53284de777 · matheusbsbs/matheus-bagliano

@@ -51,12 +51,20 @@ UI, Workflows & Features

51 * "git grep" learned to use a non-standard pattern type by default if

52 a configuration variable tells it to.

53

54 + * "git merge-base" learned "--is-ancestor A B" option to tell if A is

55 + an ancestor of B. The result is indicated by its exit status code.

56 +

57 +

58 Foreign Interface

59

60 * "git svn" has been updated to work with SVN 1.7.

61

62 Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. (please report possible regressions)

63

64 + * Git ships with a fall-back regexp implementation for platforms with

65 + buggy regexp library, but it was easy for people to keep using their

66 + platform regexp. A new test has been added to check this.

67 +

68 * The "check-docs" build target has been updated and greatly

69 simplified.

70

@@ -64,13 +72,14 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. (please report possible regressions)

72 for materials meant to be examples that are better typeset in

73 monospace.

74

67 - * Compatibility wrapper to learn the maximum number of file

68 - descriptors we can open around sysconf(_SC_OPEN_MAX) and

69 - getrlimit(RLIMIT_NO_FILE) has been introduced for portability.

70 -

75 * Compatibility wrapper around some mkdir(2) implementations that

76 reject parameter with trailing slash has been introduced.

77

78 + * Many internal uses of "git merge-base" equivalent were only to see

79 + if one commit fast-forwards to the other, which did not need the

80 + full set of merge bases to be computed. They have been updated to

81 + use less expensive checks.

82 +

83 * The heuristics to detect and silently convert latin1 to utf8 when

84 we were told to use utf-8 in the log message has been transplanted

85 from "mailinfo" to "commit" and "commit-tree".

@@ -88,6 +97,10 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.7.12 in the

97 maintenance track are contained in this release (see release notes

98 to them for details).

99

100 + * "git show --format='%ci'" did not give timestamp correctly for

101 + commits created without human readable name on "committer" line.

102 + (merge e27ddb6 jc/maint-ident-missing-human-name later to maint).

103 +

104 * "git cherry-pick A C B" used to replay changes in A and then B and

105 then C if these three commits had committer timestamps in that

106 order, which is not what the user who said "A C B" naturally

@@ -143,17 +156,6 @@ to them for details).

156 this problem.

157 (merge 6a2abdc jc/apply-binary-p0 later to maint).

158

146 - * The exit status code from "git config" was way overspecified while

147 - being incorrect. The implementation has been updated to give the

148 - documented status for a case that was documented, and introduce a

149 - new code for "all other errors".

150 - (merge 9409c7a jc/maint-config-exit-status later to maint).

151 -

152 - * "git foo" errored out with "Not a directory" when the user had a

153 - non-directory on $PATH, and worse yet it masked an alias "foo" from

154 - running. (merge a785508 jc/maint-sane-execvp-notdir later to

155 - maint).

156 -

159 * The interactive prompt "git send-email" gives was error prone. It

160 asked "What e-mail address do you want to use?" with the address it

161 guessed (correctly) the user would want to use in its prompt,

@@ -161,33 +163,3 @@ to them for details).

163 please use 'y' as the e-mail address instead", which is most

164 certainly not what the user meant.

165 (merge 51bbccf jc/send-email-reconfirm later to maint).

164 -

165 - * "git stash apply/pop" did not trigger "rerere" upon conflicts

166 - unlike other mergy operations.

167 - (merge 743bf6d ph/stash-rerere later to maint).

168 -

169 - * "git submodule update -f" did not update paths in the working tree

170 - that has local changes.

171 - (merge 01d4721 sz/submodule-force-update later to maint).

172 -

173 - * We used curl_easy_strerror() without checking version of cURL,

174 - breaking the build for versions before curl 7.12.0.

175 - (merge 4246b0b js/no-curl-easy-strerror-on-old-curl later to maint).

176 -

177 - * Code to work around MacOS X UTF-8 gotcha has been cleaned up.

178 - (merge 9a27f96 rr/precompose-utf8-cleanup later to maint).

179 -

180 - * Documentation for the configuration file format had a confusing

181 - example.

182 - (merge d1e1fe7 mh/maint-config-doc-proxy-command later to maint).

183 -

184 - * "git submodule <cmd> path" did not error out when the path to the

185 - submodule was misspelt.

186 - (merge be9d0a3 hv/submodule-path-unmatch later to maint).

187 -

188 - * Some capabilities were asked by fetch-pack even when upload-pack

189 - did not advertise that they are available. fetch-pack has been

190 - fixed not to do so.

191 -

192 - * The output from "git diff -B" for a file that ends with an

193 - incomplete line did not put "\ No newline..." on a line of its own.

Second half of the fifth batch for 1.8.0