Git 1.8.0
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Oct 21, 2012 at 13:56 UTC
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@@ -4,16 +4,18 @@ Git v1.8.0 Release Notes
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Backward compatibility notes
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-In the next major release, we will change the behavior of the "git
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-push" command. When "git push [$there]" does not say what to push, we
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-have used the traditional "matching" semantics so far (all your branches were
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-sent to the remote as long as there already are branches of the same
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-name over there). We will now use the "simple" semantics, that pushes the
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-current branch to the branch with the same name only when the current
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+In the next major release (not *this* one), we will change the
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+behavior of the "git push" command.
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+When "git push [$there]" does not say what to push, we have used the
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+traditional "matching" semantics so far (all your branches were sent
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+to the remote as long as there already are branches of the same name
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+over there). We will use the "simple" semantics that pushes the
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+current branch to the branch with the same name, only when the current
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branch is set to integrate with that remote branch. There is a user
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preference configuration variable "push.default" to change this, and
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"git push" will warn about the upcoming change until you set this
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-variable.
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+variable in this release.
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"git branch --set-upstream" is deprecated and may be removed in a
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relatively distant future. "git branch [-u|--set-upstream-to]" has
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* When "git am" sanitizes the "Subject:" line, we strip the prefix from
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"Re: subject" and also from a less common "re: subject", but left
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- the even less common "RE: subject" intact. We strip that now, too.
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+ the even less common "RE: subject" intact. Now we strip that too.
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* It was tempting to say "git branch --set-upstream origin/master",
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but that tells Git to arrange the local branch "origin/master" to
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* "git grep" learned to use a non-standard pattern type by default if
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a configuration variable tells it to.
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+ * Accumulated updates to "git gui" has been merged.
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* "git log -g" learned the "--grep-reflog=<pattern>" option to limit
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its output to commits with a reflog message that matches the given
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pattern.
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encountering a conflict during "p4 submit".
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-Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. (please report possible regressions)
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+Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
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* Git ships with a fall-back regexp implementation for platforms with
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buggy regexp library, but it was easy for people to keep using their
Documentation/git.txt
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branch of the `git.git` repository.
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Documentation for older releases are available here:
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+* link:v1.8.0/git.html[documentation for release 1.8.0]
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+* release notes for
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+ link:RelNotes/1.8.0.txt[1.8.0],
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* link:v1.7.12.4/git.html[documentation for release 1.7.12.4]
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GIT-VERSION-GEN
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#!/bin/sh
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-DEF_VER=v1.8.0-rc3
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