e771946915 · matheusbsbs/matheus-bagliano

@@ -22,6 +22,12 @@ UI, Workflows & Features

22 $HOME/.config/attributes and $HOME/.config/ignore respectively when

23 these files exist.

24

25 + * Logic to disambiguate abbreviated object names have been taught to

26 + take advantage of object types that are expected in the context,

27 + e.g. XXXXXX in the "git describe" output v1.2.3-gXXXXXX must be a

28 + commit object, not a blob nor a tree. This will help us prolong

29 + the lifetime of abbreviated object names.

30 +

31 * "git apply" learned to wiggle the base version and perform three-way

32 merge when a patch does not exactly apply to the version you have.

33

@@ -103,6 +109,10 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. (please report possible regressions)

109 fnmatch() by comparing fixed leading substring literally when

110 possible.

111

112 + * "git log -n 1 -- rarely-touched-path" was spending unnecessary

113 + cycles after showing the first change to find the next one, only to

114 + discard it.

115 +

116

117 Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.

118

@@ -114,59 +124,17 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.7.11 in the maintenance

124 releases are contained in this release (see release notes to them for

125 details).

126

117 - * The error message from "git push $there :bogo" (and its equivalent

118 - "git push $there --delete bogo") mentioned that we tried and failed

119 - to guess what ref is being deleted based on the LHS of the refspec,

120 - which we don't.

121 - (merge 5742c82 jk/push-delete-ref-error-message later to maint).

122 -

123 - * A handful of files and directories we create had tighter than

124 - necessary permission bits when the user wanted to have group

125 - writability (e.g. by setting "umask 002").

126 - (merge 6ff2b72 ar/clone-honor-umask-at-top later to maint).

127 -

128 - * "commit --amend" used to refuse amending a commit with an empty log

129 - message, with or without "--allow-empty-message".

130 - (merge d9a9357 cw/amend-commit-without-message later to maint).

131 -

132 - * "git commit --amend --only --" was meant to allow "Clever" people to

133 - rewrite the commit message without making any change even when they

134 - have already changes for the next commit added to their index, but

135 - it never worked as advertised since it was introduced in 1.3.0 era.

136 - (merge ea2d4ed jk/maint-commit-amend-only-no-paths later to maint).

137 -

138 - * Even though the index can record pathnames longer than 1<<12 bytes,

139 - in some places we were not comparing them in full, potentially

140 - replacing index entries instead of adding.

141 - (merge d5f5333 tg/maint-cache-name-compare later to maint).

142 -

143 - * "git show"'s auto-walking behaviour was an unreliable and

144 - unpredictable hack; it now behaves just like "git log" does when it

145 - walks.

146 - (merge c5941f1 tr/maint-show-walk later to maint).

147 -

148 - * "git diff", "git status" and anything that internally uses the

149 - comparison machinery was utterly broken when the difference

150 - involved a file with "-" as its name. This was due to the way "git

151 - diff --no-index" was incorrectly bolted on to the system, making

152 - any comparison that involves a file "-" at the root level

153 - incorrectly read from the standard input.

154 - (merge 4682d85 jc/refactor-diff-stdin later to maint).

155 -

156 - * We did not have test to make sure "git rebase" without extra options

157 - filters out an empty commit in the original history.

158 - (merge 2b5ba7b mz/empty-rebase-test later to maint).

159 -

160 - * "git fast-export" produced an input stream for fast-import without

161 - properly quoting pathnames when they contain SPs in them.

162 - (merge ff59f6d js/fast-export-paths-with-spaces later to maint).

163 -

164 - * "git checkout --detach", when you are still on an unborn branch,

165 - should be forbidden, but it wasn't.

166 - (merge 8ced1aa cw/no-detaching-an-unborn later to maint).

167 -

168 - * Some implementations of Perl terminates "lines" with CRLF even when

169 - the script is operating on just a sequence of bytes. Make sure to

170 - use "$PERL_PATH", the version of Perl the user told Git to use, in

171 - our tests to avoid unnecessary breakages in tests.

172 - (merge ad78585 vr/use-our-perl-in-tests later to maint).

127 + * When "git am" failed, old timers knew to check .git/rebase-apply/patch

128 + to see what went wrong, but we never told the users about it.

129 + (merge 14bf2d5 pg/maint-1.7.9-am-where-is-patch later to maint).

130 +

131 + * When "git submodule add" clones a submodule repository, it can get

132 + confused where to store the resulting submodule repository in the

133 + superproject's .git/ directory when there is a symbolic link in the

134 + path to the current directory.

135 + (merge 6eafa6d jl/maint-1.7.10-recurse-submodules-with-symlink later to maint).

136 +

137 + * In 1.7.9 era, we taught "git rebase" about the raw timestamp format

138 + but we did not teach the same trick to "filter-branch", which rolled

139 + a similar logic on its own.

140 + (merge 44b85e89 jc/maint-filter-branch-epoch-date later to maint).

Update draft release notes to 1.7.12