From 1b593e1ea4d2af0f6444d9a7788d5d99abd6fde5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vincent Ambo Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2020 23:36:56 +0000 Subject: Squashed 'third_party/git/' content from commit cb71568594 git-subtree-dir: third_party/git git-subtree-split: cb715685942260375e1eb8153b0768a376e4ece7 --- Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.txt | 161 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 161 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.txt (limited to 'Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.txt') diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..249311361e00 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.txt @@ -0,0 +1,161 @@ +Git v1.7.8 Release Notes +======================== + +Updates since v1.7.7 +-------------------- + + * Some git-svn, git-gui, git-p4 (in contrib) and msysgit updates. + + * Updates to bash completion scripts. + + * The build procedure has been taught to take advantage of computed + dependency automatically when the compiler supports it. + + * The date parser now accepts timezone designators that lack minutes + part and also has a colon between "hh:mm". + + * The contents of the /etc/mailname file, if exists, is used as the + default value of the hostname part of the committer/author e-mail. + + * "git am" learned how to read from patches generated by Hg. + + * "git archive" talking with a remote repository can report errors + from the remote side in a more informative way. + + * "git branch" learned an explicit --list option to ask for branches + listed, optionally with a glob matching pattern to limit its output. + + * "git check-attr" learned "--cached" option to look at .gitattributes + files from the index, not from the working tree. + + * Variants of "git cherry-pick" and "git revert" that take multiple + commits learned to "--continue" and "--abort". + + * "git daemon" gives more human readable error messages to clients + using ERR packets when appropriate. + + * Errors at the network layer is logged by "git daemon". + + * "git diff" learned "--minimal" option to spend extra cycles to come + up with a minimal patch output. + + * "git diff" learned "--function-context" option to show the whole + function as context that was affected by a change. + + * "git difftool" can be told to skip launching the tool for a path by + answering 'n' to its prompt. + + * "git fetch" learned to honor transfer.fsckobjects configuration to + validate the objects that were received from the other end, just like + "git receive-pack" (the receiving end of "git push") does. + + * "git fetch" makes sure that the set of objects it received from the + other end actually completes the history before updating the refs. + "git receive-pack" (the receiving end of "git push") learned to do the + same. + + * "git fetch" learned that fetching/cloning from a regular file on the + filesystem is not necessarily a request to unpack a bundle file; the + file could be ".git" with "gitdir: " in it. + + * "git for-each-ref" learned "%(contents:subject)", "%(contents:body)" + and "%(contents:signature)". The last one is useful for signed tags. + + * "git grep" used to incorrectly pay attention to .gitignore files + scattered in the directory it was working in even when "--no-index" + option was used. It no longer does this. The "--exclude-standard" + option needs to be given to explicitly activate the ignore + mechanism. + + * "git grep" learned "--untracked" option, where given patterns are + searched in untracked (but not ignored) files as well as tracked + files in the working tree, so that matches in new but not yet + added files do not get missed. + + * The recursive merge backend no longer looks for meaningless + existing merges in submodules unless in the outermost merge. + + * "git log" and friends learned "--children" option. + + * "git ls-remote" learned to respond to "-h"(elp) requests. + + * "mediawiki" remote helper can interact with (surprise!) MediaWiki + with "git fetch" & "git push". + + * "git merge" learned the "--edit" option to allow users to edit the + merge commit log message. + + * "git rebase -i" can be told to use special purpose editor suitable + only for its insn sheet via sequence.editor configuration variable. + + * "git send-email" learned to respond to "-h"(elp) requests. + + * "git send-email" allows the value given to sendemail.aliasfile to begin + with "~/" to refer to the $HOME directory. + + * "git send-email" forces use of Authen::SASL::Perl to work around + issues between Authen::SASL::Cyrus and AUTH PLAIN/LOGIN. + + * "git stash" learned "--include-untracked" option to stash away + untracked/ignored cruft from the working tree. + + * "git submodule clone" does not leak an error message to the UI + level unnecessarily anymore. + + * "git submodule update" learned to honor "none" as the value for + submodule..update to specify that the named submodule should + not be checked out by default. + + * When populating a new submodule directory with "git submodule init", + the $GIT_DIR metainformation directory for submodules is created inside + $GIT_DIR/modules// directory of the superproject and referenced + via the gitfile mechanism. This is to make it possible to switch + between commits in the superproject that has and does not have the + submodule in the tree without re-cloning. + + * "gitweb" leaked unescaped control characters from syntax hiliter + outputs. + + * "gitweb" can be told to give custom string at the end of the HTML + HEAD element. + + * "gitweb" now has its own manual pages. + + +Also contains other documentation updates and minor code cleanups. + + +Fixes since v1.7.7 +------------------ + +Unless otherwise noted, all fixes in the 1.7.7.X maintenance track are +included in this release. + + * HTTP transport did not use pushurl correctly, and also did not tell + what host it is trying to authenticate with when asking for + credentials. + (merge deba493 jk/http-auth later to maint). + + * "git blame" was aborted if started from an uncommitted content and + the path had the textconv filter in effect. + (merge 8518088 ss/blame-textconv-fake-working-tree later to maint). + + * Adding many refs to the local repository in one go (e.g. "git fetch" + that fetches many tags) and looking up a ref by name in a repository + with too many refs were unnecessarily slow. + (merge 17d68a54d jp/get-ref-dir-unsorted later to maint). + + * Report from "git commit" on untracked files was confused under + core.ignorecase option. + (merge 395c7356 jk/name-hash-dirent later to maint). + + * "git merge" did not understand ":/" as a way to name a commit. + + " "git push" on the receiving end used to call post-receive and post-update + hooks for attempted removal of non-existing refs. + (merge 160b81ed ph/push-to-delete-nothing later to maint). + + * Help text for "git remote set-url" and "git remote set-branches" + were misspelled. + (merge c49904e fc/remote-seturl-usage-fix later to maint). + (merge 656cdf0 jc/remote-setbranches-usage-fix later to maint). -- cgit 1.4.1