From 5ad3e16a6f075deff3cddd6d12ae89fafb0c718d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Junio C Hamano Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 10:45:42 -0700 Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Update draft release notes to 1.7.10.2 Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.2.txt | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.2.txt index 04fe29404c..55e960a54b 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.2.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.2.txt @@ -24,6 +24,9 @@ Fixes since v1.7.10.1 be both revision name and a pathname, even though $name can never be a path in the context of the command. + * The "include.path" facility in the configuration mechanism added in + 1.7.10 forgot to interpret "~/path" and "~user/path" as it should. + * "git config --rename-section" to rename an existing section into a bogus one did not check the new name. @@ -33,11 +36,33 @@ Fixes since v1.7.10.1 * The report from "git fetch" said "new branch" even for a non branch ref. + * The http-backend (the server side of the smart http transfer) used + to overwrite GIT_COMMITTER_NAME and GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL with the + value obtained from REMOTE_USER unconditionally, making it + impossible for the server side site-specific customization to use + different identity sources to affect the names logged. It now uses + REMOTE_USER only as a fallback value. + + * "log --graph" was not very friendly with "--stat" option and its + output had line breaks at wrong places. + * Octopus merge strategy did not reduce heads that are recorded in the final commit correctly. + * "git push" over smart-http lost progress output a few releases ago; + this release resurrects it. + + * The insn sheet given by "rebase -i" did not make it clear that the + insn lines can be re-ordered to affect the order of the commits in + the resulting history. + + * A contrib script "rerere-train" did not work out of the box unless + user futzed with her $PATH. + * The i18n of error message "git stash save" was not properly done. + * "git submodule" used a sed script that some platforms mishandled. + * 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 From b7fbce05e530a5c7d6bcbadcb3a53aca815d5cc5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Junio C Hamano Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 11:04:31 -0700 Subject: [PATCH 2/2] The tenth batch of topics Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.txt | 38 +++++++++++++++++++------------ 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.txt index 8dfeddcd68..37f374bf1d 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.txt @@ -25,13 +25,15 @@ UI, Workflows & Features tracking. Also "branch" learned the "-q"uiet option to squelch informational message. + * Your build platform may support hardlinks but you may prefer not to + use them, e.g. when installing to DESTDIR to make a tarball and + untarring on a filesystem that has poor support for hardlinks. + There is a Makefile option NO_INSTALL_HARDLINKS for you. + * The smart-http backend used to always override GIT_COMMITTER_* variables with REMOTE_USER and REMOTE_ADDR, but these variables are now preserved when set. - * "include.path" mechanism of the configuration files learned to - understand "~/path" and "~user/path". - * "git am" learned the "--include" option, which is an opposite of existing the "--exclude" option. @@ -83,6 +85,9 @@ 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. + * "git archive" learned to produce its output without reading the + blob object it writes out in memory in its entirety. + * 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. @@ -124,6 +129,22 @@ 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 checking out another commit from an already detached state, we + used to report all commits that are not reachable from any of the + refs as lossage, but some of them might be reachable from the new + HEAD, and there is no need to warn about them. + (merge 5d88639 js/checkout-detach-count later to maint). + + * Some time ago, "git clone" lost the progress output for its + "checkout" phase; when run without any "--quiet" option, it should + give progress to the lengthy operation. + (merge 8f63da1 ef/maint-clone-progress-fix later to maint). + + * "git status --porcelain" ignored "--branch" option by mistake. The + output for "git status --branch -z" was also incorrect and did not + terminate the record for the current branch name with NUL as asked. + (merge d4a6bf1 jk/maint-status-porcelain-z-b later to maint). + * "git diff --stat" used to fully count a binary file with modified execution bits whose contents is unmodified, which was not quite right. @@ -132,14 +153,3 @@ details). NUL. The fix is not entirely correct when the output also asks for --patch and/or --stat, though. (merge fafd382 jk/maint-tformat-with-z later to maint). - - * "git push" over smart-http lost progress output a few releases ago. - (merge e304aeb jk/maint-push-progress 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).