X-Git-Url: https://git.tokkee.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2FRelNotes%2F1.7.8.txt;h=b4d90bba0f6c761e61321bb9df8b7a8b3f725272;hb=cd4c4e2481dd6fcb7ceb39242fa722993f8c0ab1;hp=886dfbfaa5c66e03c1fb03271251780dc10f0450;hpb=b76c561a74cd366786b7b762795fba1551b42149;p=git.git diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.txt index 886dfbfaa..b4d90bba0 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.txt @@ -1,10 +1,10 @@ -Git v1.7.8 Release Notes (draft) -================================ +Git v1.7.8 Release Notes +======================== Updates since v1.7.7 -------------------- - * Some git-svn, git-gui and msysgit updates. + * Some git-svn, git-gui, git-p4 (in contrib) and msysgit updates. * Updates to bash completion scripts. @@ -29,7 +29,10 @@ Updates since v1.7.7 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". @@ -39,6 +42,9 @@ Updates since v1.7.7 * "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. @@ -48,6 +54,10 @@ Updates since v1.7.7 "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: " in it. + * "git for-each-ref" learned "%(contents:subject)", "%(contents:body)" and "%(contents:signature)". The last one is useful for signed tags. @@ -69,9 +79,15 @@ Updates since v1.7.7 * "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 @@ -83,6 +99,9 @@ Updates since v1.7.7 * "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..update to specify that the named submodule should not be checked out by default. @@ -94,12 +113,12 @@ Updates since v1.7.7 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. @@ -112,20 +131,15 @@ Fixes since v1.7.7 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). - - * 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). - * 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). + * "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. @@ -133,56 +147,15 @@ included in this release. * Report from "git commit" on untracked files was confused under core.ignorecase option. - (merge 2548183b jk/name-hash-dirent later to maint). - - * The attribute mechanism did not use case insensitive match when - core.ignorecase was set. - (merge 6eba621 bc/attr-ignore-case 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 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 remote rename $a $b" were not careful to match the remote name - against $a (i.e. source side of the remote nickname). - (merge b52d00aed mz/remote-rename later to maint). - - * "git diff --[num]stat" used to use the number of lines of context - different from the default, potentially giving different results from - "git diff | diffstat" and confusing the users. - (merge f01cae918 jc/maint-diffstat-numstat-context later to maint). + (merge 395c7356 jk/name-hash-dirent later to maint). * "git merge" did not understand ":/" as a way to name a commit. - * "git mergetool" learned to use its arguments as pathspec, not a path to - the file that may not even have any conflict. - (merge 6d9990a jm/mergetool-pathspec later to maint). - - * "git pull" and "git rebase" did not work well even when GIT_WORK_TREE is - set correctly with GIT_DIR if the current directory is outside the working - tree. - (merge 035b5bf jk/pull-rebase-with-work-tree later to maint). - " "git push" on the receiving end used to call post-receive and post-update hooks for attempted removal of non-existing refs. (merge 160b81ed ph/push-to-delete-nothing later to maint). - * "git send-email" did not honor the configured hostname when restarting - the HELO/EHLO exchange after switching TLS on. - (merge 155b940 md/smtp-tls-hello-again later to maint). - - * "gitweb" used to produce a non-working link while showing the contents - of a blob, when JavaScript actions are enabled. - (merge 2b07ff3ff ps/gitweb-js-with-lineno later to maint). - ---- -exec >/var/tmp/1 -O=v1.7.7-418-g40d6987 -echo O=$(git describe --always master) -git log --first-parent --oneline --reverse ^$O master -echo -git shortlog --no-merges ^$O master + * 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).