The third batch for 1.8.0
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Sep 3, 2012 at 16:23 UTC
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Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.txt
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@@ -24,6 +24,13 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
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* A credential helper for Win32 to allow access to the keychain of
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the logged-in user has been added.
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+ * "git cherry-pick" learned the "--allow-empty-message" option to
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+ allow it to replay a commit without any log message.
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+ * "git daemon" learned the "--access-hook" option to allow an
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+ external command to decline service based on the client address,
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+ repository path, etc.
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* "git difftool --dir-diff" learned to use symbolic links to prepare
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temporary copy of the working tree when available.
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@@ -43,6 +50,13 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. (please report possible regressions)
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for materials meant to be examples that are better typeset in
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monospace.
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+ * Compatibility wrapper to learn the maximum number of file
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+ descriptors we can open around sysconf(_SC_OPEN_MAX) and
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+ getrlimit(RLIMIT_NO_FILE) has been introduced for portability.
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+ * Compatibility wrapper around some mkdir(2) implementations that
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+ reject parameter with trailing slash has been introduced.
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Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.
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@@ -53,6 +67,37 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.7.12 in the
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maintenance track are contained in this release (see release notes
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to them for details).
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+ * The exit status code from "git config" was way overspecified while
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+ being incorrect. The implementation has been updated to give the
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+ documented status for a case that was documented, and introduce a
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+ new code for "all other errors".
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+ (merge 9409c7a jc/maint-config-exit-status later to maint).
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+ * "git foo" errored out with "Not a directory" when the user had a
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+ non-directory on $PATH, and worse yet it masked an alias "foo" from
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+ running. (merge a785508 jc/maint-sane-execvp-notdir later to
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+ maint).
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+ * The interactive prompt "git send-email" gives was error prone. It
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+ asked "What e-mail address do you want to use?" with the address it
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+ guessed (correctly) the user would want to use in its prompt,
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+ tempting the user to say "y". But the response was taken as "No,
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+ please use 'y' as the e-mail address instead", which is most
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+ certainly not what the user meant.
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+ (merge 51bbccf jc/send-email-reconfirm later to maint).
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+ * "git stash apply/pop" did not trigger "rerere" upon conflicts
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+ unlike other mergy operations.
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+ (merge 743bf6d ph/stash-rerere later to maint).
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+ * "git submodule update -f" did not update paths in the working tree
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+ that has local changes.
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+ (merge 01d4721 sz/submodule-force-update later to maint).
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+ * We used curl_easy_strerror() without checking version of cURL,
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+ breaking the build for versions before curl 7.12.0.
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+ (merge 4246b0b js/no-curl-easy-strerror-on-old-curl later to maint).
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* Code to work around MacOS X UTF-8 gotcha has been cleaned up.
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(merge 9a27f96 rr/precompose-utf8-cleanup later to maint).
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