1Git v1.7.8 Release Notes (draft) 2================================ 3 4Updates since v1.7.7 5-------------------- 6 7 * Some git-svn and git-gui updates. 8 9 * The build procedure has been taught to take advantage of computed 10 dependency automatically when the complier supports it. 11 12 * The date parser now accepts timezone designators that lack minutes 13 part and also has a colon between "hh:mm". 14 15 * On some BSD systems, adding +s bit on directories is detrimental 16 (it is not necessary on BSD to begin with). The installation 17 procedure has been updated to take this into account. 18 19 * The contents of the /etc/mailname file, if exists, is used as the 20 default value of the hostname part of the committer/author e-mail. 21 22 * "git am" learned how to read from patches generated by Hg. 23 24 * "git archive" talking with a remote repository can report errors 25 from the remote side in a more informative way. 26 27 * "git branch" learned an explicit --list option to ask for branches 28 listed, optionally with a glob matching pattern to limit its output. 29 30 * "git check-attr" learned "--cached" option to look at .gitattributes 31 files from the index, not from the working tree. 32 33 * Variants of "git cherry-pick" and "git revert" that take multiple 34 commits learned to "--continue". 35 36 * Errors at the network layer is logged by "git daemon". 37 38 * "git diff" learned "--minimal" option to spend extra cycles to come 39 up with a minimal patch output. 40 41 * "git fetch" learned to honor transfer.fsckobjects configuration to 42 validate the objects that were received from the other end, just like 43 "git receive-pack" (the receiving end of "git push") does. 44 45 * "git fetch" makes sure that the set of objects it received from the 46 other end actually completes the history before updating the refs. 47 "git receive-pack" (the receiving end of "git push") learned to do the 48 same. 49 50 * "git for-each-ref" learned "%(contents:subject)", "%(contents:body)" 51 and "%(contents:signature)". The last one is useful for signed tags. 52 53 * "git grep" used to incorrectly pay attention to .gitignore files 54 scattered in the directory it was working in even when "--no-index" 55 option was used. It no longer does this. The "--exclude-standard" 56 option needs to be given to explicitly activate the ignore 57 mechanism. 58 59 * "git grep" learned "--untracked" option, where given patterns are 60 searched in untracked (but not ignored) files as well as tracked 61 files in the working tree, so that matches in new but not yet 62 added files do not get missed. 63 64 * "git ls-remote" learned to respond to "-h"(elp) requests. 65 66 * "git send-email" learned to respond to "-h"(elp) requests. 67 68 * "git send-email" allows the value given to sendemail.aliasfile to begin 69 with "~/" to refer to the $HOME directory. 70 71 * "git send-email" forces use of Authen::SASL::Perl to work around 72 issues between Authen::SASL::Cyrus and AUTH PLAIN/LOGIN. 73 74 * "git stash" learned "--include-untracked" option to stash away 75 untracked/ignored cruft from the working tree. 76 77 * "git submodule update" learned to honor "none" as the value for 78 submodule.<name>.update to specify that the named submodule should 79 not be checked out by default. 80 81 * When populating a new submodule directory with "git submodule init", 82 the $GIT_DIR metainformation directory for submodules is created inside 83 $GIT_DIR/modules/<name>/ directory of the superproject and referenced 84 via the gitfile mechanism. This is to make it possible to switch 85 between commits in the superproject that has and does not have the 86 submodule in the tree without re-cloning. 87 88 * "mediawiki" remote helper can interact with (surprise!) MediaWiki 89 with "git fetch" & "git push". 90 91 * "gitweb" leaked unescaped control characters from syntax hiliter 92 outputs. 93 94 95Also contains other documentation updates and minor code cleanups. 96 97 98Fixes since v1.7.7 99------------------ 100 101Unless otherwise noted, all fixes in the 1.7.7.X maintenance track are 102included in this release. 103 104 * We used to drop error messages from libcurl on certain kinds of 105 errors. 106 (merge be22d92eac8 jn/maint-http-error-message later to maint). 107 108 * Error report from smart HTTP transport, when the connection was 109 broken in the middle of a transfer, showed a useless message on 110 a corrupt packet. 111 (merge 6cdf022 sp/smart-http-failure later to maint). 112 113 * Adding many refs to the local repository in one go (e.g. "git fetch" 114 that fetches many tags) and looking up a ref by name in a repository 115 with too many refs were unnecessarily slow. 116 (merge 17d68a54d jp/get-ref-dir-unsorted later to maint). 117 118 * After incorrectly written third-party tools store a tag object in 119 HEAD, git diagnosed it as a repository corruption and refused to 120 proceed in order to avoid spreading the damage. We now gracefully 121 recover from such a situation by pretending as if the commit that 122 is pointed at by the tag were in HEAD. 123 (merge baf18fc nd/maint-autofix-tag-in-head later to maint). 124 125 * "git apply --whitespace=error" did not bother to report the exact 126 line number in the patch that introduced new blank lines at the end 127 of the file. 128 (merge 8557263 jc/apply-blank-at-eof-fix later to maint). 129 130 131 * "git remote rename $a $b" were not careful to match the remote name 132 against $a (i.e. source side of the remote nickname). 133 (merge b52d00aed mz/remote-rename later to maint). 134 135 * "git diff --[num]stat" used to use the number of lines of context 136 different from the default, potentially giving different results from 137 "git diff | diffstat" and confusing the users. 138 (merge f01cae918 jc/maint-diffstat-numstat-context later to maint). 139 140 * "git merge" did not understand ":/<pattern>" as a way to name a commit. 141 142 * "git mergetool" learned to use its arguments as pathspec, not a path to 143 the file that may not even have any conflict. 144 (merge 6d9990a jm/mergetool-pathspec later to maint). 145 146 * "gitweb" used to produce a non-working link while showing the contents 147 of a blob, when JavaScript actions are enabled. 148 (merge 2b07ff3ff ps/gitweb-js-with-lineno later to maint). 149 150--- 151exec >/var/tmp/1 152O=v1.7.7-324-g47d45a5 153echo O=$(git describe --always master) 154git log --first-parent --oneline --reverse ^$O master 155echo 156git shortlog --no-merges ^$O master