From c9e7aa4f689e08510e3c68e85687ed4f6778c870 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Junio C Hamano Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 22:15:39 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Update draft release notes to 1.7.8 Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.txt | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 40 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.txt index 2758583469..c07bbf5ee5 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.txt @@ -10,8 +10,18 @@ Updates since v1.7.7 * The date parser now accepts timezone designators that lack minutes part and also has a colon between "hh:mm". + * On some BSD systems, adding +s bit on directories is detrimental + (it is not necessary on BSD to begin with). The installation + procedure has been updated to take this into account. + + * The contents of the /etc/mailname file, if exists, is used as the + default value of the hostname part of the committer/author e-mail. + * "git am" learned how to read from patches generated by Hg. + * "git archive" talking with a remote repository can report errors + from the remote side in a more informative way. + * "git branch" learned an explicit --list option to ask for branches listed, optionally with a glob matching pattern to limit its output. @@ -21,6 +31,11 @@ Updates since v1.7.7 * Variants of "git cherry-pick" and "git revert" that take multiple commits learned to "--continue". + * Errors at the network layer is logged by "git daemon". + + * "git diff" learned "--minimal" option to spend extra cycles to come + up with a minimal patch output. + * "git fetch" learned to honor transfer.fsckobjects configuration to validate the objects that were received from the other end, just like "git receive-pack" (the receiving end of "git push") does. @@ -33,6 +48,17 @@ Updates since v1.7.7 * "git for-each-ref" learned "%(contents:subject)", "%(contents:body)" and "%(contents:signature)". The last one is useful for signed tags. + * "git grep" used to incorrectly pay attention to .gitignore files + scattered in the directory it was working in even when "--no-index" + option was used. It no longer does this. The "--exclude-standard" + option needs to be given to explicitly activate the ignore + mechanism. + + * "git grep" learned "--untracked" option, where given patterns are + searched in untracked (but not ignored) files as well as tracked + files in the working tree, so that matches in new but not yet + added files do not get missed. + * "git ls-remote" learned to respond to "-h"(elp) requests. * "git send-email" learned to respond to "-h"(elp) requests. @@ -87,6 +113,19 @@ included in this release. with too many refs were unnecessarily slow. (merge 17d68a54d jp/get-ref-dir-unsorted later to maint). + * After incorrectly written third-party tools store a tag object in + HEAD, git diagnosed it as a repository corruption and refused to + proceed in order to avoid spreading the damage. We now gracefully + recover from such a situation by pretending as if the commit that + is pointed at by the tag were in HEAD. + (merge baf18fc nd/maint-autofix-tag-in-head later to maint). + + * "git apply --whitespace=error" did not bother to report the exact + line number in the patch that introduced new blank lines at the end + of the file. + (merge 8557263 jc/apply-blank-at-eof-fix later to maint). + + * "git remote rename $a $b" were not careful to match the remote name against $a (i.e. source side of the remote nickname). (merge b52d00aed mz/remote-rename later to maint). @@ -149,7 +188,7 @@ included in this release. --- exec >/var/tmp/1 -O=v1.7.7-236-g5366afa +O=v1.7.7-289-gb73c683 echo O=$(git describe --always master) git log --first-parent --oneline --reverse ^$O master echo -- 2.11.4.GIT