Update draft release notes to 1.7.8
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Oct 10, 2011 at 16:14 UTC
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@@ -40,6 +40,17 @@ Updates since v1.7.7
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* "git stash" learned "--include-untracked" option to stash away
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untracked/ignored cruft from the working tree.
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+ * "git submodule update" learned to honor "none" as the value for
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+ submodule.<name>.update to specify that the named submodule should
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+ not be checked out by default.
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+
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+ * When populating a new submodule directory with "git submodule init",
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+ the $GIT_DIR metainformation directory for submodules is created inside
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+ $GIT_DIR/modules/<name>/ directory of the superproject and referenced
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+ via the gitfile mechanism. This is to make it possible to switch
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+ between commits in the superproject that has and does not have the
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+ submodule in the tree without re-cloning.
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* "mediawiki" remote helper can interact with (surprise!) MediaWiki
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with "git fetch" & "git push".
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@@ -47,16 +58,37 @@ Updates since v1.7.7
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outputs.
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+Also contains other documentation updates and minor code cleanups.
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Fixes since v1.7.7
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------------------
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Unless otherwise noted, all fixes in the 1.7.7.X maintenance track are
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included in this release.
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+ * We used to drop error messages from libcurl on certain kinds of
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+ errors.
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+ (merge be22d92eac8 jn/maint-http-error-message later to maint).
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+ * Adding many refs to the local repository in one go (e.g. "git fetch"
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+ that fetches many tags) and looking up a ref by name in a repository
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+ with too many refs were unnecessarily slow.
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+ (merge 17d68a54d jp/get-ref-dir-unsorted later to maint).
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+
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+ * "git remote rename $a $b" were not careful to match the remote name
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+ against $a (i.e. source side of the remote nickname).
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+ (merge b52d00aed mz/remote-rename later to maint).
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* "git diff $tree $path" used to apply the pathspec at the output stage,
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reading the whole tree, wasting resources.
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(merge 2f88c1970 jc/diff-index-unpack later to maint).
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+ * "git diff --[num]stat" used to use the number of lines of context
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+ different from the default, potentially giving different results from
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+ "git diff | diffstat" and confusing the users.
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+ (merge f01cae918 jc/maint-diffstat-numstat-context later to maint).
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* The code to check for updated submodules during a "git fetch" of the
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superproject had an unnecessary quadratic loop.
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(merge 6859de45 jk/maint-fetch-submodule-check-fix later to maint).
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* "git merge" did not understand ":/<pattern>" as a way to name a commit.
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+ * "git mergetool" learned to use its arguments as pathspec, not a path to
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+ the file that may not even have any conflict.
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+ (merge 6d9990a jm/mergetool-pathspec later to maint).
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* Tests with --valgrind failed to find "mergetool" scriptlets.
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(merge ee0d7bf92 tr/mergetool-valgrind later to maint).
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@@ -96,12 +132,14 @@ included in this release.
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be cleaned up.
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(merge 1686519a mm/rebase-i-exec-edit 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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---
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-it=master
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exec >/var/tmp/1
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-O=v1.7.7
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-O=v1.7.7-137-g2e49dab
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-echo O=$(git describe --always $it)
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-git log --first-parent --oneline --reverse ^$O $it
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+O=v1.7.7-212-g4909bbe
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+echo O=$(git describe --always master)
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+git log --first-parent --oneline --reverse ^$O master
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echo
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-git shortlog --no-merges ^$O $it
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+git shortlog --no-merges ^$O master