-Git v1.7.8 Release Notes (draft)
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+Git v1.7.8 Release Notes
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Updates since v1.7.7
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* Updates to bash completion scripts.
* The build procedure has been taught to take advantage of computed
- dependency automatically when the complier supports it.
+ dependency automatically when the compiler supports it.
* The date parser now accepts timezone designators that lack minutes
part and also has a colon between "hh:mm".
files from the index, not from the working tree.
* Variants of "git cherry-pick" and "git revert" that take multiple
- commits learned to "--continue".
+ commits learned to "--continue" and "--abort".
- * "git daemon" gives more human readble error messages to clients
+ * "git daemon" gives more human readable error messages to clients
using ERR packets when appropriate.
* Errors at the network layer is logged by "git daemon".
between commits in the superproject that has and does not have the
submodule in the tree without re-cloning.
- * "git upload-archive" (hence "git archive --remote") can be built
- and used on mingw port of Git.
-
* "gitweb" leaked unescaped control characters from syntax hiliter
outputs.
the path had the textconv filter in effect.
(merge 8518088 ss/blame-textconv-fake-working-tree later to maint).
- * "git branch -m/-M" advertised to update RENAME_REF ref in the
- commit log message that introduced the feature but not anywhere in
- the documentation, and never did update such a ref anyway. This
- undocumented misfeature that did not exist has been excised.
- (merge b0eab01 jc/maint-remove-renamed-ref later to maint).
-
* Adding many refs to the local repository in one go (e.g. "git fetch"
that fetches many tags) and looking up a ref by name in a repository
with too many refs were unnecessarily slow.
hooks for attempted removal of non-existing refs.
(merge 160b81ed ph/push-to-delete-nothing later to maint).
- * The logic to filter out forked projects in the project list in
- "gitweb" was broken for some time.
- (merge 53c632f jm/maint-gitweb-filter-forks-fix later to maint).
-
- * The logic to optimize the locality of the data in a pack introduced in
- 1.7.7 was grossly inefficient.
- (merge 38d4deb dm/pack-objects-update later to maint).
-
----
-exec >/var/tmp/1
-O=v1.7.8-rc0-48-g92622e6
-echo O=$(git describe --always master)
-git log --first-parent --oneline --reverse ^$O master
-echo
-git shortlog --no-merges ^$O master
+ * Help text for "git remote set-url" and "git remote set-branches"
+ were misspelled.
+ (merge c49904e fc/remote-seturl-usage-fix later to maint).
+ (merge 656cdf0 jc/remote-setbranches-usage-fix later to maint).