From: Junio C Hamano Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2010 05:23:13 +0000 (-0700) Subject: Merge branch 'nd/maint-fix-replace' X-Git-Tag: v1.7.3-rc0~6 X-Git-Url: https://www.git.lorimer.id.au/gitweb.git/diff_plain/f92d62ec4ead67109418483b65aaf158b7462121?hp=2e3400c0521e4997601916790b8b2a9ff588c6f3 Merge branch 'nd/maint-fix-replace' * nd/maint-fix-replace: parse_object: pass on the original sha1, not the replaced one --- diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes index 0636deea93..5e98806c6c 100644 --- a/.gitattributes +++ b/.gitattributes @@ -1,2 +1,3 @@ * whitespace=!indent,trail,space *.[ch] whitespace=indent,trail,space +*.sh whitespace=indent,trail,space diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore index ac02a580da..4cb14e0bae 100644 --- a/.gitignore +++ b/.gitignore @@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ /GIT-CFLAGS /GIT-GUI-VARS /GIT-VERSION-FILE +/bin-wrappers/ /git /git-add /git-add--interactive @@ -107,6 +108,11 @@ /git-relink /git-remote /git-remote-curl +/git-remote-http +/git-remote-https +/git-remote-ftp +/git-remote-ftps +/git-remote-testgit /git-repack /git-replace /git-repo-config @@ -150,18 +156,27 @@ /git-write-tree /git-core-*/?* /gitk-git/gitk-wish +/gitweb/GITWEB-BUILD-OPTIONS /gitweb/gitweb.cgi +/gitweb/static/gitweb.min.* /test-chmtime /test-ctype /test-date /test-delta /test-dump-cache-tree /test-genrandom +/test-index-version +/test-line-buffer /test-match-trees +/test-obj-pool /test-parse-options /test-path-utils +/test-run-command /test-sha1 /test-sigchain +/test-string-pool +/test-svn-fe +/test-treap /common-cmds.h *.tar.gz *.dsc @@ -170,6 +185,7 @@ *.exe *.[aos] *.py[co] +.depend/ *+ /config.mak /autom4te.cache diff --git a/.mailmap b/.mailmap index 975e6758ef..a8091eb5df 100644 --- a/.mailmap +++ b/.mailmap @@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ # same person appearing not to be so. # +Alex Bennée Alexander Gavrilov Aneesh Kumar K.V Brian M. Carlson @@ -15,6 +16,7 @@ Daniel Barkalow David D. Kilzer David Kågedal David S. Miller +Deskin Miller Dirk Süsserott Fredrik Kuivinen H. Peter Anvin @@ -36,6 +38,7 @@ Li Hong Lukas Sandström Martin Langhoff Michael Coleman +Michael J Gruber Michael W. Olson Michele Ballabio Nanako Shiraishi @@ -59,6 +62,7 @@ Uwe Kleine-König Uwe Kleine-König Uwe Kleine-König Ville Skyttä +Vitaly "_Vi" Shukela William Pursell YOSHIFUJI Hideaki anonymous diff --git a/COPYING b/COPYING index 6ff87c4664..536e55524d 100644 --- a/COPYING +++ b/COPYING @@ -22,8 +22,8 @@ GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 2, June 1991 - Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc. - 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA + Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc., + 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but changing it is not allowed. @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ software--to make sure the software is free for all its users. This General Public License applies to most of the Free Software Foundation's software and to any other program whose authors commit to using it. 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See the GNU General Public License for more details. - You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License - along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software - Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA - + You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along + with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., + 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA. Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail. @@ -357,5 +356,5 @@ necessary. Here is a sample; alter the names: This General Public License does not permit incorporating your program into proprietary programs. If your program is a subroutine library, you may consider it more useful to permit linking proprietary applications with the -library. If this is what you want to do, use the GNU Library General +library. If this is what you want to do, use the GNU Lesser General Public License instead of this License. diff --git a/Documentation/Makefile b/Documentation/Makefile index 4797b2dc35..e117bc4315 100644 --- a/Documentation/Makefile +++ b/Documentation/Makefile @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ MAN5_TXT=gitattributes.txt gitignore.txt gitmodules.txt githooks.txt \ gitrepository-layout.txt MAN7_TXT=gitcli.txt gittutorial.txt gittutorial-2.txt \ gitcvs-migration.txt gitcore-tutorial.txt gitglossary.txt \ - gitdiffcore.txt gitworkflows.txt + gitdiffcore.txt gitrevisions.txt gitworkflows.txt MAN_TXT = $(MAN1_TXT) $(MAN5_TXT) $(MAN7_TXT) MAN_XML=$(patsubst %.txt,%.xml,$(MAN_TXT)) @@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ install-pdf: pdf install-html: html '$(SHELL_PATH_SQ)' ./install-webdoc.sh $(DESTDIR)$(htmldir) -../GIT-VERSION-FILE: .FORCE-GIT-VERSION-FILE +../GIT-VERSION-FILE: FORCE $(QUIET_SUBDIR0)../ $(QUIET_SUBDIR1) GIT-VERSION-FILE -include ../GIT-VERSION-FILE @@ -264,7 +264,9 @@ manpage-base-url.xsl: manpage-base-url.xsl.in mv $@+ $@ user-manual.xml: user-manual.txt user-manual.conf - $(QUIET_ASCIIDOC)$(ASCIIDOC) $(ASCIIDOC_EXTRA) -b docbook -d book $< + $(QUIET_ASCIIDOC)$(RM) $@+ $@ && \ + $(ASCIIDOC) $(ASCIIDOC_EXTRA) -b docbook -d book -o $@+ $< && \ + mv $@+ $@ technical/api-index.txt: technical/api-index-skel.txt \ technical/api-index.sh $(patsubst %,%.txt,$(API_DOCS)) @@ -277,8 +279,10 @@ $(patsubst %,%.html,$(API_DOCS) technical/api-index): %.html : %.txt XSLT = docbook.xsl XSLTOPTS = --xinclude --stringparam html.stylesheet docbook-xsl.css -user-manual.html: user-manual.xml - $(QUIET_XSLTPROC)xsltproc $(XSLTOPTS) -o $@ $(XSLT) $< +user-manual.html: user-manual.xml $(XSLT) + $(QUIET_XSLTPROC)$(RM) $@+ $@ && \ + xsltproc $(XSLTOPTS) -o $@+ $(XSLT) $< && \ + mv $@+ $@ git.info: user-manual.texi $(QUIET_MAKEINFO)$(MAKEINFO) --no-split -o $@ user-manual.texi @@ -337,4 +341,4 @@ quick-install-man: quick-install-html: '$(SHELL_PATH_SQ)' ./install-doc-quick.sh $(HTML_REF) $(DESTDIR)$(htmldir) -.PHONY: .FORCE-GIT-VERSION-FILE +.PHONY: FORCE diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.6.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.6.3.txt index 942611299d..f61dd3504a 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.6.3.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.6.3.txt @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ GIT v1.5.6.3 Release Notes Fixes since v1.5.6.2 -------------------- -* Setting core.sharerepository to traditional "true" value was supposed to make +* Setting core.sharedrepository to traditional "true" value was supposed to make the repository group writable but should not affect permission for others. However, since 1.5.6, it was broken to drop permission for others when umask is 022, making the repository unreadable by others. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.2.txt index 51b32f5d94..e1e24b3295 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.2.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.2.txt @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ Fixes since v1.6.0.1 * Many commands did not use the correct working tree location when used with GIT_WORK_TREE environment settings. -* Some systems needs to use compatibility fnmach and regex libraries +* Some systems need to use compatibility fnmatch and regex libraries independent from each other; the compat/ area has been reorganized to allow this. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.4.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.4.3.txt index 4f29babdeb..5643e6537d 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.4.3.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.4.3.txt @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Fixes since v1.6.4.2 been deprecated. * "git fetch" and "git clone" had an extra sanity check to verify the - presense of the corresponding *.pack file before downloading *.idx + presence of the corresponding *.pack file before downloading *.idx file by issuing a HEAD request. Github server however sometimes gave 500 (Internal server error) response to HEAD even if a GET request for *.pack file to the same URL would have succeeded, and broke diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.5.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.5.4.txt index e42f8b2397..d3a2a3e712 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.5.4.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.5.4.txt @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ Fixes since v1.6.5.3 future versions, but not in this release, * "git merge -m ..." added the standard merge message - on its own after user-supplied message, which should have overrided the + on its own after user-supplied message, which should have overridden the standard one. Other minor documentation updates are included. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.5.7.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.5.7.txt index 5b49ea53be..dc5302c21c 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.5.7.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.5.7.txt @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ Fixes since v1.6.5.6 an older version of git should just ignore them. Instead we diagnosed it as an error. -* With help.autocorrect set to non-zero value, the logic to guess typoes +* With help.autocorrect set to non-zero value, the logic to guess typos in the subcommand name misfired and ran a random nonsense command. * If a command is run with an absolute path as a pathspec inside a bare diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.6.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.6.txt index 04e205c457..c50b59c495 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.6.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.6.txt @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ or adjust to the new behaviour, on the day their sysadmin decides to install the new version of git. When we switched from "git-foo" to "git foo" in 1.6.0, even though the change had been advertised and the transition guide had been provided for a very long time, the users procrastinated -during the entire transtion period, and ended up panicking on the day +during the entire transition period, and ended up panicking on the day their sysadmins updated their git installation. We are trying to avoid repeating that unpleasantness in the 1.7.0 release. @@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ users will fare this time. * "git diff" traditionally treated various "ignore whitespace" options only as a way to filter the patch output. "git diff --exit-code -b" exited with non-zero status even if all changes were about changing the - ammount of whitespace and nothing else. and "git diff -b" showed the + amount of whitespace and nothing else. and "git diff -b" showed the "diff --git" header line for such a change without patch text. In 1.7.0, the "ignore whitespaces" will affect the semantics of the diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.0.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.0.1.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..8ff5bcada8 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.0.1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ +Git v1.7.0.1 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.0 +------------------ + + * In a freshly created repository "rev-parse HEAD^0" complained that + it is dangling symref, even though "rev-parse HEAD" didn't. + + * "git show :no-such-name" tried to access the index without bounds + check, leading to a potential segfault. + + * Message from "git cherry-pick" was harder to read and use than necessary + when it stopped due to conflicting changes. + + * We referred to ".git/refs/" throughout the documentation when we + meant to talk about abstract notion of "ref namespace". Because + people's repositories often have packed refs these days, this was + confusing. + + * "git diff --output=/path/that/cannot/be/written" did not correctly + error out. + + * "git grep -e -pattern-that-begin-with-dash paths..." could not be + spelled as "git grep -- -pattern-that-begin-with-dash paths..." which + would be a GNU way to use "--" as "end of options". + + * "git grep" compiled with threading support tried to access an + uninitialized mutex on boxes with a single CPU. + + * "git stash pop -q --index" failed because the unnecessary --index + option was propagated to "git stash drop" that is internally run at the + end. + +And other minor fixes and documentation updates. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.0.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.0.2.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..fcb46ca6a4 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.0.2.txt @@ -0,0 +1,40 @@ +Git v1.7.0.2 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.0.1 +-------------------- + + * GIT_PAGER was not honored consistently by some scripted Porcelains, most + notably "git am". + + * updating working tree files after telling git to add them to the + index and while it is still working created garbage object files in + the repository without diagnosing it as an error. + + * "git bisect -- pathspec..." did not diagnose an error condition properly when + the simplification with given pathspec made the history empty. + + * "git rev-list --cherry-pick A...B" now has an obvious optimization when the + histories haven't diverged (i.e. when one end is an ancestor of the other). + + * "git diff --quiet -w" did not work as expected. + + * "git fast-import" didn't work with a large input, as it lacked support + for producing the pack index in v2 format. + + * "git imap-send" didn't use CRLF line endings over the imap protocol + when storing its payload to the draft box, violating RFC 3501. + + * "git log --format='%w(x,y,z)%b'" and friends that rewrap message + has been optimized for utf-8 payload. + + * Error messages generated on the receiving end did not come back to "git + push". + + * "git status" in 1.7.0 lacked the optimization we used to have in 1.6.X series + to speed up scanning of large working tree. + + * "gitweb" did not diagnose parsing errors properly while reading tis configuration + file. + +And other minor fixes and documentation updates. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.0.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.0.3.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..3b355737c0 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.0.3.txt @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +Git v1.7.0.3 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.0.2 +-------------------- + + * Object files are created in a more ACL friendly way in repositories + where group permission is ACL controlled. + + * "git add -i" didn't handle a deleted path very well. + + * "git blame" padded line numbers with one extra SP when the total number + of lines was one less than multiple of ten due to an off-by-one error. + + * "git fetch --all/--multi" used to discard information for remotes that + are fetched earlier. + + * "git log --author=me --grep=it" tried to find commits that have "it" + or are written by "me", instead of the ones that have "it" _and_ are + written by "me". + + * "git log -g branch" misbehaved when there was no entries in the reflog + for the named branch. + + * "git mailinfo" (hence "git am") incorrectly removed initial indent from + paragraphs. + + * "git prune" and "git reflog" (hence "git gc" as well) didn't honor + an instruction never to expire by setting gc.reflogexpire to never. + + * "git push" misbehaved when branch..merge was configured without + matching branch..remote. + +And other minor fixes and documentation updates. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.0.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.0.4.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..cf7f60e60d --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.0.4.txt @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +Git v1.7.0.4 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.0.3 +-------------------- + + * Optimized ntohl/htonl on big-endian machines were broken. + + * Color values given to "color.." configuration can now have + more than one attributes (e.g. "bold ul"). + + * "git add -u nonexistent-path" did not complain. + + * "git apply --whitespace=fix" didn't work well when an early patch in + a patch series adds trailing blank lines and a later one depended on + such a block of blank lines at the end. + + * "git fast-export" didn't check error status and stop when marks file + cannot be opened. + + * "git format-patch --ignore-if-in-upstream" gave unwarranted errors + when the range was empty, instead of silently finishing. + + * "git remote prune" did not detect remote tracking refs that became + dangling correctly. + +And other minor fixes and documentation updates. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.0.5.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.0.5.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..3149c91b7b --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.0.5.txt @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +Git v1.7.0.5 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.0.4 +-------------------- + + * "git daemon" failed to compile on platforms without sockaddr_storage type. + + * Output from "git rev-list --pretty=oneline" was unparsable when a + commit did not have any message, which is abnormal but possible in a + repository converted from foreign scm. + + * "git stash show " gave an error message + that was not so useful. Reworded the message to " is not a + stash". + + * Python scripts in contrib/ area now start with "#!/usr/bin/env python" + to honor user's PATH. + + * "git imap-send" used to mistake any line that begins with "From " as a + message separator in format-patch output. + + * Smart http server backend failed to report an internal server error and + infinitely looped instead after output pipe was closed. + +And other minor fixes and documentation updates. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.0.6.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.0.6.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..b2852b67d0 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.0.6.txt @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +Git v1.7.0.6 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.0.5 +-------------------- + + * "git diff --stat" used "int" to count the size of differences, + which could result in overflowing. + + * "git rev-list --abbrev-commit" defaulted to 40-byte abbreviations, unlike + newer tools in the git toolset. + +And other minor fixes and documentation updates. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.0.7.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.0.7.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..d0cb7ca7e2 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.0.7.txt @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +Git v1.7.0.7 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.0.6 +-------------------- + + * "make NO_CURL=NoThanks install" was broken. + + * An overlong line after ".gitdir: " in a git file caused out of bounds + access to an array on the stack. + + * "git config --path conf.var" to attempt to expand a variable conf.var + that uses "~/" short-hand segfaulted when $HOME environment variable + was not set. + +And other minor fixes and documentation updates. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..0bb8c0b2a2 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,214 @@ +Git v1.7.0 Release Notes +======================== + +Notes on behaviour change +------------------------- + + * "git push" into a branch that is currently checked out (i.e. pointed at by + HEAD in a repository that is not bare) is refused by default. + + Similarly, "git push $there :$killed" to delete the branch $killed + in a remote repository $there, when $killed branch is the current + branch pointed at by its HEAD, will be refused by default. + + Setting the configuration variables receive.denyCurrentBranch and + receive.denyDeleteCurrent to 'ignore' in the receiving repository + can be used to override these safety features. + + * "git send-email" does not make deep threads by default when sending a + patch series with more than two messages. All messages will be sent + as a reply to the first message, i.e. cover letter. + + It has been possible already to configure send-email to send "shallow thread" + by setting sendemail.chainreplyto configuration variable to false. The + only thing this release does is to change the default when you haven't + configured that variable. + + * "git status" is not "git commit --dry-run" anymore. This change does + not affect you if you run the command without argument. + + * "git diff" traditionally treated various "ignore whitespace" options + only as a way to filter the patch output. "git diff --exit-code -b" + exited with non-zero status even if all changes were about changing the + amount of whitespace and nothing else; and "git diff -b" showed the + "diff --git" header line for such a change without patch text. + + In this release, the "ignore whitespaces" options affect the semantics + of the diff operation. A change that does not affect anything but + whitespaces is reported with zero exit status when run with + --exit-code, and there is no "diff --git" header for such a change. + + * External diff and textconv helpers are now executed using the shell. + This makes them consistent with other programs executed by git, and + allows you to pass command-line parameters to the helpers. Any helper + paths containing spaces or other metacharacters now need to be + shell-quoted. The affected helpers are GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF in the + environment, and diff.*.command and diff.*.textconv in the config + file. + + * The --max-pack-size argument to 'git repack', 'git pack-objects', and + 'git fast-import' was assuming the provided size to be expressed in MiB, + unlike the corresponding config variable and other similar options accepting + a size value. It is now expecting a size expressed in bytes, with a possible + unit suffix of 'k', 'm', or 'g'. + +Updates since v1.6.6 +-------------------- + +(subsystems) + + * "git fast-import" updates; adds "option" and "feature" to detect the + mismatch between fast-import and the frontends that produce the input + stream. + + * "git svn" support of subversion "merge tickets" and miscellaneous fixes. + + * "gitk" and "git gui" translation updates. + + * "gitweb" updates (code clean-up, load checking etc.) + +(portability) + + * Some more MSVC portability patches for msysgit port. + + * Minimum Pthreads emulation for msysgit port. + +(performance) + + * More performance improvement patches for msysgit port. + +(usability, bells and whistles) + + * More commands learned "--quiet" and "--[no-]progress" options. + + * Various commands given by the end user (e.g. diff.type.textconv, + and GIT_EDITOR) can be specified with command line arguments. E.g. it + is now possible to say "[diff "utf8doc"] textconv = nkf -w". + + * "sparse checkout" feature allows only part of the work tree to be + checked out. + + * HTTP transfer can use authentication scheme other than basic + (i.e./e.g. digest). + + * Switching from a version of superproject that used to have a submodule + to another version of superproject that no longer has it did not remove + the submodule directory when it should (namely, when you are not + interested in the submodule at all and didn't clone/checkout). + + * A new attribute conflict-marker-size can be used to change the size of + the conflict markers from the default 7; this is useful when tracked + contents (e.g. git-merge documentation) have strings that resemble the + conflict markers. + + * A new syntax "@{upstream}" can be used on the command line to + substitute the name of the "upstream" of the branch. Missing branch + defaults to the current branch, so "git fetch && git merge @{upstream}" + will be equivalent to "git pull". + + * "git am --resolved" has a synonym "git am --continue". + + * "git branch --set-upstream" can be used to update the (surprise!) upstream, + i.e. where the branch is supposed to pull and merge from (or rebase onto). + + * "git checkout A...B" is a way to detach HEAD at the merge base between + A and B. + + * "git checkout -m path" to reset the work tree file back into the + conflicted state works even when you already ran "git add path" and + resolved the conflicts. + + * "git commit --date=''" can be used to override the author date + just like "git commit --author=' '" can be used to + override the author identity. + + * "git commit --no-status" can be used to omit the listing of the index + and the work tree status in the editor used to prepare the log message. + + * "git commit" warns a bit more aggressively until you configure user.email, + whose default value almost always is not (and fundamentally cannot be) + what you want. + + * "git difftool" has been extended to make it easier to integrate it + with gitk. + + * "git fetch --all" can now be used in place of "git remote update". + + * "git grep" does not rely on external grep anymore. It can use more than + one thread to accelerate the operation. + + * "git grep" learned "--quiet" option. + + * "git log" and friends learned "--glob=heads/*" syntax that is a more + flexible way to complement "--branches/--tags/--remotes". + + * "git merge" learned to pass options specific to strategy-backends. E.g. + + - "git merge -Xsubtree=path/to/directory" can be used to tell the subtree + strategy how much to shift the trees explicitly. + + - "git merge -Xtheirs" can be used to auto-merge as much as possible, + while discarding your own changes and taking merged version in + conflicted regions. + + * "git push" learned "git push origin --delete branch", a syntactic sugar + for "git push origin :branch". + + * "git push" learned "git push --set-upstream origin forker:forkee" that + lets you configure your "forker" branch to later pull from "forkee" + branch at "origin". + + * "git rebase --onto A...B" means the history is replayed on top of the + merge base between A and B. + + * "git rebase -i" learned new action "fixup" that squashes the change + but does not affect existing log message. + + * "git rebase -i" also learned --autosquash option that is useful + together with the new "fixup" action. + + * "git remote" learned set-url subcommand that updates (surprise!) url + for an existing remote nickname. + + * "git rerere" learned "forget path" subcommand. Together with "git + checkout -m path" it will be useful when you recorded a wrong + resolution. + + * Use of "git reset --merge" has become easier when resetting away a + conflicted mess left in the work tree. + + * "git rerere" had rerere.autoupdate configuration but there was no way + to countermand it from the command line; --no-rerere-autoupdate option + given to "merge", "revert", etc. fixes this. + + * "git status" learned "-s(hort)" output format. + +(developers) + + * The infrastructure to build foreign SCM interface has been updated. + + * Many more commands are now built-in. + + * THREADED_DELTA_SEARCH is no more. If you build with threads, delta + compression will always take advantage of it. + +Fixes since v1.6.6 +------------------ + +All of the fixes in v1.6.6.X maintenance series are included in this +release, unless otherwise noted. + + * "git branch -d branch" used to refuse deleting the branch even when + the branch is fully merged to its upstream branch if it is not merged + to the current branch. It now deletes it in such a case. + + * "filter-branch" command incorrectly said --prune-empty and --filter-commit + were incompatible; the latter should be read as --commit-filter. + + * When using "git status" or asking "git diff" to compare the work tree + with something, they used to consider that a checked-out submodule with + uncommitted changes is not modified; this could cause people to forget + committing these changes in the submodule before committing in the + superproject. They now consider such a change as a modification and + "git diff" will append a "-dirty" to the work tree side when generating + patch output or when used with the --submodule option. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.1.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.1.1.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..3f6b3148a3 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.1.1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,96 @@ +Git v1.7.1.1 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.1 +------------------ + + * Authentication over http transport can now be made lazily, in that the + request can first go to a URL without username, get a 401 response and + then the client will ask for the username to use. + + * We used to mistakenly think "../work" is a subdirectory of the current + directory when we are in "../work-xyz". + + * The attribute mechanism now allows an entry that uses an attribute + macro that set/unset one attribute, immediately followed by an + overriding setting; this makes attribute macros much easier to use. + + * We didn't recognize timezone "Z" as a synonym for "UTC" (75b37e70). + + * In 1.7.0, read-tree and user commands that use the mechanism such as + checkout and merge were fixed to handle switching between branches one + of which has a file while the other has a directory at the same path + correctly even when there are some "confusing" pathnames in them. But + the algorithm used for this fix was suboptimal and had a terrible + performance degradation especially in larger trees. + + * "git am -3" did not show diagnosis when the patch in the message was corrupt. + + * After "git apply --whitespace=fix" removed trailing blank lines in an + patch in a patch series, it failed to apply later patches that depend + on the presence of such blank lines. + + * "git bundle --stdin" segfaulted. + + * "git checkout" and "git rebase" overwrote paths that are marked "assume + unchanged". + + * "git commit --amend" on a commit with an invalid author-name line that + lacks the display name didn't work. + + * "git describe" did not tie-break tags that point at the same commit + correctly; newer ones are preferred by paying attention to the + tagger date now. + + * "git diff" used to tell underlying xdiff machinery to work very hard to + minimize the output, but this often was spending too many extra cycles + for very little gain. + + * "git diff --color" did not paint extended diff headers per line + (i.e. the coloring escape sequence didn't end at the end of line), + which confused "less -R". + + * "git fetch" over HTTP verifies the downloaded packfiles more robustly. + + * The memory usage by "git index-pack" (run during "git fetch" and "git + push") got leaner. + + * "GIT_DIR=foo.git git init --bare bar.git" created foo.git instead of bar.git. + + * "git log --abbrev=$num --format='%h' ignored --abbrev=$num. + + * "git ls-files ../out/side/cwd" refused to work. + + * "git merge --log" used to replace the custom message given by "-m" with + the shortlog, instead of appending to it. + + * "git notes copy" without any other argument segfaulted. + + * "git pull" accepted "--dry-run", gave it to underlying "git fetch" but + ignored the option itself, resulting in a bogus attempt to merge + unrelated commit. + + * "git rebase" did not faithfully reproduce a malformed author ident, that + is often seen in a repository converted from foreign SCMs. + + * "git reset --hard" started from a wrong directory and a working tree in + a nonstandard location is in use got confused. + + * "git send-email" lacked a way to specify the domainname used in the + EHLO/HELO exchange, causing rejected connection from picky servers. + It learned --smtp-domain option to solve this issue. + + * "git send-email" did not declare a content-transfer-encoding and + content-type even when its payload needs to be sent in 8-bit. + + * "git show -C -C" and other corner cases lost diff metainfo output + in 1.7.0. + + * "git stash" incorrectly lost paths in the working tree that were + previously removed from the index. + + * "git status" stopped refreshing the index by mistake in 1.7.1. + + * "git status" showed excess "hints" even when advice.statusHints is set to false. + +And other minor fixes and documentation updates. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.1.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.1.2.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..61ba14e262 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.1.2.txt @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +Git v1.7.1.2 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.1.1 +-------------------- + + * "git commit" did not honor GIT_REFLOG_ACTION environment variable, resulting + reflog messages for cherry-pick and revert actions to be recorded as "commit". + + * "git clone/fetch/pull" issued an incorrect error message when a ref and + a symref that points to the ref were updated at the same time. This + obviously would update them to the same value, and should not result in + an error condition. + + * "git diff" inside a tree with many pathnames that have certain + characters has become very slow in 1.7.0 by mistake. + + * "git rev-parse --parseopt --stop-at-non-option" did not stop at non option + when --keep-dashdash was in effect. + + * An overlong line after ".gitdir: " in a git file caused out of bounds + access to an array on the stack. + + * "git config --path conf.var" to attempt to expand a variable conf.var + that uses "~/" short-hand segfaulted when $HOME environment variable + was not set. + +And other minor fixes and documentation updates. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.1.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..9d89fedb36 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,89 @@ +Git v1.7.1 Release Notes +======================== + +Updates since v1.7.0 +-------------------- + + * Eric Raymond is the maintainer of updated CIAbot scripts, in contrib/. + + * gitk updates. + + * Some commands (e.g. svn and http interfaces) that interactively ask + for a password can be told to use an external program given via + GIT_ASKPASS. + + * Conflict markers that lead the common ancestor in diff3-style output + now have a label, which hopefully would help third-party tools that + expect one. + + * Comes with an updated bash-completion script. + + * "git am" learned "--keep-cr" option to handle inputs that are + a mixture of changes to files with and without CRLF line endings. + + * "git cvsimport" learned -R option to leave revision mapping between + CVS revisions and resulting git commits. + + * "git diff --submodule" notices and describes dirty submodules. + + * "git for-each-ref" learned %(symref), %(symref:short) and %(flag) + tokens. + + * "git hash-object --stdin-paths" can take "--no-filters" option now. + + * "git init" can be told to look at init.templatedir configuration + variable (obviously that has to come from either /etc/gitconfig or + $HOME/.gitconfig). + + * "git grep" learned "--no-index" option, to search inside contents that + are not managed by git. + + * "git grep" learned --color=auto/always/never. + + * "git grep" learned to paint filename and line-number in colors. + + * "git log -p --first-parent -m" shows one-parent diff for merge + commits, instead of showing combined diff. + + * "git merge-file" learned to use custom conflict marker size and also + to use the "union merge" behaviour. + + * "git notes" command has been rewritten in C and learned many commands + and features to help you carry notes forward across rebases and amends. + + * "git request-pull" identifies the commit the request is relative to in + a more readable way. + + * "git reset" learned "--keep" option that lets you discard commits + near the tip while preserving your local changes in a way similar + to how "git checkout branch" does. + + * "git status" notices and describes dirty submodules. + + * "git svn" should work better when interacting with repositories + with CRLF line endings. + + * "git imap-send" learned to support CRAM-MD5 authentication. + + * "gitweb" installation procedure can use "minified" js/css files + better. + + * Various documentation updates. + +Fixes since v1.7.0 +------------------ + +All of the fixes in v1.7.0.X maintenance series are included in this +release, unless otherwise noted. + + * "git add frotz/nitfol" did not complain when the entire frotz/ directory + was ignored. + + * "git diff --stat" used "int" to count the size of differences, + which could result in overflowing. + + * "git rev-list --pretty=oneline" didn't terminate a record with LF for + commits without any message. + + * "git rev-list --abbrev-commit" defaulted to 40-byte abbreviations, unlike + newer tools in the git toolset. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.2.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.2.1.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..1103c47a4f --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.2.1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +Git v1.7.2.1 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.2 +------------------ + + * "git instaweb" wasn't useful when your Apache was installed under a + name other than apache2 (e.g. "httpd"). + + * Similarly, "git web--browse" (invoked by "git help -w") learned that + chrome browser is sometimes called google-chrome. + + * An overlong line after ".gitdir: " in a git file caused out of bounds + access to an array on the stack. + + * "git config --path conf.var" to attempt to expand a variable conf.var + that uses "~/" short-hand segfaulted when $HOME environment variable + was not set. + + * Documentation on Cygwin failed to build. + + * The error message from "git pull blarg" when 'blarg' is an unknown + remote name has been improved. + +And other minor fixes and documentation updates. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.2.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.2.2.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..71eb6a8b0a --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.2.2.txt @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +Git v1.7.2.2 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.2.1 +-------------------- + + * Object transfer over smart http transport deadlocked the client when + the remote HTTP server returned a failure, instead of erroring it out. + + * git-gui honors custom textconv filters when showing diff and blame; + + * git diff --relative=subdir (without the necessary trailing /) did not + work well; + + * "git diff-files -p --submodule" was recently broken; + + * "git checkout -b n ':/token'" did not work; + + * "git index-pack" (hence "git fetch/clone/pull/push") enabled the object + replacement machinery by mistake (it never should have); + +And other minor fixes and documentation updates. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.2.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.2.3.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..610960cfe1 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.2.3.txt @@ -0,0 +1,39 @@ +Git v1.7.2.3 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.2.2 +-------------------- + + * When people try insane things such as delta-compressing 4GiB files, we + threw an assertion failure. + + * "git archive" gave the full commit ID for "$Format:%h$". + + * "git fetch --tags" did not fetch tags when remote..tagopt was set + to --no-tags. The command line option now overrides the configuration + setting. + + * "git for-each-ref --format='%(objectname:short)'" has been completely + broken for a long time. + + * "git gc" incorrectly pruned a rerere record that was created long + time ago but still is actively and repeatedly used. + + * "git log --follow -M -p" was seriously broken in 1.7.2, reporting + assertion failure. + + * Running "git log" with an incorrect option started pager nevertheless, + forcing the user to dismiss it. + + * "git rebase" did not work well when the user has diff.renames + configuration variable set. + + * An earlier (and rather old) fix to "git rebase" against a rebased + upstream broke a more normal, non rebased upstream case rather badly, + attempting to re-apply patches that are already accepted upstream. + + * "git submodule sync" forgot to update the superproject's config file + when submodule URL changed. + + * "git pack-refs --all --prune" did not remove a directory that has + become empty. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.2.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..15cf01178c --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.2.txt @@ -0,0 +1,151 @@ +Git v1.7.2 Release Notes +======================== + +Updates since v1.7.1 +-------------------- + + * core.eol configuration and text/eol attributes are the new way to control + the end of line conventions for files in the working tree. + + * core.autocrlf has been made safer - it will now only handle line + endings for new files and files that are LF-only in the + repository. To normalize content that has been checked in with + CRLF, use the new eol/text attributes. + + * The whitespace rules used in "git apply --whitespace" and "git diff" + gained a new member in the family (tab-in-indent) to help projects with + policy to indent only with spaces. + + * When working from a subdirectory, by default, git does not look for its + metadirectory ".git" across filesystems, primarily to help people who + have invocations of git in their custom PS1 prompts, as being outside + of a git repository would look for ".git" all the way up to the root + directory, and NFS mounts are often slow. DISCOVERY_ACROSS_FILESYSTEM + environment variable can be used to tell git not to stop at a + filesystem boundary. + + * Usage help messages generated by parse-options library (i.e. most + of the Porcelain commands) are sent to the standard output now. + + * ':/' notation to look for a commit now takes regular expression + and it is not anchored at the beginning of the commit log message + anymore (this is a backward incompatible change). + + * "git" wrapper learned "-c name=value" option to override configuration + variable from the command line. + + * Improved portability for various platforms including older SunOS, + HP-UX 10/11, AIX, Tru64, etc. and platforms with Python 2.4. + + * The message from "git am -3" has been improved when conflict + resolution ended up making the patch a no-op. + + * "git blame" applies the textconv filter to the contents it works + on, when available. + + * "git checkout --orphan newbranch" is similar to "-b newbranch" but + prepares to create a root commit that is not connected to any existing + commit. + + * "git cherry-pick" learned to pick a range of commits + (e.g. "cherry-pick A..B" and "cherry-pick --stdin"), so did "git + revert"; these do not support the nicer sequencing control "rebase + [-i]" has, though. + + * "git cherry-pick" and "git revert" learned --strategy option to specify + the merge strategy to be used when performing three-way merges. + + * "git cvsserver" can be told to use pserver; its password file can be + stored outside the repository. + + * The output from the textconv filter used by "git diff" can be cached to + speed up their reuse. + + * "git diff --word-diff=" extends the existing "--color-words" + option, making it more useful in color-challenged environments. + + * The regexp to detect function headers used by "git diff" for PHP has + been enhanced for visibility modifiers (public, protected, etc.) to + better support PHP5. + + * "diff.noprefix" configuration variable can be used to implicitly + ask for "diff --no-prefix" behaviour. + + * "git for-each-ref" learned "%(objectname:short)" that gives the object + name abbreviated. + + * "git format-patch" learned --signature option and format.signature + configuration variable to customize the e-mail signature used in the + output. + + * Various options to "git grep" (e.g. --count, --name-only) work better + with binary files. + + * "git grep" learned "-Ovi" to open the files with hits in your editor. + + * "git help -w" learned "chrome" and "chromium" browsers. + + * "git log --decorate" shows commit decorations in various colours. + + * "git log --follow " follows across copies (it used to only follow + renames). This may make the processing more expensive. + + * "git log --pretty=format: