From 72d5e74e991937e24afb943eee74ca929e7f00ab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Junio C Hamano Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 15:16:34 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Update draft release notes to 1.7.9.2 Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.2.txt | 71 +++++++++++++++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.2.txt index 3f9467eb89..e500da75dd 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.2.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.2.txt @@ -4,27 +4,66 @@ Git v1.7.9.2 Release Notes Fixes since v1.7.9.1 -------------------- -* The error message emitted when we see an empty loose object was - not phrased correctly. + * Bash completion script (in contrib/) did not like a pattern that + begins with a dash to be passed to __git_ps1 helper function. -* The code to ask for password did not fall back to the terminal - input when GIT_ASKPASS is set but does not work (e.g. lack of X - with GUI askpass helper). + * Adaptation of the bash completion script (in contrib/) for zsh + incorrectly listed all subcommands when "git " was given + to ask for list of porcelain subcommands. -* map_user() was not rewriting its output correctly, which resulted - in the user visible symptom that "git blame -e" sometimes showed - excess '>' at the end of email addresses. + * The build procedure for profile-directed optimized binary was not + working very well. -* "git checkout -b" did not allow switching out of an unborn branch. + * Some systems need to explicitly link -lcharset to get locale_charset(). -* "git commit" refused to create a commit when entries added with - "add -N" remained in the index, without telling Git what their content - in the next commit should be. We should have created the commit without - these paths. + * t5541 ignored user-supplied port number used for HTTP server testing. -* Search box in "gitweb" did not accept non-ASCII characters correctly. + * The error message emitted when we see an empty loose object was + not phrased correctly. -* Search interface of "gitweb" did not show multiple matches in the same file - correctly. + * The code to ask for password did not fall back to the terminal + input when GIT_ASKPASS is set but does not work (e.g. lack of X + with GUI askpass helper). + + * We failed to give the true terminal width to any subcommand when + they are invoked with the pager, i.e. "git -p cmd". + + * map_user() was not rewriting its output correctly, which resulted + in the user visible symptom that "git blame -e" sometimes showed + excess '>' at the end of email addresses. + + * "git checkout -b" did not allow switching out of an unborn branch. + + * When you have both .../foo and .../foo.git, "git clone .../foo" did not + favor the former but the latter. + + * "git commit" refused to create a commit when entries added with + "add -N" remained in the index, without telling Git what their content + in the next commit should be. We should have created the commit without + these paths. + + * "git diff --stat" said "files", "insertions", and "deletions" even + when it is showing one "file", one "insertion" or one "deletion". + + * The output from "git diff --stat" for two paths that have the same + amount of changes showed graph bars of different length due to the + way we handled rounding errors. + + * "git grep" did not pay attention to -diff (hence -binary) attribute. + + * The transport programs (fetch, push, clone)ignored --no-progress + and showed progress when sending their output to a terminal. + + * Sometimes error status detected by a check in an earlier phase of + "git receive-pack" (the other end of "git push") was lost by later + checks, resulting in false indication of success. + + * "git rev-list --verify" sometimes skipped verification depending on + the phase of the moon, which dates back to 1.7.8.x series. + + * Search box in "gitweb" did not accept non-ASCII characters correctly. + + * Search interface of "gitweb" did not show multiple matches in the same file + correctly. Also contains minor fixes and documentation updates.