From: Junio C Hamano Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 19:21:47 +0000 (-0800) Subject: Start 1.8.1 cycle X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=5a90748f2856f587a948148a9b6fad50a43df57c;p=git.git Start 1.8.1 cycle Prepare the release notes for the upcoming release, and describe changes up to the 5th batch we just merged. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.1.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000..107e5f3d5 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,151 @@ +Git v1.8.1 Release Notes +======================== + +Backward compatibility notes +---------------------------- + +In the next major release (not *this* one), we will change the +behavior of the "git push" command. + +When "git push [$there]" does not say what to push, we have used the +traditional "matching" semantics so far (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 in this release. + +"git branch --set-upstream" is deprecated and may be removed in a +relatively distant future. "git branch [-u|--set-upstream-to]" has +been introduced with a saner order of arguments. + + +Updates since v1.8.0 +-------------------- + +UI, Workflows & Features + + * We used to have a workaround for a bug in ancient "less" that + causes it to exit without any output when the terminal is resized. + The bug has been fixed in "less" version 406 (June 2007), and the + workaround has been removed in this release. + + * A new configuration variable "diff.context" can be used to + give the default number of context lines in the patch output, to + override the hardcoded default of 3 lines. + + * "git format-patch" leraned the "--notes=" option to give + notes for the commit after the three-dash lines in its output. + + * "git log --grep=" learned to honor the "grep.patterntype" + configuration set to "perl". + + * "git rm $submodule" used to punt on removing a submodule working + tree to avoid losing the repository embedded in it. Because + recent git uses a mechanism to separate the submodule repository + from the submodule working tree, "git rm" learned to detect this + case and removes the submodule working tree when it is safe. + + * "git submodule add" learned to add a new submodule at the same + path as the path where an unrelated submodule was bound to in an + existing revision via the "--name" option. + + * "git submodule sync" learned the "--recursive" option. + + * "git symbolic-ref" learned the "-d $symref" option to delete the + named symbolic ref, which is more intuitive way to spell it than + "update-ref -d --no-deref". + + +Foreign Interface + + * "git cvsimport" can be told to record timezones (other than GMT) + per-author via its author info file. + + * The remote helper interface to interact with subversion + repositories (one of the GSoC 2012 projects) has been merged. + + +Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. + + * The logic to generate the initial advertisement from + "upload-pack" (what is invoked by "git fetch" on the other side + of the connection) to list what refs are available in the + repository has been optimized. + + * The logic to find set of attributes that match a given path has + been optimized. + + +Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups. + + +Fixes since v1.8.0 +------------------ + +Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.8.0 in the maintenance +track are contained in this release (see release notes to them for +details). + + * The configuration parser had an unnecessary hardcoded limit on + variable names that was not checked consistently. + (merge 0971e99 bw/config-lift-variable-name-length-limit later to maint). + + * The "say" function in the test scaffolding incorrectly allowed + "echo" to interpret "\a" as if it were a C-string asking for a + BEL output. + (merge 7bc0911 jc/test-say-color-avoid-echo-escape later to maint). + + * "git mergetool" feeds /dev/null as a common ancestor when dealing + with an add/add conflict, but p4merge backend cannot handle + it. Work it around by passing a temporary empty file. + (merge 3facc60 da/mergetools-p4 later to maint). + + * "git log -F -E --grep=''" failed to use the given + pattern as extended regular expression, and instead looked for the + string literally. + (merge 727b6fc jc/grep-pcre-loose-ends~1 later to maint). + + * "git grep -e pattern " asked the attribute system to read + ":.gitattributes" file in the working tree, which was + nonsense. + (merge 55c6168 nd/grep-true-path later to maint). + + * A symbolic ref refs/heads/SYM was not correctly removed with "git + branch -d SYM"; the command removed the ref pointed by SYM + instead. + (merge 13baa9f rs/branch-del-symref later to maint). + + * Update "remote tracking branch" in the documentation to + "remote-tracking branch". + (merge a6d3bde mm/maint-doc-remote-tracking later to maint). + + * "git pull --rebase" run while the HEAD is detached tried to find + the upstream branch of the detached HEAD (which by definition + does not exist) and emitted unnecessary error messages. + (merge e980765 ph/pull-rebase-detached later to maint). + + * The refs/replace hierarchy was not mentioned in the + repository-layout docs. + (merge 11fbe18 po/maint-refs-replace-docs later to maint). + + * Various rfc2047 quoting issues around a non-ASCII name on the + From: line in the output from format-patch has been corrected. + (merge 25dc8da js/format-2047 later to maint). + + * Sometimes curl_multi_timeout() function suggested a wrong timeout + value when there is no file descriptors to wait on and the http + transport ended up sleeping for minutes in select(2) system call. + A workaround has been added for this. + (merge 7202b81 sz/maint-curl-multi-timeout later to maint). + + * For a fetch refspec (or the result of applying wildcard on one), + we always want the RHS to map to something inside "refs/" + hierarchy, but the logic to check it was not exactly right. + (merge 5c08c1f jc/maint-fetch-tighten-refname-check later to maint). + + * "git diff -G" did not honor textconv filter when looking + for changes. + (merge b1c2f57 jk/maint-diff-grep-textconv later to maint). diff --git a/RelNotes b/RelNotes index 2484b38bb..28607146f 120000 --- a/RelNotes +++ b/RelNotes @@ -1 +1 @@ -Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.txt \ No newline at end of file +Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.1.txt \ No newline at end of file