| 1 | Git v1.7.12 Release Notes
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| 2 | =========================
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| 3 |
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| 4 | Updates since v1.7.11
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| 5 | ---------------------
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| 6 |
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| 7 | UI, Workflows & Features
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| 8 |
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| 9 | * Git can be told to normalize pathnames it read from readdir(3) and
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| 10 | all arguments it got from the command line into precomposed UTF-8
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| 11 | (assuming that they come as decomposed UTF-8), in order to work
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| 12 | around issues on Mac OS.
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| 13 |
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| 14 | I think there still are other places that need conversion
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| 15 | (e.g. paths that are read from stdin for some commands), but this
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| 16 | should be a good first step in the right direction.
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| 17 |
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| 18 | * Per-user $HOME/.gitconfig file can optionally be stored in
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| 19 | $HOME/.config/git/config instead, which is in line with XDG.
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| 20 |
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| 21 | * The value of core.attributesfile and core.excludesfile default to
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| 22 | $HOME/.config/git/attributes and $HOME/.config/git/ignore respectively
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| 23 | when these files exist.
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| 24 |
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| 25 | * Logic to disambiguate abbreviated object names have been taught to
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| 26 | take advantage of object types that are expected in the context,
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| 27 | e.g. XXXXXX in the "git describe" output v1.2.3-gXXXXXX must be a
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| 28 | commit object, not a blob nor a tree. This will help us prolong
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| 29 | the lifetime of abbreviated object names.
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| 30 |
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| 31 | * "git apply" learned to wiggle the base version and perform three-way
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| 32 | merge when a patch does not exactly apply to the version you have.
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| 33 |
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| 34 | * Scripted Porcelain writers now have access to the credential API via
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| 35 | the "git credential" plumbing command.
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| 36 |
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| 37 | * "git help" used to always default to "man" format even on platforms
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| 38 | where "man" viewer is not widely available.
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| 39 |
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| 40 | * "git clone --local $path" started its life as an experiment to
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| 41 | optionally use link/copy when cloning a repository on the disk, but
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| 42 | we didn't deprecate it after we made the option a no-op to always
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| 43 | use the optimization. The command learned "--no-local" option to
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| 44 | turn this off, as a more explicit alternative over use of file://
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| 45 | URL.
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| 46 |
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| 47 | * "git fetch" and friends used to say "remote side hung up
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| 48 | unexpectedly" when they failed to get response they expect from the
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| 49 | other side, but one common reason why they don't get expected
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| 50 | response is that the remote repository does not exist or cannot be
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| 51 | read. The error message in this case was updated to give better
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| 52 | hints to the user.
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| 53 |
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| 54 | * "git help -w $cmd" can show HTML version of documentation for
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| 55 | "git-$cmd" by setting help.htmlpath to somewhere other than the
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| 56 | default location where the build procedure installs them locally;
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| 57 | the variable can even point at a http:// URL.
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| 58 |
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| 59 | * "git rebase [-i] --root $tip" can now be used to rewrite all the
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| 60 | history leading to "$tip" down to the root commit.
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| 61 |
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| 62 | * "git rebase -i" learned "-x <cmd>" to insert "exec <cmd>" after
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| 63 | each commit in the resulting history.
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| 64 |
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| 65 | * "git status" gives finer classification to various states of paths
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| 66 | in conflicted state and offer advice messages in its output.
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| 67 |
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| 68 | * "git submodule" learned to deal with nested submodule structure
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| 69 | where a module is contained within a module whose origin is
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| 70 | specified as a relative URL to its superproject's origin.
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| 71 |
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| 72 | * A rather heavy-ish "git completion" script has been split to create
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| 73 | a separate "git prompting" script, to help lazy-autoloading of the
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| 74 | completion part while making prompting part always available.
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| 75 |
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| 76 | * "gitweb" pays attention to various forms of credits that are
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| 77 | similar to "Signed-off-by:" lines in the commit objects and
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| 78 | highlights them accordingly.
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| 79 |
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| 80 |
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| 81 | Foreign Interface
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| 82 |
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| 83 | * "mediawiki" remote helper (in contrib/) learned to handle file
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| 84 | attachments.
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| 85 |
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| 86 | * "git p4" now uses "Jobs:" and "p4 move" when appropriate.
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| 87 |
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| 88 | * vcs-svn has been updated to clean-up compilation, lift 32-bit
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| 89 | limitations, etc.
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| 90 |
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| 91 |
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| 92 | Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. (please report possible regressions)
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| 93 |
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| 94 | * Some tests showed false failures caused by a bug in ecryptofs.
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| 95 |
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| 96 | * We no longer use AsciiDoc7 syntax in our documentation and favor a
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| 97 | more modern style.
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| 98 |
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| 99 | * "git am --rebasing" codepath was taught to grab authorship, log
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| 100 | message and the patch text directly out of existing commits. This
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| 101 | will help rebasing commits that have confusing "diff" output in
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| 102 | their log messages.
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| 103 |
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| 104 | * "git index-pack" and "git pack-objects" use streaming API to read
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| 105 | from the object store to avoid having to hold a large blob object
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| 106 | in-core while they are doing their thing.
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| 107 |
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| 108 | * Code to match paths with exclude patterns learned to avoid calling
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| 109 | fnmatch() by comparing fixed leading substring literally when
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| 110 | possible.
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| 111 |
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| 112 | * "git log -n 1 -- rarely-touched-path" was spending unnecessary
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| 113 | cycles after showing the first change to find the next one, only to
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| 114 | discard it.
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| 115 |
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| 116 | * "git svn" got a large-looking code reorganization at the last
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| 117 | minute before the code freeze.
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| 118 |
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| 119 |
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| 120 | Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.
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| 121 |
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| 122 |
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| 123 | Fixes since v1.7.11
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| 124 | -------------------
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| 125 |
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| 126 | Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.7.11 in the maintenance
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| 127 | releases are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
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| 128 | details).
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| 129 |
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| 130 | * "git submodule add" was confused when the superproject did not have
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| 131 | its repository in its usual place in the working tree and GIT_DIR
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| 132 | and GIT_WORK_TREE was used to access it.
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| 133 |
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| 134 | * "git commit --amend" let the user edit the log message and then died
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| 135 | when the human-readable committer name was given insufficiently by
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| 136 | getpwent(3).
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