From 58d4203aa617293d1dc3746a1ea33d84eb766e0f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Junio C Hamano Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 11:46:47 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Update draft release notes to 1.7.9.1 Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.1.txt | 22 +++++++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.1.txt index a6c15e5d52..a2e5b0dece 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.1.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.1.txt @@ -4,9 +4,17 @@ Git v1.7.9.1 Release Notes Fixes since v1.7.9 ------------------ + * rpmbuild noticed an unpackaged but installed *.mo file and failed. + * Subprocesses spawned from various git programs were often left running to completion even when the top-level process was killed. + * "git add -e" learned not to show a diff for an otherwise unmodified + submodule that only has uncommitted local changes in the patch + prepared by for the user to edit. + + * Typo in "git branch --edit-description my-tpoic" was not diagnosed. + * Using "git grep -l/-L" together with options -W or --break may not make much sense as the output is to only count the number of hits and there is no place for file breaks, but the latter options made @@ -16,14 +24,22 @@ Fixes since v1.7.9 chain and veered into side branch from which the whole change to the specified paths came. + * "git merge --ff-only $tag" failed because it cannot record the + required mergetag without creating a merge, but this is so common + operation for branch that is used _only_ to follow the upstream, so + it was changed to allow fast-forwarding without recording the mergetag. + + * "git mergetool" now gives an empty file as the common base version + to the backend when dealing with the "both sides added, differently" + case. + * "git push -q" was not sufficiently quiet. * When "git push" fails to update any refs, the client side did not report an error correctly to the end user. - * "git mergetool" now gives an empty file as the common base version - to the backend when dealing with the "both sides added, differently" - case. + * "rebase" and "commit --amend" failed to work on commits with ancient + timestamps near year 1970. * When asking for a tag to be pulled, "request-pull" did not show the name of the tag prefixed with "tags/", which would have helped older -- 2.11.4.GIT