* 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).
- * "add -e" learned not to show a diff for an otherwise unmodified
- submodule that only has uncommitted local changes in the patch
- prepared by for the user to edit.
- (merge 701825d js/add-e-submodule-fix 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).
+
+ * "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).
- * "rebase" and "commit --amend" failed to work on commits with ancient
- timestamps near year 1970.
- (merge 2c733fb jc/parse-date-raw 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 merge --ff-only $tag" failed because it cannot record the
- required mergetag without creating a merge, but this is so common
- operation for branch that is used _only_ to follow the upstream, so
- it is allowed to fast-forward without recording the mergetag.
- (merge b5c9f1c jc/merge-ff-only-stronger-than-signed-merge later to maint).
+ * The code to ask for password did not fall back to the terminal
+ input when GIT_ASKPASS is set but does not work (e.g. lack of X
+ with GUI askpass helper).
+ (merge 84d7273 jk/prompt-fallback-to-tty later to maint).
- * Typo in "git branch --edit-description my-tpoic" was not diagnosed.
- (merge c2d17ba jc/branch-desc-typoavoidance later to maint).
+ * map_user() was not rewriting its output correctly, which resulted
+ in the user visible symptom that "git blame -e" sometimes showed
+ excess '>' at the end of email addresses.
+ (merge f026358 jc/maint-mailmap-output later to maint).
- * rpmbuild noticed an unpackaged but installed *.mo file and failed.
- (merge 3a9f58c jn/rpm-spec later to maint).
+ * "checkout -b" did not allow switching out of an unborn branch.
+ (merge abe1998 jc/checkout-out-of-unborn later to maint).
---
exec >/var/tmp/1
-O=v1.7.9-208-gee8d52f
+O=v1.7.9-249-gaa47ec9
echo O=$(git describe)
git log --first-parent --oneline ^maint $O..
echo