The seventh batch for 1.8.0
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Sep 17, 2012 at 16:00 UTC
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@@ -116,6 +116,35 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.7.12 in the
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maintenance track are contained in this release (see release notes
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to them for details).
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+ * "git blame MAKEFILE" run in a history that has "Makefile" but not
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+ "MAKEFILE" should say "No such file MAKEFILE in HEAD", but got
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+ confused on a case insensitive filesystem and failed to do so.
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+ (merge 9aeaab6 jc/maint-blame-no-such-path later to maint).
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+
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+ * Even during a conflicted merge, "git blame $path" always meant to
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+ blame uncommitted changes to the "working tree" version; make it
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+ more useful by showing cleanly merged parts as coming from the other
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+ branch that is being merged.
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+ (merge 9aeaab6 jc/maint-blame-no-such-path later to maint).
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+
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+ * Documentation talked about "first line of commit log" when it meant
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+ the title of the commit. The description was clarified by defining
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+ how the title is decided and rewording the casual mention of "first
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+ line" to "title".
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+ (merge 52ffe99 jw/doc-commit-title later to maint).
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+ * The attribute system may be asked for a path that itself or its
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+ leading directories no longer exists in the working tree. Failure
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+ to open per-directory .gitattributes with error status other than
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+ ENOENT and ENOTDIR are diagnosed.
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+ (merge 8e950da jk/config-warn-on-inaccessible-paths later to maint).
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+ * Earlier we made the diffstat summary line that shows the number of
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+ lines added/deleted localizable, but it was found irritating having
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+ to see them in various languages on a list whose discussion language
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+ is English.
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+ (merge 218adaa nd/maint-diffstat-summary later to maint).
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* "git fetch --all", when passed "--no-tags", did not honor the
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"--no-tags" option while fetching from individual remotes (the same
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issue existed with "--tags", but combination "--all --tags" makes