* Various git-p4 enhancements (in contrib).
+ * Various vcs-svn enhancements.
+
+ * Update to more modern HP-UX port.
+
+ * The codebase is getting prepared for i18n/l10n; no translated/translatable
+ strings in the code yet.
+
+ * "git apply -v" reports offset lines when the patch does not apply at
+ the exact location recorded in the diff output.
+
+ * "git branch --track" (and "git checkout --track --branch") used to
+ allow setting up a random non-branch that does not make sense to follow
+ as the "upstream". The command correctly diagnoses it as an error.
+
* "git config" used to be also known as "git repo-config", but the old
name is now officially deprecated.
* "git checkout --detach <commit>" is a more user friendly synonym for
"git checkout <commit>^0".
- * "git cherry-pick" and "git revert" can be told to use custom merge
+ * "git checkout" performed on detached HEAD gives a warning and
+ advice when the commit being left behind will become unreachable from
+ any branch or tag.
+
+ * "git cherry-pick" and "git revert" can be told to use a custom merge
strategy, similar to "git rebase".
- * "rev-list --objects $revs -- $pathspec" would limit the objects listed
+ * "git cherry-pick" remembers which commit failed to apply when it is
+ stopped by conflicts, making it unnecessary to use "commit -c $commit"
+ to conclude it.
+
+ * "git cvsimport" bails out immediately when the cvs server cannot be
+ reached, without spewing unnecessary error messages that complain about
+ the server response it never got.
+
+ * "git grep -f <filename>" learned to treat "-" as "read from the
+ standard input stream".
+
+ * "git grep --no-index" did not honor pathspecs correctly, returning
+ paths outside the specified area.
+
+ * "git log" type commands now understand globbing pathspecs. You
+ can say "git log -- '*.txt'" for example.
+
+ * "git mergetool" learned how to drive "beyond compare 3" as well.
+
+ * "git rerere forget" without pathspec used to forget all the saved
+ conflicts that relate to the current merge; it now requires you to
+ give it pathspecs.
+
+ * "git rev-list --objects $revs -- $pathspec" now limits the objects listed
in its output properly with the pathspec, in preparation for narrow
clones.
- * "git log" family of commands now understand globbing pathspecs. You
- can say "git log -- '*.txt'" for example.
+ * "git push" with no parameters gives better advice messages when
+ "tracking" is used as the push.default semantics or there is no remote
+ configured yet.
- * "git rerere" learned a new subcommand "remaining", that is similar to
- "status" that lists the paths that had conflicts that are known to
+ * "git rerere" learned a new subcommand "remaining" that is similar to
+ "status" and lists the paths that had conflicts which are known to
rerere, but excludes the paths that have already been marked as
resolved in the index from its output. "git mergetool" has been
updated to use this facility.
All of the fixes in the v1.7.4.X maintenance series are included in this
release, unless otherwise noted.
- * "git merge" triggers prepare-commit-msg hook. Earlier, only "git
- commit" to conclude an interrupted merge triggered the hook, leading to
- an inconsistent overall user experience (js/maint-merge-use-prepare-commit-msg-hook).
+ * "git apply" used to confuse lines updated by previous hunks as lines
+ that existed before when applying a hunk, contributing misapplication
+ of patches with offsets.
+ * "git checkout $other_branch" silently removed untracked symbolic links
+ in the working tree that are in the way in order to check out paths
+ under it from the named branch (js/checkout-untracked-symlink).
---
exec >/var/tmp/1
-O=v1.7.4
-O=v1.7.4.1-140-g8978166
+O=v1.7.4.1-352-gcdc3466
echo O=$(git describe 'master')
git shortlog --no-merges ^maint ^$O master