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1 | Git v1.7.8 Release Notes |
2 | ======================== | |
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3 | |
4 | Updates since v1.7.7 | |
5 | -------------------- | |
6 | ||
e454a83f | 7 | * Some git-svn, git-gui, git-p4 (in contrib) and msysgit updates. |
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9 | * Updates to bash completion scripts. |
10 | ||
7f41b6bb | 11 | * The build procedure has been taught to take advantage of computed |
1114fc02 | 12 | dependency automatically when the compiler supports it. |
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13 | |
14 | * The date parser now accepts timezone designators that lack minutes | |
15 | part and also has a colon between "hh:mm". | |
16 | ||
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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. | |
19 | ||
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20 | * "git am" learned how to read from patches generated by Hg. |
21 | ||
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22 | * "git archive" talking with a remote repository can report errors |
23 | from the remote side in a more informative way. | |
24 | ||
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25 | * "git branch" learned an explicit --list option to ask for branches |
26 | listed, optionally with a glob matching pattern to limit its output. | |
27 | ||
28 | * "git check-attr" learned "--cached" option to look at .gitattributes | |
29 | files from the index, not from the working tree. | |
30 | ||
31 | * Variants of "git cherry-pick" and "git revert" that take multiple | |
017d1e13 | 32 | commits learned to "--continue" and "--abort". |
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1114fc02 | 34 | * "git daemon" gives more human readable error messages to clients |
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35 | using ERR packets when appropriate. |
36 | ||
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37 | * Errors at the network layer is logged by "git daemon". |
38 | ||
39 | * "git diff" learned "--minimal" option to spend extra cycles to come | |
40 | up with a minimal patch output. | |
41 | ||
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42 | * "git diff" learned "--function-context" option to show the whole |
43 | function as context that was affected by a change. | |
44 | ||
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45 | * "git difftool" can be told to skip launching the tool for a path by |
46 | answering 'n' to its prompt. | |
47 | ||
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48 | * "git fetch" learned to honor transfer.fsckobjects configuration to |
49 | validate the objects that were received from the other end, just like | |
50 | "git receive-pack" (the receiving end of "git push") does. | |
51 | ||
52 | * "git fetch" makes sure that the set of objects it received from the | |
53 | other end actually completes the history before updating the refs. | |
54 | "git receive-pack" (the receiving end of "git push") learned to do the | |
55 | same. | |
56 | ||
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57 | * "git fetch" learned that fetching/cloning from a regular file on the |
58 | filesystem is not necessarily a request to unpack a bundle file; the | |
59 | file could be ".git" with "gitdir: <path>" in it. | |
60 | ||
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61 | * "git for-each-ref" learned "%(contents:subject)", "%(contents:body)" |
62 | and "%(contents:signature)". The last one is useful for signed tags. | |
63 | ||
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64 | * "git grep" used to incorrectly pay attention to .gitignore files |
65 | scattered in the directory it was working in even when "--no-index" | |
66 | option was used. It no longer does this. The "--exclude-standard" | |
67 | option needs to be given to explicitly activate the ignore | |
68 | mechanism. | |
69 | ||
70 | * "git grep" learned "--untracked" option, where given patterns are | |
71 | searched in untracked (but not ignored) files as well as tracked | |
72 | files in the working tree, so that matches in new but not yet | |
73 | added files do not get missed. | |
74 | ||
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75 | * The recursive merge backend no longer looks for meaningless |
76 | existing merges in submodules unless in the outermost merge. | |
77 | ||
78 | * "git log" and friends learned "--children" option. | |
79 | ||
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80 | * "git ls-remote" learned to respond to "-h"(elp) requests. |
81 | ||
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82 | * "mediawiki" remote helper can interact with (surprise!) MediaWiki |
83 | with "git fetch" & "git push". | |
84 | ||
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85 | * "git merge" learned the "--edit" option to allow users to edit the |
86 | merge commit log message. | |
87 | ||
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88 | * "git rebase -i" can be told to use special purpose editor suitable |
89 | only for its insn sheet via sequence.editor configuration variable. | |
90 | ||
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91 | * "git send-email" learned to respond to "-h"(elp) requests. |
92 | ||
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93 | * "git send-email" allows the value given to sendemail.aliasfile to begin |
94 | with "~/" to refer to the $HOME directory. | |
95 | ||
96 | * "git send-email" forces use of Authen::SASL::Perl to work around | |
97 | issues between Authen::SASL::Cyrus and AUTH PLAIN/LOGIN. | |
98 | ||
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99 | * "git stash" learned "--include-untracked" option to stash away |
100 | untracked/ignored cruft from the working tree. | |
101 | ||
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102 | * "git submodule clone" does not leak an error message to the UI |
103 | level unnecessarily anymore. | |
104 | ||
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105 | * "git submodule update" learned to honor "none" as the value for |
106 | submodule.<name>.update to specify that the named submodule should | |
107 | not be checked out by default. | |
108 | ||
109 | * When populating a new submodule directory with "git submodule init", | |
110 | the $GIT_DIR metainformation directory for submodules is created inside | |
111 | $GIT_DIR/modules/<name>/ directory of the superproject and referenced | |
112 | via the gitfile mechanism. This is to make it possible to switch | |
113 | between commits in the superproject that has and does not have the | |
114 | submodule in the tree without re-cloning. | |
115 | ||
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116 | * "gitweb" leaked unescaped control characters from syntax hiliter |
117 | outputs. | |
118 | ||
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119 | * "gitweb" can be told to give custom string at the end of the HTML |
120 | HEAD element. | |
121 | ||
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122 | * "gitweb" now has its own manual pages. |
123 | ||
7f41b6bb | 124 | |
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125 | Also contains other documentation updates and minor code cleanups. |
126 | ||
127 | ||
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128 | Fixes since v1.7.7 |
129 | ------------------ | |
130 | ||
131 | Unless otherwise noted, all fixes in the 1.7.7.X maintenance track are | |
132 | included in this release. | |
133 | ||
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134 | * HTTP transport did not use pushurl correctly, and also did not tell |
135 | what host it is trying to authenticate with when asking for | |
136 | credentials. | |
137 | (merge deba493 jk/http-auth later to maint). | |
138 | ||
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139 | * "git blame" was aborted if started from an uncommitted content and |
140 | the path had the textconv filter in effect. | |
141 | (merge 8518088 ss/blame-textconv-fake-working-tree later to maint). | |
142 | ||
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143 | * Adding many refs to the local repository in one go (e.g. "git fetch" |
144 | that fetches many tags) and looking up a ref by name in a repository | |
145 | with too many refs were unnecessarily slow. | |
146 | (merge 17d68a54d jp/get-ref-dir-unsorted later to maint). | |
147 | ||
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148 | * Report from "git commit" on untracked files was confused under |
149 | core.ignorecase option. | |
87bf9a70 | 150 | (merge 395c7356 jk/name-hash-dirent later to maint). |
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152 | * "git merge" did not understand ":/<pattern>" as a way to name a commit. |
153 | ||
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154 | " "git push" on the receiving end used to call post-receive and post-update |
155 | hooks for attempted removal of non-existing refs. | |
156 | (merge 160b81ed ph/push-to-delete-nothing later to maint). | |
157 | ||
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158 | * Help text for "git remote set-url" and "git remote set-branches" |
159 | were misspelled. | |
160 | (merge c49904e fc/remote-seturl-usage-fix later to maint). | |
161 | (merge 656cdf0 jc/remote-setbranches-usage-fix later to maint). |