1 Git v1.7.8 Release Notes
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7 * Some git-svn, git-gui, git-p4 (in contrib) and msysgit updates.
9 * Updates to bash completion scripts.
11 * The build procedure has been taught to take advantage of computed
12 dependency automatically when the complier supports it.
14 * The date parser now accepts timezone designators that lack minutes
15 part and also has a colon between "hh:mm".
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.
20 * "git am" learned how to read from patches generated by Hg.
22 * "git archive" talking with a remote repository can report errors
23 from the remote side in a more informative way.
25 * "git branch" learned an explicit --list option to ask for branches
26 listed, optionally with a glob matching pattern to limit its output.
28 * "git check-attr" learned "--cached" option to look at .gitattributes
29 files from the index, not from the working tree.
31 * Variants of "git cherry-pick" and "git revert" that take multiple
32 commits learned to "--continue" and "--abort".
34 * "git daemon" gives more human readble error messages to clients
35 using ERR packets when appropriate.
37 * Errors at the network layer is logged by "git daemon".
39 * "git diff" learned "--minimal" option to spend extra cycles to come
40 up with a minimal patch output.
42 * "git diff" learned "--function-context" option to show the whole
43 function as context that was affected by a change.
45 * "git difftool" can be told to skip launching the tool for a path by
46 answering 'n' to its prompt.
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.
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
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.
61 * "git for-each-ref" learned "%(contents:subject)", "%(contents:body)"
62 and "%(contents:signature)". The last one is useful for signed tags.
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
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.
75 * The recursive merge backend no longer looks for meaningless
76 existing merges in submodules unless in the outermost merge.
78 * "git log" and friends learned "--children" option.
80 * "git ls-remote" learned to respond to "-h"(elp) requests.
82 * "mediawiki" remote helper can interact with (surprise!) MediaWiki
83 with "git fetch" & "git push".
85 * "git merge" learned the "--edit" option to allow users to edit the
86 merge commit log message.
88 * "git rebase -i" can be told to use special purpose editor suitable
89 only for its insn sheet via sequence.editor configuration variable.
91 * "git send-email" learned to respond to "-h"(elp) requests.
93 * "git send-email" allows the value given to sendemail.aliasfile to begin
94 with "~/" to refer to the $HOME directory.
96 * "git send-email" forces use of Authen::SASL::Perl to work around
97 issues between Authen::SASL::Cyrus and AUTH PLAIN/LOGIN.
99 * "git stash" learned "--include-untracked" option to stash away
100 untracked/ignored cruft from the working tree.
102 * "git submodule clone" does not leak an error message to the UI
103 level unnecessarily anymore.
105 * "git submodule update" learned to honor "none" as the value for
106 submodule.<name>.update to specify that the named submodule should
107 not be checked out by default.
109 * When populating a new submodule directory with "git submodule init",
110 the $GIT_DIR metainformation directory for submodules is created inside
111 $GIT_DIR/modules/<name>/ directory of the superproject and referenced
112 via the gitfile mechanism. This is to make it possible to switch
113 between commits in the superproject that has and does not have the
114 submodule in the tree without re-cloning.
116 * "gitweb" leaked unescaped control characters from syntax hiliter
119 * "gitweb" can be told to give custom string at the end of the HTML
122 * "gitweb" now has its own manual pages.
125 Also contains other documentation updates and minor code cleanups.
131 Unless otherwise noted, all fixes in the 1.7.7.X maintenance track are
132 included in this release.
134 * HTTP transport did not use pushurl correctly, and also did not tell
135 what host it is trying to authenticate with when asking for
137 (merge deba493 jk/http-auth later to maint).
139 * "git blame" was aborted if started from an uncommitted content and
140 the path had the textconv filter in effect.
141 (merge 8518088 ss/blame-textconv-fake-working-tree later to maint).
143 * Adding many refs to the local repository in one go (e.g. "git fetch"
144 that fetches many tags) and looking up a ref by name in a repository
145 with too many refs were unnecessarily slow.
146 (merge 17d68a54d jp/get-ref-dir-unsorted later to maint).
148 * Report from "git commit" on untracked files was confused under
149 core.ignorecase option.
150 (merge 395c7356 jk/name-hash-dirent later to maint).
152 * "git merge" did not understand ":/<pattern>" as a way to name a commit.
154 " "git push" on the receiving end used to call post-receive and post-update
155 hooks for attempted removal of non-existing refs.
156 (merge 160b81ed ph/push-to-delete-nothing later to maint).
158 * Help text for "git remote set-url" and "git remote set-branches"
160 (merge c49904e fc/remote-seturl-usage-fix later to maint).
161 (merge 656cdf0 jc/remote-setbranches-usage-fix later to maint).