1Git v1.7.9.1 Release Notes 2========================== 3 4Fixes since v1.7.9 5------------------ 6 7 * rpmbuild noticed an unpackaged but installed *.mo file and failed. 8 9 * Subprocesses spawned from various git programs were often left running 10 to completion even when the top-level process was killed. 11 12 * "git add -e" learned not to show a diff for an otherwise unmodified 13 submodule that only has uncommitted local changes in the patch 14 prepared by for the user to edit. 15 16 * Typo in "git branch --edit-description my-tpoic" was not diagnosed. 17 18 * Using "git grep -l/-L" together with options -W or --break may not 19 make much sense as the output is to only count the number of hits 20 and there is no place for file breaks, but the latter options made 21 "-l/-L" to miscount the hits. 22 23 * "git log --first-parent $pathspec" did not stay on the first parent 24 chain and veered into side branch from which the whole change to the 25 specified paths came. 26 27 * "git merge --ff-only $tag" failed because it cannot record the 28 required mergetag without creating a merge, but this is so common 29 operation for branch that is used _only_ to follow the upstream, so 30 it was changed to allow fast-forwarding without recording the mergetag. 31 32 * "git mergetool" now gives an empty file as the common base version 33 to the backend when dealing with the "both sides added, differently" 34 case. 35 36 * "git push -q" was not sufficiently quiet. 37 38 * When "git push" fails to update any refs, the client side did not 39 report an error correctly to the end user. 40 41 * "rebase" and "commit --amend" failed to work on commits with ancient 42 timestamps near year 1970. 43 44 * When asking for a tag to be pulled, "request-pull" did not show the 45 name of the tag prefixed with "tags/", which would have helped older 46 clients. 47 48 * "git submodule add $path" forgot to recompute the name to be stored 49 in .gitmodules when the submodule at $path was once added to the 50 superproject and already initialized. 51 52Also contains minor fixes and documentation updates.