1Git v1.7.8 Release Notes (draft) 2================================ 3 4Updates since v1.7.7 5-------------------- 6 7 * Some git-svn, git-gui, git-p4 (in contrib) 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 * "git daemon" gives more human readble error messages to clients 35 using ERR packets when appropriate. 36 37 * Errors at the network layer is logged by "git daemon". 38 39 * "git diff" learned "--minimal" option to spend extra cycles to come 40 up with a minimal patch output. 41 42 * "git diff" learned "--function-context" option to show the whole 43 function as context that was affected by a change. 44 45 * "git difftool" can be told to skip launching the tool for a path by 46 answering 'n' to its prompt. 47 48 * "git fetch" learned to honor transfer.fsckobjects configuration to 49 validate the objects that were received from the other end, just like 50 "git receive-pack" (the receiving end of "git push") does. 51 52 * "git fetch" makes sure that the set of objects it received from the 53 other end actually completes the history before updating the refs. 54 "git receive-pack" (the receiving end of "git push") learned to do the 55 same. 56 57 * "git fetch" learned that fetching/cloning from a regular file on the 58 filesystem is not necessarily a request to unpack a bundle file; the 59 file could be ".git" with "gitdir: <path>" in it. 60 61 * "git for-each-ref" learned "%(contents:subject)", "%(contents:body)" 62 and "%(contents:signature)". The last one is useful for signed tags. 63 64 * "git grep" used to incorrectly pay attention to .gitignore files 65 scattered in the directory it was working in even when "--no-index" 66 option was used. It no longer does this. The "--exclude-standard" 67 option needs to be given to explicitly activate the ignore 68 mechanism. 69 70 * "git grep" learned "--untracked" option, where given patterns are 71 searched in untracked (but not ignored) files as well as tracked 72 files in the working tree, so that matches in new but not yet 73 added files do not get missed. 74 75 * The recursive merge backend no longer looks for meaningless 76 existing merges in submodules unless in the outermost merge. 77 78 * "git log" and friends learned "--children" option. 79 80 * "git ls-remote" learned to respond to "-h"(elp) requests. 81 82 * "git merge" learned the "--edit" option to allow users to edit the 83 merge commit log message. 84 85 * "git rebase -i" can be told to use special purpose editor suitable 86 only for its insn sheet via sequence.editor configuration variable. 87 88 * "git send-email" learned to respond to "-h"(elp) requests. 89 90 * "git send-email" allows the value given to sendemail.aliasfile to begin 91 with "~/" to refer to the $HOME directory. 92 93 * "git send-email" forces use of Authen::SASL::Perl to work around 94 issues between Authen::SASL::Cyrus and AUTH PLAIN/LOGIN. 95 96 * "git stash" learned "--include-untracked" option to stash away 97 untracked/ignored cruft from the working tree. 98 99 * "git submodule update" learned to honor "none" as the value for 100 submodule.<name>.update to specify that the named submodule should 101 not be checked out by default. 102 103 * When populating a new submodule directory with "git submodule init", 104 the $GIT_DIR metainformation directory for submodules is created inside 105 $GIT_DIR/modules/<name>/ directory of the superproject and referenced 106 via the gitfile mechanism. This is to make it possible to switch 107 between commits in the superproject that has and does not have the 108 submodule in the tree without re-cloning. 109 110 * "mediawiki" remote helper can interact with (surprise!) MediaWiki 111 with "git fetch" & "git push". 112 113 * "gitweb" leaked unescaped control characters from syntax hiliter 114 outputs. 115 116 * "gitweb" now has its own manual pages. 117 118 119Also contains other documentation updates and minor code cleanups. 120 121 122Fixes since v1.7.7 123------------------ 124 125Unless otherwise noted, all fixes in the 1.7.7.X maintenance track are 126included in this release. 127 128 * We used to drop error messages from libcurl on certain kinds of 129 errors. 130 (merge be22d92eac8 jn/maint-http-error-message later to maint). 131 132 * Error report from smart HTTP transport, when the connection was 133 broken in the middle of a transfer, showed a useless message on 134 a corrupt packet. 135 (merge 6cdf022 sp/smart-http-failure later to maint). 136 137 * HTTP transport did not use pushurl correctly, and also did not tell 138 what host it is trying to authenticate with when asking for 139 credentials. 140 (merge deba493 jk/http-auth later to maint). 141 142 * "git branch -m/-M" advertised to update RENAME_REF ref in the 143 commit log message that introduced the feature but not anywhere in 144 the documentation, and never did update such a ref anyway. This 145 undocumented misfeature that did not exist has been excised. 146 (merge b0eab01 jc/maint-remove-renamed-ref later to maint). 147 148 * Adding many refs to the local repository in one go (e.g. "git fetch" 149 that fetches many tags) and looking up a ref by name in a repository 150 with too many refs were unnecessarily slow. 151 (merge 17d68a54d jp/get-ref-dir-unsorted later to maint). 152 153 * Report from "git commit" on untracked files was confused under 154 core.ignorecase option. 155 (merge 2548183b jk/name-hash-dirent later to maint). 156 157 * The attribute mechanism did not use case insensitive match when 158 core.ignorecase was set. 159 (merge 6eba621 bc/attr-ignore-case later to maint). 160 161 * "git bisect" did not notice when it failed to update the working tree 162 to the next commit to be tested. 163 (merge 1acf11717 js/bisect-no-checkout later to maint). 164 165 * "git config --bool --get-regexp" failed to separate the variable name 166 and its value "true" when the variable is defined without "= true". 167 (merge 880e3cc mm/maint-config-explicit-bool-display later to maint). 168 169 * "git remote rename $a $b" were not careful to match the remote name 170 against $a (i.e. source side of the remote nickname). 171 (merge b52d00aed mz/remote-rename later to maint). 172 173 * "git diff --[num]stat" used to use the number of lines of context 174 different from the default, potentially giving different results from 175 "git diff | diffstat" and confusing the users. 176 (merge f01cae918 jc/maint-diffstat-numstat-context later to maint). 177 178 * "git merge" did not understand ":/<pattern>" as a way to name a commit. 179 180 * "git mergetool" learned to use its arguments as pathspec, not a path to 181 the file that may not even have any conflict. 182 (merge 6d9990a jm/mergetool-pathspec later to maint). 183 184 * "git pull" and "git rebase" did not work well even when GIT_WORK_TREE is 185 set correctly with GIT_DIR if the current directory is outside the working 186 tree. 187 (merge 035b5bf jk/pull-rebase-with-work-tree later to maint). 188 189 " "git push" on the receiving end used to call post-receive and post-update 190 hooks for attempted removal of non-existing refs. 191 (merge 160b81ed ph/push-to-delete-nothing later to maint). 192 193 * "git send-email" did not honor the configured hostname when restarting 194 the HELO/EHLO exchange after switching TLS on. 195 (merge 155b940 md/smtp-tls-hello-again later to maint). 196 197 * "gitweb" used to produce a non-working link while showing the contents 198 of a blob, when JavaScript actions are enabled. 199 (merge 2b07ff3ff ps/gitweb-js-with-lineno later to maint). 200 201--- 202exec >/var/tmp/1 203O=v1.7.7-485-g9ee3d37 204echo O=$(git describe --always master) 205git log --first-parent --oneline --reverse ^$O master 206echo 207git shortlog --no-merges ^$O master