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Git v1.8.2 Release Notes
========================
Backward compatibility notes
----------------------------
In the upcoming major release (tentatively called 1.8.2), 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.
"git push $there tag v1.2.3" used to allow replacing a tag v1.2.3
that already exists in the repository $there, if the rewritten tag
you are pushing points at a commit that is a decendant of a commit
that the old tag v1.2.3 points at. This was found to be error prone
and starting with this release, any attempt to update an existing
ref under refs/tags/ hierarchy will fail, without "--force".
Updates since v1.8.1
--------------------
UI, Workflows & Features
* Initial ports to QNX and z/OS UNIX System Services have started.
* Output from the tests is coloured using "green is okay, yellow is
questionable, red is bad and blue is informative" scheme.
* In bare repositories, "git shortlog" and other commands now read
mailmap files from the tip of the history, to help running these
tools in server settings.
* Color specifiers, e.g. "%C(blue)Hello%C(reset)", used in the
"--format=" option of "git log" and friends can be disabled when
the output is not sent to a terminal by prefixing them with
"auto,", e.g. "%C(auto,blue)Hello%C(auto,reset)".
* Scripts can ask Git that wildcard patterns in pathspecs they give do
not have any significance, i.e. take them as literal strings.
* The patterns in .gitignore and .gitattributes files can have **/,
as a pattern that matches 0 or more levels of subdirectory.
E.g. "foo/**/bar" matches "bar" in "foo" itself or in a
subdirectory of "foo".
* "git blame" (and "git diff") learned the "--no-follow" option.
* "git check-ignore" command to help debugging .gitignore files has
been added.
* "git cherry-pick" can be used to replay a root commit to an unborn
branch.
* "git commit" can be told to use --cleanup=whitespace by setting the
configuration variable commit.cleanup to 'whitespace'.
* "git fetch --mirror" and fetch that uses other forms of refspec
with wildcard used to attempt to update a symbolic ref that match
the wildcard on the receiving end, which made little sense (the
real ref that is pointed at by the symbolic ref would be updated
anyway). Symbolic refs no longer are affected by such a fetch.
* "git format-patch" now detects more cases in which a whole branch
is being exported, and uses the description for the branch, when
asked to write a cover letter for the series.
* "git format-patch" learned "-v $count" option, and prepends a
string "v$count-" to the names of its output files, and also
automatically sets the subject prefix to "PATCH v$count". This
allows patches from rerolled series to be stored under different
names and makes it easier to reuse cover letter messsages.
* "git log" and friends can be told with --use-mailmap option to
rewrite the names and email addresses of people using the mailmap
mechanism.
* "git push" now requires "-f" to update a tag, even if it is a
fast-forward, as tags are meant to be fixed points.
* "git push" will stop without doing anything if the new "pre-push"
hook exists and exits with a failure.
* When "git rebase" fails to generate patches to be applied (e.g. due
to oom), it failed to detect the failure and instead behaved as if
there were nothing to do. A workaround to use a temporary file has
been applied, but we probably would want to revisit this later, as
it hurts the common case of not failing at all.
* Input and preconditions to "git reset" has been loosened where
appropriate. "git reset $fromtree Makefile" requires $fromtree to
be any tree (it used to require it to be a commit), for example.
"git reset" (without options or parameters) used to error out when
you do not have any commits in your history, but it now gives you
an empty index (to match non-existent commit you are not even on).
* "git submodule" started learning a new mode to integrate with the
tip of the remote branch (as opposed to integrating with the commit
recorded in the superproject's gitlink).
Foreign Interface
* "git fast-export" has been updated for its use in the context of
the remote helper interface.
* A new remote helper to interact with bzr has been added to contrib/.
* "git p4" got various bugfixes around its branch handling.
* The remote helper to interact with Hg in contrib/ has seen a few
fixes.
Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
* "git fsck" has been taught to be pickier about entries in tree
objects that should not be there, e.g. ".", ".git", and "..".
* Matching paths with common forms of pathspecs that contain wildcard
characters has been optimized further.
* "git reset" internals has been reworked and should be faster in
general. We tried to be careful not to break any behaviour but
there could be corner cases, especially when running the command
from a conflicted state, that we may have missed.
* The implementation of "imap-send" has been updated to reuse xml
quoting code from http-push codepath, and lost a lot of unused
code.
* There is a simple-minded checker for the test scripts in t/
directory to catch most common mistakes (it is not enabled by
default).
* You can build with USE_WILDMATCH=YesPlease to use a replacement
implementation of pattern matching logic used for pathname-like
things, e.g. refnames and paths in the repository. This new
implementation is not expected change the existing behaviour of Git
in this release, except for "git for-each-ref" where you can now
say "refs/**/master" and match with both refs/heads/master and
refs/remotes/origin/master. We plan to use this new implementation
in wider places (e.g. "git ls-files '**/Makefile' may find Makefile
at the top-level, and "git log '**/t*.sh'" may find commits that
touch a shell script whose name begins with "t" at any level) in
future versions of Git, but we are not there yet. By building with
USE_WILDMATCH, using the resulting Git daily and reporting when you
find breakages, you can help us get closer to that goal.
Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.
Fixes since v1.8.1
------------------
Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.8.1 in the maintenance
track are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
details).
* An element on GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES list that does not name the
real path to a directory (i.e. a symbolic link) could have caused
the GIT_DIR discovery logic to escape the ceiling.
* When attempting to read the XDG-style $HOME/.config/git/config and
finding that $HOME/.config/git is a file, we gave a wrong error
message, instead of treating the case as "a custom config file does
not exist there" and moving on.
* The behaviour visible to the end users was confusing, when they
attempt to kill a process spawned in the editor that was in turn
launched by Git with SIGINT (or SIGQUIT), as Git would catch that
signal and die. We ignore these signals now.
(merge 1250857 pf/editor-ignore-sigint later to maint).
* A child process that was killed by a signal (e.g. SIGINT) was
reported in an inconsistent way depending on how the process was
spawned by us, with or without a shell in between.
* After failing to create a temporary file using mkstemp(), failing
pathname was not reported correctly on some platforms.
* The attribute mechanism didn't allow limiting attributes to be
applied to only a single directory itself with "path/" like the
exclude mechanism does. The initial implementation of this that
was merged to 'maint' and 1.8.1.2 was with a severe performance
degradations and needs to merge a fix-up topic.
(merge 9db9eec nd/fix-directory-attrs-off-by-one later to maint).
* "git am" did not parse datestamp correctly from Hg generated patch,
when it is run in a locale outside C (or en).
(merge 5185b97 dl/am-hg-locale later to maint).
* "git apply" misbehaved when fixing whitespace breakages by removing
excess trailing blank lines.
* A tar archive created by "git archive" recorded a directory in a
way that made NetBSD's implementation of "tar" sometimes unhappy.
* "git archive" did not record uncompressed size in the header when
streaming a zip archive, which confused some implementations of unzip.
* "git clean" showed what it was going to do, but sometimes end up
finding that it was not allowed to do so, which resulted in a
confusing output (e.g. after saying that it will remove an
untracked directory, it found an embedded git repository there
which it is not allowed to remove). It now performs the actions
and then reports the outcome more faithfully.
(merge f538a91 zk/clean-report-failure later to maint).
* When "git clone --separate-git-dir=$over_there" is interrupted, it
failed to remove the real location of the $GIT_DIR it created.
This was most visible when interrupting a submodule update.
* The way "git svn" asked for password using SSH_ASKPASS and
GIT_ASKPASS was not in line with the rest of the system.
* The --graph code fell into infinite loop when asked to do what the
code did not expect.
* http transport was wrong to ask for the username when the
authentication is done by certificate identity.
* "git pack-refs" that ran in parallel to another process that
created new refs had a nasty race.
* After "git add -N" and then writing a tree object out of the
index, the cache-tree data structure got corrupted.
* "git clone" used to allow --bare and --separate-git-dir=$there
options at the same time, which was nonsensical.
(merge 95b63f1 nd/clone-no-separate-git-dir-with-bare later to maint).
* "git rebase --preserve-merges" lost empty merges in recent versions
of Git.
(merge 9869778 ph/rebase-preserve-all-merges later to maint).
* "git merge --no-edit" computed who were involved in the work done
on the side branch, even though that information is to be discarded
without getting seen in the editor.
* "git merge" started calling prepare-commit-msg hook like "git
commit" does some time ago, but forgot to pay attention to the exit
status of the hook.
* When users spell "cc:" in lowercase in the fake "header" in the
trailer part, "git send-email" failed to pick up the addresses from
there. As e-mail headers field names are case insensitive, this
script should follow suit and treat "cc:" and "Cc:" the same way.
* Output from "git status --ignored" showed an unexpected interaction
with "--untracked".
* "gitweb", when sorting by age to show repositories with new
activities first, used to sort repositories with absolutely
nothing in it early, which was not very useful.
* "gitweb"'s code to sanitize control characters before passing it to
"highlight" filter lost known-to-be-safe control characters by
mistake.
* When a line to be wrapped has a solid run of non space characters
whose length exactly is the wrap width, "git shortlog -w" failed
to add a newline after such a line.
* Command line completion leaked an unnecessary error message while
looking for possible matches with paths in <tree-ish>.
* Command line completion for "tcsh" emitted an unwanted space
after completing a single directory name.
* Command line completion code was inadvertently made incompatible with
older versions of bash by using a newer array notation.
(merge 50c5885 bc/fix-array-syntax-for-3.0-in-completion-bash later to maint).
* Some shells do not behave correctly when IFS is unset; work it
around by explicitly setting it to the default value.
* Some scripted programs written in Python did not get updated when
PYTHON_PATH changed.
(cherry-pick 96a4647fca54031974cd6ad1 later to maint).
* When autoconf is used, any build on a different commit always ran
"config.status --recheck" even when unnecessary.
* We have been carrying a translated and long-unmaintained copy of an
old version of the tutorial; removed.
* t0050 had tests expecting failures from a bug that was fixed some
time ago.
(merge 336e2e2 tb/t0050-maint later to maint).
* t4014, t9502 and t0200 tests had various portability issues that
broke on OpenBSD.
* t9020 and t3600 tests had various portability issues.
* t9200 runs "cvs init" on a directory that already exists, but a
platform can configure this fail for the current user (e.g. you
need to be in the cvsadmin group on NetBSD 6.0).
* t9020 and t9810 had a few non-portable shell script construct.
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