Update draft release notes to 1.7.8
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Oct 18, 2011 at 22:03 UTC
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@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Git v1.7.8 Release Notes (draft)
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Updates since v1.7.7
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- * Some git-svn and git-gui updates.
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+ * Some git-svn, git-gui and msysgit updates.
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* Updates to bash completion scripts.
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@@ -40,6 +40,9 @@ Updates since v1.7.7
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* "git diff" learned "--minimal" option to spend extra cycles to come
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up with a minimal patch output.
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+ * "git diff" learned "--function-context" option to show the whole
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+ function as context that was affected by a change.
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* "git fetch" learned to honor transfer.fsckobjects configuration to
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validate the objects that were received from the other end, just like
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"git receive-pack" (the receiving end of "git push") does.
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files in the working tree, so that matches in new but not yet
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added files do not get missed.
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+ * The recursive merge backend no longer looks for meaningless
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+ existing merges in submodules unless in the outermost merge.
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+ * "git log" and friends learned "--children" option.
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* "git ls-remote" learned to respond to "-h"(elp) requests.
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+ * "git merge" learned the "--edit" option to allow users to edit the
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+ merge commit log message.
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* "git send-email" learned to respond to "-h"(elp) requests.
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* "git send-email" allows the value given to sendemail.aliasfile to begin
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* "gitweb" leaked unescaped control characters from syntax hiliter
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outputs.
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+ * "gitweb" now has its own manual pages.
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Also contains other documentation updates and minor code cleanups.
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@@ -142,6 +155,9 @@ included in this release.
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of the file.
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(merge 8557263 jc/apply-blank-at-eof-fix later to maint).
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+ * "git apply --index" did not check corrupted patch.
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+ (merge 2c93286 jm/maint-apply-detects-corrupt-patch-header later to maint).
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* "git bisect" did not notice when it failed to update the working tree
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to the next commit to be tested.
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(merge 1acf11717 js/bisect-no-checkout later to maint).
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hooks for attempted removal of non-existing refs.
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(merge 160b81ed ph/push-to-delete-nothing later to maint).
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+ * "git send-email" did not honor the configured hostname when restarting
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+ the HELO/EHLO exchange after switching TLS on.
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+ (merge 155b940 md/smtp-tls-hello-again later to maint).
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* "gitweb" used to produce a non-working link while showing the contents
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of a blob, when JavaScript actions are enabled.
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(merge 2b07ff3ff ps/gitweb-js-with-lineno later to maint).
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exec >/var/tmp/1
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-O=v1.7.7-368-g9638384
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+O=v1.7.7-418-g40d6987
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echo O=$(git describe --always master)
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git log --first-parent --oneline --reverse ^$O master
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echo