-Git v1.7.9 Release Notes (draft)
+Git v1.7.9 Release Notes
========================
Updates since v1.7.8
--------------------
+ * gitk updates accumulated since early 2011.
+
* git-gui updated to 0.16.0.
* git-p4 (in contrib/) updates.
- * 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".
+ * 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 new PO files
+ in po/ to add new translations.
+
+ * The code to handle username/password for HTTP transactions 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 input prompts in the terminal use our own getpass() replacement
+ when possible. HTTP transactions used to ask for the username without
+ echoing back what was typed, but with this change you will see it as
+ you type.
- * "git branch -m <current branch> HEAD" is an obvious no-op and is
- now allowed.
+ * The internals of "revert/cherry-pick" have been tweaked to prepare
+ building more generic "sequencer" on top of the implementation that
+ drives them.
+
+ * "git rev-parse FETCH_HEAD" after "git fetch" without specifying
+ what to fetch from the command line will now show the commit that
+ would be merged if the command were "git pull".
+
+ * "git add" learned to stream large files directly into a packfile
+ instead of writing them into individual loose object files.
* "git checkout -B <current branch> <elsewhere>" is a more intuitive
way to spell "git reset --keep <elsewhere>".
* "git checkout" and "git merge" learned "--no-overwrite-ignore" option
to tell Git that untracked and ignored files are not expendable.
+ * "git commit --amend" learned "--no-edit" option to say that the
+ 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.
+
+ * "git commit" learned "-S" to GPG-sign the commit; this can be shown
+ with the "--show-signature" option to "git log".
+
* 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 --format='<format>'" learned new %g[nNeE] specifiers to
+ show information from the reflog entries when walking 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
auditing.
+ * "git log" learned "--show-signature" option to show the signed tag
+ that was merged that is embedded in the merge commit. It also can
+ show the signature made on the commit with "git commit -S".
+
* "git branch --edit-description" can be used to add descriptive text
to explain what a topic branch is about.
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).
-
- * 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 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).
-
- * "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).
-
- * 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).
-
---
-exec >/var/tmp/1
-O=v1.7.8-246-gb3f17ac
-echo O=$(git describe master)
-git log --first-parent --oneline --reverse ^$O master
-echo
-git shortlog --no-merges ^$O ^maint master
+Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.7.8 in the maintenance
+releases are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
+details).