From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: [ANNOUNCE] Git 1.7.9.rc2 Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:16:36 -0800 Message-ID: <7vpqegjxu3.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Linux Kernel To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jan 19 02:16:50 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: glk-linux-kernel-3@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RngcT-0003IO-9O for glk-linux-kernel-3@lo.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Jan 2012 02:16:49 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755293Ab2ASBQk convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jan 2012 20:16:40 -0500 Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.35]:55319 "EHLO smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752193Ab2ASBQi convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jan 2012 20:16:38 -0500 Received: from smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FC1565C5; Wed, 18 Jan 2012 20:16:38 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to :subject:cc:date:message-id:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; s=sasl; bh=a0ieGZZPhFn4UYZ6xUxinMNwn s0=; b=HLFl5IaiuCsYTJ3atVqHLhlRiR9X4ivfrCvd2R3b5YsmldA0l5lRaKKGA Dp1KBegGCpZYViteeMdkLIw9aURyB+u/R6jwxGvIXNSjJhdpuef38qrEl5VZxzN8 WF9DR85ofN0e1SMwuoa0wy49749C+6tEC1OxNF2/zObBiuoiZk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:subject :cc:date:message-id:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=sasl; b=FtgJE0ZeLz8Gi64xu+Q ZOwSRSaMmyN7wrYNnEWrrzdQJaLJvEVgjsE44cPUnEStFYh5j4+g+MmRyB7tOtd4 plyd+izfJJ1ymnDvhSYNM0xPQAzToGKOh2/JztV7zlEBTeT2ibe3hpyJDCEzYhXx LMeuaBnWmimG0PuuDGux5BjA= Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27CA965C4; Wed, 18 Jan 2012 20:16:38 -0500 (EST) 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 b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 78AC665C0; Wed, 18 Jan 2012 20:16:37 -0500 (EST) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 3C0153DC-423B-11E1-9DC5-9DB42E706CDE-77302942!b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: A release candidate Git 1.7.9.rc2 is available for testing. The release tarballs are found at: http://code.google.com/p/git-core/downloads/list and their SHA-1 checksums are: 4eeaaf8a73006f797e6c23455097684664bf256e git-1.7.9.rc2.tar.gz 22aad76c146abe04e8f9bd89b2fbf4b575f434ce git-htmldocs-1.7.9.rc2.tar.gz 8565f64f6227fcfba3f768dabdcd9d6037f08842 git-manpages-1.7.9.rc2.tar.gz Also the following public repositories all have a copy of the v1.7.9.rc= 2 tag and the master branch that the tag points at: url =3D git://repo.or.cz/alt-git.git url =3D https://code.google.com/p/git-core/ url =3D git://git.sourceforge.jp/gitroot/git-core/git.git url =3D git://git-core.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/git-core/git-core url =3D https://github.com/gitster/git Git v1.7.9 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 v1.7.8 -------------------- * gitk updates accumulated since early 2011. * git-gui updated to 0.16.0. * git-p4 (in contrib/) updates. * Git uses gettext to translate its most common interface messages into the user's language if translations are available and the locale is appropriately set. Distributors can drop in new PO files in po/ to add new translations. * The code to handle username/password for HTTP transaction used in "git push" & "git fetch" learned to talk "credential API" to external programs to cache or store them, to allow integration with platform native keychain mechanisms. * The prompted input in the terminal use our own getpass() replacement when possible. HTTP transactions used to ask username without echoin= g back what was typed, but with this change you will see it as you typ= e. * The internal of "revert/cherry-pick" has been tweaked to prepare building more generic "sequencer" on top of the implementation that drives them. * "git rev-parse FETCH_HEAD" after "git fetch" without specifying what to fetch from the command line will now show the commit that would be merged if the command were "git pull". * "git add" learned to stream large files directly into a packfile instead of writing them into individual loose object files. * "git checkout -B " is a more intuitive way to spell "git reset --keep ". * "git checkout" and "git merge" learned "--no-overwrite-ignore" optio= n to tell Git that untracked and ignored files are not expendable. * "git commit --amend" learned "--no-edit" option to say that the user is amending the tree being recorded, without updating the commit log message. * "git commit" and "git reset" re-learned the optimization to prime the cache-tree information in the index, which makes it faster to write a tree object out after the index entries are updated. * "git commit" detects and rejects an attempt to stuff NUL byte in the commit log message. * "git commit" learned "-S" to GPG-sign the commit; this can be shown with the "--show-signature" option to "git log". * fsck and prune are relatively lengthy operations that still go silent while making the end-user wait. They learned to give progress output like other slow operations. * The set of built-in function-header patterns for various languages knows MATLAB. * "git log --format=3D''" learned new %g[nNeE] specifiers to show information from the reflog entries when warlking the reflog (i.e. with "-g"). * "git pull" can be used to fetch and merge an annotated/signed tag, instead of the tip of a topic branch. The GPG signature from the signed tag is recorded in the resulting merge commit for later auditing. * "git log" learned "--show-signature" option to show the signed tag that was merged that is embedded in the merge commit. It also can show the signature made on the commit with "git commit -S". * "git branch --edit-description" can be used to add descriptive text to explain what a topic branch is about. * "git fmt-merge-msg" learned to take the branch description into account when preparing a merge summary that "git merge" records when merging a local branch. * "git request-pull" has been updated to convey more information useful for integrators to decide if a topic is worth merging and what is pulled is indeed what the requestor asked to pull, including: - the tip of the branch being requested to be merged; - the branch description describing what the topic is about; - the contents of the annotated tag, when requesting to pull a tag. * "git pull" learned to notice 'pull.rebase' configuration variable, which serves as a global fallback for setting 'branch..rebase' configuration variable per branch. * "git tag" learned "--cleanup" option to control how the whitespaces and empty lines in tag message are cleaned up. * "gitweb" learned to show side-by-side diff. Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups. =46ixes since v1.7.8 ------------------ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.7.8 in the maintenance releases are contained in this release (see release notes to them for details). ---------------------------------------------------------------- Changes since v1.7.9-rc1 are as follows: Jakub Narebski (2): gitweb: Fix file links in "grep" search gitweb: Harden "grep" search against filenames with ':' Jeff King (3): unix-socket: handle long socket pathnames credential-cache: report more daemon connection errors credential-cache: ignore "connection refused" errors Jonathan Nieder (1): unix-socket: do not let close() or chdir() clobber errno during c= leanup Junio C Hamano (4): pulling signed tag: add howto document Git 1.7.7.6 Git 1.7.8.4 Git 1.7.9-rc2 Michael Haggerty (2): git-show-ref: fix escaping in asciidoc source git-show-ref doc: typeset regexp in fixed width font Nguy=E1=BB=85n Th=C3=A1i Ng=E1=BB=8Dc Duy (3): Document limited recursion pathspec matching with wildcards diff-index: enable recursive pathspec matching in unpack_trees diff-index: enable recursive pathspec matching in unpack_trees Thomas Rast (1): word-diff: ignore '\ No newline at eof' marker