read. The error message in this case was updated to give better
hints to the user.
- * git native protocol agents learned to show software version over
- the wire, so that the server log can be examined to see the vintage
- distribution of clients.
-
* "git help -w $cmd" can show HTML version of documentation for
"git-$cmd" by setting help.htmlpath to somewhere other than the
default location where the build procedure installs them locally;
cycles after showing the first change to find the next one, only to
discard it.
+ * "git svn" got a large-looking code reorganization at the last
+ minute before the code freeze.
+
Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.
releases are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
details).
- * "git mergetool" did not support --tool-help option to give the list
- of supported backends, like "git difftool" does.
- (merge 109859e jc/mergetool-tool-help later to maint).
-
- * "$GIT_DIR/COMMIT_EDITMSG" file that is used to hold the commit log
- message user edits was not documented.
- (merge 41f597d jk/maint-commit-document-editmsg later to maint).
+ * "git submodule add" was confused when the superproject did not have
+ its repository in its usual place in the working tree and GIT_DIR
+ and GIT_WORK_TREE was used to access it.
* "git commit --amend" let the user edit the log message and then died
when the human-readable committer name was given insufficiently by
getpwent(3).
- (merge f20f387 jk/maint-commit-check-committer-early later to maint).
-
- * The advise() function did not use varargs correctly to format
- its message.
- (merge 447b99c jk/maint-advise-vaddf later to maint).
-
- * "git commit-tree" learned a more natural "-p <parent> <tree>" order
- of arguments long time ago, but recently forgot it by mistake.
- (merge 4b7518a kk/maint-commit-tree later to maint).
-
- * "git diff --no-ext-diff" did not output anything for a typechange
- filepair when GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF is in effect.
- (merge c12f82a jv/maint-no-ext-diff later to maint).
-
- * When "git am" failed, old timers knew to check .git/rebase-apply/patch
- to see what went wrong, but we never told the users about it.
- (merge 14bf2d5 pg/maint-1.7.9-am-where-is-patch later to maint).
-
- * When "git submodule add" clones a submodule repository, it can get
- confused where to store the resulting submodule repository in the
- superproject's .git/ directory when there is a symbolic link in the
- path to the current directory.
- (merge 6eafa6d jl/maint-1.7.10-recurse-submodules-with-symlink later to maint).
-
- * In 1.7.9 era, we taught "git rebase" about the raw timestamp format
- but we did not teach the same trick to "filter-branch", which rolled
- a similar logic on its own.
- (merge 44b85e89 jc/maint-filter-branch-epoch-date later to maint).