| 1 | Git v1.7.9.1 Release Notes |
| 2 | ========================== |
| 3 | |
| 4 | Fixes since v1.7.9 |
| 5 | ------------------ |
| 6 | |
| 7 | * The makefile allowed environment variable X seep into it result in |
| 8 | command names suffixed with unnecessary strings. |
| 9 | |
| 10 | * The set of included header files in compat/inet-{ntop,pton} |
| 11 | wrappers was updated for Windows some time ago, but in a way that |
| 12 | broke Solaris build. |
| 13 | |
| 14 | * rpmbuild noticed an unpackaged but installed *.mo file and failed. |
| 15 | |
| 16 | * Subprocesses spawned from various git programs were often left running |
| 17 | to completion even when the top-level process was killed. |
| 18 | |
| 19 | * "git add -e" learned not to show a diff for an otherwise unmodified |
| 20 | submodule that only has uncommitted local changes in the patch |
| 21 | prepared by for the user to edit. |
| 22 | |
| 23 | * Typo in "git branch --edit-description my-tpoic" was not diagnosed. |
| 24 | |
| 25 | * Using "git grep -l/-L" together with options -W or --break may not |
| 26 | make much sense as the output is to only count the number of hits |
| 27 | and there is no place for file breaks, but the latter options made |
| 28 | "-l/-L" to miscount the hits. |
| 29 | |
| 30 | * "git log --first-parent $pathspec" did not stay on the first parent |
| 31 | chain and veered into side branch from which the whole change to the |
| 32 | specified paths came. |
| 33 | |
| 34 | * "git merge --no-edit $tag" failed to honor the --no-edit option. |
| 35 | |
| 36 | * "git merge --ff-only $tag" failed because it cannot record the |
| 37 | required mergetag without creating a merge, but this is so common |
| 38 | operation for branch that is used _only_ to follow the upstream, so |
| 39 | it was changed to allow fast-forwarding without recording the mergetag. |
| 40 | |
| 41 | * "git mergetool" now gives an empty file as the common base version |
| 42 | to the backend when dealing with the "both sides added, differently" |
| 43 | case. |
| 44 | |
| 45 | * "git push -q" was not sufficiently quiet. |
| 46 | |
| 47 | * When "git push" fails to update any refs, the client side did not |
| 48 | report an error correctly to the end user. |
| 49 | |
| 50 | * "rebase" and "commit --amend" failed to work on commits with ancient |
| 51 | timestamps near year 1970. |
| 52 | |
| 53 | * When asking for a tag to be pulled, "request-pull" did not show the |
| 54 | name of the tag prefixed with "tags/", which would have helped older |
| 55 | clients. |
| 56 | |
| 57 | * "git submodule add $path" forgot to recompute the name to be stored |
| 58 | in .gitmodules when the submodule at $path was once added to the |
| 59 | superproject and already initialized. |
| 60 | |
| 61 | * Many small corner case bugs on "git tag -n" was corrected. |
| 62 | |
| 63 | Also contains minor fixes and documentation updates. |