Git v1.8.0 Release Notes ======================== Backward compatibility notes ---------------------------- In the next major release, we will change the behaviour of the "git push" command. When "git push [$there]" does not say what to push, we have used the traditional "matching" semantics (all your branches were sent to the remote as long as there already are branches of the same name over there). We will use the "simple" semantics, that pushes the current branch to the branch with the same name only when the current branch is set to integrate with that remote branch. There is a user preference configuration variable "push.default" to change this, and "git push" will warn about the upcoming change until you set this variable. Updates since v1.7.12 --------------------- UI, Workflows & Features * A credential helper for Win32 to allow access to the keychain of the logged-in user has been added. * "git cherry-pick" learned the "--allow-empty-message" option to allow it to replay a commit without any log message. * "git daemon" learned the "--access-hook" option to allow an external command to decline service based on the client address, repository path, etc. * "git difftool --dir-diff" learned to use symbolic links to prepare temporary copy of the working tree when available. * "git grep" learned to use a non-standard pattern type by default if a configuration variable tells it to. Foreign Interface * "git svn" has been updated to work with SVN 1.7. Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. (please report possible regressions) * The "check-docs" build target has been updated and greatly simplified. * The documentation in the TeXinfo format was using indented output for materials meant to be examples that are better typeset in monospace. * Compatibility wrapper to learn the maximum number of file descriptors we can open around sysconf(_SC_OPEN_MAX) and getrlimit(RLIMIT_NO_FILE) has been introduced for portability. * Compatibility wrapper around some mkdir(2) implementations that reject parameter with trailing slash has been introduced. Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups. Fixes since v1.7.12 ------------------- Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.7.12 in the maintenance track are contained in this release (see release notes to them for details). * The exit status code from "git config" was way overspecified while being incorrect. The implementation has been updated to give the documented status for a case that was documented, and introduce a new code for "all other errors". (merge 9409c7a jc/maint-config-exit-status later to maint). * "git foo" errored out with "Not a directory" when the user had a non-directory on $PATH, and worse yet it masked an alias "foo" from running. (merge a785508 jc/maint-sane-execvp-notdir later to maint). * The interactive prompt "git send-email" gives was error prone. It asked "What e-mail address do you want to use?" with the address it guessed (correctly) the user would want to use in its prompt, tempting the user to say "y". But the response was taken as "No, please use 'y' as the e-mail address instead", which is most certainly not what the user meant. (merge 51bbccf jc/send-email-reconfirm later to maint). * "git stash apply/pop" did not trigger "rerere" upon conflicts unlike other mergy operations. (merge 743bf6d ph/stash-rerere later to maint). * "git submodule update -f" did not update paths in the working tree that has local changes. (merge 01d4721 sz/submodule-force-update later to maint). * We used curl_easy_strerror() without checking version of cURL, breaking the build for versions before curl 7.12.0. (merge 4246b0b js/no-curl-easy-strerror-on-old-curl later to maint). * Code to work around MacOS X UTF-8 gotcha has been cleaned up. (merge 9a27f96 rr/precompose-utf8-cleanup later to maint). * Documentation for the configuration file format had a confusing example. (merge d1e1fe7 mh/maint-config-doc-proxy-command later to maint). * "git submodule path" did not error out when the path to the submodule was misspelt. (merge be9d0a3 hv/submodule-path-unmatch later to maint). * Some capabilities were asked by fetch-pack even when upload-pack did not advertise that they are available. fetch-pack has been fixed not to do so. * The reflog entries left by "git rebase" and "git rebase -i" were inconsistent (the interactive one gave an abbreviated object name). (merge 1af221e mg/rebase-i-onto-reflog-in-full later to maint). * When the user exports a non-default IFS without HT, scripts that rely on being able to parse "ls-files -s | while read a b c..." start to fail. Protect them from such a misconfiguration. (merge 785063e jc/maint-protect-sh-from-ifs later to maint). * "git prune" without "-v" used to warn about leftover temporary files (which is an indication of an earlier aborted operation). (merge 90b29cb bc/prune-info later to maint). * When "git push" triggered the automatic gc on the receiving end, a message from "git prune" that said it was removing cruft leaked to the standard output, breaking the communication protocol. (merge 4b7f2fa bc/receive-pack-stdout-protection later to maint). * "git diff" had a confusion between taking data from a path in the working tree and taking data from an object that happens to have name 0{40} recorded in a tree. (merge c479d14 jk/maint-null-in-trees later to maint). * The output from "git diff -B" for a file that ends with an incomplete line did not put "\ No newline..." on a line of its own. * "git send-email" did not unquote encoded words that appear on the header correctly, and lost "_" from strings. (merge b622d4d tr/maint-send-email-2047 later to maint). * When the user gives an argument that can be taken as both a revision name and a pathname without disambiguating with "--", we used to give a help message "Use '--' to separate". The message has been clarified to show where that '--' goes on the command line. (merge 4d4b573 mm/die-with-dashdash-help later to maint). * "gitweb" when used with PATH_INFO failed to notice directories with SP (and other characters that need URL-style quoting) in them. (merge cacfc09 js/gitweb-path-info-unquote later to maint).