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diff --git a/third_party/git/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.txt b/third_party/git/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 63d6e4afa4df..000000000000 --- a/third_party/git/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,267 +0,0 @@ -Git v1.8.0 Release Notes -======================== - -Backward compatibility notes ----------------------------- - -In the next major release (not *this* one), we will change the -behavior of the "git push" command. - -When "git push [$there]" does not say what to push, we have used the -traditional "matching" semantics so far (all your branches were sent -to the remote as long as there already are branches of the same name -over there). We will use the "simple" semantics that pushes the -current branch to the branch with the same name, only when the current -branch is set to integrate with that remote branch. There is a user -preference configuration variable "push.default" to change this, and -"git push" will warn about the upcoming change until you set this -variable in this release. - -"git branch --set-upstream" is deprecated and may be removed in a -relatively distant future. "git branch [-u|--set-upstream-to]" has -been introduced with a saner order of arguments. - - -Updates since v1.7.12 ---------------------- - -UI, Workflows & Features - - * A credential helper for Win32 to allow access to the keychain of - the logged-in user has been added. - - * An initial port to HP NonStop. - - * A credential helper to allow access to the Gnome keyring has been - added. - - * When "git am" sanitizes the "Subject:" line, we strip the prefix from - "Re: subject" and also from a less common "re: subject", but left - the even less common "RE: subject" intact. Now we strip that too. - - * It was tempting to say "git branch --set-upstream origin/master", - but that tells Git to arrange the local branch "origin/master" to - integrate with the currently checked out branch, which is highly - unlikely what the user meant. The option is deprecated; use the - new "--set-upstream-to" (with a short-and-sweet "-u") option - instead. - - * "git cherry-pick" learned the "--allow-empty-message" option to - allow it to replay a commit without any log message. - - * After "git cherry-pick -s" gave control back to the user asking - help to resolve conflicts, concluding "git commit" used to need to - be run with "-s" if the user wants to sign it off; now the command - leaves the sign-off line in the log template. - - * "git daemon" learned the "--access-hook" option to allow an - external command to decline service based on the client address, - repository path, etc. - - * "git difftool --dir-diff" learned to use symbolic links to prepare - a temporary copy of the working tree when available. - - * "git grep" learned to use a non-standard pattern type by default if - a configuration variable tells it to. - - * Accumulated updates to "git gui" has been merged. - - * "git log -g" learned the "--grep-reflog=<pattern>" option to limit - its output to commits with a reflog message that matches the given - pattern. - - * "git merge-base" learned the "--is-ancestor A B" option to tell if A is - an ancestor of B. The result is indicated by its exit status code. - - * "git mergetool" now allows users to override the actual command used - with the mergetool.$name.cmd configuration variable even for built-in - mergetool backends. - - * "git rebase -i" learned the "--edit-todo" option to open an editor - to edit the instruction sheet. - - -Foreign Interface - - * "git svn" has been updated to work with SVN 1.7. - - * "git p4" learned the "--conflicts" option to specify what to do when - encountering a conflict during "p4 submit". - - -Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. - - * Git ships with a fall-back regexp implementation for platforms with - buggy regexp library, but it was easy for people to keep using their - platform regexp by mistake. A new test has been added to check this. - - * The "check-docs" build target has been updated and greatly - simplified. - - * The test suite is run under MALLOC_CHECK_ when running with a glibc - that supports the feature. - - * The documentation in the TeXinfo format was using indented output - for materials meant to be examples that are better typeset in - monospace. - - * Compatibility wrapper around some mkdir(2) implementations that - reject parameters with trailing slash has been introduced. - - * Compatibility wrapper for systems that lack usable setitimer() has - been added. - - * The option parsing of "git checkout" had error checking, dwim and - defaulting missing options, all mixed in the code, and issuing an - appropriate error message with useful context was getting harder. - The code has been reorganized to allow giving a proper diagnosis - when the user says "git checkout -b -t foo bar" (e.g. "-t" is not a - good name for a branch). - - * Many internal uses of a "git merge-base" equivalent were only to see - if one commit fast-forwards to the other, which did not need the - full set of merge bases to be computed. They have been updated to - use less expensive checks. - - * The heuristics to detect and silently convert latin1 to utf8 when - we were told to use utf-8 in the log message has been transplanted - from "mailinfo" to "commit" and "commit-tree". - - * Messages given by "git <subcommand> -h" from many subcommands have - been marked for translation. - - -Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups. - - -Fixes since v1.7.12 -------------------- - -Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.7.12 in the -maintenance track are contained in this release (see release notes -to them for details). - - * The attribute system may be asked for a path that itself or its - leading directories no longer exists in the working tree, and it is - fine if we cannot open .gitattribute file in such a case. Failure - to open per-directory .gitattributes with error status other than - ENOENT and ENOTDIR should be diagnosed, but it wasn't. - - * When looking for $HOME/.gitconfig etc., it is OK if we cannot read - them because they do not exist, but we did not diagnose existing - files that we cannot read. - - * When "git am" is fed an input that has multiple "Content-type: ..." - header, it did not grok charset= attribute correctly. - - * "git am" mishandled a patch attached as application/octet-stream - (e.g. not text/*); Content-Transfer-Encoding (e.g. base64) was not - honored correctly. - - * "git blame MAKEFILE" run in a history that has "Makefile" but not - "MAKEFILE" should say "No such file MAKEFILE in HEAD", but got - confused on a case insensitive filesystem and failed to do so. - - * Even during a conflicted merge, "git blame $path" always meant to - blame uncommitted changes to the "working tree" version; make it - more useful by showing cleanly merged parts as coming from the other - branch that is being merged. - - * It was unclear in the documentation for "git blame" that it is - unnecessary for users to use the "--follow" option. - - * Output from "git branch -v" contains "(no branch)" that could be - localized, but the code to align it along with the names of - branches was counting in bytes, not in display columns. - - * "git cherry-pick A C B" used to replay changes in A and then B and - then C if these three commits had committer timestamps in that - order, which is not what the user who said "A C B" naturally - expects. - - * A repository created with "git clone --single" had its fetch - refspecs set up just like a clone without "--single", leading the - subsequent "git fetch" to slurp all the other branches, defeating - the whole point of specifying "only this branch". - - * Documentation talked about "first line of commit log" when it meant - the title of the commit. The description was clarified by defining - how the title is decided and rewording the casual mention of "first - line" to "title". - - * "git cvsimport" did not thoroughly cleanse tag names that it - inferred from the names of the tags it obtained from CVS, which - caused "git tag" to barf and stop the import in the middle. - - * Earlier we made the diffstat summary line that shows the number of - lines added/deleted localizable, but it was found irritating having - to see them in various languages on a list whose discussion language - is English, and this change has been reverted. - - * "git fetch --all", when passed "--no-tags", did not honor the - "--no-tags" option while fetching from individual remotes (the same - issue existed with "--tags", but the combination "--all --tags" makes - much less sense than "--all --no-tags"). - - * "git fetch" over http had an old workaround for an unlikely server - misconfiguration; it turns out that this hurts debuggability of the - configuration in general, and has been reverted. - - * "git fetch" over http advertised that it supports "deflate", which - is much less common, and did not advertise the more common "gzip" on - its Accept-Encoding header. - - * "git fetch" over the dumb-http revision walker could segfault when - curl's multi interface was used. - - * "git gc --auto" notified the user that auto-packing has triggered - even under the "--quiet" option. - - * After "gitk" showed the contents of a tag, neither "Reread - references" nor "Reload" updated what is shown as the - contents of it when the user overwrote the tag with "git tag -f". - - * "git log --all-match --grep=A --grep=B" ought to show commits that - mention both A and B, but when these three options are used with - --author or --committer, it showed commits that mention either A or - B (or both) instead. - - * The "-Xours" backend option to "git merge -s recursive" was ignored - for binary files. - - * "git p4", when "--use-client-spec" and "--detect-branches" are used - together, misdetected branches. - - * "git receive-pack" (the counterpart to "git push") did not give - progress output while processing objects it received to the user - when run over the smart-http protocol. - - * When you misspell the command name you give to the "exec" action in - the "git rebase -i" instruction sheet you were told that 'rebase' is not a - git subcommand from "git rebase --continue". - - * The subcommand in "git remote" to remove a defined remote was - "rm" and the command did not take a fully-spelled "remove". - - * The interactive prompt that "git send-email" gives was error prone. It - asked "What e-mail address do you want to use?" with the address it - guessed (correctly) the user would want to use in its prompt, - tempting the user to say "y". But the response was taken as "No, - please use 'y' as the e-mail address instead", which is most - certainly not what the user meant. - - * "git show --format='%ci'" did not give the timestamp correctly for - commits created without human readable name on the "committer" line. - - * "git show --quiet" ought to be a synonym for "git show -s", but - wasn't. - - * "git submodule frotz" was not diagnosed as "frotz" being an unknown - subcommand to "git submodule"; the user instead got a complaint - that "git submodule status" was run with an unknown path "frotz". - - * "git status" honored the ignore=dirty settings in .gitmodules but - "git commit" didn't. - - * "gitweb" did not give the correct committer timezone in its feed - output due to a typo. |