| Git v1.7.8 Release Notes |
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| Updates since v1.7.7 |
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| * Some git-svn, git-gui, git-p4 (in contrib) and msysgit updates. |
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| * Updates to bash completion scripts. |
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| * The build procedure has been taught to take advantage of computed |
| dependency automatically when the compiler supports it. |
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| * The date parser now accepts timezone designators that lack minutes |
| part and also has a colon between "hh:mm". |
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| * The contents of the /etc/mailname file, if exists, is used as the |
| 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 |
| from the remote side in a more informative way. |
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| * "git branch" learned an explicit --list option to ask for branches |
| listed, optionally with a glob matching pattern to limit its output. |
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| * "git check-attr" learned "--cached" option to look at .gitattributes |
| files from the index, not from the working tree. |
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| * Variants of "git cherry-pick" and "git revert" that take multiple |
| commits learned to "--continue" and "--abort". |
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| * "git daemon" gives more human readable error messages to clients |
| using ERR packets when appropriate. |
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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 |
| up with a minimal patch output. |
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| * "git diff" learned "--function-context" option to show the whole |
| function as context that was affected by a change. |
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| * "git difftool" can be told to skip launching the tool for a path by |
| answering 'n' to its prompt. |
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| * "git fetch" learned to honor transfer.fsckobjects configuration to |
| validate the objects that were received from the other end, just like |
| "git receive-pack" (the receiving end of "git push") does. |
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| * "git fetch" makes sure that the set of objects it received from the |
| other end actually completes the history before updating the refs. |
| "git receive-pack" (the receiving end of "git push") learned to do the |
| same. |
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| * "git fetch" learned that fetching/cloning from a regular file on the |
| filesystem is not necessarily a request to unpack a bundle file; the |
| file could be ".git" with "gitdir: <path>" in it. |
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| * "git for-each-ref" learned "%(contents:subject)", "%(contents:body)" |
| 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 |
| scattered in the directory it was working in even when "--no-index" |
| option was used. It no longer does this. The "--exclude-standard" |
| option needs to be given to explicitly activate the ignore |
| mechanism. |
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| * "git grep" learned "--untracked" option, where given patterns are |
| searched in untracked (but not ignored) files as well as tracked |
| files in the working tree, so that matches in new but not yet |
| added files do not get missed. |
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| * The recursive merge backend no longer looks for meaningless |
| existing merges in submodules unless in the outermost merge. |
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| * "git log" and friends learned "--children" option. |
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| * "git ls-remote" learned to respond to "-h"(elp) requests. |
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| * "mediawiki" remote helper can interact with (surprise!) MediaWiki |
| with "git fetch" & "git push". |
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| * "git merge" learned the "--edit" option to allow users to edit the |
| merge commit log message. |
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| * "git rebase -i" can be told to use special purpose editor suitable |
| only for its insn sheet via sequence.editor configuration variable. |
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| * "git send-email" learned to respond to "-h"(elp) requests. |
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| * "git send-email" allows the value given to sendemail.aliasfile to begin |
| with "~/" to refer to the $HOME directory. |
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| * "git send-email" forces use of Authen::SASL::Perl to work around |
| issues between Authen::SASL::Cyrus and AUTH PLAIN/LOGIN. |
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| * "git stash" learned "--include-untracked" option to stash away |
| untracked/ignored cruft from the working tree. |
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| * "git submodule clone" does not leak an error message to the UI |
| level unnecessarily anymore. |
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| * "git submodule update" learned to honor "none" as the value for |
| submodule.<name>.update to specify that the named submodule should |
| not be checked out by default. |
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| * When populating a new submodule directory with "git submodule init", |
| the $GIT_DIR metainformation directory for submodules is created inside |
| $GIT_DIR/modules/<name>/ directory of the superproject and referenced |
| via the gitfile mechanism. This is to make it possible to switch |
| between commits in the superproject that has and does not have the |
| submodule in the tree without re-cloning. |
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| * "gitweb" leaked unescaped control characters from syntax hiliter |
| outputs. |
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| * "gitweb" can be told to give custom string at the end of the HTML |
| HEAD element. |
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| * "gitweb" now has its own manual pages. |
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| Also contains other documentation updates and minor code cleanups. |
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| Fixes since v1.7.7 |
| ------------------ |
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| Unless otherwise noted, all fixes in the 1.7.7.X maintenance track are |
| included in this release. |
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| * HTTP transport did not use pushurl correctly, and also did not tell |
| what host it is trying to authenticate with when asking for |
| credentials. |
| (merge deba493 jk/http-auth later to maint). |
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| * "git blame" was aborted if started from an uncommitted content and |
| the path had the textconv filter in effect. |
| (merge 8518088 ss/blame-textconv-fake-working-tree later to maint). |
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| * Adding many refs to the local repository in one go (e.g. "git fetch" |
| that fetches many tags) and looking up a ref by name in a repository |
| with too many refs were unnecessarily slow. |
| (merge 17d68a54d jp/get-ref-dir-unsorted later to maint). |
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| * Report from "git commit" on untracked files was confused under |
| core.ignorecase option. |
| (merge 395c7356 jk/name-hash-dirent later to maint). |
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| * "git merge" did not understand ":/<pattern>" as a way to name a commit. |
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| " "git push" on the receiving end used to call post-receive and post-update |
| hooks for attempted removal of non-existing refs. |
| (merge 160b81ed ph/push-to-delete-nothing later to maint). |
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| * Help text for "git remote set-url" and "git remote set-branches" |
| were misspelled. |
| (merge c49904e fc/remote-seturl-usage-fix later to maint). |
| (merge 656cdf0 jc/remote-setbranches-usage-fix later to maint). |
