Update draft release notes to 1.7.9.1
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Feb 10, 2012 at 14:04 UTC
bf5cf766af62e4ee34b1217c6351c6fc48eaf255
1 file changed
+17
Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.1.txt
+17
@@ -7,6 +7,11 @@ Fixes since v1.7.9
7
* Subprocesses spawned from various git programs were often left running
8
to completion even when the top-level process was killed.
9
10
+ * Using "git grep -l/-L" together with options -W or --break may not
11
+ make much sense as the output is to only count the number of hits
12
+ and there is no place for file breaks, but the latter options made
13
+ "-l/-L" to miscount the hits.
14
+
15
* "git log --first-parent $pathspec" did not stay on the first parent
16
chain and veered into side branch from which the whole change to the
17
specified paths came.
@@ -16,4 +21,16 @@ Fixes since v1.7.9
21
* When "git push" fails to update any refs, the client side did not
22
report an error correctly to the end user.
23
24
+ * "git mergetool" now gives an empty file as the common base version
25
+ to the backend when dealing with the "both sides added, differently"
26
+ case.
27
+
28
+ * When asking for a tag to be pulled, "request-pull" did not show the
29
+ name of the tag prefixed with "tags/", which would have helped older
30
+ clients.
31
+
32
+ * "git submodule add $path" forgot to recompute the name to be stored
33
+ in .gitmodules when the submodule at $path was once added to the
34
+ superproject and already initialized.
35
+
36
Also contains minor fixes and documentation updates.