Updates since v1.7.7
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+ * Some git-svn, git-gui, git-p4 (in contrib) and msysgit updates.
+
+ * Updates to bash completion scripts.
+
* The build procedure has been taught to take advantage of computed
dependency automatically when the complier supports it.
* The date parser now accepts timezone designators that lack minutes
part and also has a colon between "hh:mm".
- * On some BSD systems, adding +s bit on directories is detrimental
- (it is not necessary on BSD to begin with). The installation
- procedure has been updated to take this into account.
-
* The contents of the /etc/mailname file, if exists, is used as the
default value of the hostname part of the committer/author e-mail.
* Variants of "git cherry-pick" and "git revert" that take multiple
commits learned to "--continue".
+ * "git daemon" gives more human readble error messages to clients
+ using ERR packets when appropriate.
+
* Errors at the network layer is logged by "git daemon".
* "git diff" learned "--minimal" option to spend extra cycles to come
up with a minimal patch output.
+ * "git diff" learned "--function-context" option to show the whole
+ function as context that was affected by a change.
+
+ * "git difftool" can be told to skip launching the tool for a path by
+ answering 'n' to its prompt.
+
* "git fetch" learned to honor transfer.fsckobjects configuration to
validate the objects that were received from the other end, just like
"git receive-pack" (the receiving end of "git push") does.
"git receive-pack" (the receiving end of "git push") learned to do the
same.
+ * "git fetch" learned that fetching/cloning from a regular file on the
+ filesystem is not necessarily a request to unpack a bundle file; the
+ file could be ".git" with "gitdir: <path>" in it.
+
* "git for-each-ref" learned "%(contents:subject)", "%(contents:body)"
and "%(contents:signature)". The last one is useful for signed tags.
files in the working tree, so that matches in new but not yet
added files do not get missed.
+ * The recursive merge backend no longer looks for meaningless
+ existing merges in submodules unless in the outermost merge.
+
+ * "git log" and friends learned "--children" option.
+
* "git ls-remote" learned to respond to "-h"(elp) requests.
+ * "git merge" learned the "--edit" option to allow users to edit the
+ merge commit log message.
+
+ * "git rebase -i" can be told to use special purpose editor suitable
+ only for its insn sheet via sequence.editor configuration variable.
+
* "git send-email" learned to respond to "-h"(elp) requests.
* "git send-email" allows the value given to sendemail.aliasfile to begin
* "git stash" learned "--include-untracked" option to stash away
untracked/ignored cruft from the working tree.
+ * "git submodule clone" does not leak an error message to the UI
+ level unnecessarily anymore.
+
* "git submodule update" learned to honor "none" as the value for
submodule.<name>.update to specify that the named submodule should
not be checked out by default.
* "gitweb" leaked unescaped control characters from syntax hiliter
outputs.
+ * "gitweb" can be told to give custom string at the end of the HTML
+ HEAD element.
+
+ * "gitweb" now has its own manual pages.
+
Also contains other documentation updates and minor code cleanups.
a corrupt packet.
(merge 6cdf022 sp/smart-http-failure later to maint).
+ * HTTP transport did not use pushurl correctly, and also did not tell
+ what host it is trying to authenticate with when asking for
+ credentials.
+ (merge deba493 jk/http-auth later to maint).
+
+ * "git branch -m/-M" advertised to update RENAME_REF ref in the
+ commit log message that introduced the feature but not anywhere in
+ the documentation, and never did update such a ref anyway. This
+ undocumented misfeature that did not exist has been excised.
+ (merge b0eab01 jc/maint-remove-renamed-ref later to maint).
+
* Adding many refs to the local repository in one go (e.g. "git fetch"
that fetches many tags) and looking up a ref by name in a repository
with too many refs were unnecessarily slow.
(merge 17d68a54d jp/get-ref-dir-unsorted later to maint).
- * After incorrectly written third-party tools store a tag object in
- HEAD, git diagnosed it as a repository corruption and refused to
- proceed in order to avoid spreading the damage. We now gracefully
- recover from such a situation by pretending as if the commit that
- is pointed at by the tag were in HEAD.
- (merge baf18fc nd/maint-autofix-tag-in-head later to maint).
+ * "git fetch --prune" was unsafe when used with refspecs from the
+ command line.
+ (merge e8c1e6c cn/fetch-prune later to maint).
+
+ * Report from "git commit" on untracked files was confused under
+ core.ignorecase option.
+ (merge 2548183b jk/name-hash-dirent later to maint).
- * "git apply --whitespace=error" did not bother to report the exact
- line number in the patch that introduced new blank lines at the end
- of the file.
- (merge 8557263 jc/apply-blank-at-eof-fix later to maint).
+ * The attribute mechanism did not use case insensitive match when
+ core.ignorecase was set.
+ (merge 6eba621 bc/attr-ignore-case later to maint).
+ * "git bisect" did not notice when it failed to update the working tree
+ to the next commit to be tested.
+ (merge 1acf11717 js/bisect-no-checkout later to maint).
+
+ * "git config --bool --get-regexp" failed to separate the variable name
+ and its value "true" when the variable is defined without "= true".
+ (merge 880e3cc mm/maint-config-explicit-bool-display later to maint).
* "git remote rename $a $b" were not careful to match the remote name
against $a (i.e. source side of the remote nickname).
(merge b52d00aed mz/remote-rename later to maint).
- * "git diff $tree $path" used to apply the pathspec at the output stage,
- reading the whole tree, wasting resources.
- (merge 2f88c1970 jc/diff-index-unpack later to maint).
-
* "git diff --[num]stat" used to use the number of lines of context
different from the default, potentially giving different results from
"git diff | diffstat" and confusing the users.
(merge f01cae918 jc/maint-diffstat-numstat-context later to maint).
- * The code to check for updated submodules during a "git fetch" of the
- superproject had an unnecessary quadratic loop.
- (merge 6859de45 jk/maint-fetch-submodule-check-fix later to maint).
-
- * "git fetch" from a large bundle did not enable the progress output.
- (merge be042aff jc/maint-bundle-too-quiet later to maint).
-
- * When "git fsck --lost-and-found" found that an empty blob object in the
- object store is unreachable, it incorrectly reported an error after
- writing the lost blob out successfully.
- (merge eb726f2d jc/maint-fsck-fwrite-size-check later to maint).
-
- * "git filter-branch" did not refresh the index before checking that the
- working tree was clean.
- (merge 5347a50f jk/filter-branch-require-clean-work-tree later to maint).
-
- * "git grep $tree" when run with multiple threads had an unsafe access to
- the object database that should have been protected with mutex.
- (merge 8cb5775b2 nm/grep-object-sha1-lock later to maint).
-
- * The "--ancestry-path" option to "git log" and friends misbehaved in a
- history with complex criss-cross merges and showed an uninteresting
- side history as well.
- (merge c05b988a6 bk/ancestry-path later to maint).
-
* "git merge" did not understand ":/<pattern>" as a way to name a commit.
* "git mergetool" learned to use its arguments as pathspec, not a path to
the file that may not even have any conflict.
(merge 6d9990a jm/mergetool-pathspec later to maint).
- * Tests with --valgrind failed to find "mergetool" scriptlets.
- (merge ee0d7bf92 tr/mergetool-valgrind later to maint).
+ * "git pull" and "git rebase" did not work well even when GIT_WORK_TREE is
+ set correctly with GIT_DIR if the current directory is outside the working
+ tree.
+ (merge 035b5bf jk/pull-rebase-with-work-tree later to maint).
- * "git patch-id" miscomputed the patch-id in a patch that has a line longer
- than 1kB.
- (merge b9ab810b ms/patch-id-with-overlong-line later to maint).
+ " "git push" on the receiving end used to call post-receive and post-update
+ hooks for attempted removal of non-existing refs.
+ (merge 160b81ed ph/push-to-delete-nothing later to maint).
- * When an "exec" insn failed after modifying the index and/or the working
- tree during "rebase -i", we now check and warn that the changes need to
- be cleaned up.
- (merge 1686519a mm/rebase-i-exec-edit later to maint).
+ * "git send-email" did not honor the configured hostname when restarting
+ the HELO/EHLO exchange after switching TLS on.
+ (merge 155b940 md/smtp-tls-hello-again later to maint).
* "gitweb" used to produce a non-working link while showing the contents
of a blob, when JavaScript actions are enabled.
(merge 2b07ff3ff ps/gitweb-js-with-lineno later to maint).
+ * The logic to filter out forked projects in the project list in
+ "gitweb" was broken for some time.
+ (merge 53c632f jm/maint-gitweb-filter-forks-fix later to maint).
+
---
exec >/var/tmp/1
-O=v1.7.7-289-gb73c683
+O=v1.7.7.1-492-g324bc2a
echo O=$(git describe --always master)
git log --first-parent --oneline --reverse ^$O master
echo