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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..4ecaa2f4cb --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.txt @@ -0,0 +1,166 @@ +Git v1.7.12 Release Notes +========================= + +Updates since v1.7.11 +--------------------- + +UI, Workflows & Features + + * 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/attributes and $HOME/.config/ignore respectively when + these files exist. + + * 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 native protocol agents learned to show software version over + the wire, so that the server log can be examined to see the vintage + distribution of clients. + + * "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" 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. + + +Foreign Interface + + +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 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. + + +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). + + * We did not have test to make sure "git rebase" without extra options + filters out an empty commit in the original history. + (merge 2b5ba7b mz/empty-rebase-test later to maint). + + * "git fast-export" produced an input stream for fast-import without + properly quoting pathnames when they contain SPs in them. + (merge ff59f6d js/fast-export-paths-with-spaces later to maint). + + * "git checkout --detach", when you are still on an unborn branch, + should be forbidden, but it wasn't. + (merge 8ced1aa cw/no-detaching-an-unborn later to maint). + + * 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. + (merge ad78585 vr/use-our-perl-in-tests later to maint). + + * "git blame" did not try to make sure that the abbreviated commit + object names in its output are unique. + (merge b31272f jc/maint-blame-unique-abbrev later to maint). + + * 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. + (merge c0f8654 rj/platform-pread-may-be-thread-unsafe later to maint). + + * "git clone --single-branch" to clone a single branch did not limit + the cloning to the specified branch. + (merge 0ec4b16 nd/clone-single-fix later to maint). + + * "git diff --no-index" did not correctly handle relative paths and + did not correctly give exit codes when run under "--quiet" option. + (merge 304970d th/diff-no-index-fixes later to maint). + + * 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. + (merge 6e513ba jc/rev-list-simplify-merges-first-parent later to maint). + + * "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. + (merge 242f55f hv/submodule-update-nuke-submodules later to maint). + + * "git diff --no-index" did not work with pagers correctly. + (merge af63b54 jk/diff-no-index-pager later to maint). + + * "git diff COPYING HEAD:COPYING" gave a nonsense error message that + claimed that the treeish HEAD did not have COPYING in it. + (merge 023e37c mm/verify-filename-fix later to maint). + + * The documentation for "git cherry-pick A B..C" was misleading. + (merge b98878e cn/cherry-pick-range-docs later to maint). + + * "git archive" incorrectly computed the header checksum; the symptom + was observed only when using pathnames with hi-bit set. + (merge a5a46eb jc/ustar-checksum-is-unsigned later to maint). + + * Running "git bundle verify" on a bundle that records a complete + history said "it requires these 0 commits". + (merge 8c3710f jc/bundle-complete-notice later to maint). + + * "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. + (merge 0d316f0 jc/ls-files-i-dir later to maint). + + * "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. + (merge 682853e jc/request-pull-match-tagname later to maint). |