Update 1.7.6 draft release notes
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
May 26, 2011 at 10:41 UTC
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@@ -6,7 +6,8 @@ Updates since v1.7.5
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* Various git-svn updates.
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- * Updates the way content tags are handled in gitweb.
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+ * Updates the way content tags are handled in gitweb. Also adds
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+ a UI to choose common timezone for displaying the dates.
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* Similar to branch names, tagnames that begin with "-" are now
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disallowed.
@@ -16,6 +17,15 @@ Updates since v1.7.5
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* The scripting part of the codebase is getting prepared for i18n/l10n.
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+ * Pushing and pulling from a repository with large number of refs that
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+ point to identical commits are optimized by not listing the same commit
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+ during the common ancestor negotiation exchange with the other side.
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+ * Adding a file larger than core.bigfilethreshold (defaults to 1/2 Gig)
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+ using "git add" will send the contents straight to a packfile without
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+ having to hold it and its compressed representation both at the same
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+ time in memory.
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* Processes spawned by "[alias] <name> = !process" in the configuration
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can inspect GIT_PREFIX environment variable to learn where in the
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working tree the original command was invoked.
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"--show-notes" option. Unlike "--show-notes", "--notes=<ref>" does
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not imply showing the default notes.
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+ * They also learned a log.abbrevCommit configuration variable to augment
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+ the --abbrev-commit command line option.
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* "git ls-remote" learned "--exit-code" option to consider it a
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different kind of error when no remote ref to be shown.
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@@ -93,10 +106,6 @@ Updates since v1.7.5
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still in a conflicted state during a merge, to avoid using information
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that is not final and possibly corrupt with conflict markers.
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- * Compressed tarball gitweb generates is made without the timestamp of
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- the tarball generation; snapshot from the same tree should result in
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- a same tarball.
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Also contains various documentation updates and minor miscellaneous
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changes.
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@@ -107,45 +116,16 @@ Fixes since v1.7.5
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Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes in 1.7.5.X maintenance track are
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included in this release.
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- * Setting $(prefix) in config.mak did not affect where etc/gitconfig
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- file is read from, even though passing it from the command line of
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- $(MAKE) did.
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- (merge kk/maint-prefix-in-config-mak later)
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- * The bash completion scripts should correctly work using zsh's bash
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- completion emulation layer now.
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- (merge fc/completion-zsh later)
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- * The logic to handle "&" (expand to UNIX username) in GECOS field
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- miscounted the length of the name it formatted.
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- (merge rg/copy-gecos-username later)
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* The single-key mode of "git add -p" was easily fooled into thinking
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that it was told to add everthing ('a') when up-arrow was pressed by
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mistake.
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(merge tr/add-i-no-escape later)
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- * "git cherry-pick -s resolve" failed to cherry-pick a root commit.
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- (merge jk/cherry-pick-root-with-resolve later)
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* "git config" used to choke with an insanely long line.
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(merge ef/maint-strbuf-init later)
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- * "git diff --word-diff" misbehaved when diff.suppress-blank-empty was
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- in effect.
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- (merge jm/maint-diff-words-with-sbe later)
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- * "git log --stdin path" with an input that has additional pathspec
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- used to corrupt memory.
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- (merge jc/maint-pathspec-stdin-and-cmdline later)
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- * "git send-pack" (hence "git push") over smalt-HTTP protocol could
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- deadlock when the client side pack-object died early.
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- (merge js/maint-send-pack-stateless-rpc-deadlock-fix later)
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- (merge jk/git-connection-deadlock-fix later)
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---
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exec >/var/tmp/1
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echo O=$(git describe master)
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-O=v1.7.5.2-352-g4961210
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+O=v1.7.5.3-365-g7eacc2b
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git shortlog --no-merges ^maint ^$O master