation updates. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.3.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..91c65012f9 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.3.txt @@ -0,0 +1,51 @@ +Git v1.7.9.3 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.9.2 +-------------------- + + * "git p4" (in contrib/) submit the changes to a wrong place when the + "--use-client-spec" option is set. + + * The config.mak.autogen generated by optional autoconf support tried + to link the binary with -lintl even when libintl.h is missing from + the system. + + * When the filter driver exits before reading the content before the + main git process writes the contents to be filtered to the pipe to + it, the latter could be killed with SIGPIPE instead of ignoring + such an event as an error. + + * "git add --refresh <pathspec>" used to warn about unmerged paths + outside the given pathspec. + + * The bulk check-in codepath in "git add" streamed contents that + needs smudge/clean filters without running them, instead of punting + and delegating to the codepath to run filters after slurping + everything to core. + + * "git branch --with $that" assumed incorrectly that the user will never + ask the question with nonsense value in $that. + + * "git bundle create" produced a corrupt bundle file upon seeing + commits with excessively long subject line. + + * When a remote helper exits before reading the blank line from the + main git process to signal the end of commands, the latter could be + killed with SIGPIPE. Instead we should ignore such event as a + non-error. + + * The commit log template given with "git merge --edit" did not have + a short instructive text like what "git commit" gives. + + * "git rev-list --verify-objects -q" omitted the extra verification + it needs to do over "git rev-list --objects -q" by mistake. + + * "gitweb" used to drop warnings in the log file when "heads" view is + accessed in a repository whose HEAD does not point at a valid + branch. + + * An invalid regular expression pattern given by an end user made + "gitweb" to return garbled response. + +Also contains minor fixes and documentation updates. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.4.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..e5217a1889 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.4.txt @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +Git v1.7.9.4 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.9.3 +-------------------- + + * The code to synthesize the fake ancestor tree used by 3-way merge + fallback in "git am" was not prepared to read a patch created with + a non-standard -p<num> value. + + * "git bundle" did not record boundary commits correctly when there + are many of them. + + * "git diff-index" and its friends at the plumbing level showed the + "diff --git" header and nothing else for a path whose cached stat + info is dirty without actual difference when asked to produce a + patch. This was a longstanding bug that we could have fixed long + time ago. + + * "gitweb" did use quotemeta() to prepare search string when asked to + do a fixed-string project search, but did not use it by mistake and + used the user-supplied string instead. + +Also contains minor fixes and documentation updates. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.5.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.5.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..95cc2bbf2c --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.5.txt @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +Git v1.7.9.5 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.9.4 +-------------------- + + * When "git config" diagnoses an error in a configuration file and + shows the line number for the offending line, it miscounted if the + error was at the end of line. + + * "git fast-import" accepted "ls" command with an empty path by + mistake. + + * Various new-ish output decoration modes of "git grep" were not + documented in the manual's synopsis section. + + * The "remaining" subcommand to "git rerere" was not documented. + + * "gitweb" used to drop warnings in the log file when "heads" view is + accessed in a repository whose HEAD does not point at a valid + branch. + +Also contains minor fixes and documentation updates. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.6.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.6.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..74bf8825e2 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.6.txt @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +Git v1.7.9.6 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.9.5 +-------------------- + + * "git merge $tag" to merge an annotated tag always opens the editor + during an interactive edit session. v1.7.10 series introduced an + environment variable GIT_MERGE_AUTOEDIT to help older scripts decline + this behaviour, but the maintenance track should also support it. + +Also contains minor fixes and documentation updates. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.7.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.7.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..59667d0f2a --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.7.txt @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +Git v1.7.9.7 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.9.6 +-------------------- + + * An error message from 'git bundle' had an unmatched single quote pair in it. + + * The way 'git fetch' implemented its connectivity check over + received objects was overly pessimistic, and wasted a lot of + cycles. + +Also contains minor fixes and documentation updates. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..95320aad5d --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.txt @@ -0,0 +1,112 @@ +Git v1.7.9 Release Notes +======================== + +Updates since v1.7.8 +-------------------- + + * gitk updates accumulated since early 2011. + + * git-gui updated to 0.16.0. + + * git-p4 (in contrib/) updates. + + * Git uses gettext to translate its most common interface messages + into the user's language if translations are available and the + locale is appropriately set. Distributors can drop new PO files + in po/ to add new translations. + + * The code to handle username/password for HTTP transactions used in + "git push" & "git fetch" learned to talk "credential API" to + external programs to cache or store them, to allow integration with + platform native keychain mechanisms. + + * The input prompts in the terminal use our own getpass() replacement + when possible. HTTP transactions used to ask for the username without + echoing back what was typed, but with this change you will see it as + you type. + + * The internals of "revert/cherry-pick" have been tweaked to prepare + building more generic "sequencer" on top of the implementation that + drives them. + + * "git rev-parse FETCH_HEAD" after "git fetch" without specifying + what to fetch from the command line will now show the commit that + would be merged if the command were "git pull". + + * "git add" learned to stream large files directly into a packfile + instead of writing them into individual loose object files. + + * "git checkout -B <current branch> <elsewhere>" is a more intuitive + way to spell "git reset --keep <elsewhere>". + + * "git checkout" and "git merge" learned "--no-overwrite-ignore" option + to tell Git that untracked and ignored files are not expendable. + + * "git commit --amend" learned "--no-edit" option to say that the + user is amending the tree being recorded, without updating the + commit log message. + + * "git commit" and "git reset" re-learned the optimization to prime + the cache-tree information in the index, which makes it faster to + write a tree object out after the index entries are updated. + + * "git commit" detects and rejects an attempt to stuff NUL byte in + the commit log message. + + * "git commit" learned "-S" to GPG-sign the commit; this can be shown + with the "--show-signature" option to "git log". + + * fsck and prune are relatively lengthy operations that still go + silent while making the end-user wait. They learned to give progress + output like other slow operations. + + * The set of built-in function-header patterns for various languages + knows MATLAB. + + * "git log --format='<format>'" learned new %g[nNeE] specifiers to + show information from the reflog entries when walking the reflog + (i.e. with "-g"). + + * "git pull" can be used to fetch and merge an annotated/signed tag, + instead of the tip of a topic branch. The GPG signature from the + signed tag is recorded in the resulting merge commit for later + auditing. + + * "git log" learned "--show-signature" option to show the signed tag + that was merged that is embedded in the merge commit. It also can + show the signature made on the commit with "git commit -S". + + * "git branch --edit-description" can be used to add descriptive text + to explain what a topic branch is about. + + * "git fmt-merge-msg" learned to take the branch description into + account when preparing a merge summary that "git merge" records + when merging a local branch. + + * "git request-pull" has been updated to convey more information + useful for integrators to decide if a topic is worth merging and + what is pulled is indeed what the requestor asked to pull, + including: + + - the tip of the branch being requested to be merged; + - the branch description describing what the topic is about; + - the contents of the annotated tag, when requesting to pull a tag. + + * "git pull" learned to notice 'pull.rebase' configuration variable, + which serves as a global fallback for setting 'branch.<name>.rebase' + configuration variable per branch. + + * "git tag" learned "--cleanup" option to control how the whitespaces + and empty lines in tag message are cleaned up. + + * "gitweb" learned to show side-by-side diff. + +Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups. + + +Fixes since v1.7.8 +------------------ + +Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.7.8 in the maintenance +releases are contained in this release (see release notes to them for +details). diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.1.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..1f372fa0b5 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,64 @@ +Git v1.8.0.1 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.8.0 +------------------ + + * The configuration parser had an unnecessary hardcoded limit on + variable names that was not checked consistently. + + * 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. + + * "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. + + * "git log -F -E --grep='<ere>'" failed to use the given <ere> + pattern as extended regular expression, and instead looked for the + string literally. + + * "git grep -e pattern <tree>" asked the attribute system to read + "<tree>:.gitattributes" file in the working tree, which was + nonsense. + + * A symbolic ref refs/heads/SYM was not correctly removed with "git + branch -d SYM"; the command removed the ref pointed by SYM + instead. + + * Earlier we fixed documentation to hyphenate "remote-tracking branch" + to clarify that these are not a remote entity, but unhyphenated + spelling snuck in to a few places since then. + + * "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. + + * The refs/replace hierarchy was not mentioned in the + repository-layout docs. + + * Sometimes curl_multi_timeout() function suggested a wrong timeout + value when there is no file descriptors to wait on and the http + transport ended up sleeping for minutes in select(2) system call. + A workaround has been added for this. + + * Various rfc2047 quoting issues around a non-ASCII name on the + From: line in the output from format-patch have been corrected. + + * "git diff -G<pattern>" did not honor textconv filter when looking + for changes. + + * Bash completion script (in contrib/) did not correctly complete a + lazy "git checkout $name_of_remote_tracking_branch_that_is_unique" + command line. + + * RSS feed from "gitweb" had a xss hole in its title output. + + * "git config --path $key" segfaulted on "[section] key" (a boolean + "true" spelled without "=", not "[section] key = true"). + + * "git checkout -b foo" while on an unborn branch did not say + "Switched to a new branch 'foo'" like other cases. + +Also contains other minor fixes and documentation updates. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.2.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..8497e051de --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.2.txt @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +Git v1.8.0.2 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.8.0.1 +-------------------- + + * Various codepaths have workaround for a common misconfiguration to + spell "UTF-8" as "utf8", but it was not used uniformly. Most + notably, mailinfo (which is used by "git am") lacked this support. + + * We failed to mention a file without any content change but whose + permission bit was modified, or (worse yet) a new file without any + content in the "git diff --stat" output. + + * When "--stat-count" hides a diffstat for binary contents, the total + number of added and removed lines at the bottom was computed + incorrectly. + + * When "--stat-count" hides a diffstat for unmerged paths, the total + number of affected files at the bottom of the "diff --stat" output + was computed incorrectly. + + * "diff --shortstat" miscounted the total number of affected files + when there were unmerged paths. + + * "git p4" used to try expanding malformed "$keyword$" that spans + across multiple lines. + + * "git update-ref -d --deref SYM" to delete a ref through a symbolic + ref that points to it did not remove it correctly. + + * Syntax highlighting in "gitweb" was not quite working. + +Also contains other minor fixes and documentation updates. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.3.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..92b1e4b363 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.3.txt @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +Git v1.8.0.3 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.8.0.2 +-------------------- + + * "git log -p -S<string>" did not apply the textconv filter while + looking for the <string>. + + * In the documentation, some invalid example e-mail addresses were + formatted into mailto: links. + +Also contains many documentation updates backported from the 'master' +branch that is preparing for the upcoming 1.8.1 release. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..43883c14f0 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,267 @@ +Git v1.8.0 Release Notes +======================== + +Backward compatibility notes +---------------------------- + +In the next major release (not *this* one), we will change the +behavior of the "git push" command. + +When "git push [$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, and +"git push" will warn about the upcoming change until you set this +variable in this release. + +"git branch --set-upstream" is deprecated and may be removed in a +relatively distant future. "git branch [-u|--set-upstream-to]" has +been introduced with a saner order of arguments. + + +Updates since v1.7.12 +--------------------- + +UI, Workflows & Features + + * A credential helper for Win32 to allow access to the keychain of + the logged-in user has been added. + + * An initial port to HP NonStop. + + * A credential helper to allow access to the Gnome keyring has been + added. + + * When "git am" sanitizes the "Subject:" line, we strip the prefix from + "Re: subject" and also from a less common "re: subject", but left + the even less common "RE: subject" intact. Now we strip that too. + + * It was tempting to say "git branch --set-upstream origin/master", + but that tells Git to arrange the local branch "origin/master" to + integrate with the currently checked out branch, which is highly + unlikely what the user meant. The option is deprecated; use the + new "--set-upstream-to" (with a short-and-sweet "-u") option + instead. + + * "git cherry-pick" learned the "--allow-empty-message" option to + allow it to replay a commit without any log message. + + * After "git cherry-pick -s" gave control back to the user asking + help to resolve conflicts, concluding "git commit" used to need to + be run with "-s" if the user wants to sign it off; now the command + leaves the sign-off line in the log template. + + * "git daemon" learned the "--access-hook" option to allow an + external command to decline service based on the client address, + repository path, etc. + + * "git difftool --dir-diff" learned to use symbolic links to prepare + a 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. + + * Accumulated updates to "git gui" has been merged. + + * "git log -g" learned the "--grep-reflog=<pattern>" option to limit + its output to commits with a reflog message that matches the given + pattern. + + * "git merge-base" learned the "--is-ancestor A B" option to tell if A is + an ancestor of B. The result is indicated by its exit status code. + + * "git mergetool" now allows users to override the actual command used + with the mergetool.$name.cmd configuration variable even for built-in + mergetool backends. + + * "git rebase -i" learned the "--edit-todo" option to open an editor + to edit the instruction sheet. + + +Foreign Interface + + * "git svn" has been updated to work with SVN 1.7. + + * "git p4" learned the "--conflicts" option to specify what to do when + encountering a conflict during "p4 submit". + + +Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. + + * Git ships with a fall-back regexp implementation for platforms with + buggy regexp library, but it was easy for people to keep using their + platform regexp by mistake. A new test has been added to check this. + + * The "check-docs" build target has been updated and greatly + simplified. + + * The test suite is run under MALLOC_CHECK_ when running with a glibc + that supports the feature. + + * The documentation in the TeXinfo format was using indented output + for materials meant to be examples that are better typeset in + monospace. + + * Compatibility wrapper around some mkdir(2) implementations that + reject parameters with trailing slash has been introduced. + + * Compatibility wrapper for systems that lack usable setitimer() has + been added. + + * The option parsing of "git checkout" had error checking, dwim and + defaulting missing options, all mixed in the code, and issuing an + appropriate error message with useful context was getting harder. + The code has been reorganized to allow giving a proper diagnosis + when the user says "git checkout -b -t foo bar" (e.g. "-t" is not a + good name for a branch). + + * Many internal uses of a "git merge-base" equivalent were only to see + if one commit fast-forwards to the other, which did not need the + full set of merge bases to be computed. They have been updated to + use less expensive checks. + + * The heuristics to detect and silently convert latin1 to utf8 when + we were told to use utf-8 in the log message has been transplanted + from "mailinfo" to "commit" and "commit-tree". + + * Messages given by "git <subcommand> -h" from many subcommands have + been marked for translation. + + +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). + + * The attribute system may be asked for a path that itself or its + leading directories no longer exists in the working tree, and it is + fine if we cannot open .gitattribute file in such a case. Failure + to open per-directory .gitattributes with error status other than + ENOENT and ENOTDIR should be diagnosed, but it wasn't. + + * When looking for $HOME/.gitconfig etc., it is OK if we cannot read + them because they do not exist, but we did not diagnose existing + files that we cannot read. + + * When "git am" is fed an input that has multiple "Content-type: ..." + header, it did not grok charset= attribute correctly. + + * "git am" mishandled a patch attached as application/octet-stream + (e.g. not text/*); Content-Transfer-Encoding (e.g. base64) was not + honored correctly. + + * "git blame MAKEFILE" run in a history that has "Makefile" but not + "MAKEFILE" should say "No such file MAKEFILE in HEAD", but got + confused on a case insensitive filesystem and failed to do so. + + * Even during a conflicted merge, "git blame $path" always meant to + blame uncommitted changes to the "working tree" version; make it + more useful by showing cleanly merged parts as coming from the other + branch that is being merged. + + * It was unclear in the documentation for "git blame" that it is + unnecessary for users to use the "--follow" option. + + * Output from "git branch -v" contains "(no branch)" that could be + localized, but the code to align it along with the names of + branches was counting in bytes, not in display columns. + + * "git cherry-pick A C B" used to replay changes in A and then B and + then C if these three commits had committer timestamps in that + order, which is not what the user who said "A C B" naturally + expects. + + * A repository created with "git clone --single" had its fetch + refspecs set up just like a clone without "--single", leading the + subsequent "git fetch" to slurp all the other branches, defeating + the whole point of specifying "only this branch". + + * Documentation talked about "first line of commit log" when it meant + the title of the commit. The description was clarified by defining + how the title is decided and rewording the casual mention of "first + line" to "title". + + * "git cvsimport" did not thoroughly cleanse tag names that it + inferred from the names of the tags it obtained from CVS, which + caused "git tag" to barf and stop the import in the middle. + + * Earlier we made the diffstat summary line that shows the number of + lines added/deleted localizable, but it was found irritating having + to see them in various languages on a list whose discussion language + is English, and this change has been reverted. + + * "git fetch --all", when passed "--no-tags", did not honor the + "--no-tags" option while fetching from individual remotes (the same + issue existed with "--tags", but the combination "--all --tags" makes + much less sense than "--all --no-tags"). + + * "git fetch" over http had an old workaround for an unlikely server + misconfiguration; it turns out that this hurts debuggability of the + configuration in general, and has been reverted. + + * "git fetch" over http advertised that it supports "deflate", which + is much less common, and did not advertise the more common "gzip" on + its Accept-Encoding header. + + * "git fetch" over the dumb-http revision walker could segfault when + curl's multi interface was used. + + * "git gc --auto" notified the user that auto-packing has triggered + even under the "--quiet" option. + + * After "gitk" showed the contents of a tag, neither "Reread + references" nor "Reload" updated what is shown as the + contents of it when the user overwrote the tag with "git tag -f". + + * "git log --all-match --grep=A --grep=B" ought to show commits that + mention both A and B, but when these three options are used with + --author or --committer, it showed commits that mention either A or + B (or both) instead. + + * The "-Xours" backend option to "git merge -s recursive" was ignored + for binary files. + + * "git p4", when "--use-client-spec" and "--detect-branches" are used + together, misdetected branches. + + * "git receive-pack" (the counterpart to "git push") did not give + progress output while processing objects it received to the puser + when run over the smart-http protocol. + + * When you misspell the command name you give to the "exec" action in + the "git rebase -i" instruction sheet you were told that 'rebase' is not a + git subcommand from "git rebase --continue". + + * The subcommand in "git remote" to remove a defined remote was + "rm" and the command did not take a fully-spelled "remove". + + * The interactive prompt that "git send-email" gives was error prone. It + asked "What e-mail address do you want to use?" with the address it + guessed (correctly) the user would want to use in its prompt, + tempting the user to say "y". But the response was taken as "No, + please use 'y' as the e-mail address instead", which is most + certainly not what the user meant. + + * "git show --format='%ci'" did not give the timestamp correctly for + commits created without human readable name on the "committer" line. + + * "git show --quiet" ought to be a synonym for "git show -s", but + wasn't. + + * "git submodule frotz" was not diagnosed as "frotz" being an unknown + subcommand to "git submodule"; the user instead got a complaint + that "git submodule status" was run with an unknown path "frotz". + + * "git status" honored the ignore=dirty settings in .gitmodules but + "git commit" didn't. + + * "gitweb" did not give the correct committer timezone in its feed + output due to a typo. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.1.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.1.1.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..6cde07ba29 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.1.1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,87 @@ +Git 1.8.1.1 Release Notes +========================= + +Fixes since v1.8.1 +------------------ + + * The attribute mechanism didn't allow limiting attributes to be + applied to only a single directory itself with "path/" like the + exclude mechanism does. + + * When attempting to read the XDG-style $HOME/.config/git/config and + finding that $HOME/.config/git is a file, we gave a wrong error + message, instead of treating the case as "a custom config file does + not exist there" and moving on. + + * After failing to create a temporary file using mkstemp(), failing + pathname was not reported correctly on some platforms. + + * http transport was wrong to ask for the username when the + authentication is done by certificate identity. + + * The behaviour visible to the end users was confusing, when they + attempt to kill a process spawned in the editor that was in turn + launched by Git with SIGINT (or SIGQUIT), as Git would catch that + signal and die. We ignore these signals now. + + * A child process that was killed by a signal (e.g. SIGINT) was + reported in an inconsistent way depending on how the process was + spawned by us, with or without a shell in between. + + * After "git add -N" and then writing a tree object out of the + index, the cache-tree data structure got corrupted. + + * "git apply" misbehaved when fixing whitespace breakages by removing + excess trailing blank lines in some corner cases. + + * A tar archive created by "git archive" recorded a directory in a + way that made NetBSD's implementation of "tar" sometimes unhappy. + + * When "git clone --separate-git-dir=$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. + + * "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. + + * The "log --graph" codepath fell into infinite loop in some + corner cases. + + * "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. + + * "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. + + * The way "git svn" asked for password using SSH_ASKPASS and + GIT_ASKPASS was not in line with the rest of the system. + + * "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. + + * "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. + + * When autoconf is used, any build on a different commit always ran + "config.status --recheck" even when unnecessary. + + * 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/1.8.1.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.1.2.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..5ab7b18906 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.1.2.txt @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +Git 1.8.1.2 Release Notes +========================= + +Fixes since v1.8.1.1 +-------------------- + + * 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. + + * Command line completion for "tcsh" emitted an unwanted space + after completing a single directory name. + + * Command line completion leaked an unnecessary error message while + looking for possible matches with paths in <tree-ish>. + + * "git archive" did not record uncompressed size in the header when + streaming a zip archive, which confused some implementations of unzip. + + * When users spelled "cc:" in lowercase in the fake "header" in the + trailer part, "git send-email" failed to pick up the addresses from + there. As e-mail headers field names are case insensitive, this + script should follow suit and treat "cc:" and "Cc:" the same way. + +Also contains various documentation fixes. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.1.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.1.3.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..681cb35c0a --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.1.3.txt @@ -0,0 +1,47 @@ +Git 1.8.1.3 Release Notes +========================= + +Fixes since v1.8.1.2 +-------------------- + + * The attribute mechanism didn't allow limiting attributes to be + applied to only a single directory itself with "path/" like the + exclude mechanism does. The fix for this in 1.8.1.2 had + performance degradations. + + * Command line completion code was inadvertently made incompatible with + older versions of bash by using a newer array notation. + + * Scripts to test bash completion was inherently flaky as it was + affected by whatever random things the user may have on $PATH. + + * A fix was added to the build procedure to work around buggy + versions of ccache broke the auto-generation of dependencies, which + unfortunately is still relevant because some people use ancient + distros. + + * We used to stuff "user@" and then append what we read from + /etc/mailname to come up with a default e-mail ident, but a bug + lost the "user@" part. + + * "git am" did not parse datestamp correctly from Hg generated patch, + when it is run in a locale outside C (or en). + + * Attempt to "branch --edit-description" an existing branch, while + being on a detached HEAD, errored out. + + * "git cherry-pick" did not replay a root commit to an unborn branch. + + * We forgot to close the file descriptor reading from "gpg" output, + killing "git log --show-signature" on a long history. + + * "git rebase --preserve-merges" lost empty merges in recent versions + of Git. + + * Rebasing the history of superproject with change in the submodule + has been broken since v1.7.12. + + * A failure to push due to non-ff while on an unborn branch + dereferenced a NULL pointer when showing an error message. + +Also contains various documentation fixes. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.1.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.1.4.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..22af1d1643 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.1.4.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +Git 1.8.1.4 Release Notes +========================= + +Fixes since v1.8.1.3 +-------------------- + + * "git imap-send" talking over imaps:// did make sure it received a + valid certificate from the other end, but did not check if the + certificate matched the host it thought it was talking to. + +Also contains various documentation fixes. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.1.5.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.1.5.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..efa68aef22 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.1.5.txt @@ -0,0 +1,47 @@ +Git 1.8.1.5 Release Notes +========================= + +Fixes since v1.8.1.4 +-------------------- + + * Given a string with a multi-byte character that begins with '-' on + the command line where an option is expected, the option parser + used just one byte of the unknown letter when reporting an error. + + * In v1.8.1, the attribute parser was tightened too restrictive to + error out upon seeing an entry that begins with an ! (exclamation), + which may confuse users to expect a "negative match", which does + not exist. This has been demoted to a warning; such an entry is + still ignored. + + * "git apply --summary" has been taught to make sure the similarity + value shown in its output is sensible, even when the input had a + bogus value. + + * "git clean" showed what it was going to do, but sometimes ended + up finding that it was not allowed to do so, which resulted in a + confusing output (e.g. after saying that it will remove an + untracked directory, it found an embedded git repository there + which it is not allowed to remove). It now performs the actions + and then reports the outcome more faithfully. + + * "git clone" used to allow --bare and --separate-git-dir=$there + options at the same time, which was nonsensical. + + * "git cvsimport" mishandled timestamps at DST boundary. + + * We used to have an arbitrary 32 limit for combined diff input, + resulting in incorrect number of leading colons shown when showing + the "--raw --cc" output. + + * The smart HTTP clients forgot to verify the content-type that comes + back from the server side to make sure that the request is being + handled properly. + + * "git help remote-helpers" failed to find the documentation. + + * "gitweb" pages served over HTTPS, when configured to show picon or + gravatar, referred to these external resources to be fetched via + HTTP, resulting in mixed contents warning in browsers. + +Also contains various documentation fixes. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.1.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..d6f9555923 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,241 @@ +Git v1.8.1 Release Notes +======================== + +Backward compatibility notes +---------------------------- + +In the next major release (not *this* one), 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, and +"git push" will warn about the upcoming change until you set this +variable in this release. + +"git branch --set-upstream" is deprecated and may be removed in a +relatively distant future. "git branch [-u|--set-upstream-to]" has +been introduced with a saner order of arguments to replace it. + + +Updates since v1.8.0 +-------------------- + +UI, Workflows & Features + + * Command-line completion scripts for tcsh and zsh have been added. + + * "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. + + * 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 + them up by pushing or pulling. This can be disabled with the + advice.statusHints configuration variable. + + * "git config --get" used to diagnose presence of multiple + definitions of the same variable in the same configuration file as + an error, but it now applies the "last one wins" rule used by the + internal configuration logic. Strictly speaking, this may be an + API regression but it is expected that nobody will notice it in + practice. + + * 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". + + * "git replace -d <object>" now interprets <object> as an extended + SHA-1 (e.g. HEAD~4 is allowed), instead of only accepting full hex + object name. + + * "git rm $submodule" used to punt on removing a submodule working + tree to avoid losing the repository embedded in it. Because + recent git uses a mechanism to separate the submodule repository + from the submodule working tree, "git rm" learned to detect this + case and removes the submodule working tree when it is safe to do so. + + * "git send-email" used to prompt for the sender address, even when + the committer identity is well specified (e.g. via user.name and + user.email configuration variables). The command no longer gives + this prompt when not necessary. + + * "git send-email" did not allow non-address garbage strings to + appear after addresses on Cc: lines in the patch files (and when + told to pick them up to find more recipients), e.g. + + Cc: Stable Kernel <stable@k.org> # for v3.2 and up + + The command now strips " # for v3.2 and up" part before adding the + remainder of this line to the list of recipients. + + * "git submodule add" learned to add a new submodule at the same + path as the path where an unrelated submodule was bound to in an + existing revision via the "--name" option. + + * "git submodule sync" learned the "--recursive" option. + + * "diff.submodule" configuration variable can be used to give custom + default value to the "git diff --submodule" option. + + * "git symbolic-ref" learned the "-d $symref" option to delete the + named symbolic ref, which is more intuitive way to spell it than + "update-ref -d --no-deref $symref". + + +Foreign Interface + + * "git cvsimport" can be told to record timezones (other than GMT) + per-author via its author info file. + + * 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 + been optimized. + + * The logic to find set of attributes that match a given path has + been optimized. + + * Use preloadindex in "git diff-index" and "git update-index", which + has a nice speedup on systems with slow stat calls (and even on + Linux). + + +Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups. + + +Fixes since v1.8.0 +------------------ + +Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.8.0 in the maintenance +track are contained in this release (see release notes to them for +details). + + * The configuration parser had an unnecessary hardcoded limit on + variable names that was not checked consistently. + + * 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. + + * "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. + + * "git log -F -E --grep='<ere>'" failed to use the given <ere> + pattern as extended regular expression, and instead looked for the + string literally. + + * "git grep -e pattern <tree>" asked the attribute system to read + "<tree>:.gitattributes" file in the working tree, which was + nonsense. + + * A symbolic ref refs/heads/SYM was not correctly removed with "git + branch -d SYM"; the command removed the ref pointed by SYM + instead. + + * Update "remote tracking branch" in the documentation to + "remote-tracking branch". + + * "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. + + * The refs/replace hierarchy was not mentioned in the + repository-layout docs. + + * Various rfc2047 quoting issues around a non-ASCII name on the + From: line in the output from format-patch have been corrected. + + * 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. + + * For a fetch refspec (or the result of applying wildcard on one), + we always want the RHS to map to something inside "refs/" + hierarchy, but the logic to check it was not exactly right. + (merge 5c08c1f jc/maint-fetch-tighten-refname-check later to maint). + + * "git diff -G<pattern>" did not honor textconv filter when looking + for changes. + + * Some HTTP servers ask for auth only during the actual packing phase + (not in ls-remote phase); this is not really a recommended + configuration, but the clients used to fail to authenticate with + such servers. + (merge 2e736fd jk/maint-http-half-auth-fetch later to maint). + + * "git p4" used to try expanding malformed "$keyword$" that spans + across multiple lines. + + * Syntax highlighting in "gitweb" was not quite working. + + * RSS feed from "gitweb" had a xss hole in its title output. + + * "git config --path $key" segfaulted on "[section] key" (a boolean + "true" spelled without "=", not "[section] key = true"). + + * "git checkout -b foo" while on an unborn branch did not say + "Switched to a new branch 'foo'" like other cases. + + * 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. + + * "update-ref -d --deref SYM" to delete a ref through a symbolic ref + that points to it did not remove it correctly. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.1.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..e77f8333ea --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +Git v1.8.2.1 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.8.2 +------------------ + + * The "--color=<when>" argument to the commands in the diff family + was described poorly. + + * The arguments given to pre-rebase hook were not documented. + + * The v4 index format was not documented. + + * The "--match=<pattern>" argument "git describe" takes uses glob + pattern but it wasn't obvious from the documentation. + + * Some sources failed to compile on systems that lack NI_MAXHOST in + their system header (e.g. z/OS). + + * Add an example use of "--env-filter" in "filter-branch" + documentation. + + * "git bundle verify" did not say "records a complete history" for a + bundle that does not have any prerequisites. + + * In the v1.8.0 era, we changed symbols that do not have to be global + to file scope static, but a few functions in graph.c were used by + CGit from sideways bypassing the entry points of the API the + in-tree users use. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..fc606ae116 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.txt @@ -0,0 +1,495 @@ +Git v1.8.2 Release Notes +======================== + +Backward compatibility notes (this release) +------------------------------------------- + +"git push $there tag v1.2.3" used to allow replacing a tag v1.2.3 +that already exists in the repository $there, if the rewritten tag +you are pushing points at a commit that is a descendant of a commit +that the old tag v1.2.3 points at. This was found to be error prone +and starting with this release, any attempt to update an existing +ref under refs/tags/ hierarchy will fail, without "--force". + +When "git add -u" and "git add -A" that does not specify what paths +to add on the command line is run from inside a subdirectory, the +scope of the operation has always been limited to the subdirectory. +Many users found this counter-intuitive, given that "git commit -a" +and other commands operate on the entire tree regardless of where you +are. In this release, these commands give a warning message that +suggests the users to use "git add -u/-A ." when they want to limit +the scope to the current directory; doing so will squelch the message, +while training their fingers. + + +Backward compatibility notes (for Git 2.0) +------------------------------------------ + +When "git push [$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). In Git 2.0, the default will change to 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. If you are an old-timer who is used +to the "matching" semantics, you can set it to "matching" to keep the +traditional behaviour. If you want to live in the future early, +you can set it to "simple" today without waiting for Git 2.0. + +When "git add -u" and "git add -A", that does not specify what paths +to add on the command line is run from inside a subdirectory, these +commands will operate on the entire tree in Git 2.0 for consistency +with "git commit -a" and other commands. Because there will be no +mechanism to make "git add -u" behave as if "git add -u .", it is +important for those who are used to "git add -u" (without pathspec) +updating the index only for paths in the current subdirectory to start +training their fingers to explicitly say "git add -u ." when they mean +it before Git 2.0 comes. + + +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. + + * Mention of "GIT/Git/git" in the documentation have been updated to + be more uniform and consistent. The name of the system and the + concept it embodies is "Git"; the command the users type is "git". + All-caps "GIT" was merely a way to imitate "Git" typeset in small + caps in our ASCII text only documentation and to be avoided. + + * The completion script (in contrib/completion) used to let the + default completer to suggest pathnames, which gave too many + irrelevant choices (e.g. "git add" would not want to add an + unmodified path). It learnt to use a more git-aware logic to + enumerate only relevant ones. + + * 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 patterns in .gitignore and .gitattributes files can have **/, + as a pattern that matches 0 or more levels of subdirectory. + E.g. "foo/**/bar" matches "bar" in "foo" itself or in a + subdirectory of "foo". + + * When giving arguments without "--" disambiguation, object names + that come earlier on the command line must not be interpretable as + pathspecs and pathspecs that come later on the command line must + not be interpretable as object names. This disambiguation rule has + been tweaked so that ":/" (no other string before or after) is + always interpreted as a pathspec; "git cmd -- :/" is no longer + needed, you can just say "git cmd :/". + + * Various "hint" lines Git gives when it asks the user to edit + messages in the editor are commented out with '#' by default. The + core.commentchar configuration variable can be used to customize + this '#' to a different character. + + * "git add -u" and "git add -A" without pathspec issues warning to + make users aware that they are only operating on paths inside the + subdirectory they are in. Use ":/" (everything from the top) or + "." (everything from the $cwd) to disambiguate. + + * "git blame" (and "git diff") learned the "--no-follow" option. + + * "git branch" now rejects some nonsense combinations of command line + arguments (e.g. giving more than one branch name to rename) with + more case-specific error messages. + + * "git check-ignore" command to help debugging .gitignore files has + been added. + + * "git cherry-pick" can be used to replay a root commit to an unborn + branch. + + * "git commit" can be told to use --cleanup=whitespace by setting the + configuration variable commit.cleanup to 'whitespace'. + + * "git diff" and other Porcelain commands can be told to use a + non-standard algorithm by setting diff.algorithm configuration + variable. + + * "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 format-patch" learned "-v $count" option, and prepends a + string "v$count-" to the names of its output files, and also + automatically sets the subject prefix to "PATCH v$count". This + allows patches from rerolled series to be stored under different + names and makes it easier to reuse cover letter messages. + + * "git log" and friends can be told with --use-mailmap option to + rewrite the names and email addresses of people using the mailmap + mechanism. + + * "git log --cc --graph" now shows the combined diff output with the + ancestry graph. + + * "git log --grep=<pattern>" honors i18n.logoutputencoding to look + for the pattern after fixing the log message to the specified + encoding. + + * "git mergetool" and "git difftool" learned to list the available + tool backends in a more consistent manner. + + * "git mergetool" is aware of TortoiseGitMerge now and uses it over + TortoiseMerge when available. + + * "git push" now requires "-f" to update a tag, even if it is a + fast-forward, as tags are meant to be fixed points. + + * Error messages from "git push" when it stops to prevent remote refs + from getting overwritten by mistake have been improved to explain + various situations separately. + + * "git push" will stop without doing anything if the new "pre-push" + hook exists and exits with a failure. + + * 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. + + * Input and preconditions to "git reset" has been loosened where + appropriate. "git reset $fromtree Makefile" requires $fromtree to + be any tree (it used to require it to be a commit), for example. + "git reset" (without options or parameters) used to error out when + you do not have any commits in your history, but it now gives you + an empty index (to match non-existent commit you are not even on). + + * "git status" says what branch is being bisected or rebased when + able, not just "bisecting" or "rebasing". + + * "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). + + * "git upload-pack" which implements the service "ls-remote" and + "fetch" talk to can be told to hide ref hierarchies the server + side internally uses (and that clients have no business learning + about) with transfer.hiderefs configuration. + + +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/. + + * "git p4" got various bugfixes around its branch handling. It is + also made usable with Python 2.4/2.5. In addition, its various + portability issues for Cygwin have been addressed. + + * The remote helper to interact with Hg in contrib/ has seen a few + fixes. + + +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. + + * We stopped paying attention to $GIT_CONFIG environment that points + at a single configuration file from any command other than "git config" + quite a while ago, but "git clone" internally set, exported, and + then unexported the variable during its operation unnecessarily. + + * "git reset" internals has been reworked and should be faster in + general. We tried to be careful not to break any behaviour but + there could be corner cases, especially when running the command + from a conflicted state, that we may have missed. + + * The implementation of "imap-send" has been updated to reuse xml + quoting code from http-push codepath, and lost a lot of unused + code. + + * There is a simple-minded checker for the test scripts in t/ + directory to catch most common mistakes (it is not enabled by + default). + + * You can build with USE_WILDMATCH=YesPlease to use a replacement + implementation of pattern matching logic used for pathname-like + things, e.g. refnames and paths in the repository. This new + implementation is not expected change the existing behaviour of Git + in this release, except for "git for-each-ref" where you can now + say "refs/**/master" and match with both refs/heads/master and + refs/remotes/origin/master. We plan to use this new implementation + in wider places (e.g. "git ls-files '**/Makefile' may find Makefile + at the top-level, and "git log '**/t*.sh'" may find commits that + touch a shell script whose name begins with "t" at any level) in + future versions of Git, but we are not there yet. By building with + USE_WILDMATCH, using the resulting Git daily and reporting when you + find breakages, you can help us get closer to that goal. + + * Some reimplementations of Git do not write all the stat info back + to the index due to their implementation limitations (e.g. jgit). + A configuration option can tell Git to ignore changes to most of + the stat fields and only pay attention to mtime and size, which + these implementations can reliably update. This can be used to + avoid excessive revalidation of contents. + + * Some platforms ship with old version of expat where xmlparse.h + needs to be included instead of expat.h; the build procedure has + been taught about this. + + * "make clean" on platforms that cannot compute header dependencies + on the fly did not work with implementations of "rm" that do not + like an empty argument list. + +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. + + * 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. + + * 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 0398fc34 pf/editor-ignore-sigint later to maint). + + * A child process that was killed by a signal (e.g. SIGINT) was + reported in an inconsistent way depending on how the process was + spawned by us, with or without a shell in between. + + * After failing to create a temporary file using mkstemp(), failing + pathname was not reported correctly on some platforms. + + * We used to stuff "user@" and then append what we read from + /etc/mailname to come up with a default e-mail ident, but a bug + lost the "user@" part. + + * The attribute mechanism didn't allow limiting attributes to be + applied to only a single directory itself with "path/" like the + exclude mechanism does. The initial implementation of this that + was merged to 'maint' and 1.8.1.2 was with a severe performance + degradations and needs to merge a fix-up topic. + + * The smart HTTP clients forgot to verify the content-type that comes + back from the server side to make sure that the request is being + handled properly. + + * "git am" did not parse datestamp correctly from Hg generated patch, + when it is run in a locale outside C (or en). + + * "git apply" misbehaved when fixing whitespace breakages by removing + excess trailing blank lines. + + * "git apply --summary" has been taught to make sure the similarity + value shown in its output is sensible, even when the input had a + bogus value. + + * A tar archive created by "git archive" recorded a directory in a + way that made NetBSD's implementation of "tar" sometimes unhappy. + + * "git archive" did not record uncompressed size in the header when + streaming a zip archive, which confused some implementations of unzip. + + * "git archive" did not parse configuration values in tar.* namespace + correctly. + (merge b3873c3 jk/config-parsing-cleanup later to maint). + + * Attempt to "branch --edit-description" an existing branch, while + being on a detached HEAD, errored out. + + * "git clean" showed what it was going to do, but sometimes end up + finding that it was not allowed to do so, which resulted in a + confusing output (e.g. after saying that it will remove an + untracked directory, it found an embedded git repository there + which it is not allowed to remove). It now performs the actions + and then reports the outcome more faithfully. + + * When "git clone --separate-git-dir=$over_there" is interrupted, it + failed to remove the real location of the $GIT_DIR it created. + This was most visible when interrupting a submodule update. + + * "git cvsimport" mishandled timestamps at DST boundary. + + * We used to have an arbitrary 32 limit for combined diff input, + resulting in incorrect number of leading colons shown when showing + the "--raw --cc" output. + + * "git fetch --depth" was broken in at least three ways. The + resulting history was deeper than specified by one commit, it was + unclear how to wipe the shallowness of the repository with the + command, and documentation was misleading. + (merge cfb70e1 nd/fetch-depth-is-broken later to maint). + + * "git log --all -p" that walked refs/notes/textconv/ ref can later + try to use the textconv data incorrectly after it gets freed. + + * We forgot to close the file descriptor reading from "gpg" output, + killing "git log --show-signature" on a long history. + + * The way "git svn" asked for password using SSH_ASKPASS and + GIT_ASKPASS was not in line with the rest of the system. + + * The --graph code fell into infinite loop when asked to do what the + code did not expect. + + * http transport was wrong to ask for the username when the + authentication is done by certificate identity. + + * "git pack-refs" that ran in parallel to another process that + created new refs had a nasty race. + + * Rebasing the history of superproject with change in the submodule + has been broken since v1.7.12. + + * After "git add -N" and then writing a tree object out of the + index, the cache-tree data structure got corrupted. + + * "git clone" used to allow --bare and --separate-git-dir=$there + options at the same time, which was nonsensical. + + * "git rebase --preserve-merges" lost empty merges in recent versions + of Git. + + * "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. + + * "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. + + * A failure to push due to non-ff while on an unborn branch + dereferenced a NULL pointer when showing an error message. + + * When users spell "cc:" in lowercase in the fake "header" in the + trailer part, "git send-email" failed to pick up the addresses from + there. As e-mail headers field names are case insensitive, this + script should follow suit and treat "cc:" and "Cc:" the same way. + + * Output from "git status --ignored" showed an unexpected interaction + with "--untracked". + + * "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. + + * "gitweb"'s code to sanitize control characters before passing it to + "highlight" filter lost known-to-be-safe control characters by + mistake. + + * "gitweb" pages served over HTTPS, when configured to show picon or + gravatar, referred to these external resources to be fetched via + HTTP, resulting in mixed contents warning in browsers. + + * 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. + + * Command line completion leaked an unnecessary error message while + looking for possible matches with paths in <tree-ish>. + + * Command line completion for "tcsh" emitted an unwanted space + after completing a single directory name. + + * Command line completion code was inadvertently made incompatible with + older versions of bash by using a newer array notation. + + * "git push" was taught to refuse updating the branch that is + currently checked out long time ago, but the user manual was left + stale. + (merge 50995ed wk/man-deny-current-branch-is-default-these-days later to maint). + + * Some shells do not behave correctly when IFS is unset; work it + around by explicitly setting it to the default value. + + * 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. + + * A fix was added to the build procedure to work around buggy + versions of ccache broke the auto-generation of dependencies, which + unfortunately is still relevant because some people use ancient + distros. + + * The autoconf subsystem passed --mandir down to generated + config.mak.autogen but forgot to do the same for --htmldir. + (merge 55d9bf0 ct/autoconf-htmldir later to maint). + + * A change made on v1.8.1.x maintenance track had a nasty regression + to break the build when autoconf is used. + (merge 7f1b697 jn/less-reconfigure later to maint). + + * We have been carrying a translated and long-unmaintained copy of an + old version of the tutorial; removed. + + * t0050 had tests expecting failures from a bug that was fixed some + time ago. + + * t4014, t9502 and t0200 tests had various portability issues that + broke on OpenBSD. + + * t9020 and t3600 tests had various portability issues. + + * 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). + + * t9020 and t9810 had a few non-portable shell script construct. + + * Scripts to test bash completion was inherently flaky as it was + affected by whatever random things the user may have on $PATH. + + * An element on GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES could be a "logical" pathname + that uses a symbolic link to point at somewhere else (e.g. /home/me + that points at /net/host/export/home/me, and the latter directory + is automounted). Earlier when Git saw such a pathname e.g. /home/me + on this environment variable, the "ceiling" mechanism did not take + effect. With this release (the fix has also been merged to the + v1.8.1.x maintenance series), elements on GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES + are by default checked for such aliasing coming from symbolic + links. As this needs to actually resolve symbolic links for each + element on the GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES, you can disable this + mechanism for some elements by listing them after an empty element + on the GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES. e.g. Setting /home/me::/home/him to + GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES makes Git resolve symbolic links in + /home/me when checking if the current directory is under /home/me, + but does not do so for /home/him. + (merge 7ec30aa mh/maint-ceil-absolute later to maint). diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..23bd0c45bb --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt @@ -0,0 +1,162 @@ +Git v1.8.3 Release Notes +======================== + +Backward compatibility notes (for Git 2.0) +------------------------------------------ + +When "git push [$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). In Git 2.0, the default will change to 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. If you are an old-timer who is used +to the "matching" semantics, you can set it to "matching" to keep the +traditional behaviour. If you want to live in the future early, +you can set it to "simple" today without waiting for Git 2.0. + +When "git add -u" and "git add -A", that does not specify what paths +to add on the command line is run from inside a subdirectory, these +commands will operate on the entire tree in Git 2.0 for consistency +with "git commit -a" and other commands. Because there will be no +mechanism to make "git add -u" behave as if "git add -u .", it is +important for those who are used to "git add -u" (without pathspec) +updating the index only for paths in the current subdirectory to start +training their fingers to explicitly say "git add -u ." when they mean +it before Git 2.0 comes. + + +Updates since v1.8.2 +-------------------- + +UI, Workflows & Features + + * When the interactive access to git-shell is not enabled, it issues + a message meant to help the system admininstrator to enable it. + An explicit way to help the end users who connect to the service by + issuing custom messages to refuse such an access has been added. + + * "git status" suggests users to look into using--untracked=no option + when it takes too long. + + * "git fetch" learned to fetch a commit at the tip of an unadvertised + ref by specifying a raw object name from the command line when the + server side supports this feature. + + * "git count-objects -v" learned to report leftover temporary + packfiles and other garbage in the object store. + + * A new read-only credential helper (in contrib/) to interact with + the .netrc/.authinfo files has been added. + + * "git send-email" can be used with the credential helper system. + + +Foreign Interface + + + +Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. + + * Updates for building under msvc. + + * A few codepaths knew how much data they need to put in the + hashtables they use upfront, but still started from a small table + repeatedly growing and rehashing. + + +Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups. + + +Fixes since v1.8.2 +------------------ + +Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.8.2 in the maintenance +track are contained in this release (see release notes to them for +details). + + * Clarify in the documentation "what" gets pushed to "where" when the + command line to "git push" does not say these explicitly. + (merge cfe1348 jc/maint-push-refspec-default-doc later to maint). + + * The "--color=<when>" argument to the commands in the diff family + was described poorly. + (merge 3d0e75f jc/color-diff-doc later to maint). + + * The arguments given to pre-rebase hook were not documented. + (merge 0414acc wk/doc-pre-rebase later to maint). + + * The v4 index format was not documented. + (merge 647d879 nd/doc-index-format later to maint). + + * The "--match=<pattern>" argument "git describe" takes uses glob + pattern but it wasn't obvious from the documentation. + (merge 5229149 gp/describe-match-uses-glob-pattern later to maint). + + * Some sources failed to compile on systems that lack NI_MAXHOST in + their system header (e.g. z/OS). + (merge 3b130ade dm/ni-maxhost-may-be-missing later to maint). + + * Add an example use of "--env-filter" in "filter-branch" + documentation. + (merge 21b6e4f tk/doc-filter-branch later to maint). + + * "git bundle verify" did not say "records a complete history" for a + bundle that does not have any prerequisites. + (merge a02ffe0 lf/bundle-verify-list-prereqs later to maint). + + * In the v1.8.0 era, we changed symbols that do not have to be global + to file scope static, but a few functions in graph.c were used by + CGit from sideways bypassing the entry points of the API the + in-tree users use. + (merge ac751a0 jk/graph-c-expose-symbols-for-cgit later to maint). + + * "git update-index -h" did not do the usual "-h(elp)" thing. + + * "git index-pack" had a buffer-overflow while preparing an + informational message when the translated version of it was too + long. + (merge 5c3459f nd/index-pack-l10n-buf-overflow later to maint). + + * 'git commit -m "$msg"' used to add an extra newline even when + $msg already ended with one. + (merge 46fbf75 bc/commit-complete-lines-given-via-m-option later to maint). + + * The SSL peer verification done by "git imap-send" did not ask for + Server Name Indication (RFC 4366), failing to connect SSL/TLS + sites that serve multiple hostnames on a single IP. + (merge 698a1ec ob/imap-send-ssl-verify later to maint). + + * perl/Git.pm::cat_blob slurped everything in core only to write it + out to a file descriptor, which was not a very smart thing to do. + (merge 712c6ad jc/perl-cat-blob later to maint). + + * "git branch" did not bother to check nonsense command line + parameters and issue errors in many cases. + (merge 8efb889 nd/branch-error-cases later to maint). + + * Verification of signed tags were not done correctly when not in C + or en/US locale. + (merge 0174eea mg/gpg-interface-using-status later to maint). + + * Some platforms and users spell UTF-8 differently; retry with the + most official "UTF-8" when the system does not understand the + user-supplied encoding name that are the common alternative + spellings of UTF-8. + (merge 5c680be jk/utf-8-can-be-spelled-differently later to maint). + + * When export-subst is used, "zip" output recorded incorrect + size of the file. + (merge d3c1472 rs/zip-compresssed-size-with-export-subst later to maint). + + * "git am $maildir/" applied messages in an unexpected order; sort + filenames read from the maildir/ in a way that is more likely to + sort messages in the order the writing MUA meant to, by sorting + numeric segment in numeric order and non-numeric segment in + alphabetical order. + (merge 18505c3 jk/mailsplit-maildir-muttsort later to maint). + + * "git submodule update", when recursed into sub-submodules, did not + acccumulate the prefix paths. + (merge 75bf5e6 we/submodule-update-prefix-output later to maint). |