1Git v1.7.12 Release Notes 2========================= 3 4Updates since v1.7.11 5--------------------- 6 7UI, Workflows & Features 8 9 * "git help" used to always default to "man" format even on platforms 10 where "man" viewer is not widely available. 11 12 * "git clone --local $path" started its life as an experiment to 13 optionally use link/copy when cloning a repository on the disk, but 14 we didn't deprecate it after we made the option a no-op to always 15 use the optimization. The command learned "--no-local" option to 16 turn this off, as a more explicit alternative over use of file:// 17 URL. 18 19 * git native protocol agents learned to show software version over 20 the wire, so that the server log can be examined to see the vintage 21 distribution of clients. 22 23 * "git rebase -i" learned "-x <cmd>" to insert "exec <cmd>" after 24 each commit in the resulting history. 25 26 * "git status" gives finer classification to various states of paths 27 in conflicted state and offer advice messages in its output. 28 29 * "git submodule" learned to deal with nested submodule structure 30 where a module is contained within a module whose origin is 31 specified as a relative URL to its superproject's origin. 32 33 * A rather heavy-ish "git completion" script has been split to create 34 a separate "git prompting" script, to help lazy-autoloading of the 35 completion part while making prompting part always available. 36 37 38Foreign Interface 39 40 41Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. (please report possible regressions) 42 43 * Some tests showed false failures caused by a bug in ecryptofs. 44 45 * We no longer use AsciiDoc7 syntax in our documentation and favor a 46 more modern style. 47 48 * "git index-pack" and "git pack-objects" use streaming API to read 49 from the object store to avoid having to hold a large blob object 50 in-core while they are doing their thing. 51 52 * Code to match paths with exclude patterns learned to avoid calling 53 fnmatch() by comparing fixed leading substring literally when 54 possible. 55 56 57Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups. 58 59 60Fixes since v1.7.11 61------------------- 62 63Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.7.11 in the maintenance 64releases are contained in this release (see release notes to them for 65details). 66 67 * When "git log" gets "--simplify-merges/by-decoration" together with 68 "--first-parent", the combination of these options makes the 69 simplification logic to use in-core commit objects that haven't 70 been examined for relevance, either producing incorrect result or 71 taking too long to produce any output. Teach the simplification 72 logic to ignore commits that the first-parent traversal logic 73 ignored when both are in effect to work around the issue. 74 (merge 6e513ba jc/rev-list-simplify-merges-first-parent later to maint). 75 76 * "git add" allows adding a regular file to the path where a 77 submodule used to exist, but "git update-index" does not allow an 78 equivalent operation to Porcelain writers. 79 (merge 242f55f hv/submodule-update-nuke-submodules later to maint). 80 81 * "git diff --no-index" did not work with pagers correctly. 82 (merge af63b54 jk/diff-no-index-pager later to maint). 83 84 * "git diff COPYING HEAD:COPYING" gave a nonsense error message that 85 claimed that the treeish HEAD did not have COPYING in it. 86 (merge 023e37c mm/verify-filename-fix later to maint). 87 88 * The documentation for "git cherry-pick A B..C" was misleading. 89 (merge b98878e cn/cherry-pick-range-docs later to maint). 90 91 * "git archive" incorrectly computed the header checksum; the symptom 92 was observed only when using pathnames with hi-bit set. 93 (merge a5a46eb jc/ustar-checksum-is-unsigned later to maint). 94 95 * Running "git bundle verify" on a bundle that records a complete 96 history said "it requires these 0 commits". 97 (merge 8c3710f jc/bundle-complete-notice later to maint). 98 99 * "git ls-files --exclude=t -i" did not consider anything under t/ as 100 excluded, as it did not pay attention to exclusion of leading paths 101 while walking the index. Other two users of excluded() are also 102 updated. 103 (merge 0d316f0 jc/ls-files-i-dir later to maint). 104 105 * "git request-pull $url dev" when the tip of "dev" branch was tagged 106 with "ext4-for-linus" used the contents from the tag in the output 107 but still asked the "dev" branch to be pulled, not the tag. 108 (merge 682853e jc/request-pull-match-tagname later to maint).