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Git v1.7.8 Release Notes (draft)
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================================
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Updates since v1.7.7
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--------------------
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* The build procedure has been taught to take advantage of computed
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dependency automatically when the complier supports it.
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* The date parser now accepts timezone designators that lack minutes
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part and also has a colon between "hh:mm".
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* On some BSD systems, adding +s bit on directories is detrimental
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(it is not necessary on BSD to begin with). The installation
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procedure has been updated to take this into account.
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* The contents of the /etc/mailname file, if exists, is used as the
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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
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from the remote side in a more informative way.
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* "git branch" learned an explicit --list option to ask for branches
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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
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files from the index, not from the working tree.
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* Variants of "git cherry-pick" and "git revert" that take multiple
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commits learned to "--continue".
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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
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up with a minimal patch output.
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* "git fetch" learned to honor transfer.fsckobjects configuration to
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validate the objects that were received from the other end, just like
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"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
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other end actually completes the history before updating the refs.
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"git receive-pack" (the receiving end of "git push") learned to do the
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same.
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* "git for-each-ref" learned "%(contents:subject)", "%(contents:body)"
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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
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scattered in the directory it was working in even when "--no-index"
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option was used. It no longer does this. The "--exclude-standard"
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option needs to be given to explicitly activate the ignore
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mechanism.
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* "git grep" learned "--untracked" option, where given patterns are
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searched in untracked (but not ignored) files as well as tracked
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files in the working tree, so that matches in new but not yet
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added files do not get missed.
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* "git ls-remote" learned to respond to "-h"(elp) requests.
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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
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with "~/" to refer to the $HOME directory.
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* "git send-email" forces use of Authen::SASL::Perl to work around
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issues between Authen::SASL::Cyrus and AUTH PLAIN/LOGIN.
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* "git stash" learned "--include-untracked" option to stash away
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untracked/ignored cruft from the working tree.
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* "git submodule update" learned to honor "none" as the value for
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submodule.<name>.update to specify that the named submodule should
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not be checked out by default.
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* When populating a new submodule directory with "git submodule init",
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the $GIT_DIR metainformation directory for submodules is created inside
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$GIT_DIR/modules/<name>/ directory of the superproject and referenced
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via the gitfile mechanism. This is to make it possible to switch
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between commits in the superproject that has and does not have the
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submodule in the tree without re-cloning.
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* "mediawiki" remote helper can interact with (surprise!) MediaWiki
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with "git fetch" & "git push".
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* "gitweb" leaked unescaped control characters from syntax hiliter
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outputs.
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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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------------------
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Unless otherwise noted, all fixes in the 1.7.7.X maintenance track are
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included in this release.
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* We used to drop error messages from libcurl on certain kinds of
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errors.
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(merge be22d92eac8 jn/maint-http-error-message later to maint).
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* Error report from smart HTTP transport, when the connection was
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broken in the middle of a transfer, showed a useless message on
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a corrupt packet.
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(merge 6cdf022 sp/smart-http-failure later to maint).
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* Adding many refs to the local repository in one go (e.g. "git fetch"
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that fetches many tags) and looking up a ref by name in a repository
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with too many refs were unnecessarily slow.
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(merge 17d68a54d jp/get-ref-dir-unsorted later to maint).
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* After incorrectly written third-party tools store a tag object in
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HEAD, git diagnosed it as a repository corruption and refused to
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proceed in order to avoid spreading the damage. We now gracefully
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recover from such a situation by pretending as if the commit that
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is pointed at by the tag were in HEAD.
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(merge baf18fc nd/maint-autofix-tag-in-head later to maint).
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* "git apply --whitespace=error" did not bother to report the exact
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line number in the patch that introduced new blank lines at the end
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of the file.
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(merge 8557263 jc/apply-blank-at-eof-fix later to maint).
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* "git remote rename $a $b" were not careful to match the remote name
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against $a (i.e. source side of the remote nickname).
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(merge b52d00aed mz/remote-rename later to maint).
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* "git diff --[num]stat" used to use the number of lines of context
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different from the default, potentially giving different results from
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"git diff | diffstat" and confusing the users.
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(merge f01cae918 jc/maint-diffstat-numstat-context later to maint).
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* "git merge" did not understand ":/<pattern>" as a way to name a commit.
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* "git mergetool" learned to use its arguments as pathspec, not a path to
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the file that may not even have any conflict.
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(merge 6d9990a jm/mergetool-pathspec later to maint).
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* "gitweb" used to produce a non-working link while showing the contents
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of a blob, when JavaScript actions are enabled.
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(merge 2b07ff3ff ps/gitweb-js-with-lineno later to maint).
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---
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exec >/var/tmp/1
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O=v1.7.7-289-gb73c683
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echo O=$(git describe --always master)
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git log --first-parent --oneline --reverse ^$O master
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echo
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git shortlog --no-merges ^$O master
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