Fourth batch for 1.7.12
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Jul 4, 2012 at 23:48 UTC
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Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.txt
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@@ -16,6 +16,13 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
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turn this off, as a more explicit alternative over use of file://
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URL.
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+ * "git fetch" and friends used to say "remote side hung up
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+ unexpectedly" when they failed to get response they expect from the
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+ other side, but one common reason why they don't get expected
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+ response is that the remote repository does not exist or cannot be
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+ read. The error message in this case was updated to give better
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+ hints to the user.
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* git native protocol agents learned to show software version over
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the wire, so that the server log can be examined to see the vintage
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distribution of clients.
@@ -64,6 +71,14 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.7.11 in the maintenance
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releases are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
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details).
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+ * "git clone --single-branch" to clone a single branch did not limit
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+ the cloning to the specified branch.
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+ (merge 0ec4b16 nd/clone-single-fix later to maint).
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+
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+ * "git diff --no-index" did not correctly handle relative paths and
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+ did not correctly give exit codes when run under "--quiet" option.
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+ (merge 304970d th/diff-no-index-fixes later to maint).
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* When "git log" gets "--simplify-merges/by-decoration" together with
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"--first-parent", the combination of these options makes the
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simplification logic to use in-core commit objects that haven't