* 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/translatable
+ strings in the code yet.
+
+ * 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.
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 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").
+
+ * "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.
All of the fixes in the v1.7.4.X maintenance series are included in this
release, unless otherwise noted.
- * We used to keep one file descriptor open for each and every packfile
- that we have a mmap window on it (read: "in use"), even when for very
- tiny packfiles. We now close the file descriptor early when the entire
- packfile fits inside one mmap window.
-
* "git apply" used to confuse lines updated by previous hunks as lines
that existed before when applying a hunk, contributing misapplication
of patches with offsets.
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 submodule update" used to honor the --merge/--rebase option (or
- corresponding configuration variables) even for a newly cloned
- subproject, which made no sense (so/submodule-no-update-first-time).
+ * "git diff --quiet" did not work very well with the "--diff-filter"
+ option (jc/maint-diff-q-filter).
+
+ * "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 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 stash apply" reported the result of its operation by running
+ "git status" from the top-level of the working tree; it should (and
+ now does) run it from the user's working directory
+ (pk/stash-apply-status-relative).
---
exec >/var/tmp/1
-O=v1.7.4.1-291-g01de349
+O=v1.7.5-rc0
echo O=$(git describe 'master')
git shortlog --no-merges ^maint ^$O master