1Git v1.7.9 Release Notes (draft) 2======================== 3 4Updates since v1.7.8 5-------------------- 6 7 * Porcelain commands like "git reset" did not distinguish deletions 8 and type-changes from ordinary modification, and reported them with 9 the same 'M' moniker. They now use 'D' (for deletion) and 'T' (for 10 type-change) to match "git status -s" and "git diff --name-status". 11 12 * fsck and prune are relatively lengthy operations that still go 13 silent while making the end-user wait. They learned to give progress 14 output like other slow operations. 15 16 * The set of built-in function-header patterns for various languages 17 knows MATLAB. 18 19 * "git pull" can be used to fetch and merge an annotated/signed tag, 20 instead of the tip of a topic branch. The GPG signature from the 21 signed tag is recorded in the resulting merge commit for later 22 auditing. 23 24 * "git branch --edit-description" can be used to add descriptive text 25 to explain what a topic branch is about. 26 27 * "git fmt-merge-msg" learned to take the branch description into 28 account when preparing a merge summary that "git merge" records 29 when merging a local branch. 30 31 * "git request-pull" has been updated to convey more information 32 useful for integrators to decide if a topic is worth merging and 33 what is pulled is indeed what the requestor asked to pull, 34 including: 35 36 - the tip of the branch being requested to be merged; 37 - the branch description describing what the topic is about; 38 - the contents of the annotated tag, when requesting to pull a tag. 39 40 * "git pull" learned to notice 'pull.rebase' configuration variable, 41 which serves as a global fallback for setting 'branch.<name>.rebase' 42 configuration variable per branch. 43 44 45Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups. 46 47 48Fixes since v1.7.8 49------------------ 50 51 * In some codepaths (notably, checkout and merge), the ignore patterns 52 recorded in $GIT_DIR/info/exclude were not honored. They now are. 53 (merge fc001b5 nd/maint-ignore-exclude later to maint). 54 55 56-- 57exec >/var/tmp/1 58O=v1.7.8-162-gd2c7807 59echo O=$(git describe master) 60git log --first-parent --oneline --reverse ^$O master 61echo 62git shortlog --no-merges ^$O ^maint master