1Git v1.7.8 Release Notes (draft) 2================================ 3 4Updates since v1.7.7 5-------------------- 6 7 * Some git-svn, git-gui and msysgit updates. 8 9 * Updates to bash completion scripts. 10 11 * The build procedure has been taught to take advantage of computed 12 dependency automatically when the complier supports it. 13 14 * The date parser now accepts timezone designators that lack minutes 15 part and also has a colon between "hh:mm". 16 17 * The contents of the /etc/mailname file, if exists, is used as the 18 default value of the hostname part of the committer/author e-mail. 19 20 * "git am" learned how to read from patches generated by Hg. 21 22 * "git archive" talking with a remote repository can report errors 23 from the remote side in a more informative way. 24 25 * "git branch" learned an explicit --list option to ask for branches 26 listed, optionally with a glob matching pattern to limit its output. 27 28 * "git check-attr" learned "--cached" option to look at .gitattributes 29 files from the index, not from the working tree. 30 31 * Variants of "git cherry-pick" and "git revert" that take multiple 32 commits learned to "--continue". 33 34 * Errors at the network layer is logged by "git daemon". 35 36 * "git diff" learned "--minimal" option to spend extra cycles to come 37 up with a minimal patch output. 38 39 * "git diff" learned "--function-context" option to show the whole 40 function as context that was affected by a change. 41 42 * "git fetch" learned to honor transfer.fsckobjects configuration to 43 validate the objects that were received from the other end, just like 44 "git receive-pack" (the receiving end of "git push") does. 45 46 * "git fetch" makes sure that the set of objects it received from the 47 other end actually completes the history before updating the refs. 48 "git receive-pack" (the receiving end of "git push") learned to do the 49 same. 50 51 * "git for-each-ref" learned "%(contents:subject)", "%(contents:body)" 52 and "%(contents:signature)". The last one is useful for signed tags. 53 54 * "git grep" used to incorrectly pay attention to .gitignore files 55 scattered in the directory it was working in even when "--no-index" 56 option was used. It no longer does this. The "--exclude-standard" 57 option needs to be given to explicitly activate the ignore 58 mechanism. 59 60 * "git grep" learned "--untracked" option, where given patterns are 61 searched in untracked (but not ignored) files as well as tracked 62 files in the working tree, so that matches in new but not yet 63 added files do not get missed. 64 65 * The recursive merge backend no longer looks for meaningless 66 existing merges in submodules unless in the outermost merge. 67 68 * "git log" and friends learned "--children" option. 69 70 * "git ls-remote" learned to respond to "-h"(elp) requests. 71 72 * "git merge" learned the "--edit" option to allow users to edit the 73 merge commit log message. 74 75 * "git send-email" learned to respond to "-h"(elp) requests. 76 77 * "git send-email" allows the value given to sendemail.aliasfile to begin 78 with "~/" to refer to the $HOME directory. 79 80 * "git send-email" forces use of Authen::SASL::Perl to work around 81 issues between Authen::SASL::Cyrus and AUTH PLAIN/LOGIN. 82 83 * "git stash" learned "--include-untracked" option to stash away 84 untracked/ignored cruft from the working tree. 85 86 * "git submodule update" learned to honor "none" as the value for 87 submodule.<name>.update to specify that the named submodule should 88 not be checked out by default. 89 90 * When populating a new submodule directory with "git submodule init", 91 the $GIT_DIR metainformation directory for submodules is created inside 92 $GIT_DIR/modules/<name>/ directory of the superproject and referenced 93 via the gitfile mechanism. This is to make it possible to switch 94 between commits in the superproject that has and does not have the 95 submodule in the tree without re-cloning. 96 97 * "mediawiki" remote helper can interact with (surprise!) MediaWiki 98 with "git fetch" & "git push". 99 100 * "gitweb" leaked unescaped control characters from syntax hiliter 101 outputs. 102 103 * "gitweb" now has its own manual pages. 104 105 106Also contains other documentation updates and minor code cleanups. 107 108 109Fixes since v1.7.7 110------------------ 111 112Unless otherwise noted, all fixes in the 1.7.7.X maintenance track are 113included in this release. 114 115 * We used to drop error messages from libcurl on certain kinds of 116 errors. 117 (merge be22d92eac8 jn/maint-http-error-message later to maint). 118 119 * Error report from smart HTTP transport, when the connection was 120 broken in the middle of a transfer, showed a useless message on 121 a corrupt packet. 122 (merge 6cdf022 sp/smart-http-failure later to maint). 123 124 * HTTP transport did not use pushurl correctly, and also did not tell 125 what host it is trying to authenticate with when asking for 126 credentials. 127 (merge deba493 jk/http-auth later to maint). 128 129 * Adding many refs to the local repository in one go (e.g. "git fetch" 130 that fetches many tags) and looking up a ref by name in a repository 131 with too many refs were unnecessarily slow. 132 (merge 17d68a54d jp/get-ref-dir-unsorted later to maint). 133 134 * Report from "git commit" on untracked files was confused under 135 core.ignorecase option. 136 (merge 2548183b jk/name-hash-dirent later to maint). 137 138 * The attribute mechanism did not use case insensitive match when 139 core.ignorecase was set. 140 (merge 6eba621 bc/attr-ignore-case later to maint). 141 142 * "git bisect" did not notice when it failed to update the working tree 143 to the next commit to be tested. 144 (merge 1acf11717 js/bisect-no-checkout later to maint). 145 146 * "git config --bool --get-regexp" failed to separate the variable name 147 and its value "true" when the variable is defined without "= true". 148 (merge 880e3cc mm/maint-config-explicit-bool-display later to maint). 149 150 * "git remote rename $a $b" were not careful to match the remote name 151 against $a (i.e. source side of the remote nickname). 152 (merge b52d00aed mz/remote-rename later to maint). 153 154 * "git diff --[num]stat" used to use the number of lines of context 155 different from the default, potentially giving different results from 156 "git diff | diffstat" and confusing the users. 157 (merge f01cae918 jc/maint-diffstat-numstat-context later to maint). 158 159 * "git merge" did not understand ":/<pattern>" as a way to name a commit. 160 161 * "git mergetool" learned to use its arguments as pathspec, not a path to 162 the file that may not even have any conflict. 163 (merge 6d9990a jm/mergetool-pathspec later to maint). 164 165 * "git pull" and "git rebase" did not work well even when GIT_WORK_TREE is 166 set correctly with GIT_DIR if the current directory is outside the working 167 tree. 168 (merge 035b5bf jk/pull-rebase-with-work-tree later to maint). 169 170 " "git push" on the receiving end used to call post-receive and post-update 171 hooks for attempted removal of non-existing refs. 172 (merge 160b81ed ph/push-to-delete-nothing later to maint). 173 174 * "git send-email" did not honor the configured hostname when restarting 175 the HELO/EHLO exchange after switching TLS on. 176 (merge 155b940 md/smtp-tls-hello-again later to maint). 177 178 * "gitweb" used to produce a non-working link while showing the contents 179 of a blob, when JavaScript actions are enabled. 180 (merge 2b07ff3ff ps/gitweb-js-with-lineno later to maint). 181 182--- 183exec >/var/tmp/1 184O=v1.7.7-418-g40d6987 185echo O=$(git describe --always master) 186git log --first-parent --oneline --reverse ^$O master 187echo 188git shortlog --no-merges ^$O master