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1 Git v1.7.9 Release Notes (draft)
2 ========================
4 Updates since v1.7.8
5 --------------------
7 * gitk updates accumulated since early 2011.
9 * git-gui updated to 0.16.0.
11 * git-p4 (in contrib/) updates.
13 * Git uses gettext to translate its most common interface messages
14 into the user's language if translations are available and the
15 locale is appropriately set. Distributors can drop in new PO files
16 in po/ to add new translations.
18 * Porcelain commands like "git reset" did not distinguish deletions
19 and type-changes from ordinary modification, and reported them with
20 the same 'M' moniker. They now use 'D' (for deletion) and 'T' (for
21 type-change) to match "git status -s" and "git diff --name-status".
23 * The code to handle username/password for HTTP transaction used in
24 "git push" & "git fetch" learned to talk "credential API" to
25 external programs to cache or store them, to allow integration with
26 platform native keychain mechanisms.
28 * The prompted input in the terminal use our own getpass() replacement
29 when possible. HTTP transactions used to ask username without echoing
30 back what was typed, but with this change you will see it as you type.
32 * The internal of "revert/cherry-pick" has been tweaked to prepare
33 building more generic "sequencer" on top of the implementation that
34 drives them.
36 * "git add" learned to stream large files directly into a packfile
37 instead of writing them into individual loose object files.
39 * "git branch -m <current branch> HEAD" is an obvious no-op and is
40 now allowed.
42 * "git checkout -B <current branch> <elsewhere>" is a more intuitive
43 way to spell "git reset --keep <elsewhere>".
45 * "git checkout" and "git merge" learned "--no-overwrite-ignore" option
46 to tell Git that untracked and ignored files are not expendable.
48 * "git commit --amend" learned "--no-edit" option to say that the
49 user is amending the tree being recorded, without updating the
50 commit log message.
52 * "git commit" and "git reset" re-learned the optimization to prime
53 the cache-tree information in the index, which makes it faster to
54 write a tree object out after the index entries are updated.
56 * "git commit" detects and rejects an attempt to stuff NUL byte in
57 the commit log message.
59 * fsck and prune are relatively lengthy operations that still go
60 silent while making the end-user wait. They learned to give progress
61 output like other slow operations.
63 * The set of built-in function-header patterns for various languages
64 knows MATLAB.
66 * "git log --follow" honors the rename threshold score given with the
67 -M option (e.g. "-M50%").
69 * "git log --format='<format>'" learned new %g[nNeE] specifiers to
70 show information from the reflog entries when warlking the reflog
71 (i.e. with "-g").
73 * "git pull" can be used to fetch and merge an annotated/signed tag,
74 instead of the tip of a topic branch. The GPG signature from the
75 signed tag is recorded in the resulting merge commit for later
76 auditing.
78 * "git branch --edit-description" can be used to add descriptive text
79 to explain what a topic branch is about.
81 * "git fmt-merge-msg" learned to take the branch description into
82 account when preparing a merge summary that "git merge" records
83 when merging a local branch.
85 * "git request-pull" has been updated to convey more information
86 useful for integrators to decide if a topic is worth merging and
87 what is pulled is indeed what the requestor asked to pull,
88 including:
90 - the tip of the branch being requested to be merged;
91 - the branch description describing what the topic is about;
92 - the contents of the annotated tag, when requesting to pull a tag.
94 * "git pull" learned to notice 'pull.rebase' configuration variable,
95 which serves as a global fallback for setting 'branch.<name>.rebase'
96 configuration variable per branch.
98 * "git tag" learned "--cleanup" option to control how the whitespaces
99 and empty lines in tag message are cleaned up.
101 * "gitweb" learned to show side-by-side diff.
103 Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.
106 Fixes since v1.7.8
107 ------------------
109 * The replacement implemention for snprintf used on platforms with
110 native snprintf that is broken did not use va_copy correctly.
111 (merge a9bfbc5 jk/maint-snprintf-va-copy later to maint).
113 * git native connection going over TCP (not over SSH) did not set
114 SO_KEEPALIVE option which failed to receive link layer errors.
115 (merge e47a858 ew/keepalive later to maint).
117 * LF-to-CRLF streaming filter replaced all LF with CRLF, which might
118 be techinically correct but not friendly to people who are trying
119 to recover from earlier mistakes of using CRLF in the repository
120 data in the first place. It now refrains from doing so for LF that
121 follows a CR.
122 (merge 8496f56 jc/maint-lf-to-crlf-keep-crlf later to maint).
124 * "git checkout -m" did not recreate the conflicted state in a "both
125 sides added, without any common ancestor version" conflict
126 situation.
127 (merge 5cd7fadc jc/checkout-m-twoway later to maint).
129 * "git cherry-pick $commit" (not a range) created an unnecessary
130 sequencer state and interfered with valid workflow to use the
131 command during a session to cherry-pick multiple commits.
132 (merge d596118 jn/maint-sequencer-fixes later to maint).
134 * You could make "git commit" segfault by giving the "--no-message"
135 option.
136 (merge 03f94ae jk/maint-strbuf-missing-init later to maint).
138 * "fast-import" did not correctly update an existing notes tree,
139 possibly corrupting the fan-out.
141 * "git fetch-pack" accepted unqualified refs that do not begin with
142 refs/ by mistake and compensated it by matching the refspec with
143 tail-match, which was doubly wrong. This broke fetching from a
144 repository with a funny named ref "refs/foo/refs/heads/master" and a
145 'master' branch with "git fetch-pack refs/heads/master", as the
146 command incorrectly considered the former a "match".
147 (merge bab8d28 jk/fetch-no-tail-match-refs later to maint).
149 * "git mv" gave suboptimal error/warning messages when it overwrites
150 target files. It also did not pay attention to "-v" option.
151 (merge 534376c jk/maint-mv later to maint).
153 * When a "reword" action in "git rebase -i" failed to run "commit --amend",
154 we did not give the control back to the user to resolve the situation, and
155 instead kept the original commit log message.
156 (merge 0becb3e aw/rebase-i-stop-on-failure-to-amend later to maint).
158 * Authenticated "git push" over dumb HTTP were broken with a recent
159 change and failed without asking for password when username is
160 given.
161 (merge a4ddbc3 jk/maint-push-over-dav later to maint).
163 * "git push" to an empty repository over HTTP were broken with a
164 recent change to the ref handling.
165 (merge 02f7914 jk/http-push-to-empty later to maint).
167 * "git push -v" forgot how to be verbose by mistake. It now properly is.
168 (merge bd2c86e jk/maint-push-v-is-verbose later to maint).
170 * gitweb did not correctly fall back to configured $fallback_encoding
171 that is not 'latin1'.
172 (merge b13e3ea jn/maint-gitweb-utf8-fix later to maint).
174 --
175 exec >/var/tmp/1
176 O=v1.7.8.1-384-g2b6dd6a
177 echo O=$(git describe master)
178 git log --first-parent --oneline --reverse ^$O master
179 echo
180 git shortlog --no-merges ^$O ^maint master