X-Git-Url: https://git.tokkee.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2FRelNotes%2F1.7.9.txt;h=95320aad5dd2414efeacbc088b34e45c4ac51bbf;hb=b0fa280751a8a3e7cee093a7fdc3656490abf984;hp=3ddd75be638cdef02c99d8f2a3e8da4b9bac958d;hpb=35726681d5fd6bde44a18b4aec3cf04258d0b44e;p=git.git diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.txt index 3ddd75be6..95320aad5 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.txt @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -Git v1.7.9 Release Notes (draft) +Git v1.7.9 Release Notes ======================== Updates since v1.7.8 @@ -12,29 +12,30 @@ Updates since v1.7.8 * Git uses gettext to translate its most common interface messages into the user's language if translations are available and the - locale is appropriately set. Distributors can drop in new PO files + locale is appropriately set. Distributors can drop new PO files in po/ to add new translations. - * Porcelain commands like "git reset" did not distinguish deletions - and type-changes from ordinary modification, and reported them with - the same 'M' moniker. They now use 'D' (for deletion) and 'T' (for - type-change) to match "git status -s" and "git diff --name-status". - - * The code to handle username/password for HTTP transaction used in + * The code to handle username/password for HTTP transactions used in "git push" & "git fetch" learned to talk "credential API" to external programs to cache or store them, to allow integration with platform native keychain mechanisms. - * The prompted input in the terminal use our own getpass() replacement - when possible. HTTP transactions used to ask username without echoing - back what was typed, but with this change you will see it as you type. + * The input prompts in the terminal use our own getpass() replacement + when possible. HTTP transactions used to ask for the username without + echoing back what was typed, but with this change you will see it as + you type. + + * The internals of "revert/cherry-pick" have been tweaked to prepare + building more generic "sequencer" on top of the implementation that + drives them. + + * "git rev-parse FETCH_HEAD" after "git fetch" without specifying + what to fetch from the command line will now show the commit that + would be merged if the command were "git pull". * "git add" learned to stream large files directly into a packfile instead of writing them into individual loose object files. - * "git branch -m HEAD" is an obvious no-op and is - now allowed. - * "git checkout -B " is a more intuitive way to spell "git reset --keep ". @@ -52,6 +53,9 @@ Updates since v1.7.8 * "git commit" detects and rejects an attempt to stuff NUL byte in the commit log message. + * "git commit" learned "-S" to GPG-sign the commit; this can be shown + with the "--show-signature" option to "git log". + * fsck and prune are relatively lengthy operations that still go silent while making the end-user wait. They learned to give progress output like other slow operations. @@ -59,11 +63,8 @@ Updates since v1.7.8 * The set of built-in function-header patterns for various languages knows MATLAB. - * "git log --follow" honors the rename threshold score given with the - -M option (e.g. "-M50%"). - * "git log --format=''" learned new %g[nNeE] specifiers to - show information from the reflog entries when warlking the reflog + show information from the reflog entries when walking the reflog (i.e. with "-g"). * "git pull" can be used to fetch and merge an annotated/signed tag, @@ -71,6 +72,10 @@ Updates since v1.7.8 signed tag is recorded in the resulting merge commit for later auditing. + * "git log" learned "--show-signature" option to show the signed tag + that was merged that is embedded in the merge commit. It also can + show the signature made on the commit with "git commit -S". + * "git branch --edit-description" can be used to add descriptive text to explain what a topic branch is about. @@ -102,71 +107,6 @@ Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups. Fixes since v1.7.8 ------------------ - * The replacement implemention for snprintf used on platforms with - native snprintf that is broken did not use va_copy correctly. - (merge a9bfbc5 jk/maint-snprintf-va-copy later to maint). - - * git native connection going over TCP (not over SSH) did not set - SO_KEEPALIVE option which failed to receive link layer errors. - (merge e47a858 ew/keepalive later to maint). - - * LF-to-CRLF streaming filter replaced all LF with CRLF, which might - be techinically correct but not friendly to people who are trying - to recover from earlier mistakes of using CRLF in the repository - data in the first place. It now refrains from doing so for LF that - follows a CR. - (merge 8496f56 jc/maint-lf-to-crlf-keep-crlf later to maint). - - * "git checkout -m" did not recreate the conflicted state in a "both - sides added, without any common ancestor version" conflict - situation. - (merge 5cd7fadc jc/checkout-m-twoway later to maint). - - * "git cherry-pick $commit" (not a range) created an unnecessary - sequencer state and interfered with valid workflow to use the - command during a session to cherry-pick multiple commits. - (merge d596118 jn/maint-sequencer-fixes later to maint). - - * You could make "git commit" segfault by giving the "--no-message" - option. - (merge 03f94ae jk/maint-strbuf-missing-init later to maint). - - * "fast-import" did not correctly update an existing notes tree, - possibly corrupting the fan-out. - - * "git fetch-pack" accepted unqualified refs that do not begin with - refs/ by mistake and compensated it by matching the refspec with - tail-match, which was doubly wrong. This broke fetching from a - repository with a funny named ref "refs/foo/refs/heads/master" and a - 'master' branch with "git fetch-pack refs/heads/master", as the - command incorrectly considered the former a "match". - (merge bab8d28 jk/fetch-no-tail-match-refs later to maint). - - * "git mv" gave suboptimal error/warning messages when it overwrites - target files. It also did not pay attention to "-v" option. - (merge 534376c jk/maint-mv later to maint). - - * When a "reword" action in "git rebase -i" failed to run "commit --amend", - we did not give the control back to the user to resolve the situation, and - instead kept the original commit log message. - (merge 0becb3e aw/rebase-i-stop-on-failure-to-amend later to maint). - - * Authenticated "git push" over dumb HTTP were broken with a recent - change and failed without asking for password when username is - given. - (merge a4ddbc3 jk/maint-push-over-dav later to maint). - - * "git push" to an empty repository over HTTP were broken with a - recent change to the ref handling. - (merge 02f7914 jk/http-push-to-empty later to maint). - - * "git push -v" forgot how to be verbose by mistake. It now properly is. - (merge bd2c86e jk/maint-push-v-is-verbose later to maint). - --- -exec >/var/tmp/1 -O=v1.7.8.1-361-g1aea303 -echo O=$(git describe master) -git log --first-parent --oneline --reverse ^$O master -echo -git shortlog --no-merges ^$O ^maint master +Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.7.8 in the maintenance +releases are contained in this release (see release notes to them for +details).