From: Junio C Hamano Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 17:41:33 +0000 (-0700) Subject: Update 1.7.6 draft release notes X-Git-Tag: v1.7.6-rc0~22 X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=665b051b904fc451088d74dd37dc314f7099faba;p=git.git Update 1.7.6 draft release notes Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.6.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.6.txt index 3d5ff4d9b..7e1c7f177 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.6.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.6.txt @@ -6,7 +6,8 @@ Updates since v1.7.5 * Various git-svn updates. - * Updates the way content tags are handled in gitweb. + * Updates the way content tags are handled in gitweb. Also adds + a UI to choose common timezone for displaying the dates. * Similar to branch names, tagnames that begin with "-" are now disallowed. @@ -16,6 +17,15 @@ Updates since v1.7.5 * The scripting part of the codebase is getting prepared for i18n/l10n. + * Pushing and pulling from a repository with large number of refs that + point to identical commits are optimized by not listing the same commit + during the common ancestor negotiation exchange with the other side. + + * Adding a file larger than core.bigfilethreshold (defaults to 1/2 Gig) + using "git add" will send the contents straight to a packfile without + having to hold it and its compressed representation both at the same + time in memory. + * Processes spawned by "[alias] = !process" in the configuration can inspect GIT_PREFIX environment variable to learn where in the working tree the original command was invoked. @@ -66,6 +76,9 @@ Updates since v1.7.5 "--show-notes" option. Unlike "--show-notes", "--notes=" does not imply showing the default notes. + * They also learned a log.abbrevCommit configuration variable to augment + the --abbrev-commit command line option. + * "git ls-remote" learned "--exit-code" option to consider it a different kind of error when no remote ref to be shown. @@ -93,10 +106,6 @@ Updates since v1.7.5 still in a conflicted state during a merge, to avoid using information that is not final and possibly corrupt with conflict markers. - * Compressed tarball gitweb generates is made without the timestamp of - the tarball generation; snapshot from the same tree should result in - a same tarball. - Also contains various documentation updates and minor miscellaneous changes. @@ -107,45 +116,16 @@ Fixes since v1.7.5 Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes in 1.7.5.X maintenance track are included in this release. - * Setting $(prefix) in config.mak did not affect where etc/gitconfig - file is read from, even though passing it from the command line of - $(MAKE) did. - (merge kk/maint-prefix-in-config-mak later) - - * The bash completion scripts should correctly work using zsh's bash - completion emulation layer now. - (merge fc/completion-zsh later) - - * The logic to handle "&" (expand to UNIX username) in GECOS field - miscounted the length of the name it formatted. - (merge rg/copy-gecos-username later) - * The single-key mode of "git add -p" was easily fooled into thinking that it was told to add everthing ('a') when up-arrow was pressed by mistake. (merge tr/add-i-no-escape later) - * "git cherry-pick -s resolve" failed to cherry-pick a root commit. - (merge jk/cherry-pick-root-with-resolve later) - * "git config" used to choke with an insanely long line. (merge ef/maint-strbuf-init later) - * "git diff --word-diff" misbehaved when diff.suppress-blank-empty was - in effect. - (merge jm/maint-diff-words-with-sbe later) - - * "git log --stdin path" with an input that has additional pathspec - used to corrupt memory. - (merge jc/maint-pathspec-stdin-and-cmdline later) - - * "git send-pack" (hence "git push") over smalt-HTTP protocol could - deadlock when the client side pack-object died early. - (merge js/maint-send-pack-stateless-rpc-deadlock-fix later) - (merge jk/git-connection-deadlock-fix later) - --- exec >/var/tmp/1 echo O=$(git describe master) -O=v1.7.5.2-352-g4961210 +O=v1.7.5.3-365-g7eacc2b git shortlog --no-merges ^maint ^$O master