* git-p4 (in contrib/) updates.
+ * Git uses gettext to translate its most common interface messages
+ into the user's language if translations are available and the
+ locale is appropriately set. Distributors can drop in new PO files
+ in po/ to add new translations.
+
* Porcelain commands like "git reset" did not distinguish deletions
and type-changes from ordinary modification, and reported them with
the same 'M' moniker. They now use 'D' (for deletion) and 'T' (for
type-change) to match "git status -s" and "git diff --name-status".
+ * The code to handle username/password for HTTP transaction used in
+ "git push" & "git fetch" learned to talk "credential API" to
+ external programs to cache or store them, to allow integration with
+ platform native keychain mechanisms.
+
+ * The prompted input in the terminal use our own getpass() replacement
+ when possible. HTTP transactions used to ask username without echoing
+ back what was typed, but with this change you will see it as you type.
+
+ * The internal of "revert/cherry-pick" has been tweaked to prepare
+ building more generic "sequencer" on top of the implementation that
+ drives them.
+
* "git add" learned to stream large files directly into a packfile
instead of writing them into individual loose object files.
user is amending the tree being recorded, without updating the
commit log message.
+ * "git commit" and "git reset" re-learned the optimization to prime
+ the cache-tree information in the index, which makes it faster to
+ write a tree object out after the index entries are updated.
+
+ * "git commit" detects and rejects an attempt to stuff NUL byte in
+ the commit log message.
+
* fsck and prune are relatively lengthy operations that still go
silent while making the end-user wait. They learned to give progress
output like other slow operations.
* The set of built-in function-header patterns for various languages
knows MATLAB.
+ * "git log --follow" honors the rename threshold score given with the
+ -M option (e.g. "-M50%").
+
+ * "git log --format='<format>'" learned new %g[nNeE] specifiers to
+ show information from the reflog entries when warlking the reflog
+ (i.e. with "-g").
+
* "git pull" can be used to fetch and merge an annotated/signed tag,
instead of the tip of a topic branch. The GPG signature from the
signed tag is recorded in the resulting merge commit for later
Fixes since v1.7.8
------------------
- * The function header pattern for files with "diff=cpp" attribute did
- not consider "type *funcname(type param1,..." as the beginning of a
- function.
- (merge 37e7793 tr/userdiff-c-returns-pointer later to maint).
+ * The replacement implemention for snprintf used on platforms with
+ native snprintf that is broken did not use va_copy correctly.
+ (merge a9bfbc5 jk/maint-snprintf-va-copy later to maint).
- * LF-to-CRLF streaming filter used when checking out a large-ish blob
- fell into an infinite loop with a rare input.
- (merge 284e3d2 cn/maint-lf-to-crlf-filter later to maint).
+ * git native connection going over TCP (not over SSH) did not set
+ SO_KEEPALIVE option which failed to receive link layer errors.
+ (merge e47a858 ew/keepalive later to maint).
- * "git archive" mistakenly allowed remote clients to ask for commits
- that are not at the tip of any ref.
- (merge 7b51c33 jk/maint-upload-archive later to maint).
+ * LF-to-CRLF streaming filter replaced all LF with CRLF, which might
+ be techinically correct but not friendly to people who are trying
+ to recover from earlier mistakes of using CRLF in the repository
+ data in the first place. It now refrains from doing so for LF that
+ follows a CR.
+ (merge 8496f56 jc/maint-lf-to-crlf-keep-crlf later to maint).
- * "git apply --check" did not error out when given an empty input
- without any patch.
- (merge cc64b31 bc/maint-apply-check-no-patch later to maint).
+ * "git checkout -m" did not recreate the conflicted state in a "both
+ sides added, without any common ancestor version" conflict
+ situation.
+ (merge 5cd7fadc jc/checkout-m-twoway later to maint).
- * The error message from "git diff" and "git status" when they fail
- to inspect changes in submodules did not report which submodule they
- had trouble with.
- (merge 6a5ceda jl/submodule-status-failure-report later to maint).
+ * "git cherry-pick $commit" (not a range) created an unnecessary
+ sequencer state and interfered with valid workflow to use the
+ command during a session to cherry-pick multiple commits.
+ (merge d596118 jn/maint-sequencer-fixes later to maint).
+
+ * You could make "git commit" segfault by giving the "--no-message"
+ option.
+ (merge 03f94ae jk/maint-strbuf-missing-init later to maint).
* "fast-import" did not correctly update an existing notes tree,
possibly corrupting the fan-out.
+ * "git fetch-pack" accepted unqualified refs that do not begin with
+ refs/ by mistake and compensated it by matching the refspec with
+ tail-match, which was doubly wrong. This broke fetching from a
+ repository with a funny named ref "refs/foo/refs/heads/master" and a
+ 'master' branch with "git fetch-pack refs/heads/master", as the
+ command incorrectly considered the former a "match".
+ (merge bab8d28 jk/fetch-no-tail-match-refs later to maint).
+
+ * "git mv" gave suboptimal error/warning messages when it overwrites
+ target files. It also did not pay attention to "-v" option.
+ (merge 534376c jk/maint-mv later to maint).
+
* When a "reword" action in "git rebase -i" failed to run "commit --amend",
we did not give the control back to the user to resolve the situation, and
instead kept the original commit log message.
(merge 0becb3e aw/rebase-i-stop-on-failure-to-amend later to maint).
+ * Authenticated "git push" over dumb HTTP were broken with a recent
+ change and failed without asking for password when username is
+ given.
+ (merge a4ddbc3 jk/maint-push-over-dav later to maint).
+
+ * "git push" to an empty repository over HTTP were broken with a
+ recent change to the ref handling.
+ (merge 02f7914 jk/http-push-to-empty later to maint).
+
+ * "git push -v" forgot how to be verbose by mistake. It now properly is.
+ (merge bd2c86e jk/maint-push-v-is-verbose later to maint).
+
+ * gitweb did not correctly fall back to configured $fallback_encoding
+ that is not 'latin1'.
+ (merge b13e3ea jn/maint-gitweb-utf8-fix later to maint).
+
--
exec >/var/tmp/1
-O=v1.7.8-282-ga2add85
+O=v1.7.8.1-384-g2b6dd6a
echo O=$(git describe master)
git log --first-parent --oneline --reverse ^$O master
echo