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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.txt | 88 |
1 files changed, 78 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.txt index 117f4b1904..34f301d557 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.txt @@ -16,18 +16,50 @@ UI, Workflows & Features 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 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 and Internal Implementation (please report possible regressions) +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. @@ -39,17 +71,53 @@ 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). -* 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. + (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. + * "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. + * "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). |