The fifth batch of topics graduated to 'master'

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Junio C Hamano 2012-04-24 14:50:06 -07:00
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@ -8,6 +8,9 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
* A third-party tool "git subtree" is distributed in contrib/ * A third-party tool "git subtree" is distributed in contrib/
* Error messages given when @{u} is used for a branch without its
upstream configured have been clatified.
* Even with "-q"uiet option, "checkout" used to report setting up * Even with "-q"uiet option, "checkout" used to report setting up
tracking. Also "branch" learned the "-q"uiet option to squelch tracking. Also "branch" learned the "-q"uiet option to squelch
informational message. informational message.
@ -30,11 +33,20 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
* The cases "git push" fails due to non-ff can be broken into three * The cases "git push" fails due to non-ff can be broken into three
categories; each case is given a separate advise message. categories; each case is given a separate advise message.
* "git push --recurse-submodules" learned to optionally look into the
histories of submodules bound to the superproject and push them
out.
* A 'snapshot' request to "gitweb" honors If-Modified-Since: header, * A 'snapshot' request to "gitweb" honors If-Modified-Since: header,
based on the commit date. based on the commit date.
* "gitweb" learned to highlight the patch it outputs even more.
Foreign Interface Foreign Interface
* "git svn" used to die with unwanted SIGPIPE when talking with HTTP
server that uses keep-alive.
* "git p4" has been moved out of contrib/ area. * "git p4" has been moved out of contrib/ area.
Performance Performance
@ -61,6 +73,9 @@ Internal Implementation (please report possible regressions)
systems, run-command API now uses SHELL_PATH, not /bin/sh, when systems, run-command API now uses SHELL_PATH, not /bin/sh, when
spawning an external command (not applicable to Windows port). spawning an external command (not applicable to Windows port).
* The API to iterate over refs/ hierarchy has been tweaked to allow
walking only a subset of it more efficiently.
Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups. Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.
@ -71,6 +86,17 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.7.10 in the maintenance
releases are contained in this release (see release notes to them for releases are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
details). details).
* The parser in "fast-import" did not diagnose ":9" style references
that is not followed by required SP/LF as an error.
(merge 06454cb pw/fast-import-dataref-parsing later to maint).
* When "git fetch" encounters repositories with too many references,
the command line of "fetch-pack" that is run by a helper
e.g. remote-curl, may fail to hold all of them. Now such an
internal invocation can feed the references through the standard
input of "fetch-pack".
(merge 7103d25 it/fetch-pack-many-refs later to maint).
* "git fetch" that recurses into submodules on demand did not check * "git fetch" that recurses into submodules on demand did not check
if it needs to go into submodules when non branches (most notably, if it needs to go into submodules when non branches (most notably,
tags) are fetched. tags) are fetched.