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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.txt index 3c247cc231..108e6cd0ea 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.txt @@ -40,6 +40,17 @@ Updates since v1.7.7 * "git stash" learned "--include-untracked" option to stash away untracked/ignored cruft from the working tree. + * "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. + + * 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. + * "mediawiki" remote helper can interact with (surprise!) MediaWiki with "git fetch" & "git push". @@ -47,16 +58,37 @@ Updates since v1.7.7 outputs. +Also contains other documentation updates and minor code cleanups. + + Fixes since v1.7.7 ------------------ Unless otherwise noted, all fixes in the 1.7.7.X maintenance track are included in this release. + * We used to drop error messages from libcurl on certain kinds of + errors. + (merge be22d92eac8 jn/maint-http-error-message later to maint). + + * 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). + + * "git remote rename $a $b" were not careful to match the remote name + against $a (i.e. source side of the remote nickname). + (merge b52d00aed mz/remote-rename later to maint). + * "git diff $tree $path" used to apply the pathspec at the output stage, reading the whole tree, wasting resources. (merge 2f88c1970 jc/diff-index-unpack later to maint). + * "git diff --[num]stat" used to use the number of lines of context + different from the default, potentially giving different results from + "git diff | diffstat" and confusing the users. + (merge f01cae918 jc/maint-diffstat-numstat-context later to maint). + * The code to check for updated submodules during a "git fetch" of the superproject had an unnecessary quadratic loop. (merge 6859de45 jk/maint-fetch-submodule-check-fix later to maint). @@ -84,6 +116,10 @@ included in this release. * "git merge" did not understand ":/<pattern>" as a way to name a commit. + * "git mergetool" learned to use its arguments as pathspec, not a path to + the file that may not even have any conflict. + (merge 6d9990a jm/mergetool-pathspec later to maint). + * Tests with --valgrind failed to find "mergetool" scriptlets. (merge ee0d7bf92 tr/mergetool-valgrind later to maint). @@ -96,12 +132,14 @@ included in this release. be cleaned up. (merge 1686519a mm/rebase-i-exec-edit later to maint). + * "gitweb" used to produce a non-working link while showing the contents + of a blob, when JavaScript actions are enabled. + (merge 2b07ff3ff ps/gitweb-js-with-lineno later to maint). + --- -it=master exec >/var/tmp/1 -O=v1.7.7 -O=v1.7.7-137-g2e49dab -echo O=$(git describe --always $it) -git log --first-parent --oneline --reverse ^$O $it +O=v1.7.7-212-g4909bbe +echo O=$(git describe --always master) +git log --first-parent --oneline --reverse ^$O master echo -git shortlog --no-merges ^$O $it +git shortlog --no-merges ^$O master |