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-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.txt33
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.4.txt24
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-rerere.txt19
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git.txt3
4 files changed, 50 insertions, 29 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.txt
index a8fd0ace47..6286485bdb 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.txt
@@ -25,6 +25,10 @@ Compatibility Notes
"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
--------------------
@@ -115,6 +119,10 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
* 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
+ 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).
@@ -172,34 +180,17 @@ 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).
- * "git bundle" did not record boundary commits correctly when there
- are many of them.
- (merge efe4be1 tr/maint-bundle-boundary later to maint).
-
- * "git diff-index" and its friends at the plumbing level showed the
- "diff --git" header and nothing else for a path whose cached stat
- info is dirty without actual difference when asked to produce a
- patch. This was a longstanding bug that we could have fixed long
- time ago.
- (merge b3f01ff jc/maint-diff-patch-header later to maint).
-
- * The code to synthesize the fake ancestor tree used by 3-way merge
- fallback in "git am" was not prepared to read a patch created with
- a non-standard -p<num> value.
- (merge a61ba26 jc/am-3-nonstandard-popt 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).
* "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.
- * "gitweb" did use quotemeta() to prepare search string when asked to
- do a fixed-string project search, but did not use it by mistake and
- used the user-supplied string instead.
- (merge e65ceb6 jn/maint-do-not-match-with-unsanitized-searchtext later to maint).
-
---
exec >/var/tmp/1
-O=v1.7.10-rc0-15-g9a4c97e
+O=v1.7.10-rc0-40-g57cec0a
echo O=$(git describe)
git log --first-parent --oneline ^maint $O..
echo
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.4.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e5217a1889
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.4.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+Git v1.7.9.4 Release Notes
+==========================
+
+Fixes since v1.7.9.3
+--------------------
+
+ * The code to synthesize the fake ancestor tree used by 3-way merge
+ fallback in "git am" was not prepared to read a patch created with
+ a non-standard -p<num> value.
+
+ * "git bundle" did not record boundary commits correctly when there
+ are many of them.
+
+ * "git diff-index" and its friends at the plumbing level showed the
+ "diff --git" header and nothing else for a path whose cached stat
+ info is dirty without actual difference when asked to produce a
+ patch. This was a longstanding bug that we could have fixed long
+ time ago.
+
+ * "gitweb" did use quotemeta() to prepare search string when asked to
+ do a fixed-string project search, but did not use it by mistake and
+ used the user-supplied string instead.
+
+Also contains minor fixes and documentation updates.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-rerere.txt b/Documentation/git-rerere.txt
index a6253ba617..b43b7c8c0e 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-rerere.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-rerere.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ git-rerere - Reuse recorded resolution of conflicted merges
SYNOPSIS
--------
[verse]
-'git rerere' ['clear'|'forget' <pathspec>|'diff'|'status'|'gc']
+'git rerere' ['clear'|'forget' <pathspec>|'diff'|'remaining'|'status'|'gc']
DESCRIPTION
-----------
@@ -37,30 +37,35 @@ its working state.
'clear'::
-This resets the metadata used by rerere if a merge resolution is to be
+Reset the metadata used by rerere if a merge resolution is to be
aborted. Calling 'git am [--skip|--abort]' or 'git rebase [--skip|--abort]'
will automatically invoke this command.
'forget' <pathspec>::
-This resets the conflict resolutions which rerere has recorded for the current
+Reset the conflict resolutions which rerere has recorded for the current
conflict in <pathspec>.
'diff'::
-This displays diffs for the current state of the resolution. It is
+Display diffs for the current state of the resolution. It is
useful for tracking what has changed while the user is resolving
conflicts. Additional arguments are passed directly to the system
'diff' command installed in PATH.
'status'::
-Like 'diff', but this only prints the filenames that will be tracked
-for resolutions.
+Print paths with conflicts whose merge resolution rerere will record.
+
+'remaining'::
+
+Print paths with conflicts that have not been autoresolved by rerere.
+This includes paths whose resolutions cannot be tracked by rerere,
+such as conflicting submodules.
'gc'::
-This prunes records of conflicted merges that
+Prune records of conflicted merges that
occurred a long time ago. By default, unresolved conflicts older
than 15 days and resolved conflicts older than 60
days are pruned. These defaults are controlled via the
diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt
index b257d80c75..d5b7667c15 100644
--- a/Documentation/git.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git.txt
@@ -44,9 +44,10 @@ unreleased) version of git, that is available from 'master'
branch of the `git.git` repository.
Documentation for older releases are available here:
-* link:v1.7.9.3/git.html[documentation for release 1.7.9.3]
+* link:v1.7.9.4/git.html[documentation for release 1.7.9.4]
* release notes for
+ link:RelNotes/1.7.9.4.txt[1.7.9.4],
link:RelNotes/1.7.9.3.txt[1.7.9.3],
link:RelNotes/1.7.9.2.txt[1.7.9.2],
link:RelNotes/1.7.9.1.txt[1.7.9.1],