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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.1.txt | 21 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.2.txt | 44 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.txt | 105 |
3 files changed, 129 insertions, 41 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.1.txt index 02d7c02a00..ac9b838e25 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.1.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.1.txt @@ -4,6 +4,27 @@ 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. 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/1.7.8.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.txt index 5500db2b71..f53845f693 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.txt @@ -4,16 +4,16 @@ Git v1.7.8 Release Notes (draft) 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". - * On some BSD systems, adding +s bit on directories is detrimental - (it is not necessary on BSD to begin with). The installation - procedure has been updated to take this into account. - * 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. @@ -31,11 +31,20 @@ Updates since v1.7.7 * Variants of "git cherry-pick" and "git revert" that take multiple commits learned to "--continue". + * "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. @@ -45,6 +54,10 @@ Updates since v1.7.7 "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. @@ -59,8 +72,22 @@ Updates since v1.7.7 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 @@ -72,6 +99,9 @@ Updates since v1.7.7 * "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. @@ -83,12 +113,17 @@ Updates since v1.7.7 between commits in the superproject that has and does not have the submodule in the tree without re-cloning. - * "mediawiki" remote helper can interact with (surprise!) MediaWiki - with "git fetch" & "git push". + * "git upload-archive" (hence "git archive --remote") can be built + and used on mingw port of Git. * "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. @@ -99,55 +134,43 @@ Fixes since v1.7.7 Unless otherwise noted, all fixes in the 1.7.7.X maintenance track are included in this release. - * We used to drop error messages from libcurl on certain kinds of - errors. - (merge be22d92eac8 jn/maint-http-error-message later to maint). + * 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). - * 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. - (merge 6cdf022 sp/smart-http-failure later to maint). + * "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. + (merge b0eab01 jc/maint-remove-renamed-ref 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). - * 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. - (merge baf18fc nd/maint-autofix-tag-in-head later to maint). - - * "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. - (merge 8557263 jc/apply-blank-at-eof-fix later to maint). - - - * "git remote rename $a $b" were not careful to match the remote name - against $a (i.e. source side of the remote nickname). - (merge b52d00aed mz/remote-rename later to maint). - - * "git diff --[num]stat" used to use the number of lines of context - different from the default, potentially giving different results from - "git diff | diffstat" and confusing the users. - (merge f01cae918 jc/maint-diffstat-numstat-context later to maint). + * Report from "git commit" on untracked files was confused under + core.ignorecase option. + (merge 395c7356 jk/name-hash-dirent later to maint). * "git merge" did not understand ":/<pattern>" as a way to name a commit. - * "git mergetool" learned to use its arguments as pathspec, not a path to - the file that may not even have any conflict. - (merge 6d9990a jm/mergetool-pathspec later to maint). + " "git push" on the receiving end used to call post-receive and post-update + hooks for attempted removal of non-existing refs. + (merge 160b81ed ph/push-to-delete-nothing later to maint). + + * The logic to filter out forked projects in the project list in + "gitweb" was broken for some time. + (merge 53c632f jm/maint-gitweb-filter-forks-fix later to maint). - * "gitweb" used to produce a non-working link while showing the contents - of a blob, when JavaScript actions are enabled. - (merge 2b07ff3ff ps/gitweb-js-with-lineno later to maint). + * The logic to optimize the locality of the data in a pack introduced in + 1.7.7 was grossly inefficient. + (merge 38d4deb dm/pack-objects-update later to maint). --- exec >/var/tmp/1 -O=v1.7.7-289-gb73c683 +O=v1.7.8-rc0-32-g8e3565f echo O=$(git describe --always master) git log --first-parent --oneline --reverse ^$O master echo |