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Updates since v1.7.7
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+ * Some git-svn, git-gui, git-p4 (in contrib) and msysgit updates.
+
+ * Updates to bash completion scripts.
+
* The build procedure has been taught to take advantage of computed
dependency automatically when the complier supports it.
* The date parser now accepts timezone designators that lack minutes
part and also has a colon between "hh:mm".
+ * 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.
+
* "git am" learned how to read from patches generated by Hg.
+ * "git archive" talking with a remote repository can report errors
+ from the remote side in a more informative way.
+
* "git branch" learned an explicit --list option to ask for branches
listed, optionally with a glob matching pattern to limit its output.
files from the index, not from the working tree.
* Variants of "git cherry-pick" and "git revert" that take multiple
- commits learned to "--continue".
+ commits learned to "--continue" and "--abort".
+
+ * "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.
+
+ * "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") 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 grep" used to incorrectly pay attention to .gitignore files
+ scattered in the directory it was working in even when "--no-index"
+ option was used. It no longer does this. The "--exclude-standard"
+ option needs to be given to explicitly activate the ignore
+ mechanism.
+
+ * "git grep" learned "--untracked" option, where given patterns are
+ searched in untracked (but not ignored) files as well as tracked
+ 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.
+ * "mediawiki" remote helper can interact with (surprise!) MediaWiki
+ with "git fetch" & "git push".
+
+ * "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 stash" learned "--include-untracked" option to stash away
untracked/ignored cruft from the working tree.
+ * "git submodule clone" does not leak an error message to the UI
+ level unnecessarily anymore.
+
* "git submodule update" learned to honor "none" as the value for
submodule.<name>.update to specify that the named submodule should
not be checked out by default.
between commits in the superproject that has and does not have the
submodule in the tree without re-cloning.
- * "mediawiki" remote helper can interact with (surprise!) MediaWiki
- with "git fetch" & "git push".
-
* "gitweb" leaked unescaped control characters from syntax hiliter
outputs.
+ * "gitweb" can be told to give custom string at the end of the HTML
+ HEAD element.
+
+ * "gitweb" now has its own manual pages.
+
Also contains other documentation updates and minor code cleanups.
Unless otherwise noted, all fixes in the 1.7.7.X maintenance track are
included in this release.
- * We used to drop error messages from libcurl on certain kinds of
- errors.
- (merge be22d92eac8 jn/maint-http-error-message later to maint).
+ * HTTP transport did not use pushurl correctly, and also did not tell
+ what host it is trying to authenticate with when asking for
+ credentials.
+ (merge deba493 jk/http-auth later to maint).
- * Error report from smart HTTP transport, when the connection was
- broken in the middle of a transfer, showed a useless message on
- a corrupt packet.
- (merge 6cdf022 sp/smart-http-failure later to maint).
+ * "git blame" was aborted if started from an uncommitted content and
+ the path had the textconv filter in effect.
+ (merge 8518088 ss/blame-textconv-fake-working-tree 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).
- * "git remote rename $a $b" were not careful to match the remote name
- against $a (i.e. source side of the remote nickname).
- (merge b52d00aed mz/remote-rename later to maint).
-
- * "git diff $tree $path" used to apply the pathspec at the output stage,
- reading the whole tree, wasting resources.
- (merge 2f88c1970 jc/diff-index-unpack later to maint).
-
- * "git diff --[num]stat" used to use the number of lines of context
- different from the default, potentially giving different results from
- "git diff | diffstat" and confusing the users.
- (merge f01cae918 jc/maint-diffstat-numstat-context later to maint).
-
- * The code to check for updated submodules during a "git fetch" of the
- superproject had an unnecessary quadratic loop.
- (merge 6859de45 jk/maint-fetch-submodule-check-fix later to maint).
-
- * "git fetch" from a large bundle did not enable the progress output.
- (merge be042aff jc/maint-bundle-too-quiet later to maint).
-
- * When "git fsck --lost-and-found" found that an empty blob object in the
- object store is unreachable, it incorrectly reported an error after
- writing the lost blob out successfully.
- (merge eb726f2d jc/maint-fsck-fwrite-size-check later to maint).
-
- * "git filter-branch" did not refresh the index before checking that the
- working tree was clean.
- (merge 5347a50f jk/filter-branch-require-clean-work-tree later to maint).
-
- * "git grep $tree" when run with multiple threads had an unsafe access to
- the object database that should have been protected with mutex.
- (merge 8cb5775b2 nm/grep-object-sha1-lock later to maint).
-
- * The "--ancestry-path" option to "git log" and friends misbehaved in a
- history with complex criss-cross merges and showed an uninteresting
- side history as well.
- (merge c05b988a6 bk/ancestry-path later to maint).
+ * Report from "git commit" on untracked files was confused under
+ core.ignorecase option.
+ (merge 395c7356 jk/name-hash-dirent later to maint).
* "git merge" did not understand ":/<pattern>" as a way to name a commit.
- * "git mergetool" learned to use its arguments as pathspec, not a path to
- the file that may not even have any conflict.
- (merge 6d9990a jm/mergetool-pathspec later to maint).
-
- * Tests with --valgrind failed to find "mergetool" scriptlets.
- (merge ee0d7bf92 tr/mergetool-valgrind later to maint).
-
- * "git patch-id" miscomputed the patch-id in a patch that has a line longer
- than 1kB.
- (merge b9ab810b ms/patch-id-with-overlong-line later to maint).
-
- * When an "exec" insn failed after modifying the index and/or the working
- tree during "rebase -i", we now check and warn that the changes need to
- be cleaned up.
- (merge 1686519a mm/rebase-i-exec-edit later to maint).
+ " "git push" on the receiving end used to call post-receive and post-update
+ hooks for attempted removal of non-existing refs.
+ (merge 160b81ed ph/push-to-delete-nothing later to maint).
- * "gitweb" used to produce a non-working link while showing the contents
- of a blob, when JavaScript actions are enabled.
- (merge 2b07ff3ff ps/gitweb-js-with-lineno later to maint).
+ * Help text for "git remote set-url" and "git remote set-branches"
+ were misspelled.
+ (merge c49904e fc/remote-seturl-usage-fix later to maint).
+ (merge 656cdf0 jc/remote-setbranches-usage-fix later to maint).
---
exec >/var/tmp/1
-O=v1.7.7-236-g5366afa
+O=v1.7.8-rc3-16-g9e9ab40
echo O=$(git describe --always master)
git log --first-parent --oneline --reverse ^$O master
echo