1Git v1.7.8 Release Notes (draft) 2================================ 3 4Updates since v1.7.7 5-------------------- 6 7 * The build procedure has been taught to take advantage of computed 8 dependency automatically when the complier supports it. 9 10 * The date parser now accepts timezone designators that lack minutes 11 part and also has a colon between "hh:mm". 12 13 * On some BSD systems, adding +s bit on directories is detrimental 14 (it is not necessary on BSD to begin with). The installation 15 procedure has been updated to take this into account. 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 fetch" learned to honor transfer.fsckobjects configuration to 40 validate the objects that were received from the other end, just like 41 "git receive-pack" (the receiving end of "git push") does. 42 43 * "git fetch" makes sure that the set of objects it received from the 44 other end actually completes the history before updating the refs. 45 "git receive-pack" (the receiving end of "git push") learned to do the 46 same. 47 48 * "git for-each-ref" learned "%(contents:subject)", "%(contents:body)" 49 and "%(contents:signature)". The last one is useful for signed tags. 50 51 * "git grep" used to incorrectly pay attention to .gitignore files 52 scattered in the directory it was working in even when "--no-index" 53 option was used. It no longer does this. The "--exclude-standard" 54 option needs to be given to explicitly activate the ignore 55 mechanism. 56 57 * "git grep" learned "--untracked" option, where given patterns are 58 searched in untracked (but not ignored) files as well as tracked 59 files in the working tree, so that matches in new but not yet 60 added files do not get missed. 61 62 * "git ls-remote" learned to respond to "-h"(elp) requests. 63 64 * "git send-email" learned to respond to "-h"(elp) requests. 65 66 * "git send-email" allows the value given to sendemail.aliasfile to begin 67 with "~/" to refer to the $HOME directory. 68 69 * "git send-email" forces use of Authen::SASL::Perl to work around 70 issues between Authen::SASL::Cyrus and AUTH PLAIN/LOGIN. 71 72 * "git stash" learned "--include-untracked" option to stash away 73 untracked/ignored cruft from the working tree. 74 75 * "git submodule update" learned to honor "none" as the value for 76 submodule.<name>.update to specify that the named submodule should 77 not be checked out by default. 78 79 * When populating a new submodule directory with "git submodule init", 80 the $GIT_DIR metainformation directory for submodules is created inside 81 $GIT_DIR/modules/<name>/ directory of the superproject and referenced 82 via the gitfile mechanism. This is to make it possible to switch 83 between commits in the superproject that has and does not have the 84 submodule in the tree without re-cloning. 85 86 * "mediawiki" remote helper can interact with (surprise!) MediaWiki 87 with "git fetch" & "git push". 88 89 * "gitweb" leaked unescaped control characters from syntax hiliter 90 outputs. 91 92 93Also contains other documentation updates and minor code cleanups. 94 95 96Fixes since v1.7.7 97------------------ 98 99Unless otherwise noted, all fixes in the 1.7.7.X maintenance track are 100included in this release. 101 102 * We used to drop error messages from libcurl on certain kinds of 103 errors. 104 (merge be22d92eac8 jn/maint-http-error-message later to maint). 105 106 * Error report from smart HTTP transport, when the connection was 107 broken in the middle of a transfer, showed a useless message on 108 a corrupt packet. 109 (merge 6cdf022 sp/smart-http-failure later to maint). 110 111 * Adding many refs to the local repository in one go (e.g. "git fetch" 112 that fetches many tags) and looking up a ref by name in a repository 113 with too many refs were unnecessarily slow. 114 (merge 17d68a54d jp/get-ref-dir-unsorted later to maint). 115 116 * After incorrectly written third-party tools store a tag object in 117 HEAD, git diagnosed it as a repository corruption and refused to 118 proceed in order to avoid spreading the damage. We now gracefully 119 recover from such a situation by pretending as if the commit that 120 is pointed at by the tag were in HEAD. 121 (merge baf18fc nd/maint-autofix-tag-in-head later to maint). 122 123 * "git apply --whitespace=error" did not bother to report the exact 124 line number in the patch that introduced new blank lines at the end 125 of the file. 126 (merge 8557263 jc/apply-blank-at-eof-fix later to maint). 127 128 129 * "git remote rename $a $b" were not careful to match the remote name 130 against $a (i.e. source side of the remote nickname). 131 (merge b52d00aed mz/remote-rename later to maint). 132 133 * "git diff $tree $path" used to apply the pathspec at the output stage, 134 reading the whole tree, wasting resources. 135 (merge 2f88c1970 jc/diff-index-unpack later to maint). 136 137 * "git diff --[num]stat" used to use the number of lines of context 138 different from the default, potentially giving different results from 139 "git diff | diffstat" and confusing the users. 140 (merge f01cae918 jc/maint-diffstat-numstat-context later to maint). 141 142 * The code to check for updated submodules during a "git fetch" of the 143 superproject had an unnecessary quadratic loop. 144 (merge 6859de45 jk/maint-fetch-submodule-check-fix later to maint). 145 146 * "git fetch" from a large bundle did not enable the progress output. 147 (merge be042aff jc/maint-bundle-too-quiet later to maint). 148 149 * When "git fsck --lost-and-found" found that an empty blob object in the 150 object store is unreachable, it incorrectly reported an error after 151 writing the lost blob out successfully. 152 (merge eb726f2d jc/maint-fsck-fwrite-size-check later to maint). 153 154 * "git filter-branch" did not refresh the index before checking that the 155 working tree was clean. 156 (merge 5347a50f jk/filter-branch-require-clean-work-tree later to maint). 157 158 * "git grep $tree" when run with multiple threads had an unsafe access to 159 the object database that should have been protected with mutex. 160 (merge 8cb5775b2 nm/grep-object-sha1-lock later to maint). 161 162 * The "--ancestry-path" option to "git log" and friends misbehaved in a 163 history with complex criss-cross merges and showed an uninteresting 164 side history as well. 165 (merge c05b988a6 bk/ancestry-path later to maint). 166 167 * "git merge" did not understand ":/<pattern>" as a way to name a commit. 168 169 * "git mergetool" learned to use its arguments as pathspec, not a path to 170 the file that may not even have any conflict. 171 (merge 6d9990a jm/mergetool-pathspec later to maint). 172 173 * Tests with --valgrind failed to find "mergetool" scriptlets. 174 (merge ee0d7bf92 tr/mergetool-valgrind later to maint). 175 176 * "git patch-id" miscomputed the patch-id in a patch that has a line longer 177 than 1kB. 178 (merge b9ab810b ms/patch-id-with-overlong-line later to maint). 179 180 * When an "exec" insn failed after modifying the index and/or the working 181 tree during "rebase -i", we now check and warn that the changes need to 182 be cleaned up. 183 (merge 1686519a mm/rebase-i-exec-edit later to maint). 184 185 * "gitweb" used to produce a non-working link while showing the contents 186 of a blob, when JavaScript actions are enabled. 187 (merge 2b07ff3ff ps/gitweb-js-with-lineno later to maint). 188 189--- 190exec >/var/tmp/1 191O=v1.7.7-289-gb73c683 192echo O=$(git describe --always master) 193git log --first-parent --oneline --reverse ^$O master 194echo 195git shortlog --no-merges ^$O master