From: Junio C Hamano Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 19:43:02 +0000 (-0800) Subject: Update draft release notes to 1.7.9 X-Git-Tag: v1.7.9-rc0~18 X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=5d6dfc7cb140a6eb90138334fab2245b69bc8bc4;p=git.git Update draft release notes to 1.7.9 Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.txt index 70ff06023..3ddd75be6 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.txt @@ -10,8 +10,10 @@ Updates since v1.7.8 * git-p4 (in contrib/) updates. - * i18n effort is going forward and Git uses localized messages if - available. + * Git uses gettext to translate its most common interface messages + into the user's language if translations are available and the + locale is appropriately set. Distributors can drop in new PO files + in po/ to add new translations. * Porcelain commands like "git reset" did not distinguish deletions and type-changes from ordinary modification, and reported them with @@ -23,9 +25,9 @@ Updates since v1.7.8 external programs to cache or store them, to allow integration with platform native keychain mechanisms. - * "git commit" and "git reset" re-learned the optimization to prime - the cache-tree information in the index, which makes it faster to - write a tree object out after the index entries are updated. + * The prompted input in the terminal use our own getpass() replacement + when possible. HTTP transactions used to ask username without echoing + back what was typed, but with this change you will see it as you type. * "git add" learned to stream large files directly into a packfile instead of writing them into individual loose object files. @@ -43,6 +45,13 @@ Updates since v1.7.8 user is amending the tree being recorded, without updating the commit log message. + * "git commit" and "git reset" re-learned the optimization to prime + the cache-tree information in the index, which makes it faster to + write a tree object out after the index entries are updated. + + * "git commit" detects and rejects an attempt to stuff NUL byte in + the commit log message. + * fsck and prune are relatively lengthy operations that still go silent while making the end-user wait. They learned to give progress output like other slow operations. @@ -50,6 +59,13 @@ Updates since v1.7.8 * The set of built-in function-header patterns for various languages knows MATLAB. + * "git log --follow" honors the rename threshold score given with the + -M option (e.g. "-M50%"). + + * "git log --format=''" learned new %g[nNeE] specifiers to + show information from the reflog entries when warlking the reflog + (i.e. with "-g"). + * "git pull" can be used to fetch and merge an annotated/signed tag, instead of the tip of a topic branch. The GPG signature from the signed tag is recorded in the resulting merge commit for later @@ -86,45 +102,34 @@ Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups. Fixes since v1.7.8 ------------------ - * The function header pattern for files with "diff=cpp" attribute did - not consider "type *funcname(type param1,..." as the beginning of a - function. - (merge 37e7793 tr/userdiff-c-returns-pointer later to maint). - * The replacement implemention for snprintf used on platforms with native snprintf that is broken did not use va_copy correctly. (merge a9bfbc5 jk/maint-snprintf-va-copy later to maint). - * LF-to-CRLF streaming filter used when checking out a large-ish blob - fell into an infinite loop with a rare input. - (merge 284e3d2 cn/maint-lf-to-crlf-filter later to maint). - * git native connection going over TCP (not over SSH) did not set SO_KEEPALIVE option which failed to receive link layer errors. (merge e47a858 ew/keepalive later to maint). - * "git archive" mistakenly allowed remote clients to ask for commits - that are not at the tip of any ref. - (merge 7b51c33 jk/maint-upload-archive later to maint). - - * "git apply --check" did not error out when given an empty input - without any patch. - (merge cc64b31 bc/maint-apply-check-no-patch later to maint). + * LF-to-CRLF streaming filter replaced all LF with CRLF, which might + be techinically correct but not friendly to people who are trying + to recover from earlier mistakes of using CRLF in the repository + data in the first place. It now refrains from doing so for LF that + follows a CR. + (merge 8496f56 jc/maint-lf-to-crlf-keep-crlf later to maint). * "git checkout -m" did not recreate the conflicted state in a "both sides added, without any common ancestor version" conflict situation. - (merge 335c6e4 jc/checkout-m-twoway later to maint). + (merge 5cd7fadc jc/checkout-m-twoway later to maint). * "git cherry-pick $commit" (not a range) created an unnecessary sequencer state and interfered with valid workflow to use the command during a session to cherry-pick multiple commits. (merge d596118 jn/maint-sequencer-fixes later to maint). - * The error message from "git diff" and "git status" when they fail - to inspect changes in submodules did not report which submodule they - had trouble with. - (merge 6a5ceda jl/submodule-status-failure-report later to maint). + * You could make "git commit" segfault by giving the "--no-message" + option. + (merge 03f94ae jk/maint-strbuf-missing-init later to maint). * "fast-import" did not correctly update an existing notes tree, possibly corrupting the fan-out. @@ -151,9 +156,16 @@ Fixes since v1.7.8 given. (merge a4ddbc3 jk/maint-push-over-dav later to maint). + * "git push" to an empty repository over HTTP were broken with a + recent change to the ref handling. + (merge 02f7914 jk/http-push-to-empty later to maint). + + * "git push -v" forgot how to be verbose by mistake. It now properly is. + (merge bd2c86e jk/maint-push-v-is-verbose later to maint). + -- exec >/var/tmp/1 -O=v1.7.8-351-g2dccad3 +O=v1.7.8.1-361-g1aea303 echo O=$(git describe master) git log --first-parent --oneline --reverse ^$O master echo