1Git v1.7.9 Release Notes (draft) 2======================== 3 4Updates 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 in new PO files 16 in po/ to add new translations. 17 18 * The code to handle username/password for HTTP transaction 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 prompted input in the terminal use our own getpass() replacement 24 when possible. HTTP transactions used to ask username without echoing 25 back what was typed, but with this change you will see it as you type. 26 27 * The internal of "revert/cherry-pick" has been tweaked to prepare 28 building more generic "sequencer" on top of the implementation that 29 drives them. 30 31 * "git add" learned to stream large files directly into a packfile 32 instead of writing them into individual loose object files. 33 34 * "git checkout -B <current branch> <elsewhere>" is a more intuitive 35 way to spell "git reset --keep <elsewhere>". 36 37 * "git checkout" and "git merge" learned "--no-overwrite-ignore" option 38 to tell Git that untracked and ignored files are not expendable. 39 40 * "git commit --amend" learned "--no-edit" option to say that the 41 user is amending the tree being recorded, without updating the 42 commit log message. 43 44 * "git commit" and "git reset" re-learned the optimization to prime 45 the cache-tree information in the index, which makes it faster to 46 write a tree object out after the index entries are updated. 47 48 * "git commit" detects and rejects an attempt to stuff NUL byte in 49 the commit log message. 50 51 * "git commit" learned "-S" to GPG-sign the commit; this can be shown 52 with the "--show-signature" option to "git log". 53 54 * fsck and prune are relatively lengthy operations that still go 55 silent while making the end-user wait. They learned to give progress 56 output like other slow operations. 57 58 * The set of built-in function-header patterns for various languages 59 knows MATLAB. 60 61 * "git log --format='<format>'" learned new %g[nNeE] specifiers to 62 show information from the reflog entries when warlking the reflog 63 (i.e. with "-g"). 64 65 * "git pull" can be used to fetch and merge an annotated/signed tag, 66 instead of the tip of a topic branch. The GPG signature from the 67 signed tag is recorded in the resulting merge commit for later 68 auditing. 69 70 * "git log" learned "--show-signature" option to show the signed tag 71 that was merged that is embedded in the merge commit. It also can 72 show the signature made on the commit with "git commit -S". 73 74 * "git branch --edit-description" can be used to add descriptive text 75 to explain what a topic branch is about. 76 77 * "git fmt-merge-msg" learned to take the branch description into 78 account when preparing a merge summary that "git merge" records 79 when merging a local branch. 80 81 * "git request-pull" has been updated to convey more information 82 useful for integrators to decide if a topic is worth merging and 83 what is pulled is indeed what the requestor asked to pull, 84 including: 85 86 - the tip of the branch being requested to be merged; 87 - the branch description describing what the topic is about; 88 - the contents of the annotated tag, when requesting to pull a tag. 89 90 * "git pull" learned to notice 'pull.rebase' configuration variable, 91 which serves as a global fallback for setting 'branch.<name>.rebase' 92 configuration variable per branch. 93 94 * "git tag" learned "--cleanup" option to control how the whitespaces 95 and empty lines in tag message are cleaned up. 96 97 * "gitweb" learned to show side-by-side diff. 98 99Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups. 100 101 102Fixes since v1.7.8 103------------------ 104 105Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.7.8 in the maintenance 106releases are contained in this release (see release notes to them for 107details). 108 109-- 110exec >/var/tmp/1 111O=v1.7.8.2-301-g48de656 112echo O=$(git describe master) 113git log --first-parent --oneline --reverse ^$O master 114echo 115git shortlog --no-merges ^$O ^maint master