Update draft release notes to 1.7.8
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Oct 13, 2011 at 22:15 UTC
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@@ -10,8 +10,18 @@ Updates since v1.7.7
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* The date parser now accepts timezone designators that lack minutes
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part and also has a colon between "hh:mm".
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+ * On some BSD systems, adding +s bit on directories is detrimental
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+ (it is not necessary on BSD to begin with). The installation
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+ procedure has been updated to take this into account.
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+ * The contents of the /etc/mailname file, if exists, is used as the
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+ default value of the hostname part of the committer/author e-mail.
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* "git am" learned how to read from patches generated by Hg.
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+ * "git archive" talking with a remote repository can report errors
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+ from the remote side in a more informative way.
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* "git branch" learned an explicit --list option to ask for branches
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listed, optionally with a glob matching pattern to limit its output.
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@@ -21,6 +31,11 @@ Updates since v1.7.7
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* Variants of "git cherry-pick" and "git revert" that take multiple
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commits learned to "--continue".
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+ * Errors at the network layer is logged by "git daemon".
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+ * "git diff" learned "--minimal" option to spend extra cycles to come
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+ up with a minimal patch output.
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* "git fetch" learned to honor transfer.fsckobjects configuration to
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validate the objects that were received from the other end, just like
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"git receive-pack" (the receiving end of "git push") does.
@@ -33,6 +48,17 @@ Updates since v1.7.7
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* "git for-each-ref" learned "%(contents:subject)", "%(contents:body)"
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and "%(contents:signature)". The last one is useful for signed tags.
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+ * "git grep" used to incorrectly pay attention to .gitignore files
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+ scattered in the directory it was working in even when "--no-index"
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+ option was used. It no longer does this. The "--exclude-standard"
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+ option needs to be given to explicitly activate the ignore
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+ mechanism.
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+
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+ * "git grep" learned "--untracked" option, where given patterns are
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+ searched in untracked (but not ignored) files as well as tracked
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+ files in the working tree, so that matches in new but not yet
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+ added files do not get missed.
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* "git ls-remote" learned to respond to "-h"(elp) requests.
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* "git send-email" learned to respond to "-h"(elp) requests.
@@ -87,6 +113,19 @@ included in this release.
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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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+ * After incorrectly written third-party tools store a tag object in
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+ HEAD, git diagnosed it as a repository corruption and refused to
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+ proceed in order to avoid spreading the damage. We now gracefully
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+ recover from such a situation by pretending as if the commit that
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+ is pointed at by the tag were in HEAD.
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+ (merge baf18fc nd/maint-autofix-tag-in-head later to maint).
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+
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+ * "git apply --whitespace=error" did not bother to report the exact
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+ line number in the patch that introduced new blank lines at the end
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+ of the file.
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+ (merge 8557263 jc/apply-blank-at-eof-fix later to maint).
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* "git remote rename $a $b" were not careful to match the remote name
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against $a (i.e. source side of the remote nickname).
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(merge b52d00aed mz/remote-rename later to maint).
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---
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exec >/var/tmp/1
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-O=v1.7.7-236-g5366afa
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+O=v1.7.7-289-gb73c683
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echo O=$(git describe --always master)
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git log --first-parent --oneline --reverse ^$O master
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echo