Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.txt

   1 Git v1.7.9 Release Notes
   2 ========================
   3
   4 Updates since v1.7.8
   5 --------------------
   6
   7  * gitk updates accumulated since early 2011.
   8
   9  * git-gui updated to 0.16.0.
  10
  11  * git-p4 (in contrib/) updates.
  12
  13  * Git uses gettext to translate its most common interface messages
  14    into the user's language if translations are available and the
  15    locale is appropriately set. Distributors can drop new PO files
  16    in po/ to add new translations.
  17
  18  * The code to handle username/password for HTTP transactions used in
  19    "git push" & "git fetch" learned to talk "credential API" to
  20    external programs to cache or store them, to allow integration with
  21    platform native keychain mechanisms.
  22
  23  * The input prompts in the terminal use our own getpass() replacement
  24    when possible. HTTP transactions used to ask for the username without
  25    echoing back what was typed, but with this change you will see it as
  26    you type.
  27
  28  * The internals of "revert/cherry-pick" have been tweaked to prepare
  29    building more generic "sequencer" on top of the implementation that
  30    drives them.
  31
  32  * "git rev-parse FETCH_HEAD" after "git fetch" without specifying
  33    what to fetch from the command line will now show the commit that
  34    would be merged if the command were "git pull".
  35
  36  * "git add" learned to stream large files directly into a packfile
  37    instead of writing them into individual loose object files.
  38
  39  * "git checkout -B <current branch> <elsewhere>" is a more intuitive
  40    way to spell "git reset --keep <elsewhere>".
  41
  42  * "git checkout" and "git merge" learned "--no-overwrite-ignore" option
  43    to tell Git that untracked and ignored files are not expendable.
  44
  45  * "git commit --amend" learned "--no-edit" option to say that the
  46    user is amending the tree being recorded, without updating the
  47    commit log message.
  48
  49  * "git commit" and "git reset" re-learned the optimization to prime
  50    the cache-tree information in the index, which makes it faster to
  51    write a tree object out after the index entries are updated.
  52
  53  * "git commit" detects and rejects an attempt to stuff NUL byte in
  54    the commit log message.
  55
  56  * "git commit" learned "-S" to GPG-sign the commit; this can be shown
  57    with the "--show-signature" option to "git log".
  58
  59  * fsck and prune are relatively lengthy operations that still go
  60    silent while making the end-user wait. They learned to give progress
  61    output like other slow operations.
  62
  63  * The set of built-in function-header patterns for various languages
  64    knows MATLAB.
  65
  66  * "git log --format='<format>'" learned new %g[nNeE] specifiers to
  67    show information from the reflog entries when walking the reflog
  68    (i.e. with "-g").
  69
  70  * "git pull" can be used to fetch and merge an annotated/signed tag,
  71    instead of the tip of a topic branch. The GPG signature from the
  72    signed tag is recorded in the resulting merge commit for later
  73    auditing.
  74
  75  * "git log" learned "--show-signature" option to show the signed tag
  76    that was merged that is embedded in the merge commit. It also can
  77    show the signature made on the commit with "git commit -S".
  78
  79  * "git branch --edit-description" can be used to add descriptive text
  80    to explain what a topic branch is about.
  81
  82  * "git fmt-merge-msg" learned to take the branch description into
  83    account when preparing a merge summary that "git merge" records
  84    when merging a local branch.
  85
  86  * "git request-pull" has been updated to convey more information
  87    useful for integrators to decide if a topic is worth merging and
  88    what is pulled is indeed what the requestor asked to pull,
  89    including:
  90
  91    - the tip of the branch being requested to be merged;
  92    - the branch description describing what the topic is about;
  93    - the contents of the annotated tag, when requesting to pull a tag.
  94
  95  * "git pull" learned to notice 'pull.rebase' configuration variable,
  96    which serves as a global fallback for setting 'branch.<name>.rebase'
  97    configuration variable per branch.
  98
  99  * "git tag" learned "--cleanup" option to control how the whitespaces
 100    and empty lines in tag message are cleaned up.
 101
 102  * "gitweb" learned to show side-by-side diff.
 103
 104 Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.
 105
 106
 107 Fixes since v1.7.8
 108 ------------------
 109
 110 Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.7.8 in the maintenance
 111 releases are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
 112 details).