From 34875f4a53b9e495622553a671776f66dc37eb2b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Junio C Hamano Date: Wed, 2 May 2012 14:11:36 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] The eighth batch of topics graduated to 'master' Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.txt | 74 ++++++++++++++++++------------- 1 file changed, 42 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.txt index 429f30497..9e50db35a 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.txt @@ -6,6 +6,13 @@ Updates since v1.7.10 UI, Workflows & Features + * A new mode for push, "simple", which is a cross between "current" + and "upstream", has been introduced. "git push" without any refspec + will push the current branch out to the same name at the remote + repository only when it is set to track the branch with the same + name over there. The plan is to make this mode the new default + value when push.default is not configured. + * A third-party tool "git subtree" is distributed in contrib/ * Error messages given when @{u} is used for a branch without its @@ -30,12 +37,18 @@ UI, Workflows & Features needed such treatment are now reported to the end user, so that the result in them can be eyeballed with extra care. + * The output from "diff/log --stat" used to always allocate 4 columns + to show the number of modified lines, but not anymore. + * The "fmt-merge-msg" command learns to list the primary contributors involved in the side topic you are merging. * The cases "git push" fails due to non-ff can be broken into three categories; each case is given a separate advise message. + * "git rebase" learned to optionally keep commits that do not + introduce any change in the original history. + * "git push --recurse-submodules" learned to optionally look into the histories of submodules bound to the superproject and push them out. @@ -53,9 +66,18 @@ Foreign Interface * "git svn" learned to use platform specific authentication providers, e.g. gnome-keyring, kwallet, etc. - * "git p4" has been moved out of contrib/ area. + * "git p4" has been moved out of contrib/ area and has seen more work + on importing labels as tags from (and exporting tags as labels to) + p4. -Performance +Performance and Internal Implementation (please report possible regressions) + + * An experimental "version 4" format of the index file has been + introduced to reduce on-disk footprint and I/O overhead. + + * The code to compute hash values for lines used by the internal diff + engine was optimized on little-endian machines, using the same + trick the kernel folks came up with. * "git apply" had some memory leaks plugged. @@ -68,8 +90,6 @@ Performance one-by-one. Now they are collected in the queue unordered first, and sorted immediately before getting used. -Internal Implementation (please report possible regressions) - * "git rev-parse --show-prefix" used to emit nothing when run at the top-level of the working tree, but now it gives a blank line. @@ -96,6 +116,24 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.7.10 in the maintenance releases are contained in this release (see release notes to them for details). + * When using a Perl script on a system where "perl" found on user's + $PATH could be ancient or otherwise broken, we allow builders to + specify the path to a good copy of Perl with $PERL_PATH. The + gitweb test forgot to use that Perl when running its test. + (merge 0754e08 jk/maint-gitweb-test-use-sane-perl later to maint). + + * A contrib script "rerere-train" did not work out of the box unless + user futzed with her $PATH. + (merge 53876fc jc/rerere-train later to maint). + + * "log --graph" was not very friendly with "--stat" option and its + output had line breaks at wrong places. + (merge bafa16e lp/diffstat-with-graph later to maint). + + * "git config --rename-section" to rename an existing section into a + bogus one did not check the new name. + (merge 94a35b1 jk/maint-config-bogus-section later to maint). + * The test scaffolding for git-daemon was flaky. (merge 46e3581 js/daemon-test-race-fix later to maint). @@ -136,31 +174,3 @@ details). * The "diff --no-index" codepath used limited-length buffers, risking pathnames getting truncated. Update it to use the strbuf API. (merge 875b91b jm/maint-strncpy-diff-no-index later to maint). - - * The parser in "fast-import" did not diagnose ":9" style references - that is not followed by required SP/LF as an error. - (merge 06454cb pw/fast-import-dataref-parsing later to maint). - - * When "git fetch" encounters repositories with too many references, - the command line of "fetch-pack" that is run by a helper - e.g. remote-curl, may fail to hold all of them. Now such an - internal invocation can feed the references through the standard - input of "fetch-pack". - (merge 7103d25 it/fetch-pack-many-refs later to maint). - - * "git fetch" that recurses into submodules on demand did not check - if it needs to go into submodules when non branches (most notably, - tags) are fetched. - (merge a6801ad jl/maint-submodule-recurse-fetch later to maint). - - * "git blame" started missing quite a few changes from the origin - since we stopped using the diff minimalization by default in v1.7.2 - era. - (merge 059a500 jc/maint-blame-minimal later to maint). - - * "log -p --graph" used with "--stat" had a few formatting error. - (merge e2c5966 lp/maint-diff-three-dash-with-graph later to maint). - - * Giving "--continue" to a conflicted "rebase -i" session skipped a - commit that only results in changes to submodules. - (merge a6754cd jk/rebase-i-submodule-conflict-only later to maint). -- 2.26.2