UI, Workflows & Features
- * Improved handling of views, labels and branches in git-p4 (in contrib).
-
- * "git-p4" (in contrib) suffered from unnecessary merge conflicts when
- p4 expanded the embedded $RCS$-like keywords; it can be now told to
- unexpand them.
-
- * Some "git-svn" updates.
-
- * "vcs-svn"/"svn-fe" learned to read dumps with svn-deltas and
- support incremental imports.
+ * Teams for localizing the messages from the Porcelain layer of
+ commands are starting to form, thanks to Jiang Xin who volunteered
+ to be the localization coordinator. An initial set of translated
+ messages for simplified chinese is available.
* The configuration mechanism learned an "include" facility; an
assignment to the include.path pseudo-variable causes the named
recorded contents "more useful", and allowed to fail; a filter can
new optionally be marked as "required".
+ * Options whose names begin with "--no-" (e.g. the "--no-verify"
+ option of the "git commit" command) can be negated by omitting
+ "no-" from its name, e.g. "git commit --verify".
+
* "git am" learned to pass "-b" option to underlying "git mailinfo", so
that bracketed string other than "PATCH" at the beginning can be kept.
* "diff-highlight" filter (in contrib/) was updated to produce more
aesthetically pleasing output.
+ * "fsck" learned "--no-dangling" option to omit dangling object
+ information.
+
* "git merge" in an interactive session learned to spawn the editor
by default to let the user edit the auto-generated merge message,
to encourage people to explain their merges better. Legacy scripts
* "git push" learned the "--prune" option, similar to "git fetch".
+ * "git symbolic-ref" learned the "--short" option to abbreviate the
+ refname it shows unambiguously.
+
* "git tag --list" can be given "--points-at <object>" to limit its
output to those that point at the given object.
needed (including the ones that are not necessary for a specific
task).
+ * Project search in "gitweb" shows the substring that matched in the
+ project name and description highlighted.
+
+Foreign Interface
+
+ * Improved handling of views, labels and branches in git-p4 (in contrib).
+
+ * "git-p4" (in contrib) suffered from unnecessary merge conflicts when
+ p4 expanded the embedded $RCS$-like keywords; it can be now told to
+ unexpand them.
+
+ * Some "git-svn" updates.
+
+ * "vcs-svn"/"svn-fe" learned to read dumps with svn-deltas and
+ support incremental imports.
+
Performance
* During "git upload-pack" in response to "git fetch", unnecessary calls
releases are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
details).
- * The bulk check-in codepath streamed contents that needs
- smudge/clean filters without running them, instead of punting and
- delegating to the codepath to run filters after slurping everything
- to core.
- (merge 4f22b10 jk/maint-avoid-streaming-filtered-contents later to maint).
-
- * When the filter driver exits before reading the content before the
- main git process writes the contents to be filtered to the pipe to
- it, the latter could be killed with SIGPIPE instead of ignoring
- such an event as an error.
- (merge 6424c2a jb/filter-ignore-sigpipe later to maint).
-
- * When a remote helper exits before reading the blank line from the
- main git process to signal the end of commands, the latter could be
- killed with SIGPIPE. Instead we should ignore such event as a
- non-error.
- (merge c34fe63 sp/smart-http-failure-to-push later to maint).
-
- * "git bundle create" produced a corrupt bundle file upon seeing
- commits with excessively long subject line.
- (merge 8a557bb tr/maint-bundle-long-subject later to maint).
+ * The code to synthesize the fake ancestor tree used by 3-way merge
+ fallback in "git am" was not prepared to read a patch created with
+ a non-standard -p<num> value.
+ (merge a61ba26 jc/am-3-nonstandard-popt later to maint).
* "gitweb" used to drop warnings in the log file when "heads" view is
accessed in a repository whose HEAD does not point at a valid
---
exec >/var/tmp/1
-O=v1.7.9.2-322-g472fdee
+O=v1.7.9.2-383-gb8b5290
echo O=$(git describe)
git log --first-parent --oneline ^maint $O..
echo