1Git v1.7.9.1 Release Notes 2========================== 3 4Fixes since v1.7.9 5------------------ 6 7 * The makefile allowed environment variable X seep into it result in 8 command names suffixed with unnecessary strings. 9 10 * The set of included header files in compat/inet-{ntop,pton} 11 wrappers was updated for Windows some time ago, but in a way that 12 broke Solaris build. 13 14 * rpmbuild noticed an unpackaged but installed *.mo file and failed. 15 16 * Subprocesses spawned from various git programs were often left running 17 to completion even when the top-level process was killed. 18 19 * "git add -e" learned not to show a diff for an otherwise unmodified 20 submodule that only has uncommitted local changes in the patch 21 prepared by for the user to edit. 22 23 * Typo in "git branch --edit-description my-tpoic" was not diagnosed. 24 25 * Using "git grep -l/-L" together with options -W or --break may not 26 make much sense as the output is to only count the number of hits 27 and there is no place for file breaks, but the latter options made 28 "-l/-L" to miscount the hits. 29 30 * "git log --first-parent $pathspec" did not stay on the first parent 31 chain and veered into side branch from which the whole change to the 32 specified paths came. 33 34 * "git merge --no-edit $tag" failed to honor the --no-edit option. 35 36 * "git merge --ff-only $tag" failed because it cannot record the 37 required mergetag without creating a merge, but this is so common 38 operation for branch that is used _only_ to follow the upstream, so 39 it was changed to allow fast-forwarding without recording the mergetag. 40 41 * "git mergetool" now gives an empty file as the common base version 42 to the backend when dealing with the "both sides added, differently" 43 case. 44 45 * "git push -q" was not sufficiently quiet. 46 47 * When "git push" fails to update any refs, the client side did not 48 report an error correctly to the end user. 49 50 * "rebase" and "commit --amend" failed to work on commits with ancient 51 timestamps near year 1970. 52 53 * When asking for a tag to be pulled, "request-pull" did not show the 54 name of the tag prefixed with "tags/", which would have helped older 55 clients. 56 57 * "git submodule add $path" forgot to recompute the name to be stored 58 in .gitmodules when the submodule at $path was once added to the 59 superproject and already initialized. 60 61 * Many small corner case bugs on "git tag -n" was corrected. 62 63Also contains minor fixes and documentation updates.