From b0ec16b49eb283156e13bbef26466d948e4fd992 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Junio C Hamano Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2012 13:09:47 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Git 1.8.0-rc0 Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.txt | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++ GIT-VERSION-GEN | 2 +- 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.txt index e183df6410..cc460a4742 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.txt @@ -65,6 +65,10 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * "git merge-base" learned "--is-ancestor A B" option to tell if A is an ancestor of B. The result is indicated by its exit status code. + * "git mergetool" allows users to override the actual command used + with the mergetool.$name.cmd configuration variable even for built-in + mergetool backends. + * The "-Xours" backend option to "git merge -s recursive" now takes effect even on binary files. @@ -154,6 +158,10 @@ to them for details). more useful by showing cleanly merged parts as coming from the other branch that is being merged. + * It was unclear in the documentation for "git blame" that it is + unnecessary for users to use the "--follow" option. + (merge e5dce96 jc/blame-follows-renames later to maint). + * Output from "git branch -v" contains "(no branch)" that could be localized, but the code to align it along with the names of branches were counting in bytes, not in display columns. @@ -163,6 +171,12 @@ to them for details). order, which is not what the user who said "A C B" naturally expects. + * A repository created with "git clone --single" had its fetch + refspecs set up just like a clone without "--single", leading the + subsequent "git fetch" to slurp all the other branches, defeating + the whole point of specifying "only this branch". + (merge 31b808a rt/maint-clone-single later to maint). + * Documentation talked about "first line of commit log" when it meant the title of the commit. The description was clarified by defining how the title is decided and rewording the casual mention of "first @@ -204,6 +218,11 @@ to them for details). * "git p4", when "--use-client-spec" and "--detect-branches" are used together, misdetected branches. + * "git receive-pack" (the counterpart to "git push") did not give + progress output while processing objects it received to the puser + when run over the smart-http protocol. + (merge 74eb32d jk/receive-pack-unpack-error-to-pusher later to maint). + * When you misspell the command name you give to the "exec" action in the "git rebase -i" insn sheet, you are told that 'rebase' is not a git subcommand from "git rebase --continue". @@ -228,3 +247,7 @@ to them for details). subcommand to "git submodule"; the user instead got a complaint that "git submodule status" was run with an unknown path "frotz". (merge af9c9f9 rr/maint-submodule-unknown-cmd later to maint). + + * "git status" honored the ignore=dirty settings in .gitmodules but + "git commit" didn't. + (merge 8f6811e os/commit-submodule-ignore later to maint). diff --git a/GIT-VERSION-GEN b/GIT-VERSION-GEN index d2d2d699e1..7f71eefd43 100755 --- a/GIT-VERSION-GEN +++ b/GIT-VERSION-GEN @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ #!/bin/sh GVF=GIT-VERSION-FILE -DEF_VER=v1.7.12.GIT +DEF_VER=v1.8.0-rc0 LF=' ' -- 2.11.4.GIT