* 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 in new PO files
+ in po/ to add new translations.
+
+ * The code to handle username/password for HTTP transaction 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 prompted input in the terminal use our own getpass() replacement
+ when possible. HTTP transactions used to ask username without echoing
+ back what was typed, but with this change you will see it as you type.
+
+ * The internal of "revert/cherry-pick" has been tweaked to prepare
+ building more generic "sequencer" on top of the implementation that
+ drives them.
* "git add" learned to stream large files directly into a packfile
instead of writing them into individual loose object files.
- * "git branch -m <current branch> HEAD" is an obvious no-op and is
- now allowed.
-
* "git checkout -B <current branch> <elsewhere>" is a more intuitive
way to spell "git reset --keep <elsewhere>".
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.
+
* 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 warlking 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
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).
-
- * "fast-import" did not correctly update an existing notes tree,
- possibly corrupting the fan-out.
+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).
- * When a "reword" action in "git rebase -i" failed to run "commit --amend",
- we did not give the control back to the user to resolve the situation, and
- instead kept the original commit log message.
- (merge 0becb3e aw/rebase-i-stop-on-failure-to-amend later to maint).
+ * gitweb did not correctly fall back to configured $fallback_encoding
+ that is not 'latin1'.
+ (merge b13e3ea jn/maint-gitweb-utf8-fix later to maint).
--
exec >/var/tmp/1
-O=v1.7.8-282-ga2add85
+O=v1.7.8.2-301-g48de656
echo O=$(git describe master)
git log --first-parent --oneline --reverse ^$O master
echo