From: Junio C Hamano Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 06:59:36 +0000 (-0700) Subject: What's in git.git (Jul 2008, issue #01; Tue, 01) X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=28950ff122876ce163d7810585d8a1c9f6e2ef13;p=thirdparty%2Fgit.git What's in git.git (Jul 2008, issue #01; Tue, 01) --- diff --git a/whatsin.txt b/whatsin.txt index 8395f2e96e..7d5e7f6cac 100644 --- a/whatsin.txt +++ b/whatsin.txt @@ -1,42 +1,301 @@ -What's in git.git (Jun 2008, issue #04; Wed, 25) +What's in git.git (Jul 2008, issue #01; Tue, 01) - maint 74b1e12 (git-svn: make rebuild respect rewriteRoot option, 2008-06-24) - master 85fe23e (verify-pack: test for detection of index v2 object CRC mismatch, 2008-06-24) + maint 7ad0f27 (Start draft release notes for 1.5.6.2, 2008-07-01) + master e903b40 (Update draft release notes for 1.6.0, 2008-07-01) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -We'd need a maint release soon to push out the mkstemp() breakage but not -tonight. There are a handful changes that are in 'master' and 'next' that -need backport/backmerge before 1.5.6.1 happens. +There are a few fixes on 'maint', in addition to futureproofing of "git +shell" so that eventually we can update the ssh clients to ask for server +side programs using "git upload-pack" syntax without a dash between "git" +and the subcommand name. -* The 'maint' branch has these fixes since the last announcement. +Many of the medimu size items for 1.6.0 have been merged to 'master'. The +port to MinGW series will also be merged shortly. -Jan Krüger (1): - git-svn: make rebuild respect rewriteRoot option +---------------------------------------------------------------- -Patrick Higgins (1): - Workaround for AIX mkstemp() +GIT v1.6.0 Release Notes (draft) +================================ + +User visible changes +-------------------- + +With the default Makefile settings, most of the programs are now +installed outside your $PATH, except for "git", "gitk", "git-gui" and +some server side programs that need to be accessible for technical +reasons. Invoking a git subcommand as "git-xyzzy" from the command +line has been deprecated since early 2006 (and officially announced in +1.5.4 release notes); use of them from your scripts after adding +output from "git --exec-path" to the $PATH is still supported in this +release, but users are again strongly encouraged to adjust their +scripts to use "git xyzzy" form, as we will stop installing +"git-xyzzy" hardlinks for built-in commands in later releases. + +Source changes needed for porting to MinGW environment are now all in the +main git.git codebase. + +By default, packfiles created with this version uses delta-base-offset +encoding introduced in v1.4.4. Pack idx files are using version 2 that +allows larger packs and added robustness thanks to its CRC checking, +introduced in v1.5.2. + + +Updates since v1.5.6 +-------------------- + +(subsystems) + +* git-p4 in contrib learned "allowSubmit" configuration to control on + which branch to allow "submit" subcommand. + +(portability) + +* Sample hook scripts shipped in templates/ are now suffixed with + *.sample. We used to prevent them from triggering by default by + relying on the fact that we install them as unexecutable, but on + some filesystems this approach does not work. Instead of running + "chmod +x" on them, the users who want to activate these samples + as-is can now rename them dropping *.sample suffix. + +* perl's in-place edit (-i) does not work well without backup files on Windows; + some tests are rewritten to cope with this. + +(documentation) + +* Updated howto/update-hook-example + +* Got rid of usage of "git-foo" from the tutorial. + +* Disambiguating "--" between revs and paths is finally documented. + +(performance, robustness, sanity etc.) + +* even more documentation pages are now accessible via "man" and "git help". + +* reduced excessive inlining to shrink size of the "git" binary. + +* verify-pack checks the object CRC when using version 2 idx files. + +* When an object is corrupt in a pack, the object became unusable even + when the same object is available in a loose form, We now try harder to + fall back to these redundant objects when able. In particular, "git + repack -a -f" can be used to fix such a corruption as long as necessary + objects are available. + +* git-clone does not create refs in loose form anymore (it behaves as + if you immediately ran git-pack-refs after cloning). This will help + repositories with insanely large number of refs. + +* core.fsyncobjectfiles configuration can be used to ensure that the loose + objects created will be fsync'ed (this is only useful on filesystems + that does not order data writes properly). + +* "git commit-tree" plumbing can make Octopus with more than 16 parents. + "git commit" has been capable of this for quite some time. + +(usability, bells and whistles) + +* git-apply can handle a patch that touches the same path more than once + much better than before. + +* git-apply can be told not to trust the line counts recorded in the input + patch but recount, with the new --recount option. + +* git-archive can be told to omit certain paths from its output using + export-ignore attributes. + +* git-clone can clone from a remote whose URL would be rewritten by + configuration stored in $HOME/.gitconfig now. + +* git-diff --check now checks leftover merge conflict markers. + +* When remote side used to have branch 'foo' and git-fetch finds that now + it has branch 'foo/bar', it refuses to lose the existing remote tracking + branch and its reflog. The error message has been improved to suggest + pruning the remote if the user wants to proceed and get the latest set + of branches from the remote, including such 'foo/bar'. + +* fast-export learned to export and import marks file; this can be used to + interface with fast-import incrementally. + +* Original SHA-1 value for "update-ref -d" is optional now. + +* git-send-mail can talk not just over SSL but over TLS now. + +* You can tell "git status -u" to even more aggressively omit checking + untracked files with --untracked-files=no. + +* Error codes from gitweb are made more descriptive where possible, rather + than "403 forbidden" as we used to issue everywhere. + +(internal) + + +Fixes since v1.5.6 +------------------ + +All of the fixes in v1.5.6 maintenance series are included in +this release, unless otherwise noted. + + * diff -c/--cc showed unnecessary "deletion" lines at the context + boundary (needs backmerge to maint). + + * "git-clone " did not create leading directories for + like the scripted version used to do (needs backport to maint). + + +---------------------------------------------------------------- + +* The 'maint' branch has these fixes since v1.5.6.1. + +Avery Pennarun (1): + git-svn: avoid filling up the disk with temp files. + +Björn Steinbrink (1): + git cat-file: Fix memory leak in batch mode + +Eric Wong (1): + git-svn: don't sanitize remote names in config + +Jeff King (1): + doc/rev-parse: clarify reflog vs --until for specifying revisions + +Jochen Voss (1): + avoid off-by-one error in run_upload_archive + +Joey Hess (1): + fix git config example syntax + +Junio C Hamano (5): + diff --check: do not discard error status upon seeing a good line + git-shell: accept "git foo" form + GIT 1.5.4.6 + GIT 1.5.5.5 + Start draft release notes for 1.5.6.2 + +Thomas Rast (1): + Fix 'git show' on signed tag of signed tag of commit * The 'master' branch has these since the last announcement in addition to the above. -Jeff King (1): - clone: create intermediate directories of destination repo - -Junio C Hamano (2): - pre-rebase hook update - Ship sample hooks with .sample suffix - -Michele Ballabio (1): - t9301-fast-export.sh: Remove debug line - -Nicolas Pitre (8): - call init_pack_revindex() lazily - implement some resilience against pack corruptions - test case for pack resilience against corruptions - refactor pack structure allocation - optimize verify-pack a bit - move show_pack_info() where it belongs - verify-pack: check packed object CRC when using index version 2 - verify-pack: test for detection of index v2 object CRC mismatch +Alex Riesen (1): + Fix use of "perl -i" on Windows + +Brian Gernhardt (2): + Fix t4017-diff-retval for white-space from wc + Add test results directory to t/.gitignore + +Christian Couder (1): + help: check early if we have a command, if not try a documentation topic + +Dmitry Potapov (2): + update-hook-example: optionally allow non-fast-forward + shrink git-shell by avoiding redundant dependencies + +Don Zickus (1): + git-apply: handle a patch that touches the same path more than once + better + +Jeff King (3): + improve for-each-ref test script + fetch: report local storage errors in status table + fetch: give a hint to the user when local refs fail to update + +Jing Xue (1): + Add 'git-p4.allowSubmit' to git-p4 + +Johan Herland (4): + Incorporate fetched packs in future object traversal + Move pack_refs() and friends into libgit + Prepare testsuite for a "git clone" that packs refs + Teach "git clone" to pack refs + +Johannes Schindelin (4): + clone: respect url.insteadOf setting in global configs + commit-tree: lift completely arbitrary limit of 16 parents + Allow git-apply to recount the lines in a hunk (AKA recountdiff) + clone: respect the settings in $HOME/.gitconfig and /etc/gitconfig + +Jonathan Nieder (7): + Documentation: fix links to tutorials and other new manual pages + whitespace fix in Documentation/git-repack.txt + Documentation: complicate example of "man git-command" + git-daemon(1): don't assume git-daemon is in /usr/bin + Documentation: prepare to be consistent about "git-" versus "git " + Documentation: be consistent about "git-" versus "git " + Documentation formatting and cleanup + +Junio C Hamano (15): + git-shell: accept "git foo" form + Prepare execv_git_cmd() for removal of builtins from the filesystem + Keep some git-* programs in $(bindir) + Allow "git-reset path" when unambiguous + Start draft release notes for 1.6.0 + diff --check: explain why we do not care whether old side is binary + check_and_emit_line(): rename and refactor + checkdiff: pass diff_options to the callback + Teach "diff --check" about new blank lines at end + diff --check: detect leftover conflict markers + Update sample pre-commit hook to use "diff --check" + Document the double-dash "rev -- path" disambiguator + t9700: skip when Test::More is not available + Update draft release notes for 1.6.0 + Update draft release notes for 1.6.0 + +Kevin Ballard (1): + git-send-email: Accept fifos as well as files + +Lea Wiemann (5): + t/test-lib.sh: add test_external and test_external_without_stderr + Git.pm: add test suite + gitweb: standarize HTTP status codes + test-lib.sh: show git init output when in verbose mode + GIT-VERSION-GEN: do not fail if a 'HEAD' file exists in the working copy + +Linus Torvalds (4): + Split up default "core" config parsing into helper routine + Split up default "user" config parsing into helper routine + Split up default "i18n" and "branch" config parsing into helper routines + Add config option to enable 'fsync()' of object files + +Miklos Vajna (1): + A simple script to parse the results from the testcases + +Nanako Shiraishi (1): + gitcli: Document meaning of --cached and --index + +Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy (1): + Move all dashed-form commands to libexecdir + +Nicolas Pitre (2): + repack.usedeltabaseoffset config option now defaults to "true" + pack.indexversion config option now defaults to 2 + +Olivier Marin (2): + Documentation: remove {show,whatchanged}.difftree config options + show_stats(): fix stats width calculation + +Patrick Higgins (1): + Remove the use of '--' in merge program invocation + +Stephan Beyer (2): + api-builtin.txt: update and fix typo + t3404: stricter tests for git-rebase--interactive + +Sverre Rabbelier (2): + Modify test-lib.sh to output stats to t/test-results/* + Hook up the result aggregation in the test makefile. + +Ted Percival (1): + Don't use dash commands (git-foo) in tutorial-2 + +Thomas Rast (2): + git-send-email: add support for TLS via Net::SMTP::SSL + git-send-email: prevent undefined variable warnings if no encryption is + set + +jrnieder@uchicago.edu (1): + Documentation: don't assume git-sh-setup and git-parse-remote are in PATH