A release candidate Git 1.7.9-rc0 is available for testing. This is
supposed to be almost feature-complete for the final release.
The release tarballs are found at:
http://code.google.com/p/git-core/downloads/list
and their SHA-1 checksums are:
c4a04c92ce9a501ba11cfd0032b1f8371aa6536e git-1.7.9.rc0.tar.gz
60593473ab1111e1bf5af5e491e370ff6a9e9e10 git-htmldocs-1.7.9.rc0.tar.gz
834eff04341ef5bf475654c7a9588d29ae15937c git-manpages-1.7.9.rc0.tar.gz
Also the following public repositories all have a copy of the v1.7.9-rc0
tag and the master branch that the tag points at:
url = git://repo.or.cz/alt-git.git
url = https://code.google.com/p/git-core/
url = git://git.sourceforge.jp/gitroot/git-core/git.git
url = git://git-core.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/git-core/git-core
url = https://github.com/gitster/git
Git v1.7.9 Release Notes (draft)
========================
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 echoing
back what was typed, but with this change you will see it as you type.
* The internal of "revert/cherry-pick" has been tweaked to prepare
building more generic "sequencer" on top of the implementation that
drives them.
* "git add" learned to stream large files directly into a packfile
instead of writing them into individual loose object files.
* "git checkout -B <current branch> <elsewhere>" is a more intuitive
way to spell "git reset --keep <elsewhere>".
* "git checkout" and "git merge" learned "--no-overwrite-ignore" option
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='<format>'" 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.<name>.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.
Fixes 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).
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Changes since v1.7.8 are as follows:
Anders Kaseorg (2):
gitk: Remove unused $cdate array
gitk: Remember time zones from author and commit timestamps
Andrew Wong (1):
rebase -i: interrupt rebase when "commit --amend" failed during "reword"
Bert Wesarg (14):
git-gui: fix multi selected file operation
git-gui: handle config booleans without value
git-gui: add smart case search mode in searchbar
git-gui: add regexp search mode to the searchbar
git-gui: add search history to searchbar
git-gui: fix unintended line break in message string
git-gui: use "untracked" for files which are not known to git
git-gui: new config to control staging of untracked files
git-gui: fix display of path in browser title
git-gui: use a tristate to control the case mode in the searchbar
git-gui: span widgets over the full file output area in the blame view
git-gui: include the file path in guitools confirmation dialog
git-gui: make config gui.warndetachedcommit a boolean
git-gui: don't warn for detached head when rebasing
Brandon Casey (2):
t/t4131-apply-fake-ancestor.sh: fix broken test
builtin/apply.c: report error on failure to recognize input
Brian Harring (1):
fix hang in git fetch if pointed at a 0 length bundle
Carlos Martín Nieto (2):
convert: track state in LF-to-CRLF filter
clone: the -o option has nothing to do with <branch>
Clemens Buchacher (2):
Documentation: read-tree --prefix works with existing subtrees
t5550: repack everything into one file
Conrad Irwin (1):
Update documentation for stripspace
Dejan Ribič (1):
git-gui: fix spelling error in sshkey.tcl
Eric Wong (1):
enable SO_KEEPALIVE for connected TCP sockets
Erik Faye-Lund (3):
mingw: give waitpid the correct signature
compat/setenv.c: update errno when erroring out
compat/setenv.c: error if name contains '='
Gary Gibbons (5):
git-p4: ensure submit clientPath exists before chdir
git-p4: use absolute directory for PWD env var
git-p4: fix test for unsupported P4 Client Views
git-p4: sort client views by reverse View number
git-p4: support single file p4 client view maps
Gustaf Hendeby (1):
Add built-in diff patterns for MATLAB code
Jack Nagel (2):
Documentation: fix formatting error in merge-options.txt
Add MYMETA.json to perl/.gitignore
Jakub Narebski (7):
gitweb: Refactor diff body line classification
gitweb: Extract formatting of diff chunk header
gitweb: Give side-by-side diff extra CSS styling
t9500: Add test for handling incomplete lines in diff by gitweb
t9500: Add basic sanity tests for side-by-side diff in gitweb
gitweb: Use href(-replay=>1,...) for formats links in "commitdiff"
gitweb: Fix fallback mode of to_utf8 subroutine
Jeff King (53):
http: drop "local" member from request struct
prune: handle --progress/no-progress
reachable: per-object progress
read-cache: let refresh_cache_ent pass up changed flags
refresh_index: rename format variables
refresh_index: make porcelain output more specific
upload-archive: use start_command instead of fork
archive: don't let remote clients get unreachable commits
stripspace: fix outdated comment
fetch: create status table using strbuf
test-lib: add test_config_global variant
t5550: fix typo
introduce credentials API
credential: add function for parsing url components
http: use credential API to get passwords
credential: apply helper config
credential: add credential.*.username
credential: make relevance of http path configurable
docs: end-user documentation for the credential subsystem
credentials: add "cache" helper
compat/snprintf: don't look at va_list twice
docs: mention "-k" for both forms of "git mv"
mv: honor --verbose flag
mv: make non-directory destination error more clear
mv: improve overwrite warning
mv: be quiet about overwriting
strbuf: add strbuf_add*_urlencode
imap-send: avoid buffer overflow
imap-send: don't check return value of git_getpass
move git_getpass to its own source file
refactor git_getpass into generic prompt function
add generic terminal prompt function
credentials: add "store" helper
prompt: use git_terminal_prompt
t: add test harness for external credential helpers
credential: use git_prompt instead of git_getpass
Makefile: linux has /dev/tty
Makefile: OS X has /dev/tty
contrib: add credential helper for OS X Keychain
drop "match" parameter from get_remote_heads
t5500: give fully-qualified refs to fetch-pack
fetch-pack: match refs exactly
connect.c: drop path_match function
t5540: test DAV push with authentication
http-push: enable "proactive auth"
blame: don't overflow time buffer
test-lib: redirect stdin of tests
use custom rename score during --follow
pretty: give placeholders to reflog identity
docs: brush up obsolete bits of git-fsck manpage
make "git push -v" actually verbose
commit, merge: initialize static strbuf
remote-curl: don't pass back fake refs
Jelmer Vernooij (1):
Fix an incorrect reference to --set-all.
Jens Lehmann (2):
diff/status: print submodule path when looking for changes fails
docs: describe behavior of relative submodule URLs
Joey Hess (1):
write first for-merge ref to FETCH_HEAD first
Johan Herland (3):
t9301: Fix testcase covering up a bug in fast-import's notes fanout handling
t9301: Add 2nd testcase exposing bugs in fast-import's notes fanout handling
fast-import: Fix incorrect fanout level when modifying existing notes refs
Johannes Sixt (3):
Compatibility: declare strtoimax() under NO_STRTOUMAX
Makefile: unix sockets may not available on some platforms
t0090: be prepared that 'wc -l' writes leading blanks
Jonathan Nieder (15):
gitk: Make vi-style keybindings more vi-like
branch: allow a no-op "branch -M <current-branch> HEAD"
Allow checkout -B <current-branch> to update the current branch
test: add missing "&&" after echo command
test: remove a porcelain test that hard-codes commit names
t7501 (commit): modernize style
test: commit --amend should honor --no-edit
revert: give --continue handling its own function
revert: allow cherry-pick --continue to commit before resuming
revert: pass around rev-list args in already-parsed form
revert: allow single-pick in the middle of cherry-pick sequence
revert: do not remove state until sequence is finished
Revert "reset: Make reset remove the sequencer state"
revert: stop creating and removing sequencer-old directory
test: errors preparing for a test are not special
Jonathon Mah (1):
stash: Don't fail if work dir contains file named 'HEAD'
Junio C Hamano (65):
branch: add read_branch_desc() helper function
format-patch: use branch description in cover letter
branch: teach --edit-description option
request-pull: modernize style
request-pull: state what commit to expect
request-pull: use the branch description
fmt-merge-msg: use branch.$name.description
get_tree_entry(): do not call find_tree_entry() on an empty tree
unpack_object_header_buffer(): clear the size field upon error
write_pack_header(): a helper function
create_tmp_packfile(): a helper function
finish_tmp_packfile(): a helper function
Split GPG interface into its own helper library
merge: notice local merging of tags and keep it unwrapped
fetch: allow "git fetch $there v1.0" to fetch a tag
refs DWIMmery: use the same rule for both "git fetch" and others
fmt-merge-msg: avoid early returns
fmt-merge-msg: package options into a structure
fmt-merge-msg: Add contents of merged tag in the merge message
merge: make usage of commit->util more extensible
merge: record tag objects without peeling in MERGE_HEAD
request-pull: use the annotated tag contents
commit: copy merged signed tags to headers of merge commit
merge: force edit and no-ff mode when merging a tag object
commit: teach --amend to carry forward extra headers
commit-tree: update the command line parsing
commit-tree: teach -m/-F options to read logs from elsewhere
commit: teach --gpg-sign option
log: --show-signature
test "commit -S" and "log --show-signature"
pretty: %G[?GS] placeholders
receive-pack, fetch-pack: reject bogus pack that records objects twice
pack-object: tolerate broken packs that have duplicated objects
gpg-interface: allow use of a custom GPG binary
csum-file: introduce sha1file_checkpoint
bulk-checkin: replace fast-import based implementation
Kick-off the 1.7.9 cycle
checkout -m: no need to insist on having all 3 stages
commit: honour --no-edit
Update draft release notes for 1.7.9
Git 1.7.6.5
Git 1.7.7.5
Update draft release notes for 1.7.8.1
Update draft release notes to 1.7.9
checkout_merged(): squelch false warning from some gcc
request-pull: update the "pull" command generation logic
lf_to_crlf_filter(): tell the caller we added "\n" when draining
Update draft release notes to 1.7.9
lf_to_crlf_filter(): resurrect CRLF->CRLF hack
advice: Document that they all default to true
request-pull: do not emit "tag" before the tagname
Update draft release notes to 1.7.9
commit: do not lose mergetag header when not amending
Git 1.7.8.1
Update draft release notes to 1.7.9
Update draft release notes in preparation for 1.7.9-rc0
Git 1.7.8.2
Update draft release notes to 1.7.9
verify_signed_buffer: fix stale comment
commit --amend -S: strip existing gpgsig headers
log-tree.c: small refactor in show_signature()
log-tree: show mergetag in log --show-signature output
log --show-signature: reword the common two-head merge case
Git 1.7.8.3
Git 1.7.9-rc0
Jürgen Kreileder (3):
gitweb: Call to_utf8() on input string in chop_and_escape_str()
gitweb: esc_html() site name for title in OPML
gitweb: Output valid utf8 in git_blame_common('data')
Kato Kazuyoshi (2):
gitweb: Add a feature to show side-by-side diff
gitweb: Add navigation to select side-by-side diff
Kirill A. Shutemov (1):
git-tag: introduce --cleanup option
Linus Torvalds (1):
fetch: do not store peeled tag object names in FETCH_HEAD
Martin von Zweigbergk (11):
gitk: Fix file highlight when run in subdirectory
gitk: Fix "show origin of this line" with separate work tree
gitk: Fix "blame parent commit" with separate work tree
gitk: Fix "External diff" with separate work tree
gitk: Put temporary directory inside .git
gitk: Run 'git rev-parse --git-dir' only once
gitk: Simplify calculation of gitdir
gitk: Show modified files with separate work tree
am: don't persist keepcr flag
t3401: modernize style
t3401: use test_commit in setup
Michael Haggerty (17):
git symbolic-ref: documentation fix
struct ref_entry: document name member
refs: rename "refname" variables
refs: rename parameters result -> sha1
clear_ref_array(): rename from free_ref_array()
is_refname_available(): remove the "quiet" argument
parse_ref_line(): add docstring
add_ref(): add docstring
is_dup_ref(): extract function from sort_ref_array()
refs: change signatures of get_packed_refs() and get_loose_refs()
get_ref_dir(): change signature
resolve_gitlink_ref(): improve docstring
Pass a (ref_cache *) to the resolve_gitlink_*() helper functions
resolve_gitlink_ref_recursive(): change to work with struct ref_cache
repack_without_ref(): remove temporary
create_ref_entry(): extract function from add_ref()
add_ref(): take a (struct ref_entry *) parameter
Michael Schubert (2):
builtin/commit: add missing '/' in help message
builtin/log: remove redundant initialization
Mika Fischer (3):
http.c: Use curl_multi_fdset to select on curl fds instead of just sleeping
http.c: Use timeout suggested by curl instead of fixed 50ms timeout
http.c: Rely on select instead of tracking whether data was received
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy (20):
tree-walk.c: do not leak internal structure in tree_entry_len()
read_directory_recursive: reduce one indentation level
tree_entry_interesting(): give meaningful names to return values
tree_entry_interesting: make use of local pointer "item"
fsck: return error code when verify_pack() goes wrong
verify_packfile(): check as many object as possible in a pack
fsck: avoid reading every object twice
fsck: print progress
prune: show progress while marking reachable objects
Convert many resolve_ref() calls to read_ref*() and ref_exists()
checkout,merge: loosen overwriting untracked file check based on info/exclude
checkout,merge: disallow overwriting ignored files with --no-overwrite-ignore
Copy resolve_ref() return value for longer use
revert: convert resolve_ref() to read_ref_full()
Convert resolve_ref+xstrdup to new resolve_refdup function
Rename resolve_ref() to resolve_ref_unsafe()
merge: abort if fails to commit
Convert commit_tree() to take strbuf as message
commit_tree(): refuse commit messages that contain NULs
Catch invalid --depth option passed to clone or fetch
Nick Alcock (2):
Add strtoimax() compatibility function.
Support sizes >=2G in various config options accepting 'g' sizes.
Pat Thoyts (11):
git-gui: include the number of untracked files to stage when asking the user
git-gui: theme the search and line-number entry fields on blame screen
git-gui: catch invalid or complete regular expressions and treat as no match.
git-gui: enable the smart case sensitive search only if gui.search.smartcase is true
git-gui: set suitable extended window manager hints.
git-gui: support underline style when parsing diff output
git-gui: sort the numeric ansi codes
git-gui: set whitespace warnings appropriate to this project
git-gui: added config gui.gcwarning to disable the gc hint message
git-gui: handle shell script text filters when loading for blame.
git-gui 0.16
Paul Mackerras (1):
gitk: Update copyright
Pete Harlan (1):
Test 'checkout -m -- path'
Pete Wyckoff (18):
git-p4: introduce skipSubmitEdit
git-p4: submit test for auto-creating clientPath
git-p4: test for absolute PWD problem
git-p4: fix skipSubmitEdit regression
rename git-p4 tests
git-p4: introduce asciidoc documentation
git-p4: clone does not use --git-dir
git-p4: test cloning with two dirs, clarify doc
git-p4: document and test clone --branch
git-p4: honor --changesfile option and test
git-p4: document and test --import-local
git-p4: test --max-changes
git-p4: test --keep-path
git-p4: test and document --use-client-spec
git-p4: document and test submit options
git-p4: test client view handling
git-p4: rewrite view handling
git-p4: view spec documentation
Ramkumar Ramachandra (11):
t3200 (branch): fix '&&' chaining
test: fix '&&' chaining
t3030 (merge-recursive): use test_expect_code
t1510 (worktree): fix '&&' chaining
t3040 (subprojects-basic): fix '&&' chaining, modernize style
revert: free msg in format_todo()
revert: make commit subjects in insn sheet optional
revert: tolerate extra spaces, tabs in insn sheet
revert: simplify getting commit subject in format_todo()
t3510 (cherry-pick-sequencer): use exit status
t3502, t3510: clarify cherry-pick -m failure
Ramsay Allan Jones (3):
builtin/log.c: Fix an "Using plain integer as NULL pointer" warning
environment.c: Fix an sparse "symbol not declared" warning
fmt-merge-msg.c: Fix an "dubious one-bit signed bitfield" sparse error
Raphael Zimmerer (1):
gitk: When a commit contains a note, mark it with a yellow box
René Scharfe (5):
read-cache.c: allocate index entries individually
cache.h: put single NUL at end of struct cache_entry
use struct sha1_array in diff_tree_combined()
pass struct commit to diff_tree_combined_merge()
submodule: use diff_tree_combined_merge() instead of diff_tree_combined()
SZEDER Gábor (9):
completion: document __gitcomp()
completion: optimize refs completion
completion: make refs completion consistent for local and remote repos
completion: improve ls-remote output filtering in __git_refs()
completion: support full refs from remote repositories
completion: query only refs/heads/ in __git_refs_remotes()
completion: improve ls-remote output filtering in __git_refs_remotes()
completion: fast initial completion for config 'remote.*.fetch' value
completion: remove broken dead code from __git_heads() and __git_tags()
Samuel Bronson (1):
git-gui: Set both 16x16 and 32x32 icons on X to pacify Xming.
Sebastian Morr (1):
Add MYMETA.yml to perl/.gitignore
Steven Walter (1):
git-svn.perl: close the edit for propedits even with no mods
Thomas Jarosch (1):
imap-send: Remove unused 'use_namespace' variable
Thomas Rast (13):
userdiff: allow * between cpp funcname words
Add test-scrap-cache-tree
Test the current state of the cache-tree optimization
Refactor cache_tree_update idiom from commit
commit: write cache-tree data when writing index anyway
reset: update cache-tree data when appropriate
grep: load funcname patterns for -W
grep: enable threading with -p and -W using lazy attribute lookup
grep: disable threading in non-worktree case
test-terminal: set output terminals to raw mode
git-sh-setup: make require_clean_work_tree part of the interface
bash completion: use read -r everywhere
Documentation: rerere.enabled is the primary way to configure rerere
Tilman Vogel (1):
git-gui: add config value gui.diffopts for passing additional diff options
Vincent van Ravesteijn (4):
Compile fix for MSVC: Do not include sys/resources.h
Compile fix for MSVC: Include <io.h>
MSVC: Remove unneeded header stubs
Show error for 'git merge' with unset merge.defaultToUpstream
Yggy King (1):
gitk: Make "touching paths" search support backslashes
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason (9):
apply: get rid of useless x < 0 comparison on a size_t type
cast variable in call to free() in builtin/diff.c and submodule.c
pull: introduce a pull.rebase option to enable --rebase
i18n: add infrastructure for translating Git with gettext
t/t2023-checkout-m.sh: fix use of test_must_fail
builtin/init-db.c: eliminate -Wformat warning on Solaris
Fix an enum assignment issue spotted by Sun Studio
Fix a bitwise negation assignment issue spotted by Sun Studio
Appease Sun Studio by renaming "tmpfile"
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