Git 1.7.11-rc0
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
May 25, 2012 at 12:19 UTC
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@@ -79,6 +79,9 @@ Foreign Interface
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Performance and Internal Implementation (please report possible regressions)
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+ * Bash completion script (in contrib/) have been cleaned up to make
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+ future work on it simpler.
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* An experimental "version 4" format of the index file has been
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introduced to reduce on-disk footprint and I/O overhead.
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@@ -120,23 +123,26 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.7.10 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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- * When a submodule repository uses alternate object store mechanism,
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- some commands that were started from the superproject did not
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- notice it and failed with "No such object" errors. The subcommands
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- of "git submodule" command that properly recursed into the
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- submodule in a separate process were OK; only the ones that cheated
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- and peeked directly into the submodule's repository from the
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- primary process were affected.
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- (merge 5e73633 hv/submodule-alt-odb later to maint).
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-
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- * The directory path used in "git diff --no-index", when it recurses
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- down, was broken with a recent update after v1.7.10.1 release.
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- (merge 176a335 bp/diff-no-index-strbuf-fix later to maint).
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-
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- * "git status --porcelain" ignored "--branch" option by mistake. The
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- output for "git status --branch -z" was also incorrect and did not
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- terminate the record for the current branch name with NUL as asked.
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- (merge d4a6bf1 jk/maint-status-porcelain-z-b later to maint).
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+ * The progress indicator for a large "git checkout" was sent to
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+ stderr even if it is not a terminal.
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+ (merge e9fc64c ap/checkout-no-progress-for-non-tty later to maint).
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+
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+ * A name taken from mailmap was copied into an internal buffer
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+ incorrectly and could overun the buffer if it is too long.
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+ (merge c9b4e9e jk/format-person-part-buffer-limit later to maint).
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+
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+ * A malformed commit object that has a header line chomped in the
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+ middle could kill git with a NULL pointer dereference.
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+ (merge a9c7a8a jk/pretty-commit-header-incomplete-line later to maint).
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+
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+ * An author/committer name that is a single character was mishandled
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+ as an invalid name by mistake.
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+ (merge d9955fd jk/ident-split-fix later to maint).
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+ * "git grep -e '$pattern'", unlike the case where the patterns are
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+ read from a file, did not treat individual lines in the given
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+ pattern argument as separate regular expressions as it should.
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+ (merge ec83061 rs/maint-grep-F later to maint).
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* "git diff --stat" used to fully count a binary file with modified
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execution bits whose contents is unmodified, which was not quite
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