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| 1 | +Git v1.7.11 Release Notes |
| 2 | +========================= |
| 3 | + |
| 4 | +Updates since v1.7.10 |
| 5 | +--------------------- |
| 6 | + |
| 7 | +UI, Workflows & Features |
| 8 | + |
| 9 | + * A third-party tool "git subtree" is distributed in contrib/ |
| 10 | + |
| 11 | + * Error messages given when @{u} is used for a branch without its |
| 12 | + upstream configured have been clatified. |
| 13 | + |
| 14 | + * Even with "-q"uiet option, "checkout" used to report setting up |
| 15 | + tracking. Also "branch" learned the "-q"uiet option to squelch |
| 16 | + informational message. |
| 17 | + |
| 18 | + * The smart-http backend used to always override GIT_COMMITTER_* |
| 19 | + variables with REMOTE_USER and REMOTE_ADDR, but these variables are |
| 20 | + now preserved when set. |
| 21 | + |
| 22 | + * "git am" learned the "--include" option, which is an opposite of |
| 23 | + existing the "--exclude" option. |
| 24 | + |
| 25 | + * When "git am -3" needs to fall back to an application to a |
| 26 | + synthesized preimage followed by a 3-way merge, the paths that |
| 27 | + needed such treatment are now reported to the end user, so that the |
| 28 | + result in them can be eyeballed with extra care. |
| 29 | + |
| 30 | + * The "fmt-merge-msg" command learns to list the primary contributors |
| 31 | + involved in the side topic you are merging. |
| 32 | + |
| 33 | + * The cases "git push" fails due to non-ff can be broken into three |
| 34 | + categories; each case is given a separate advise message. |
| 35 | + |
| 36 | + * "git push --recurse-submodules" learned to optionally look into the |
| 37 | + histories of submodules bound to the superproject and push them |
| 38 | + out. |
| 39 | + |
| 40 | + * A 'snapshot' request to "gitweb" honors If-Modified-Since: header, |
| 41 | + based on the commit date. |
| 42 | + |
| 43 | + * "gitweb" learned to highlight the patch it outputs even more. |
| 44 | + |
| 45 | +Foreign Interface |
| 46 | + |
| 47 | + * "git svn" used to die with unwanted SIGPIPE when talking with HTTP |
| 48 | + server that uses keep-alive. |
| 49 | + |
| 50 | + * "git p4" has been moved out of contrib/ area. |
| 51 | + |
| 52 | +Performance |
| 53 | + |
| 54 | + * "git apply" had some memory leaks plugged. |
| 55 | + |
| 56 | + * Setting up a revision traversal with many starting points was |
| 57 | + inefficient as these were placed in a date-order priority queue |
| 58 | + one-by-one. Now they are collected in the queue unordered first, |
| 59 | + and sorted immediately before getting used. |
| 60 | + |
| 61 | +Internal Implementation (please report possible regressions) |
| 62 | + |
| 63 | + * "git rev-parse --show-prefix" used to emit nothing when run at the |
| 64 | + top-level of the working tree, but now it gives a blank line. |
| 65 | + |
| 66 | + * Minor memory leak during unpack_trees (hence "merge" and "checkout" |
| 67 | + to check out another branch) has been plugged. |
| 68 | + |
| 69 | + * More lower-level commands learned to use the streaming API to read |
| 70 | + from the object store without keeping everything in core. |
| 71 | + |
| 72 | + * Because "sh" on the user's PATH may be utterly broken on some |
| 73 | + systems, run-command API now uses SHELL_PATH, not /bin/sh, when |
| 74 | + spawning an external command (not applicable to Windows port). |
| 75 | + |
| 76 | + * The API to iterate over refs/ hierarchy has been tweaked to allow |
| 77 | + walking only a subset of it more efficiently. |
| 78 | + |
| 79 | +Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups. |
| 80 | + |
| 81 | + |
| 82 | +Fixes since v1.7.10 |
| 83 | +------------------- |
| 84 | + |
| 85 | +Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.7.10 in the maintenance |
| 86 | +releases are contained in this release (see release notes to them for |
| 87 | +details). |
| 88 | + |
| 89 | + * Octopus merge strategy did not reduce heads that are recorded in the |
| 90 | + final commit correctly. |
| 91 | + (merge 5802f81 jc/merge-reduce-parents-early later to maint). |
| 92 | + |
| 93 | + * In the older days, the header "Conflicts:" in "cherry-pick" and |
| 94 | + "merge" was separated by a blank line from the list of paths that |
| 95 | + follow for readability, but when "merge" was rewritten in C, we lost |
| 96 | + it by mistake. Remove the newline from "cherry-pick" to make them |
| 97 | + match again. |
| 98 | + (merge 5112068 rt/cherry-revert-conflict-summary later to maint). |
| 99 | + |
| 100 | + * The filesystem boundary was not correctly reported when .git |
| 101 | + directory discovery stopped at a mount point. |
| 102 | + (merge 2565b43 cb/maint-report-mount-point-correctly-in-setup later to maint). |
| 103 | + |
| 104 | + * The command line parser choked "git cherry-pick $name" when $name |
| 105 | + can be both revision name and a pathname, even though $name can |
| 106 | + never be a path in the context of the command. |
| 107 | + (merge 6d5b93f cb/cherry-pick-rev-path-confusion later to maint). |
| 108 | + |
| 109 | + * HTTP transport that requires authentication did not work correctly |
| 110 | + when multiple connections are used simultaneously. |
| 111 | + (merge 6f4c347 cb/http-multi-curl-auth later to maint). |
| 112 | + |
| 113 | + * The i18n of error message "git stash save" was not properly done. |
| 114 | + (merge ed3c400 rl/maint-stash-i18n-save-error later to maint). |
| 115 | + |
| 116 | + * The report from "git fetch" said "new branch" even for a non branch |
| 117 | + ref. |
| 118 | + (merge 0997ada mb/fetch-call-a-non-branch-a-ref later to maint). |
| 119 | + |
| 120 | + * The "diff --no-index" codepath used limited-length buffers, risking |
| 121 | + pathnames getting truncated. Update it to use the strbuf API. |
| 122 | + (merge 875b91b jm/maint-strncpy-diff-no-index later to maint). |
| 123 | + |
| 124 | + * The parser in "fast-import" did not diagnose ":9" style references |
| 125 | + that is not followed by required SP/LF as an error. |
| 126 | + (merge 06454cb pw/fast-import-dataref-parsing later to maint). |
| 127 | + |
| 128 | + * When "git fetch" encounters repositories with too many references, |
| 129 | + the command line of "fetch-pack" that is run by a helper |
| 130 | + e.g. remote-curl, may fail to hold all of them. Now such an |
| 131 | + internal invocation can feed the references through the standard |
| 132 | + input of "fetch-pack". |
| 133 | + (merge 7103d25 it/fetch-pack-many-refs later to maint). |
| 134 | + |
| 135 | + * "git fetch" that recurses into submodules on demand did not check |
| 136 | + if it needs to go into submodules when non branches (most notably, |
| 137 | + tags) are fetched. |
| 138 | + (merge a6801ad jl/maint-submodule-recurse-fetch later to maint). |
| 139 | + |
| 140 | + * "git blame" started missing quite a few changes from the origin |
| 141 | + since we stopped using the diff minimalization by default in v1.7.2 |
| 142 | + era. |
| 143 | + (merge 059a500 jc/maint-blame-minimal later to maint). |
| 144 | + |
| 145 | + * "log -p --graph" used with "--stat" had a few formatting error. |
| 146 | + (merge e2c5966 lp/maint-diff-three-dash-with-graph later to maint). |
| 147 | + |
| 148 | + * Giving "--continue" to a conflicted "rebase -i" session skipped a |
| 149 | + commit that only results in changes to submodules. |
| 150 | + (merge a6754cd jk/rebase-i-submodule-conflict-only later to maint). |
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