From 2a4dd9333b667de30b33e032c5a1e8f0738c8548 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Junio C Hamano Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2012 09:49:37 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Fifth batch for 1.7.12 Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.txt | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 43 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.txt index 34f301d557..4ecaa2f4cb 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.txt @@ -6,6 +6,16 @@ Updates since v1.7.11 UI, Workflows & Features + * Per-user $HOME/.gitconfig file can optionally be stored in + $HOME/.config/git/config instead, which is in line with XDG. + + * The value of core.attributesfile and core.excludesfile default to + $HOME/.config/attributes and $HOME/.config/ignore respectively when + these files exist. + + * Scripted Porcelain writers now have access to the credential API via + the "git credential" plumbing command. + * "git help" used to always default to "man" format even on platforms where "man" viewer is not widely available. @@ -27,6 +37,11 @@ UI, Workflows & Features the wire, so that the server log can be examined to see the vintage distribution of clients. + * "git help -w $cmd" can show HTML version of documentation for + "git-$cmd" by setting help.htmlpath to somewhere other than the + default location where the build procedure installs them locally; + the variable can even point at a http:// URL. + * "git rebase -i" learned "-x " to insert "exec " after each commit in the resulting history. @@ -71,6 +86,34 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.7.11 in the maintenance releases are contained in this release (see release notes to them for details). + * We did not have test to make sure "git rebase" without extra options + filters out an empty commit in the original history. + (merge 2b5ba7b mz/empty-rebase-test later to maint). + + * "git fast-export" produced an input stream for fast-import without + properly quoting pathnames when they contain SPs in them. + (merge ff59f6d js/fast-export-paths-with-spaces later to maint). + + * "git checkout --detach", when you are still on an unborn branch, + should be forbidden, but it wasn't. + (merge 8ced1aa cw/no-detaching-an-unborn later to maint). + + * Some implementations of Perl terminates "lines" with CRLF even when + the script is operating on just a sequence of bytes. Make sure to + use "$PERL_PATH", the version of Perl the user told Git to use, in + our tests to avoid unnecessary breakages in tests. + (merge ad78585 vr/use-our-perl-in-tests later to maint). + + * "git blame" did not try to make sure that the abbreviated commit + object names in its output are unique. + (merge b31272f jc/maint-blame-unique-abbrev later to maint). + + * On Cygwin, the platform pread(2) is not thread safe, just like our + own compat/ emulation, and cannot be used in the index-pack + program. Makefile variable NO_THREAD_SAFE_PREAD can be defined to + avoid use of this function in a threaded program. + (merge c0f8654 rj/platform-pread-may-be-thread-unsafe later to maint). + * "git clone --single-branch" to clone a single branch did not limit the cloning to the specified branch. (merge 0ec4b16 nd/clone-single-fix later to maint). -- 2.11.4.GIT