git/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.txt
Junio C Hamano 10f4eb652e Update draft release notes to 1.7.9
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-12-13 23:09:27 -08:00

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Git v1.7.9 Release Notes (draft)
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Updates since v1.7.8
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* git-gui updated to 0.16.0.
* git-p4 (in contrib/) updates.
* Porcelain commands like "git reset" did not distinguish deletions
and type-changes from ordinary modification, and reported them with
the same 'M' moniker. They now use 'D' (for deletion) and 'T' (for
type-change) to match "git status -s" and "git diff --name-status".
* "git branch -m <current branch> HEAD" is an obvious no-op and is
now allowed.
* "git checkout -B <current branch> <elsewhere>" is a more intuitive
way to spell "git reset --keep <elsewhere>".
* "git checkout" and "git merge" learned "--no-overwrite-ignore" option
to tell Git that untracked and ignored files are not expendable.
* fsck and prune are relatively lengthy operations that still go
silent while making the end-user wait. They learned to give progress
output like other slow operations.
* The set of built-in function-header patterns for various languages
knows MATLAB.
* "git pull" can be used to fetch and merge an annotated/signed tag,
instead of the tip of a topic branch. The GPG signature from the
signed tag is recorded in the resulting merge commit for later
auditing.
* "git branch --edit-description" can be used to add descriptive text
to explain what a topic branch is about.
* "git fmt-merge-msg" learned to take the branch description into
account when preparing a merge summary that "git merge" records
when merging a local branch.
* "git request-pull" has been updated to convey more information
useful for integrators to decide if a topic is worth merging and
what is pulled is indeed what the requestor asked to pull,
including:
- the tip of the branch being requested to be merged;
- the branch description describing what the topic is about;
- the contents of the annotated tag, when requesting to pull a tag.
* "git pull" learned to notice 'pull.rebase' configuration variable,
which serves as a global fallback for setting 'branch.<name>.rebase'
configuration variable per branch.
* "git tag" learned "--cleanup" option to control how the whitespaces
and empty lines in tag message are cleaned up.
* "gitweb" learned to show side-by-side diff.
Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.
Fixes since v1.7.8
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* The function header pattern for files with "diff=cpp" attribute did
not consider "type *funcname(type param1,..." as the beginning of a
function.
(merge 37e7793 tr/userdiff-c-returns-pointer later to maint).
* LF-to-CRLF streaming filter used when checking out a large-ish blob
fell into an infinite loop with a rare input.
(merge 284e3d2 cn/maint-lf-to-crlf-filter later to maint).
* "git archive" mistakenly allowed remote clients to ask for commits
that are not at the tip of any ref.
(merge 7b51c33 jk/maint-upload-archive later to maint).
* "git apply --check" did not error out when given an empty input
without any patch.
(merge cc64b31 bc/maint-apply-check-no-patch later to maint).
* The error message from "git diff" and "git status" when they fail
to inspect changes in submodules did not report which submodule they
had trouble with.
(merge 6a5ceda jl/submodule-status-failure-report later to maint).
--
exec >/var/tmp/1
O=v1.7.8-246-gb3f17ac
echo O=$(git describe master)
git log --first-parent --oneline --reverse ^$O master
echo
git shortlog --no-merges ^$O ^maint master