Update draft release notes to 1.7.9
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Dec 13, 2011 at 23:09 UTC
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@@ -4,11 +4,24 @@ Git v1.7.9 Release Notes (draft)
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Updates since v1.7.8
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+ * git-gui updated to 0.16.0.
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+
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+ * git-p4 (in contrib/) updates.
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* Porcelain commands like "git reset" did not distinguish deletions
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and type-changes from ordinary modification, and reported them with
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the same 'M' moniker. They now use 'D' (for deletion) and 'T' (for
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type-change) to match "git status -s" and "git diff --name-status".
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+ * "git branch -m <current branch> HEAD" is an obvious no-op and is
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+ now allowed.
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+ * "git checkout -B <current branch> <elsewhere>" is a more intuitive
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+ way to spell "git reset --keep <elsewhere>".
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+ * "git checkout" and "git merge" learned "--no-overwrite-ignore" option
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+ to tell Git that untracked and ignored files are not expendable.
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* fsck and prune are relatively lengthy operations that still go
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silent while making the end-user wait. They learned to give progress
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output like other slow operations.
@@ -41,6 +54,10 @@ Updates since v1.7.8
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which serves as a global fallback for setting 'branch.<name>.rebase'
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configuration variable per branch.
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+ * "git tag" learned "--cleanup" option to control how the whitespaces
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+ and empty lines in tag message are cleaned up.
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+ * "gitweb" learned to show side-by-side diff.
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Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.
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@@ -48,14 +65,31 @@ Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.
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Fixes since v1.7.8
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- * In some codepaths (notably, checkout and merge), the ignore patterns
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- recorded in $GIT_DIR/info/exclude were not honored. They now are.
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- (merge fc001b5 nd/maint-ignore-exclude later to maint).
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+ * The function header pattern for files with "diff=cpp" attribute did
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+ not consider "type *funcname(type param1,..." as the beginning of a
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+ function.
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+ (merge 37e7793 tr/userdiff-c-returns-pointer later to maint).
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+
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+ * LF-to-CRLF streaming filter used when checking out a large-ish blob
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+ fell into an infinite loop with a rare input.
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+ (merge 284e3d2 cn/maint-lf-to-crlf-filter later to maint).
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+
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+ * "git archive" mistakenly allowed remote clients to ask for commits
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+ that are not at the tip of any ref.
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+ (merge 7b51c33 jk/maint-upload-archive later to maint).
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+ * "git apply --check" did not error out when given an empty input
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+ without any patch.
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+ (merge cc64b31 bc/maint-apply-check-no-patch later to maint).
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+ * The error message from "git diff" and "git status" when they fail
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+ to inspect changes in submodules did not report which submodule they
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+ had trouble with.
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+ (merge 6a5ceda jl/submodule-status-failure-report later to maint).
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--
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exec >/var/tmp/1
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-O=v1.7.8-162-gd2c7807
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+O=v1.7.8-246-gb3f17ac
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echo O=$(git describe master)
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git log --first-parent --oneline --reverse ^$O master
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echo