Foreign interface
- * remote-hg and remote-bzr helpers (in contrib/) have been updated.
+ * remote-hg and remote-bzr helpers (in contrib/ since v1.8.2) have
+ been updated; especially, the latter has been done in an
+ accelerated schedule (read: we may not have merged to this release
+ if we were following the usual "cook sufficiently in next before
+ unleashing it to the world" workflow) in order to help Emacs folks,
+ whose primary SCM seems to be stagnating.
UI, Workflows & Features
+ * A handful of updates applied to gitk, including an addition of
+ "revert" action, showing dates in tags in a nicer way, making
+ colors configurable, and support for -G'pickaxe' search.
+
+ * The prompt string generator (in contrib/completion/) learned to
+ show how many changes there are in total and how many have been
+ replayed during a "git rebase" session.
+
* "git branch --vv" learned to paint the name of the branch it
integrates with in a different color (color.branch.upstream,
which defaults to blue).
of erroneous inputs was suboptimal and has been improved.
* When the interactive access to git-shell is not enabled, it issues
- a message meant to help the system administrator to enable it.
- An explicit way to help the end users who connect to the service by
- issuing custom messages to refuse such an access has been added.
+ a message meant to help the system administrator to enable it. An
+ explicit way has been added to issue custom messages to refuse an
+ access over the network to help the end users who connect to the
+ service expecting an interactive shell.
* In addition to the case where the user edits the log message with
the "e)dit" option of "am -i", replace the "Applying: this patch"
* "git status" suggests users to look into using --untracked=no option
when it takes too long.
- * "git status" shows a bit more information during a
- rebase/bisect session.
+ * "git status" shows a bit more information during a rebase/bisect
+ session.
* "git fetch" learned to fetch a commit at the tip of an unadvertised
ref by specifying a raw object name from the command line when the
* "git difftool" allows the user to write into the temporary files
being shown; if the user makes changes to the working tree at the
- same time, one of the changes has to be lost in such a case, but it
- tells the user what happened and refrains from overwriting the copy
- in the working tree.
+ same time, it now refrains from overwriting the copy in the working
+ tree and leaves the temporary file so that changes can be merged
+ manually.
* There was no good way to ask "I have a random string that came from
outside world. I want to turn it into a 40-hex object name while
track are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
details).
+ * Recent versions of File::Temp (used by "git svn") started blowing
+ up when its tempfile sub is called as a class method; updated the
+ callsite to call it as a plain vanilla function to fix it.
+ (merge eafc2dd hb/git-pm-tempfile later to maint).
+
+ * Various subcommands of "git remote" simply ignored extraneous
+ command line arguments instead of diagnosing them as errors.
+
* When receive-pack detects an error in the pack header it received in
order to decide which of unpack-objects or index-pack to run, it
returned without closing the error stream, which led to a hung
buffer around as human readable object names. This was not a huge
problem but was exposed by a new change that uses these names in
error output.
- (merge 70d26c6 tr/copy-revisions-from-stdin later to maint).
* Smart-capable HTTP servers were not restricted via the
GIT_NAMESPACE mechanism when talking with commit-walking clients,
* Fix a 1.8.1.x regression that stopped matching "dir" (without a
trailing slash) to a directory "dir".
- (merge efa5f82 jc/directory-attrs-regression-fix later to maint-1.8.1).
* "git apply --whitespace=fix" was not prepared to see a line getting
longer after fixing whitespaces (e.g. tab-in-indent aka Python).
- (merge 329b26e jc/apply-ws-fix-tab-in-indent later to maint-1.8.1).
* The prompt string generator (in contrib/completion/) did not notice
when we are in a middle of a "git revert" session.