From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: [ANNOUNCE] Git 1.7.9.rc1 Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 11:55:16 -0800 Message-ID: <7vpqenxtqz.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: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Jan 13 20:55:28 2012 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 1RlnDj-0004VV-Nu for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Jan 2012 20:55:28 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759019Ab2AMTzW convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:55:22 -0500 Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.35]:44678 "EHLO smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758977Ab2AMTzU convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:55:20 -0500 Received: from smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73F395EE5; Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:55:19 -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=SdhEVwLYO9bSoDKkkHjC9voSa Oo=; b=itP2cMnB4B/o8Gc+Ra0imdoNNnNwmVpKvAbS0Nkfuci2Q2sfj2nS+mNfD 08Ivy+1YAZ5Cps25JDdfFfhTzsr0Iy6whheWsBZYZLWqWTEKcY9gn9JI63cqSk16 F5FwkYo9ArSoIntQ24Y3R1kujlGVHlsZNfTBezkcqTMDRHzHkU= 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=BYbE594h7gnt1NuvYGE 9iwVazphDERlXItzfhoonTZpG3dRrUzKHTo7lv6VYGCNkTt2HuhZKAo0TilvJgvp fxKI40pK9t/demE1yEORFpaxVQ387XGD+HY6AnCz4f077KWOT+KtgmNhvXU4ulds B5yF22RA75yMzY1cY2PgfMK0= Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B4515EE4; Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:55:19 -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 B0D4C5EDF; Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:55:17 -0500 (EST) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 846996EE-3E20-11E1-B89B-9DB42E706CDE-77302942!b-pb-sasl-quonix.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 1.7.9.rc1 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: b97f10508f16b4117499cdfc4df9b19c725027d5 git-1.7.9.rc1.tar.gz 3064fc295a46440a91ca3f5fa622f5f1d40d3ba4 git-htmldocs-1.7.9.rc1.tar.gz 332e12061823d8def0fb823fa7798093bbe41279 git-manpages-1.7.9.rc1.tar.gz Also the following public repositories all have a copy of the v1.7.9.rc= 1 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-rc0 are as follows: Ben Walton (1): Use perl instead of sed for t8006-blame-textconv test Carlos Mart=C3=ADn Nieto (1): archive: re-allow HEAD:Documentation on a remote invocation Clemens Buchacher (1): credentials: unable to connect to cache daemon Jeff King (5): send-email: multiedit is a boolean config option attr: don't confuse prefixes with leading directories attr: drop misguided defensive coding attr: fix leak in free_attr_elem thin-pack: try harder to use preferred base objects as base Junio C Hamano (11): attr.c: make bootstrap_attr_stack() leave early attr.c: clarify the logic to pop attr_stack Documentation: rerere's rr-cache auto-creation and rerere.enabled Prepare for 1.7.6.6 Prepare for 1.7.7.6 Prepare for 1.7.8.4 request-pull: use the real fork point when preparing the message Update draft release notes to 1.7.6.6 Update draft release notes to 1.7.7.6 Update draft release notes to 1.7.8.4 Git 1.7.9-rc1 Matthieu Moy (1): gitweb: accept trailing "/" in $project_list Michael Haggerty (3): receive-pack: move more work into write_head_info() show_ref(): remove unused "flag" and "cb_data" arguments write_head_info(): handle "extra refs" locally Nguy=E1=BB=85n Th=C3=A1i Ng=E1=BB=8Dc Duy (1): t2203: fix wrong commit command Sebastian Schuberth (2): t9200: On MSYS, do not pass Windows-style paths to CVS git-cvsexportcommit: Fix calling Perl's rel2abs() on MSYS Thomas Rast (1): mailinfo documentation: accurately describe non -k case