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1 Git v1.7.8 Release Notes (draft)
2 ================================
4 Updates since v1.7.7
5 --------------------
7 * The build procedure has been taught to take advantage of computed
8 dependency automatically when the complier supports it.
10 * The date parser now accepts timezone designators that lack minutes
11 part and also has a colon between "hh:mm".
13 * "git am" learned how to read from patches generated by Hg.
15 * "git branch" learned an explicit --list option to ask for branches
16 listed, optionally with a glob matching pattern to limit its output.
18 * "git check-attr" learned "--cached" option to look at .gitattributes
19 files from the index, not from the working tree.
21 * Variants of "git cherry-pick" and "git revert" that take multiple
22 commits learned to "--continue".
24 * "git fetch" learned to honor transfer.fsckobjects configuration to
25 validate the objects that were received from the other end, just like
26 "git receive-pack" (the receiving end of "git push") does.
28 * "git fetch" makes sure that the set of objects it received from the
29 other end actually completes the history before updating the refs.
30 "git receive-pack" (the receiving end of "git push") learned to do the
31 same.
33 * "git for-each-ref" learned "%(contents:subject)", "%(contents:body)"
34 and "%(contents:signature)". The last one is useful for signed tags.
36 * "git ls-remote" learned to respond to "-h"(elp) requests.
38 * "git send-email" learned to respond to "-h"(elp) requests.
40 * "git stash" learned "--include-untracked" option to stash away
41 untracked/ignored cruft from the working tree.
43 * "mediawiki" remote helper can interact with (surprise!) MediaWiki
44 with "git fetch" & "git push".
46 * "gitweb" leaked unescaped control characters from syntax hiliter
47 outputs.
50 Fixes since v1.7.7
51 ------------------
53 Unless otherwise noted, all fixes in the 1.7.7.X maintenance track are
54 included in this release.
56 * "git diff $tree $path" used to apply the pathspec at the output stage,
57 reading the whole tree, wasting resources.
58 (merge 2f88c1970 jc/diff-index-unpack later to maint).
60 * The code to check for updated submodules during a "git fetch" of the
61 superproject had an unnecessary quadratic loop.
62 (merge 6859de45 jk/maint-fetch-submodule-check-fix later to maint).
64 * "git fetch" from a large bundle did not enable the progress output.
65 (merge be042aff jc/maint-bundle-too-quiet later to maint).
67 * When "git fsck --lost-and-found" found that an empty blob object in the
68 object store is unreachable, it incorrectly reported an error after
69 writing the lost blob out successfully.
70 (merge eb726f2d jc/maint-fsck-fwrite-size-check later to maint).
72 * "git filter-branch" did not refresh the index before checking that the
73 working tree was clean.
74 (merge 5347a50f jk/filter-branch-require-clean-work-tree later to maint).
76 * "git grep $tree" when run with multiple threads had an unsafe access to
77 the object database that should have been protected with mutex.
78 (merge 8cb5775b2 nm/grep-object-sha1-lock later to maint).
80 * The "--ancestry-path" option to "git log" and friends misbehaved in a
81 history with complex criss-cross merges and showed an uninteresting
82 side history as well.
83 (merge c05b988a6 bk/ancestry-path later to maint).
85 * "git merge" did not understand ":/<pattern>" as a way to name a commit.
87 * Tests with --valgrind failed to find "mergetool" scriptlets.
88 (merge ee0d7bf92 tr/mergetool-valgrind later to maint).
90 * "git patch-id" miscomputed the patch-id in a patch that has a line longer
91 than 1kB.
92 (merge b9ab810b ms/patch-id-with-overlong-line later to maint).
94 * When an "exec" insn failed after modifying the index and/or the working
95 tree during "rebase -i", we now check and warn that the changes need to
96 be cleaned up.
97 (merge 1686519a mm/rebase-i-exec-edit later to maint).
99 ---
100 it=master
101 exec >/var/tmp/1
102 O=v1.7.7
103 O=v1.7.7-137-g2e49dab
104 echo O=$(git describe --always $it)
105 git log --first-parent --oneline --reverse ^$O $it
106 echo
107 git shortlog --no-merges ^$O $it