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-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.1.txt | 63 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git.txt | 12 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/howto/using-signed-tag-in-pull-request.txt | 4 |
3 files changed, 72 insertions, 7 deletions
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/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt index c991430642..d8a13bf61c 100644 --- a/Documentation/git.txt +++ b/Documentation/git.txt @@ -9,11 +9,11 @@ git - the stupid content tracker SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'git' [--version] [--exec-path[=<path>]] [--html-path] [--man-path] [--info-path] +'git' [--version] [--help] [-c <name>=<value>] + [--exec-path[=<path>]] [--html-path] [--man-path] [--info-path] [-p|--paginate|--no-pager] [--no-replace-objects] [--bare] [--git-dir=<path>] [--work-tree=<path>] [--namespace=<name>] - [-c <name>=<value>] - [--help] <command> [<args>] + <command> [<args>] DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -44,9 +44,10 @@ unreleased) version of git, that is available from 'master' branch of the `git.git` repository. Documentation for older releases are available here: -* link:v1.7.9/git.html[documentation for release 1.7.9] +* link:v1.7.9.1/git.html[documentation for release 1.7.9.1] * release notes for + link:RelNotes/1.7.9.1.txt[1.7.9.1], link:RelNotes/1.7.9.txt[1.7.9]. * link:v1.7.8.4/git.html[documentation for release 1.7.8.4] @@ -69,9 +70,10 @@ Documentation for older releases are available here: link:RelNotes/1.7.7.1.txt[1.7.7.1], link:RelNotes/1.7.7.txt[1.7.7]. -* link:v1.7.6.5/git.html[documentation for release 1.7.6.5] +* link:v1.7.6.6/git.html[documentation for release 1.7.6.6] * release notes for + link:RelNotes/1.7.6.6.txt[1.7.6.6], link:RelNotes/1.7.6.5.txt[1.7.6.5], link:RelNotes/1.7.6.4.txt[1.7.6.4], link:RelNotes/1.7.6.3.txt[1.7.6.3], diff --git a/Documentation/howto/using-signed-tag-in-pull-request.txt b/Documentation/howto/using-signed-tag-in-pull-request.txt index a1351c5bb8..98c0033a55 100644 --- a/Documentation/howto/using-signed-tag-in-pull-request.txt +++ b/Documentation/howto/using-signed-tag-in-pull-request.txt @@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ The resulting msg.txt file begins like so: are available in the git repository at: - example.com:/git/froboz.git frotz-for-xyzzy + example.com:/git/froboz.git tags/frotz-for-xyzzy for you to fetch changes up to 703f05ad5835c...: @@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ After receiving such a pull request message, the integrator fetches and integrates the tag named in the request, with: ------------ - $ git pull example.com:/git/froboz.git/ frotz-for-xyzzy + $ git pull example.com:/git/froboz.git/ tags/frotz-for-xyzzy ------------ This operation will always open an editor to allow the integrator to fine |