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Prepare the release notes for the upcoming release, and describe changes up to the 5th batch we just merged. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Git v1.8.1 Release Notes
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Backward compatibility notes
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----------------------------
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In the next major release (not *this* one), we will change the
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behavior of the "git push" command.
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When "git push [$there]" does not say what to push, we have used the
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traditional "matching" semantics so far (all your branches were sent
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to the remote as long as there already are branches of the same name
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over there). We will use the "simple" semantics that pushes the
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current branch to the branch with the same name, only when the current
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branch is set to integrate with that remote branch. There is a user
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preference configuration variable "push.default" to change this, and
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"git push" will warn about the upcoming change until you set this
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variable in this release.
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"git branch --set-upstream" is deprecated and may be removed in a
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relatively distant future. "git branch [-u|--set-upstream-to]" has
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been introduced with a saner order of arguments.
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Updates since v1.8.0
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--------------------
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UI, Workflows & Features
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* We used to have a workaround for a bug in ancient "less" that
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causes it to exit without any output when the terminal is resized.
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The bug has been fixed in "less" version 406 (June 2007), and the
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workaround has been removed in this release.
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* A new configuration variable "diff.context" can be used to
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give the default number of context lines in the patch output, to
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override the hardcoded default of 3 lines.
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* "git format-patch" leraned the "--notes=<ref>" option to give
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notes for the commit after the three-dash lines in its output.
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* "git log --grep=<pcre>" learned to honor the "grep.patterntype"
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configuration set to "perl".
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* "git rm $submodule" used to punt on removing a submodule working
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tree to avoid losing the repository embedded in it. Because
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recent git uses a mechanism to separate the submodule repository
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from the submodule working tree, "git rm" learned to detect this
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case and removes the submodule working tree when it is safe.
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* "git submodule add" learned to add a new submodule at the same
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path as the path where an unrelated submodule was bound to in an
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existing revision via the "--name" option.
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* "git submodule sync" learned the "--recursive" option.
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* "git symbolic-ref" learned the "-d $symref" option to delete the
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named symbolic ref, which is more intuitive way to spell it than
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"update-ref -d --no-deref".
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Foreign Interface
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* "git cvsimport" can be told to record timezones (other than GMT)
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per-author via its author info file.
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* The remote helper interface to interact with subversion
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repositories (one of the GSoC 2012 projects) has been merged.
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Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
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* The logic to generate the initial advertisement from
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"upload-pack" (what is invoked by "git fetch" on the other side
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of the connection) to list what refs are available in the
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repository has been optimized.
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* The logic to find set of attributes that match a given path has
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been optimized.
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Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.
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Fixes since v1.8.0
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------------------
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Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.8.0 in the maintenance
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track are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
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details).
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* The configuration parser had an unnecessary hardcoded limit on
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variable names that was not checked consistently.
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(merge 0971e99 bw/config-lift-variable-name-length-limit later to maint).
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* The "say" function in the test scaffolding incorrectly allowed
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"echo" to interpret "\a" as if it were a C-string asking for a
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BEL output.
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(merge 7bc0911 jc/test-say-color-avoid-echo-escape later to maint).
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* "git mergetool" feeds /dev/null as a common ancestor when dealing
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with an add/add conflict, but p4merge backend cannot handle
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it. Work it around by passing a temporary empty file.
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(merge 3facc60 da/mergetools-p4 later to maint).
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* "git log -F -E --grep='<ere>'" failed to use the given <ere>
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pattern as extended regular expression, and instead looked for the
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string literally.
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(merge 727b6fc jc/grep-pcre-loose-ends~1 later to maint).
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* "git grep -e pattern <tree>" asked the attribute system to read
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"<tree>:.gitattributes" file in the working tree, which was
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nonsense.
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(merge 55c6168 nd/grep-true-path later to maint).
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* A symbolic ref refs/heads/SYM was not correctly removed with "git
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branch -d SYM"; the command removed the ref pointed by SYM
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instead.
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(merge 13baa9f rs/branch-del-symref later to maint).
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* Update "remote tracking branch" in the documentation to
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"remote-tracking branch".
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(merge a6d3bde mm/maint-doc-remote-tracking later to maint).
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* "git pull --rebase" run while the HEAD is detached tried to find
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the upstream branch of the detached HEAD (which by definition
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does not exist) and emitted unnecessary error messages.
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(merge e980765 ph/pull-rebase-detached later to maint).
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* The refs/replace hierarchy was not mentioned in the
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repository-layout docs.
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(merge 11fbe18 po/maint-refs-replace-docs later to maint).
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* Various rfc2047 quoting issues around a non-ASCII name on the
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From: line in the output from format-patch has been corrected.
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(merge 25dc8da js/format-2047 later to maint).
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* Sometimes curl_multi_timeout() function suggested a wrong timeout
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value when there is no file descriptors to wait on and the http
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transport ended up sleeping for minutes in select(2) system call.
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A workaround has been added for this.
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(merge 7202b81 sz/maint-curl-multi-timeout later to maint).
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* For a fetch refspec (or the result of applying wildcard on one),
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we always want the RHS to map to something inside "refs/"
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hierarchy, but the logic to check it was not exactly right.
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(merge 5c08c1f jc/maint-fetch-tighten-refname-check later to maint).
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* "git diff -G<pattern>" did not honor textconv filter when looking
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for changes.
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(merge b1c2f57 jk/maint-diff-grep-textconv later to maint).
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