* Various vcs-svn enhancements.
+ * Various git-gui updates (0.14.0).
+
+ * Update to more modern HP-UX port.
+
+ * The codebase is getting prepared for i18n/l10n; no translated
+ strings nor translation mechanism in the code yet, but the strings
+ are being marked for l10n.
+
+ * The bash completion script can now complete symmetric difference
+ for "git diff" command, e.g. "git diff ...bra<TAB>".
+
+ * The default minimum length of abbreviated and unique object names
+ can now be configured by setting the core.abbrev configuration
+ variable.
+
+ * "git apply -v" reports offset lines when the patch does not apply at
+ the exact location recorded in the diff output.
+
* "git config" used to be also known as "git repo-config", but the old
name is now officially deprecated.
* "git checkout --detach <commit>" is a more user friendly synonym for
"git checkout <commit>^0".
- * "git cherry-pick" and "git revert" can be told to use custom merge
+ * "git checkout" performed on detached HEAD gives a warning and
+ advice when the commit being left behind will become unreachable from
+ any branch or tag.
+
+ * "git cherry-pick" and "git revert" can be told to use a custom merge
strategy, similar to "git rebase".
* "git cherry-pick" remembers which commit failed to apply when it is
stopped by conflicts, making it unnecessary to use "commit -c $commit"
to conclude it.
+ * "git cvsimport" bails out immediately when the cvs server cannot be
+ reached, without spewing unnecessary error messages that complain about
+ the server response it never got.
+
+ * "git fetch" vs "git upload-pack" transfer learned 'no-done'
+ protocol extension to save one round-trip after the content
+ negotiation is done. This saves one HTTP RPC, reducing the overall
+ latency for a trivial fetch.
+
+ * "git grep -f <filename>" learned to treat "-" as "read from the
+ standard input stream".
+
* "git grep --no-index" did not honor pathspecs correctly, returning
paths outside the specified area.
- * "git rev-list --objects $revs -- $pathspec" would limit the objects listed
+ * "git init" learned the --separate-git-dir option to allow the git
+ directory for a new repository created elsewhere and linked via the
+ gitdir mechanism. This is primarily to help submodule support later
+ to switch between a branch of superproject that has the submodule
+ and another that does not.
+
+ * "git log" type commands now understand globbing pathspecs. You
+ can say "git log -- '*.txt'" for example.
+
+ * "git log" family of commands learned --cherry and --cherry-mark
+ options that can be used to view two diverged branches while omitting
+ or highlighting equivalent changes that appear on both sides of a
+ symmetric difference (e.g. "log --cherry A...B").
+
+ * A lazy "git merge" that didn't say what to merge used to be an error.
+ When run on a branch that has an upstream defined, however, the command
+ now merges from the configured upstream.
+
+ * "git mergetool" learned how to drive "beyond compare 3" as well.
+
+ * "git rerere forget" without pathspec used to forget all the saved
+ conflicts that relate to the current merge; it now requires you to
+ give it pathspecs.
+
+ * "git rev-list --objects $revs -- $pathspec" now limits the objects listed
in its output properly with the pathspec, in preparation for narrow
clones.
- * "git log" family of commands now understand globbing pathspecs. You
- can say "git log -- '*.txt'" for example.
+ * "git push" with no parameters gives better advice messages when
+ "tracking" is used as the push.default semantics or there is no remote
+ configured yet.
- * "git rerere" learned a new subcommand "remaining", that is similar to
- "status" that lists the paths that had conflicts that are known to
+ * "git rerere" learned a new subcommand "remaining" that is similar to
+ "status" and lists the paths that had conflicts which are known to
rerere, but excludes the paths that have already been marked as
resolved in the index from its output. "git mergetool" has been
updated to use this facility.
All of the fixes in the v1.7.4.X maintenance series are included in this
release, unless otherwise noted.
- * "git clone /no/such/path" did not fail correctly (jk/fail-null/clone).
-
- * "git checkout $other_branch" silently removed untracked symbolic links
- in the working tree that are in the way in order to check out paths
- under it from the named branch (js/checkout-untracked-symlink).
-
- * "git diff --stat -B" ran on binary files counted the changes in lines,
- which was nonsensical (jk/diffstat-binary).
-
- * "git diff -M" opportunisticly detected copies, which was not
- necessarily a good thing, especially when it is internally run by
- recursive merge.
+ * "git fetch" from a client that is mostly following the remote
+ needlessly told all of its refs to the server for both sides to
+ compute the set of objects that need to be transferred efficiently,
+ instead of stopping when the server heard enough. In a project with
+ many tags, this turns out to be extremely wasteful, especially over
+ the smart HTTP transport (sp/maint-{upload,fetch}-pack-stop-early~1).
- * "git merge" triggers prepare-commit-msg hook. Earlier, only "git
- commit" to conclude an interrupted merge triggered the hook, leading to
- an inconsistent overall user experience (js/maint-merge-use-prepare-commit-msg-hook).
+ * "git fetch" run from a repository that uses the same repository as
+ its alternate object store as the repository it is fetching from
+ did not tell the server that it already has access to objects
+ reachable from the refs in their common alternate object store,
+ causing it to fetch unnecessary objects (jc/maint-fetch-alt).
- * "git submodule update" used to honor --merge/--rebase option (or
- corresponding configuration variables) even for a newly cloned
- subprojects, which made no sense (so/submodule-no-update-first-time).
+ * "git pull" into an empty branch should have behaved as if
+ fast-forwarding from emptiness to the version being pulled, with
+ the usual protection against overwriting untracked files (need to
+ cherry-pick 4b3ffe5).
---
exec >/var/tmp/1
-O=v1.7.4.1-224-g66ecd2d
+O=v1.7.5-rc0-99-g8f84c95
echo O=$(git describe 'master')
git shortlog --no-merges ^maint ^$O master