UI, Workflows & Features
- * Improved handling of views, labels and branches in git-p4 (in contrib).
+ * 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.
- * Updated command line arguments completion script for zsh (in contrib).
+ * 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.
- * "vcs-svn"/"svn-fe" learned to read dumps with svn-deltas and
- support incremental imports.
+ * 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.
* "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.
+ * "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
- can export MERGE_AUTOEDIT=no to retain the historical behaviour.
+ can export GIT_MERGE_AUTOEDIT=no to retain the historical behavior.
+ Both "git merge" and "git pull" can be given --no-edit from the
+ command line to accept the auto-generated merge message.
+
+ * "git push" learned the "--prune" option, similar to "git fetch".
+
+ * "git symbolic-ref" learned the "--short" option to abbreviate the
+ refname it shows unambiguously.
+
+ * "git tag --list" can be given "--points-at <object>" to limit its
+ output to those that point at the given object.
* "gitweb" allows intermediate entries in the directory hierarchy
that leads to a projects to be clicked, which in turn shows the
list of projects inside that directory.
+ * "gitweb" learned to read various pieces of information for the
+ repositories lazily, instead of reading everything that could be
+ needed (including the ones that are not necessary for a specific
+ task).
+
+ * Project search in "gitweb" shows the substring that matched in the
+ project name and description highlighted.
+
+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 respose to "git fetch", unnecessary calls
+ * During "git upload-pack" in response to "git fetch", unnecessary calls
to parse_object() have been eliminated, to help performance in
repositories with excessive number of refs.
-Internal Implementation
+Internal Implementation (please report possible regressions)
* Recursive call chains in "git index-pack" to deal with long delta
chains have been flattened, to reduce the stack footprint.
- * Use of add_extra_ref() API is slowly getting removed, to make it
- possible to cleanly restructure the overall refs API.
+ * Use of add_extra_ref() API is now gone, to make it possible to
+ cleanly restructure the overall refs API.
+
+ * The command line parser of "git pack-objects" now uses parse-options
+ API.
* The test suite supports the new "test_pause" helper function.
+ * Parallel to the test suite, there is a beginning of performance
+ benchmarking framework.
+
* t/Makefile is adjusted to prevent newer versions of GNU make from
running tests in seemingly random order.
releases are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
details).
- * 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).
-
- * Search box in "gitweb" did not accept non-ASCII characters correctly.
- (merge 84d9e2d jn/gitweb-search-utf-8 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).
-
- * 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).
+ * The code to synthesize the fake ancestor tree used by 3-way merge
+ fallback in "git am" was not prepared to read a patch created with
+ a non-standard -p<num> value.
+ (merge a61ba26 jc/am-3-nonstandard-popt later to maint).
- * "checkout -b" did not allow switching out of an unborn branch.
- (merge abe1998 jc/checkout-out-of-unborn later to maint).
+ * "gitweb" used to drop warnings in the log file when "heads" view is
+ accessed in a repository whose HEAD does not point at a valid
+ branch.
---
exec >/var/tmp/1
-O=v1.7.9-249-gaa47ec9
+O=v1.7.9.2-383-gb8b5290
echo O=$(git describe)
git log --first-parent --oneline ^maint $O..
echo