* 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.
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).
-
- * "git push -q" was not sufficiently quiet.
- (merge d336572 cb/push-quiet 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 error message emitted when we see an empty loose object was
+ not phrased correctly.
+ (merge 33e42de mm/empty-loose-error-message 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).
+ * "git commit" refused to create a commit when entries added with
+ "add -N" remained in the index, without telling Git what their content
+ in the next commit should be. We should have created the commit without
+ these paths.
+ (merge 3f6d56d jc/maint-commit-ignore-i-t-a 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).
+ * Search box in "gitweb" did not accept non-ASCII characters correctly.
+ (merge 84d9e2d jn/gitweb-search-utf-8 later to maint).
- * "git submodule add $path" forgot to recompute the name to be stored
- in .gitmodules when the submodule at $path was once added to the
- superproject and already initialized.
- (merge 1017c1a jl/submodule-re-add later to maint).
+ * The code to ask for password did not fall back to the terminal
+ input when GIT_ASKPASS is set but does not work (e.g. lack of X
+ with GUI askpass helper).
+ (merge 84d7273 jk/prompt-fallback-to-tty later to maint).
- * Using "git grep -l/-L" together with options -W or --break may not
- make much sense as the output is to only count the number of hits
- and there is no place for file breaks, but the latter options made
- "-l/-L" to miscount the hits.
- (merge 50dd0f2 tr/grep-l-with-decoration later to maint).
+ * map_user() was not rewriting its output correctly, which resulted
+ in the user visible symptom that "git blame -e" sometimes showed
+ excess '>' at the end of email addresses.
+ (merge f026358 jc/maint-mailmap-output later to maint).
- * When asking for a tag to be pulled, "request-pull" shows the name
- of the tag prefixed with "tags/"
- (merge 2ad9ba0 jc/maint-request-pull-for-tag later to maint).
+ * "checkout -b" did not allow switching out of an unborn branch.
+ (merge abe1998 jc/checkout-out-of-unborn later to maint).
---
exec >/var/tmp/1
-O=v1.7.9-187-gdc347e9
+O=v1.7.9-249-gaa47ec9
echo O=$(git describe)
git log --first-parent --oneline ^maint $O..
echo