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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 $key" segfaulted on "[section] key" (a boolean + "true" spelled without "=", not "[section] key = true"). + + * "git checkout -b foo" while on an unborn branch did not say + "Switched to a new branch 'foo'" like other cases. + +Also contains other minor fixes and documentation updates. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.txt index 04f6ace828..43883c14f0 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.txt @@ -4,16 +4,18 @@ Git v1.8.0 Release Notes Backward compatibility notes ---------------------------- -In the next major release, we will change the behavior of the "git -push" command. When "git push [$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 now use the "simple" semantics, that pushes the -current branch to the branch with the same name only when the current +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. +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 @@ -35,7 +37,7 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * 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. We strip that now, too. + 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 @@ -62,6 +64,8 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * "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. @@ -85,7 +89,7 @@ Foreign Interface encountering a conflict during "p4 submit". -Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. (please report possible regressions) +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 |