* Improved handling of views, labels and branches in git-p4 (in contrib).
+ * Updated command line arguments completion script for zsh (in contrib).
+
* "vcs-svn"/"svn-fe" learned to read dumps with svn-deltas and
support incremental imports.
* "git clone" learned to detach the HEAD in the resulting repository
when the source repository's HEAD does not point to a branch.
+ * The commands in the "git diff" family and "git apply --stat" that
+ count the number of files changed and the number of lines
+ inserted/deleted have been updated to match the output from
+ "diffstat". This also opens the door to i18n this line.
+
* When showing a patch while ignoring whitespace changes, the context
lines are taken from the postimage, in order to make it easier to
view the output.
+ * "git grep" pays attention to -diff (hence -binary) attributes now.
+
+ * "git tag --list" can be given "--points-at <object>" to limit its
+ output to those that point at the given object.
+
* "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
can export MERGE_AUTOEDIT=no to retain the historical behaviour.
+ Both "git merge" and "git pull" can be given --no-edit from the
+ command line to accept the auto-generated merge message.
* "gitweb" allows intermediate entries in the directory hierarchy
that leads to a projects to be clicked, which in turn shows the
to parse_object() have been eliminated, to help performance in
repositories with excessive number of refs.
-Internal Implementation
+Internal Implementation (please report possible regressions)
* Recursive call chains in "git index-pack" to deal with long delta
chains have been flattened, to reduce the stack footprint.
- * Use of add_extra_ref() API is slowly getting removed, to make it
- possible to cleanly restructure the overall refs API.
+ * Use of add_extra_ref() API is now gone, to make it possible to
+ cleanly restructure the overall refs API.
+
+ * The command line parser of "git pack-objects" now uses parse-options
+ API.
* The test suite supports the new "test_pause" helper function.
releases are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
details).
- * When "git push" fails to update any refs, the client side did not
- report an error correctly to the end user.
- (merge 5238cbf sp/smart-http-failure-to-push later to maint).
+ * When you have both .../foo and .../foo.git, "git clone .../foo" did not
+ favor the former but the latter.
+ (merge b3256eb jk/git-dir-lookup later to maint).
- * "git push -q" was not sufficiently quiet.
- (merge d336572 cb/push-quiet later to maint).
+ * Some systems need to explicitly link -lcharset to get locale_charset().
+ (merge b522528 dp/i18n-libcharset later to maint).
- * "git log --first-parent $pathspec" did not stay on the first parent
- chain and veered into side branch from which the whole change to the
- specified paths came.
- (merge 36ed191 jc/maint-log-first-parent-pathspec later to maint).
+ * The output from "git diff --stat" for two paths that have the same
+ amount of changes showed graph bars of different length due to the
+ way we handled rounding errors.
+ (merge 2eeeef2 jc/diff-stat-scaler later to maint).
- * Subprocesses spawned from various git programs were often left running
- to completion even when the top-level process was killed.
- (merge 10c6cdd cb/maint-kill-subprocess-upon-signal later to maint).
+ * We failed to give the true terminal width to any subcommand when
+ they are invoked with the pager, i.e. "git -p cmd".
+ (merge ad6c373 zj/term-columns later to maint).
- * "git mergetool" now gives an empty file as the common base version
- to the backend when dealing with the "both sides added, differently"
- case.
- (merge ec245ba da/maint-mergetool-twoway later to maint).
+ * The transport programs ignored --no-progress and showed progress when
+ sending their output to a terminal.
+ (merge 01fdc21 cb/transfer-no-progress later to maint).
- * "git submodule add $path" forgot to recompute the name to be stored
- in .gitmodules when the submodule at $path was once added to the
- superproject and already initialized.
- (merge 1017c1a jl/submodule-re-add later to maint).
+ * Sometimes error status detected by a check in an earlier phase of
+ receive-pack (the other end of 'git push') was lost by later
+ checks, resulting in false indication of success.
+ (merge ef7e93d cb/receive-pack-keep-errors later to maint).
- * Using "git grep -l/-L" together with options -W or --break may not
- make much sense as the output is to only count the number of hits
- and there is no place for file breaks, but the latter options made
- "-l/-L" to miscount the hits.
- (merge 50dd0f2 tr/grep-l-with-decoration later to maint).
+ * t5541 ignored user-supplied port number used for HTTP server testing
+ (merge d202a51 cb/maint-t5541-make-server-port-portable later to maint).
- * When asking for a tag to be pulled, "request-pull" shows the name
- of the tag prefixed with "tags/"
- (merge 2ad9ba0 jc/maint-request-pull-for-tag later to maint).
+ * "rev-list --verify" sometimes skipped verification depending on the
+ phase of the moon, which dates back to 1.7.8.x series.
+ (merge cb8da70 cb/maint-rev-list-verify-object later to maint).
---
exec >/var/tmp/1
-O=v1.7.9-187-gdc347e9
+O=v1.7.9.1-264-g76bdcf0
echo O=$(git describe)
git log --first-parent --oneline ^maint $O..
echo