From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: [ANNOUNCE] Git 1.7.5-rc3 Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 15:52:28 -0700 Message-ID: <7v1v0x4zwz.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Apr 20 00:52:42 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QCJmj-0000do-6V for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Apr 2011 00:52:41 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751999Ab1DSWwg convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Apr 2011 18:52:36 -0400 Received: from a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com ([64.74.157.62]:36569 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751856Ab1DSWwf convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Apr 2011 18:52:35 -0400 Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 514824BE3; Tue, 19 Apr 2011 18:54:35 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to :subject:date:message-id:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; s=sasl; bh=zJAhBhhH7Kzigv7wQ5QZnZrw3 9E=; b=Uu6XdNusbPbhfUc9JRPrEVKo9zrSq5zvjzd7BW8QMpolVAPv8ZpMZpRRs JW9z8Et2ExE3TmOwhsB4nL1rwHkNr1UkVRLQcf2UOSE4Gax300dvWpxCZkc9qMdZ s18xXdW9lSFyBObI2fMChkc/a5hwuArGONlBNtVlk9NzySfDeA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:subject :date:message-id:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=sasl; b=REmr3SYgRilMKG7qq9R AHMM/MYLWDC1/JAfkcGBDwCzjw+dV8PquklxGSKjKkWhfdP7ARYY6BEkJnhAUuPd aQbQkZi8mxGdNoe/rZmO19uwagzKb/shEpUuMAs4a8dnggKZ7BjzuWVNysPxvvOr tBFWfc+xHNcjqPbc7KfsTgp4= Received: from a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EA434BE2; Tue, 19 Apr 2011 18:54:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [76.102.170.102]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id F37244BE0; Tue, 19 Apr 2011 18:54:30 -0400 (EDT) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: FDD9181E-6AD7-11E0-8F71-E8AB60295C12-77302942!a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: A release candidate Git 1.7.5-rc3 is available at the usual places for testing: http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/ git-1.7.5.rc3.tar.{gz,bz2} (source tarball) git-htmldocs-1.7.5.rc3.tar.{gz,bz2} (preformatted docs) git-manpages-1.7.5.rc3.tar.{gz,bz2} (preformatted docs) The RPM binary packages for a few architectures are found in: testing/git-*-1.7.5.rc3-1.fc13.$arch.rpm (RPM) Git v1.7.5 Release Notes (draft) =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Updates since v1.7.4 -------------------- * Various MinGW portability fixes. * Various git-p4 enhancements (in contrib). * Various vcs-svn, git-svn and gitk enhancements and fixes. * Various git-gui updates (0.14.0). * Update to more modern HP-UX port. * The codebase is getting prepared for i18n/l10n; no translated strings nor translation mechanism in the code yet, but the strings are being marked for l10n. * The bash completion script can now complete symmetric difference for "git diff" command, e.g. "git diff ...bra". * The default minimum length of abbreviated and unique object names can now be configured by setting the core.abbrev configuration variable. * "git apply -v" reports offset lines when the patch does not apply at the exact location recorded in the diff output. * "git config" used to be also known as "git repo-config", but the old name is now officially deprecated. * "git checkout --detach " is a more user friendly synonym for "git checkout ^0". * "git checkout" performed on detached HEAD gives a warning and advice when the commit being left behind will become unreachable fro= m any branch or tag. * "git cherry-pick" and "git revert" can be told to use a custom merge strategy, similar to "git rebase". * "git cherry-pick" remembers which commit failed to apply when it is stopped by conflicts, making it unnecessary to use "commit -c $commi= t" to conclude it. * "git cvsimport" bails out immediately when the cvs server cannot be reached, without spewing unnecessary error messages that complain ab= out the server response it never got. * "git fetch" vs "git upload-pack" transfer learned 'no-done' protocol extension to save one round-trip after the content negotiation is done. This saves one HTTP RPC, reducing the overall latency for a trivial fetch. * "git fetch" can be told to recursively fetch submodules on-demand. * "git grep -f " learned to treat "-" as "read from the standard input stream". * "git grep --no-index" did not honor pathspecs correctly, returning paths outside the specified area. * "git init" learned the --separate-git-dir option to allow the git directory for a new repository created elsewhere and linked via the gitdir mechanism. This is primarily to help submodule support later to switch between a branch of superproject that has the submodule and another that does not. * "git log" type commands now understand globbing pathspecs. You can say "git log -- '*.txt'" for example. * "git log" family of commands learned --cherry and --cherry-mark options that can be used to view two diverged branches while omittin= g or highlighting equivalent changes that appear on both sides of a symmetric difference (e.g. "log --cherry A...B"). * A lazy "git merge" that didn't say what to merge used to be an error= =2E When run on a branch that has an upstream defined, however, the comm= and now merges from the configured upstream. * "git mergetool" learned how to drive "beyond compare 3" as well. * "git rerere forget" without pathspec used to forget all the saved conflicts that relate to the current merge; it now requires you to give it pathspecs. * "git rev-list --objects $revs -- $pathspec" now limits the objects l= isted in its output properly with the pathspec, in preparation for narrow clones. * "git push" with no parameters gives better advice messages when "tracking" is used as the push.default semantics or there is no remo= te configured yet. * A possible value to the "push.default" configuration variable, 'tracking', gained a synonym that more naturally describes what it does, 'upstream'. * "git rerere" learned a new subcommand "remaining" that is similar to "status" and lists the paths that had conflicts which are known to rerere, but excludes the paths that have already been marked as resolved in the index from its output. "git mergetool" has been updated to use this facility. Also contains various documentation updates. =46ixes since v1.7.4 ------------------ All of the fixes in the v1.7.4.X maintenance series are included in thi= s release, unless otherwise noted. * "git fetch" from a client that is mostly following the remote needlessly told all of its refs to the server for both sides to compute the set of objects that need to be transferred efficiently, instead of stopping when the server heard enough. In a project with many tags, this turns out to be extremely wasteful, especially over the smart HTTP transport (sp/maint-{upload,fetch}-pack-stop-early~1)= =2E * "git fetch" run from a repository that uses the same repository as its alternate object store as the repository it is fetching from did not tell the server that it already has access to objects reachable from the refs in their common alternate object store, causing it to fetch unnecessary objects (jc/maint-fetch-alt). * "git remote add --mirror" created a configuration that is suitable f= or doing both a mirror fetch and a mirror push at the same time, which made little sense. We now warn and require the command line to spec= ify either --mirror=3Dfetch or --mirror=3Dpush. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Changes since v1.7.5-rc2 are as follows: Junio C Hamano (3): Revert "run-command: prettify -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE workaround" Git 1.7.4.5 Git 1.7.5-rc3 Michael J Gruber (3): git.txt: fix list continuation t3306,t5304: avoid clock skew issues git-svn.txt: Document --mergeinfo Ren=C3=A9 Scharfe (1): archive: document limitation of tar.umask config setting