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Updates since v1.7.7
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Updates since v1.7.7
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- * Some git-svn and git-gui updates.
+ * Some git-svn, git-gui, git-p4 (in contrib) and msysgit updates.
* Updates to bash completion scripts.
* Updates to bash completion scripts.
* The date parser now accepts timezone designators that lack minutes
part and also has a colon between "hh:mm".
* 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.
* 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.
* Variants of "git cherry-pick" and "git revert" that take multiple
commits learned to "--continue".
* 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.
* 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.
* "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.
"git receive-pack" (the receiving end of "git push") learned to do the
same.
"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.
* "git for-each-ref" learned "%(contents:subject)", "%(contents:body)"
and "%(contents:signature)". The last one is useful for signed tags.
files in the working tree, so that matches in new but not yet
added files do not get missed.
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.
* "git ls-remote" learned to respond to "-h"(elp) requests.
+ * "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
* "git send-email" learned to respond to "-h"(elp) requests.
* "git send-email" allows the value given to sendemail.aliasfile to begin
* "gitweb" leaked unescaped control characters from syntax hiliter
outputs.
* "gitweb" leaked unescaped control characters from syntax hiliter
outputs.
+ * "gitweb" now has its own manual pages.
+
Also contains other documentation updates and minor code cleanups.
Also contains other documentation updates and minor code cleanups.
credentials.
(merge deba493 jk/http-auth later to maint).
credentials.
(merge deba493 jk/http-auth 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).
* 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).
-
* Report from "git commit" on untracked files was confused under
core.ignorecase option.
(merge 2548183b jk/name-hash-dirent later to maint).
* Report from "git commit" on untracked files was confused under
core.ignorecase option.
(merge 2548183b jk/name-hash-dirent later to maint).
core.ignorecase was set.
(merge 6eba621 bc/attr-ignore-case later to maint).
core.ignorecase was set.
(merge 6eba621 bc/attr-ignore-case 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 bisect" did not notice when it failed to update the working tree
to the next commit to be tested.
(merge 1acf11717 js/bisect-no-checkout later to maint).
* "git bisect" did not notice when it failed to update the working tree
to the next commit to be tested.
(merge 1acf11717 js/bisect-no-checkout later to maint).
- * "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 $tree. They should have been kept intact.
- (merge 0a1283b jc/checkout-from-tree-keep-local-changes later to maint).
-
* "git config --bool --get-regexp" failed to separate the variable name
and its value "true" when the variable is defined without "= true".
(merge 880e3cc mm/maint-config-explicit-bool-display later to maint).
* "git config --bool --get-regexp" failed to separate the variable name
and its value "true" when the variable is defined without "= true".
(merge 880e3cc mm/maint-config-explicit-bool-display later to maint).
hooks for attempted removal of non-existing refs.
(merge 160b81ed ph/push-to-delete-nothing later to maint).
hooks for attempted removal of non-existing refs.
(merge 160b81ed ph/push-to-delete-nothing later to maint).
+ * "git send-email" did not honor the configured hostname when restarting
+ the HELO/EHLO exchange after switching TLS on.
+ (merge 155b940 md/smtp-tls-hello-again later to maint).
+
* "gitweb" used to produce a non-working link while showing the contents
of a blob, when JavaScript actions are enabled.
(merge 2b07ff3ff ps/gitweb-js-with-lineno later to maint).
---
exec >/var/tmp/1
* "gitweb" used to produce a non-working link while showing the contents
of a blob, when JavaScript actions are enabled.
(merge 2b07ff3ff ps/gitweb-js-with-lineno later to maint).
---
exec >/var/tmp/1
-O=v1.7.7-368-g9638384
+O=v1.7.7-485-g9ee3d37
echo O=$(git describe --always master)
git log --first-parent --oneline --reverse ^$O master
echo
echo O=$(git describe --always master)
git log --first-parent --oneline --reverse ^$O master
echo