From 876a6f4991abdd72ea707b193b4f2b831096ad3c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Junio C Hamano Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 16:39:54 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Update draft release notes to 1.7.9 Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.txt | 49 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 48 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.txt index ee72a845f..70ff06023 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.txt @@ -10,11 +10,23 @@ Updates since v1.7.8 * git-p4 (in contrib/) updates. + * i18n effort is going forward and Git uses localized messages if + available. + * 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 + "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. + + * "git commit" and "git reset" re-learned the optimization to prime + the cache-tree information in the index, which makes it faster to + write a tree object out after the index entries are updated. + * "git add" learned to stream large files directly into a packfile instead of writing them into individual loose object files. @@ -79,10 +91,18 @@ Fixes since v1.7.8 function. (merge 37e7793 tr/userdiff-c-returns-pointer later to maint). + * 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). + * LF-to-CRLF streaming filter used when checking out a large-ish blob fell into an infinite loop with a rare input. (merge 284e3d2 cn/maint-lf-to-crlf-filter 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). + * "git archive" mistakenly allowed remote clients to ask for commits that are not at the tip of any ref. (merge 7b51c33 jk/maint-upload-archive later to maint). @@ -91,6 +111,16 @@ Fixes since v1.7.8 without any patch. (merge cc64b31 bc/maint-apply-check-no-patch 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 335c6e4 jc/checkout-m-twoway later to maint). + + * "git cherry-pick $commit" (not a range) created an unnecessary + sequencer state and interfered with valid workflow to use the + command during a session to cherry-pick multiple commits. + (merge d596118 jn/maint-sequencer-fixes later to maint). + * The error message from "git diff" and "git status" when they fail to inspect changes in submodules did not report which submodule they had trouble with. @@ -99,14 +129,31 @@ Fixes since v1.7.8 * "fast-import" did not correctly update an existing notes tree, possibly corrupting the fan-out. + * "git fetch-pack" accepted unqualified refs that do not begin with + refs/ by mistake and compensated it by matching the refspec with + tail-match, which was doubly wrong. This broke fetching from a + repository with a funny named ref "refs/foo/refs/heads/master" and a + 'master' branch with "git fetch-pack refs/heads/master", as the + command incorrectly considered the former a "match". + (merge bab8d28 jk/fetch-no-tail-match-refs later to maint). + + * "git mv" gave suboptimal error/warning messages when it overwrites + target files. It also did not pay attention to "-v" option. + (merge 534376c jk/maint-mv later to maint). + * When a "reword" action in "git rebase -i" failed to run "commit --amend", we did not give the control back to the user to resolve the situation, and instead kept the original commit log message. (merge 0becb3e aw/rebase-i-stop-on-failure-to-amend later to maint). + * Authenticated "git push" over dumb HTTP were broken with a recent + change and failed without asking for password when username is + given. + (merge a4ddbc3 jk/maint-push-over-dav later to maint). + -- exec >/var/tmp/1 -O=v1.7.8-282-ga2add85 +O=v1.7.8-351-g2dccad3 echo O=$(git describe master) git log --first-parent --oneline --reverse ^$O master echo -- 2.30.2