| 1 | Git v1.7.10.2 Release Notes |
| 2 | =========================== |
| 3 | |
| 4 | Fixes since v1.7.10.1 |
| 5 | --------------------- |
| 6 | |
| 7 | * The test scaffolding for git-daemon was flaky. |
| 8 | |
| 9 | * The test scaffolding for fast-import was flaky. |
| 10 | |
| 11 | * The filesystem boundary was not correctly reported when .git directory |
| 12 | discovery stopped at a mount point. |
| 13 | |
| 14 | * HTTP transport that requires authentication did not work correctly when |
| 15 | multiple connections are used simultaneously. |
| 16 | |
| 17 | * Minor memory leak during unpack_trees (hence "merge" and "checkout" |
| 18 | to check out another branch) has been plugged. |
| 19 | |
| 20 | * In the older days, the header "Conflicts:" in "cherry-pick" and "merge" |
| 21 | was separated by a blank line from the list of paths that follow for |
| 22 | readability, but when "merge" was rewritten in C, we lost it by |
| 23 | mistake. Remove the newline from "cherry-pick" to make them match |
| 24 | again. |
| 25 | |
| 26 | * The command line parser choked "git cherry-pick $name" when $name can |
| 27 | be both revision name and a pathname, even though $name can never be a |
| 28 | path in the context of the command. |
| 29 | |
| 30 | * The "include.path" facility in the configuration mechanism added in |
| 31 | 1.7.10 forgot to interpret "~/path" and "~user/path" as it should. |
| 32 | |
| 33 | * "git config --rename-section" to rename an existing section into a |
| 34 | bogus one did not check the new name. |
| 35 | |
| 36 | * The "diff --no-index" codepath used limited-length buffers, risking |
| 37 | pathnames getting truncated. Update it to use the strbuf API. |
| 38 | |
| 39 | * The report from "git fetch" said "new branch" even for a non branch |
| 40 | ref. |
| 41 | |
| 42 | * The http-backend (the server side of the smart http transfer) used |
| 43 | to overwrite GIT_COMMITTER_NAME and GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL with the |
| 44 | value obtained from REMOTE_USER unconditionally, making it |
| 45 | impossible for the server side site-specific customization to use |
| 46 | different identity sources to affect the names logged. It now uses |
| 47 | REMOTE_USER only as a fallback value. |
| 48 | |
| 49 | * "log --graph" was not very friendly with "--stat" option and its |
| 50 | output had line breaks at wrong places. |
| 51 | |
| 52 | * Octopus merge strategy did not reduce heads that are recorded in the |
| 53 | final commit correctly. |
| 54 | |
| 55 | * "git push" over smart-http lost progress output a few releases ago; |
| 56 | this release resurrects it. |
| 57 | |
| 58 | * The error and advice messages given by "git push" when it fails due |
| 59 | to non-ff were not very helpful to new users; it has been broken |
| 60 | into three cases, and each is given a separate advice message. |
| 61 | |
| 62 | * The insn sheet given by "rebase -i" did not make it clear that the |
| 63 | insn lines can be re-ordered to affect the order of the commits in |
| 64 | the resulting history. |
| 65 | |
| 66 | * "git repack" used to write out unreachable objects as loose objects |
| 67 | when repacking, even if such loose objects will immediately pruned |
| 68 | due to its age. |
| 69 | |
| 70 | * A contrib script "rerere-train" did not work out of the box unless |
| 71 | user futzed with her $PATH. |
| 72 | |
| 73 | * "git rev-parse --show-prefix" used to emit nothing when run at the |
| 74 | top-level of the working tree, but now it gives a blank line. |
| 75 | |
| 76 | * The i18n of error message "git stash save" was not properly done. |
| 77 | |
| 78 | * "git submodule" used a sed script that some platforms mishandled. |
| 79 | |
| 80 | * When using a Perl script on a system where "perl" found on user's |
| 81 | $PATH could be ancient or otherwise broken, we allow builders to |
| 82 | specify the path to a good copy of Perl with $PERL_PATH. The |
| 83 | gitweb test forgot to use that Perl when running its test. |
| 84 | |
| 85 | Also contains minor fixes and documentation updates. |