34875f4a53 · matheusbsbs/matheus-bagliano

@@ -6,6 +6,13 @@ Updates since v1.7.10

6

7 UI, Workflows & Features

8

9 + * A new mode for push, "simple", which is a cross between "current"

10 + and "upstream", has been introduced. "git push" without any refspec

11 + will push the current branch out to the same name at the remote

12 + repository only when it is set to track the branch with the same

13 + name over there. The plan is to make this mode the new default

14 + value when push.default is not configured.

15 +

16 * A third-party tool "git subtree" is distributed in contrib/

17

18 * Error messages given when @{u} is used for a branch without its

@@ -30,12 +37,18 @@ UI, Workflows & Features

37 needed such treatment are now reported to the end user, so that the

38 result in them can be eyeballed with extra care.

39

40 + * The output from "diff/log --stat" used to always allocate 4 columns

41 + to show the number of modified lines, but not anymore.

42 +

43 * The "fmt-merge-msg" command learns to list the primary contributors

44 involved in the side topic you are merging.

45

46 * The cases "git push" fails due to non-ff can be broken into three

47 categories; each case is given a separate advise message.

48

49 + * "git rebase" learned to optionally keep commits that do not

50 + introduce any change in the original history.

51 +

52 * "git push --recurse-submodules" learned to optionally look into the

53 histories of submodules bound to the superproject and push them

54 out.

@@ -53,9 +66,18 @@ Foreign Interface

66 * "git svn" learned to use platform specific authentication

67 providers, e.g. gnome-keyring, kwallet, etc.

68

56 - * "git p4" has been moved out of contrib/ area.

69 + * "git p4" has been moved out of contrib/ area and has seen more work

70 + on importing labels as tags from (and exporting tags as labels to)

71 + p4.

72

58 -Performance

73 +Performance and Internal Implementation (please report possible regressions)

74 +

75 + * An experimental "version 4" format of the index file has been

76 + introduced to reduce on-disk footprint and I/O overhead.

77 +

78 + * The code to compute hash values for lines used by the internal diff

79 + engine was optimized on little-endian machines, using the same

80 + trick the kernel folks came up with.

81

82 * "git apply" had some memory leaks plugged.

83

@@ -68,8 +90,6 @@ Performance

90 one-by-one. Now they are collected in the queue unordered first,

91 and sorted immediately before getting used.

92

71 -Internal Implementation (please report possible regressions)

72 -

93 * "git rev-parse --show-prefix" used to emit nothing when run at the

94 top-level of the working tree, but now it gives a blank line.

95

@@ -96,6 +116,24 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.7.10 in the maintenance

116 releases are contained in this release (see release notes to them for

117 details).

118

119 + * When using a Perl script on a system where "perl" found on user's

120 + $PATH could be ancient or otherwise broken, we allow builders to

121 + specify the path to a good copy of Perl with $PERL_PATH. The

122 + gitweb test forgot to use that Perl when running its test.

123 + (merge 0754e08 jk/maint-gitweb-test-use-sane-perl later to maint).

124 +

125 + * A contrib script "rerere-train" did not work out of the box unless

126 + user futzed with her $PATH.

127 + (merge 53876fc jc/rerere-train later to maint).

128 +

129 + * "log --graph" was not very friendly with "--stat" option and its

130 + output had line breaks at wrong places.

131 + (merge bafa16e lp/diffstat-with-graph later to maint).

132 +

133 + * "git config --rename-section" to rename an existing section into a

134 + bogus one did not check the new name.

135 + (merge 94a35b1 jk/maint-config-bogus-section later to maint).

136 +

137 * The test scaffolding for git-daemon was flaky.

138 (merge 46e3581 js/daemon-test-race-fix later to maint).

139

@@ -136,31 +174,3 @@ details).

174 * The "diff --no-index" codepath used limited-length buffers, risking

175 pathnames getting truncated. Update it to use the strbuf API.

176 (merge 875b91b jm/maint-strncpy-diff-no-index later to maint).

139 -

140 - * The parser in "fast-import" did not diagnose ":9" style references

141 - that is not followed by required SP/LF as an error.

142 - (merge 06454cb pw/fast-import-dataref-parsing later to maint).

143 -

144 - * When "git fetch" encounters repositories with too many references,

145 - the command line of "fetch-pack" that is run by a helper

146 - e.g. remote-curl, may fail to hold all of them. Now such an

147 - internal invocation can feed the references through the standard

148 - input of "fetch-pack".

149 - (merge 7103d25 it/fetch-pack-many-refs later to maint).

150 -

151 - * "git fetch" that recurses into submodules on demand did not check

152 - if it needs to go into submodules when non branches (most notably,

153 - tags) are fetched.

154 - (merge a6801ad jl/maint-submodule-recurse-fetch later to maint).

155 -

156 - * "git blame" started missing quite a few changes from the origin

157 - since we stopped using the diff minimalization by default in v1.7.2

158 - era.

159 - (merge 059a500 jc/maint-blame-minimal later to maint).

160 -

161 - * "log -p --graph" used with "--stat" had a few formatting error.

162 - (merge e2c5966 lp/maint-diff-three-dash-with-graph later to maint).

163 -

164 - * Giving "--continue" to a conflicted "rebase -i" session skipped a

165 - commit that only results in changes to submodules.

166 - (merge a6754cd jk/rebase-i-submodule-conflict-only later to maint).

The eighth batch of topics graduated to 'master'