X-Git-Url: https://git.tokkee.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2FRelNotes%2F1.7.8.txt;h=d7b2c76c03a9983f64e92b418ea74b508ccb8b13;hb=e454a83fa2640166aba77ef3fe2bfb81949895b8;hp=27585834694217350f6bcbfbc34ce56e46e1c6a0;hpb=522a54568e40f8b9110f9dde5664623bd5d039ce;p=git.git diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.txt index 275858346..d7b2c76c0 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.txt @@ -4,14 +4,24 @@ Git v1.7.8 Release Notes (draft) Updates since v1.7.7 -------------------- + * 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. @@ -21,6 +31,20 @@ Updates since v1.7.7 * 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. + + * "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. @@ -30,11 +54,37 @@ 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. + * "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. + * "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 @@ -63,6 +113,8 @@ Updates since v1.7.7 * "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. @@ -82,66 +134,65 @@ included in this release. 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 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). + * 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 $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 $tree" when run with multiple threads had an unsafe access to - the object database that should have been protected with mutex. - (merge 8cb5775b2 nm/grep-object-sha1-lock later to maint). - - * The "--ancestry-path" option to "git log" and friends misbehaved in a - history with complex criss-cross merges and showed an uninteresting - side history as well. - (merge c05b988a6 bk/ancestry-path later to maint). - * "git merge" did not understand ":/" as a way to name a commit. * "git mergetool" learned to use its arguments as pathspec, not a path to the file that may not even have any conflict. (merge 6d9990a jm/mergetool-pathspec later to maint). - * Tests with --valgrind failed to find "mergetool" scriptlets. - (merge ee0d7bf92 tr/mergetool-valgrind later to maint). + * "git pull" and "git rebase" did not work well even when GIT_WORK_TREE is + set correctly with GIT_DIR if the current directory is outside the working + tree. + (merge 035b5bf jk/pull-rebase-with-work-tree later to maint). - * "git patch-id" miscomputed the patch-id in a patch that has a line longer - than 1kB. - (merge b9ab810b ms/patch-id-with-overlong-line later to maint). + " "git push" on the receiving end used to call post-receive and post-update + hooks for attempted removal of non-existing refs. + (merge 160b81ed ph/push-to-delete-nothing later to maint). - * When an "exec" insn failed after modifying the index and/or the working - tree during "rebase -i", we now check and warn that the changes need to - be cleaned up. - (merge 1686519a mm/rebase-i-exec-edit later to maint). + * "git send-email" did not honor the configured hostname when restarting + the HELO/EHLO exchange after switching TLS on. + (merge 155b940 md/smtp-tls-hello-again later to maint). * "gitweb" used to produce a non-working link while showing the contents of a blob, when JavaScript actions are enabled. @@ -149,7 +200,7 @@ included in this release. --- exec >/var/tmp/1 -O=v1.7.7-236-g5366afa +O=v1.7.7-485-g9ee3d37 echo O=$(git describe --always master) git log --first-parent --oneline --reverse ^$O master echo