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