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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.txt index e255901356..238234ed7c 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.txt @@ -1,57 +1,175 @@ Git v1.7.10 Release Notes ========================= +Compatibility Notes +------------------- + + * From this release on, the "git merge" command in an interactive + session will start an editor when it automatically resolves the + merge for the user to explain the resulting commit, just like the + "git commit" command does when it wasn't given a commit message. + + If you have a script that runs "git merge" and keeps its standard + input and output attached to the user's terminal, and if you do not + want the user to explain the resulting merge commits, you can + export GIT_MERGE_AUTOEDIT environment variable set to "no", like + this: + + #!/bin/sh + GIT_MERGE_AUTOEDIT=no + export GIT_MERGE_AUTOEDIT + + to disable this behaviour (if you want your users to explain their + merge commits, you do not have to do anything). Alternatively, you + can give the "--no-edit" option to individual invocations of the + "git merge" command if you know everybody who uses your script has + Git v1.7.8 or newer. + + * The "--binary/-b" options to "git am" have been a no-op for quite a + while and were deprecated in mid 2008 (v1.6.0). When you give these + options to "git am", it will now warn and ask you not to use them. + + Updates since v1.7.9 -------------------- UI, Workflows & Features - * Improved handling of views, labels and branches in git-p4 (in contrib). + * Teams for localizing the messages from the Porcelain layer of + commands are starting to form, thanks to Jiang Xin who volunteered + to be the localization coordinator. An initial set of translated + messages for simplified chinese is available. - * "vcs-svn"/"svn-fe" learned to read dumps with svn-deltas and - support incremental imports. + * The configuration mechanism learned an "include" facility; an + assignment to the include.path pseudo-variable causes the named + file to be included in-place when Git looks up configuration + variables. + + * A content filter (clean/smudge) used to be just a way to make the + recorded contents "more useful", and allowed to fail; a filter can + now optionally be marked as "required". + + * Options whose names begin with "--no-" (e.g. the "--no-verify" + option of the "git commit" command) can be negated by omitting + "no-" from its name, e.g. "git commit --verify". * "git am" learned to pass "-b" option to underlying "git mailinfo", so - that bracketed string other than "PATCH" at the beginning can be kept. + that a bracketed string other than "PATCH" at the beginning can be kept. * "git clone" learned "--single-branch" option to limit cloning to a - single branch (surprise!). + single branch (surprise!); tags that do not point into the history + of the branch are not fetched. * "git clone" learned to detach the HEAD in the resulting repository - when the source repository's HEAD does not point to a branch. + when the user specifies a tag with "--branch" (e.g., "--branch=v1.0"). + Clone also learned to print the usual "detached HEAD" advice in such + a case, similar to "git checkout v1.0". * When showing a patch while ignoring whitespace changes, the context lines are taken from the postimage, in order to make it easier to view the output. + * "git diff --stat" learned to adjust the width of the output on + wider terminals, and give more columns to pathnames as needed. + + * "diff-highlight" filter (in contrib/) was updated to produce more + aesthetically pleasing output. + + * "fsck" learned "--no-dangling" option to omit dangling object + information. + + * "git log -G" and "git log -S" learned to pay attention to the "-i" + option. With "-i", "log -G" ignores the case when finding patch + hunks that introduce or remove a string that matches the given + pattern. Similarly with "-i", "log -S" ignores the case when + finding the commit the given block of text appears or disappears + from the file. + * "git merge" in an interactive session learned to spawn the editor by default to let the user edit the auto-generated merge message, to encourage people to explain their merges better. Legacy scripts - can export MERGE_AUTOEDIT=no to retain the historical behaviour. + can export GIT_MERGE_AUTOEDIT=no to retain the historical behavior. + Both "git merge" and "git pull" can be given --no-edit from the + command line to accept the auto-generated merge message. + + * The advice message given when the user didn't give enough clue on + what to merge to "git pull" and "git merge" has been updated to + be more concise and easier to understand. + + * "git push" learned the "--prune" option, similar to "git fetch". + + * The whole directory that houses a top-level superproject managed by + "git submodule" can be moved to another place. + + * "git symbolic-ref" learned the "--short" option to abbreviate the + refname it shows unambiguously. + + * "git tag --list" can be given "--points-at <object>" to limit its + output to those that point at the given object. * "gitweb" allows intermediate entries in the directory hierarchy - that leads to a projects to be clicked, which in turn shows the + that leads to a project to be clicked, which in turn shows the list of projects inside that directory. + * "gitweb" learned to read various pieces of information for the + repositories lazily, instead of reading everything that could be + needed (including the ones that are not necessary for a specific + task). + + * Project search in "gitweb" shows the substring that matched in the + project name and description highlighted. + + * A new script "diffall" is added to contrib/; it drives an + external tool to perform a directory diff of two Git revisions + in one go, unlike "difftool" that compares one file at a time. + +Foreign Interface + + * Improved handling of views, labels and branches in "git-p4" (in contrib). + + * "git-p4" (in contrib) suffered from unnecessary merge conflicts when + p4 expanded the embedded $RCS$-like keywords; it can be now told to + unexpand them. + + * Some "git-svn" updates. + + * "vcs-svn"/"svn-fe" learned to read dumps with svn-deltas and + support incremental imports. + + * "git difftool/mergetool" learned to drive DeltaWalker. + Performance - * During "git upload-pack" in respose to "git fetch", unnecessary calls - to parse_object() have been eliminated, to help performance in - repositories with excessive number of refs. + * Unnecessary calls to parse_object() "git upload-pack" makes in + response to "git fetch", have been eliminated, to help performance + in repositories with excessive number of refs. -Internal Implementation +Internal Implementation (please report possible regressions) * Recursive call chains in "git index-pack" to deal with long delta chains have been flattened, to reduce the stack footprint. - * Use of add_extra_ref() API is slowly getting removed, to make it - possible to cleanly restructure the overall refs API. + * Use of add_extra_ref() API is now gone, to make it possible to + cleanly restructure the overall refs API. + + * The command line parser of "git pack-objects" now uses parse-options + API. * The test suite supports the new "test_pause" helper function. + * Parallel to the test suite, there is a beginning of performance + benchmarking framework. + * t/Makefile is adjusted to prevent newer versions of GNU make from running tests in seemingly random order. + * The code to check if a path points at a file beyond a symbolic link + has been restructured to be thread-safe. + + * When pruning directories that has become empty during "git prune" + and "git prune-packed", call closedir() that iterates over a + directory before rmdir() it. + Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups. @@ -62,30 +180,34 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.7.9 in the maintenance releases are contained in this release (see release notes to them for details). - * "add -e" learned not to show a diff for an otherwise unmodified - submodule that only has uncommitted local changes in the patch - prepared by for the user to edit. - (merge 701825d js/add-e-submodule-fix later to maint). + * "git fast-import" accepted "ls" command with an empty path by + mistake. + (merge 178e1de jn/maint-fast-import-empty-ls later to maint). + + * The "remaining" subcommand to "git rerere" was not documented. + (merge 3e7a1df ph/rerere-doc later to maint). - * "rebase" and "commit --amend" failed to work on commits with ancient - timestamps near year 1970. - (merge 2c733fb jc/parse-date-raw later to maint). + * "git tag -s" honored "gpg.program" configuration variable since + 1.7.9, but "git tag -v" and "git verify-tag" didn't. + (merge a2c2506 az/verify-tag-use-gpg-config later to maint). - * "git merge --ff-only $tag" failed because it cannot record the - required mergetag without creating a merge, but this is so common - operation for branch that is used _only_ to follow the upstream, so - it is allowed to fast-forward without recording the mergetag. - (merge b5c9f1c jc/merge-ff-only-stronger-than-signed-merge later to maint). + * When "git config" diagnoses an error in a configuration file and + shows the line number for the offending line, it miscounted if the + error was at the end of line. + (merge 4b34059 ms/maint-config-error-at-eol-linecount later to maint). - * Typo in "git branch --edit-description my-tpoic" was not diagnosed. - (merge c2d17ba jc/branch-desc-typoavoidance later to maint). + * "configure" script learned to take "--sane-tool-path" from the + command line to record SANE_TOOL_PATH (used to avoid broken + platform tools in /usr/bin) in config.mak-autogen. This may be useful + for people on Solaris who have saner tools outside /usr/xpg[46]/bin. - * rpmbuild noticed an unpackaged but installed *.mo file and failed. - (merge 3a9f58c jn/rpm-spec later to maint). + * "gitweb" used to drop warnings in the log file when "heads" view is + accessed in a repository whose HEAD does not point at a valid + branch. --- exec >/var/tmp/1 -O=v1.7.9-208-gee8d52f +O=v1.7.10-rc1-18-g0987145 echo O=$(git describe) git log --first-parent --oneline ^maint $O.. echo |