1 Git v1.7.8 Release Notes (draft)
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7 * The build procedure has been taught to take advantage of computed
8 dependency automatically when the complier supports it.
10 * The date parser now accepts timezone designators that lack minutes
11 part and also has a colon between "hh:mm".
13 * On some BSD systems, adding +s bit on directories is detrimental
14 (it is not necessary on BSD to begin with). The installation
15 procedure has been updated to take this into account.
17 * The contents of the /etc/mailname file, if exists, is used as the
18 default value of the hostname part of the committer/author e-mail.
20 * "git am" learned how to read from patches generated by Hg.
22 * "git archive" talking with a remote repository can report errors
23 from the remote side in a more informative way.
25 * "git branch" learned an explicit --list option to ask for branches
26 listed, optionally with a glob matching pattern to limit its output.
28 * "git check-attr" learned "--cached" option to look at .gitattributes
29 files from the index, not from the working tree.
31 * Variants of "git cherry-pick" and "git revert" that take multiple
32 commits learned to "--continue".
34 * Errors at the network layer is logged by "git daemon".
36 * "git diff" learned "--minimal" option to spend extra cycles to come
37 up with a minimal patch output.
39 * "git fetch" learned to honor transfer.fsckobjects configuration to
40 validate the objects that were received from the other end, just like
41 "git receive-pack" (the receiving end of "git push") does.
43 * "git fetch" makes sure that the set of objects it received from the
44 other end actually completes the history before updating the refs.
45 "git receive-pack" (the receiving end of "git push") learned to do the
48 * "git for-each-ref" learned "%(contents:subject)", "%(contents:body)"
49 and "%(contents:signature)". The last one is useful for signed tags.
51 * "git grep" used to incorrectly pay attention to .gitignore files
52 scattered in the directory it was working in even when "--no-index"
53 option was used. It no longer does this. The "--exclude-standard"
54 option needs to be given to explicitly activate the ignore
57 * "git grep" learned "--untracked" option, where given patterns are
58 searched in untracked (but not ignored) files as well as tracked
59 files in the working tree, so that matches in new but not yet
60 added files do not get missed.
62 * "git ls-remote" learned to respond to "-h"(elp) requests.
64 * "git send-email" learned to respond to "-h"(elp) requests.
66 * "git send-email" allows the value given to sendemail.aliasfile to begin
67 with "~/" to refer to the $HOME directory.
69 * "git send-email" forces use of Authen::SASL::Perl to work around
70 issues between Authen::SASL::Cyrus and AUTH PLAIN/LOGIN.
72 * "git stash" learned "--include-untracked" option to stash away
73 untracked/ignored cruft from the working tree.
75 * "git submodule update" learned to honor "none" as the value for
76 submodule.<name>.update to specify that the named submodule should
77 not be checked out by default.
79 * When populating a new submodule directory with "git submodule init",
80 the $GIT_DIR metainformation directory for submodules is created inside
81 $GIT_DIR/modules/<name>/ directory of the superproject and referenced
82 via the gitfile mechanism. This is to make it possible to switch
83 between commits in the superproject that has and does not have the
84 submodule in the tree without re-cloning.
86 * "mediawiki" remote helper can interact with (surprise!) MediaWiki
87 with "git fetch" & "git push".
89 * "gitweb" leaked unescaped control characters from syntax hiliter
93 Also contains other documentation updates and minor code cleanups.
99 Unless otherwise noted, all fixes in the 1.7.7.X maintenance track are
100 included in this release.
102 * We used to drop error messages from libcurl on certain kinds of
104 (merge be22d92eac8 jn/maint-http-error-message later to maint).
106 * Error report from smart HTTP transport, when the connection was
107 broken in the middle of a transfer, showed a useless message on
109 (merge 6cdf022 sp/smart-http-failure later to maint).
111 * Adding many refs to the local repository in one go (e.g. "git fetch"
112 that fetches many tags) and looking up a ref by name in a repository
113 with too many refs were unnecessarily slow.
114 (merge 17d68a54d jp/get-ref-dir-unsorted later to maint).
116 * After incorrectly written third-party tools store a tag object in
117 HEAD, git diagnosed it as a repository corruption and refused to
118 proceed in order to avoid spreading the damage. We now gracefully
119 recover from such a situation by pretending as if the commit that
120 is pointed at by the tag were in HEAD.
121 (merge baf18fc nd/maint-autofix-tag-in-head later to maint).
123 * "git apply --whitespace=error" did not bother to report the exact
124 line number in the patch that introduced new blank lines at the end
126 (merge 8557263 jc/apply-blank-at-eof-fix later to maint).
129 * "git remote rename $a $b" were not careful to match the remote name
130 against $a (i.e. source side of the remote nickname).
131 (merge b52d00aed mz/remote-rename later to maint).
133 * "git diff $tree $path" used to apply the pathspec at the output stage,
134 reading the whole tree, wasting resources.
135 (merge 2f88c1970 jc/diff-index-unpack later to maint).
137 * "git diff --[num]stat" used to use the number of lines of context
138 different from the default, potentially giving different results from
139 "git diff | diffstat" and confusing the users.
140 (merge f01cae918 jc/maint-diffstat-numstat-context later to maint).
142 * The code to check for updated submodules during a "git fetch" of the
143 superproject had an unnecessary quadratic loop.
144 (merge 6859de45 jk/maint-fetch-submodule-check-fix later to maint).
146 * "git fetch" from a large bundle did not enable the progress output.
147 (merge be042aff jc/maint-bundle-too-quiet later to maint).
149 * When "git fsck --lost-and-found" found that an empty blob object in the
150 object store is unreachable, it incorrectly reported an error after
151 writing the lost blob out successfully.
152 (merge eb726f2d jc/maint-fsck-fwrite-size-check later to maint).
154 * "git filter-branch" did not refresh the index before checking that the
155 working tree was clean.
156 (merge 5347a50f jk/filter-branch-require-clean-work-tree later to maint).
158 * "git grep $tree" when run with multiple threads had an unsafe access to
159 the object database that should have been protected with mutex.
160 (merge 8cb5775b2 nm/grep-object-sha1-lock later to maint).
162 * The "--ancestry-path" option to "git log" and friends misbehaved in a
163 history with complex criss-cross merges and showed an uninteresting
164 side history as well.
165 (merge c05b988a6 bk/ancestry-path later to maint).
167 * "git merge" did not understand ":/<pattern>" as a way to name a commit.
169 * "git mergetool" learned to use its arguments as pathspec, not a path to
170 the file that may not even have any conflict.
171 (merge 6d9990a jm/mergetool-pathspec later to maint).
173 * Tests with --valgrind failed to find "mergetool" scriptlets.
174 (merge ee0d7bf92 tr/mergetool-valgrind later to maint).
176 * "git patch-id" miscomputed the patch-id in a patch that has a line longer
178 (merge b9ab810b ms/patch-id-with-overlong-line later to maint).
180 * When an "exec" insn failed after modifying the index and/or the working
181 tree during "rebase -i", we now check and warn that the changes need to
183 (merge 1686519a mm/rebase-i-exec-edit later to maint).
185 * "gitweb" used to produce a non-working link while showing the contents
186 of a blob, when JavaScript actions are enabled.
187 (merge 2b07ff3ff ps/gitweb-js-with-lineno later to maint).
191 O=v1.7.7-289-gb73c683
192 echo O=$(git describe --always master)
193 git log --first-parent --oneline --reverse ^$O master
195 git shortlog --no-merges ^$O master
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