UI, Workflows & Features
- * Improved handling of views, labels and branches in git-p4 (in contrib).
-
- * "git-p4" (in contrib) suffered from unnecessary merge conflicts when
- p4 expanded the embedded $RCS$-like keywords; it can be now told to
- unexpand them.
-
- * Some "git-svn" updates.
-
- * "vcs-svn"/"svn-fe" learned to read dumps with svn-deltas and
- support incremental imports.
+ * Teams for localizing the messages from the Porcelain layer of
+ commands are starting to form, thanks to Jiang Xin who volunteered
+ to be the localization coordinator. An initial set of translated
+ messages for simplified chinese is available.
* The configuration mechanism learned an "include" facility; an
assignment to the include.path pseudo-variable causes the named
file to be included in-place when Git looks up configuration
variables.
+ * A content filter (clean/smudge) used to be just a way to make the
+ recorded contents "more useful", and allowed to fail; a filter can
+ new optionally be marked as "required".
+
+ * Options whose names begin with "--no-" (e.g. the "--no-verify"
+ option of the "git commit" command) can be negated by omitting
+ "no-" from its name, e.g. "git commit --verify".
+
* "git am" learned to pass "-b" option to underlying "git mailinfo", so
that bracketed string other than "PATCH" at the beginning can be kept.
* "diff-highlight" filter (in contrib/) was updated to produce more
aesthetically pleasing output.
+ * "fsck" learned "--no-dangling" option to omit dangling object
+ information.
+
* "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
needed (including the ones that are not necessary for a specific
task).
+Foreign Interface
+
+ * Improved handling of views, labels and branches in git-p4 (in contrib).
+
+ * "git-p4" (in contrib) suffered from unnecessary merge conflicts when
+ p4 expanded the embedded $RCS$-like keywords; it can be now told to
+ unexpand them.
+
+ * Some "git-svn" updates.
+
+ * "vcs-svn"/"svn-fe" learned to read dumps with svn-deltas and
+ support incremental imports.
+
Performance
* During "git upload-pack" in response to "git fetch", unnecessary calls
releases are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
details).
+ * "git branch --with $that" assumed incorrectly that the user will never
+ ask the question with nonsense value in $that.
+ (merge 6c41e97 cn/maint-branch-with-bad later to maint).
+
+ * An invalid regular expression pattern given by an end user made
+ "gitweb" to return garbled response.
+ (merge 36612e4 jn/maint-gitweb-invalid-regexp later to maint).
+
+ * "git rev-list --verify-objects -q" omitted the extra verification
+ it needs to do over "git rev-list --objects -q" by mistake.
+ (merge 9899372 nd/maint-verify-objects later to maint).
+
* The bulk check-in codepath streamed contents that needs
smudge/clean filters without running them, instead of punting and
delegating to the codepath to run filters after slurping everything
---
exec >/var/tmp/1
-O=v1.7.9.2-301-g507fba2
+O=v1.7.9.2-358-g64d1544
echo O=$(git describe)
git log --first-parent --oneline ^maint $O..
echo