From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: [ANNOUNCE] Git 1.7.11.rc0 Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 13:54:18 -0700 Message-ID: <7vobpcq8w5.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Linux Kernel To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri May 25 22:54:38 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: glk-linux-kernel-3@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SY1Wv-0003Hw-Bo for glk-linux-kernel-3@plane.gmane.org; Fri, 25 May 2012 22:54:37 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758795Ab2EYUyX (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 May 2012 16:54:23 -0400 Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.35]:40859 "EHLO smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755460Ab2EYUyV (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 May 2012 16:54:21 -0400 Received: from smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B503688DE; Fri, 25 May 2012 16:54:20 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to :subject:cc:date:message-id:mime-version:content-type; s=sasl; bh=qATub4IOrwlXddhXtx//EbD1BZM=; b=eM1yJBOrOquRANfLeppzAz5rfCP/ p9GeNj0zmpGCDFS2oZo73035LfcHXsMScS7gjDBE3mk+mwQ+w/CF2BlcWlva+v0Z kwwB8uZ73/USG+kjgXoU7tkYN7elZLG6F/wBSeKCaQhUxEyLBgy7h8y5pitB92Kt DfO1DrMdaqDxCW8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:subject :cc:date:message-id:mime-version:content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b= rpO5+kh+Vjf49NyQov+O0hi0dj/QBvaampNctglbjRHnHJ5qgHrIzKZDIYfUycC/ 0mFB99y5UDkGqHKqrbtfTj1O9tZIHuyd2EWtN2fZTV1lsZisVqUv5YzOavyPkltz Qo98pg1PEJdaQuZbwQuT2UXjLQytGfsCj7B37TZpygU= Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD0A888DD; Fri, 25 May 2012 16:54:20 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [98.234.214.94]) (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 B3EFB88DC; Fri, 25 May 2012 16:54:19 -0400 (EDT) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: CC72C1B0-A6AB-11E1-8B32-FC762E706CDE-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 1.7.11.rc0 is now available for testing at the usual places. The release tarballs are found at: http://code.google.com/p/git-core/downloads/list and their SHA-1 checksums are: 8661e1ee946728c8b0d948982f9430634680bd34 git-1.7.11.rc0.tar.gz 2d09cfc9c1cae51864c1cb44670d23c7953c1825 git-htmldocs-1.7.11.rc0.tar.gz 62976ccf1f577917225811cd1facfdf88aa67195 git-manpages-1.7.11.rc0.tar.gz Also the following public repositories all have a copy of the v1.7.11.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 v1.7.11 Release Notes (draft) ========================= Updates since v1.7.10 --------------------- UI, Workflows & Features * A new mode for push, "simple", which is a cross between "current" and "upstream", has been introduced. "git push" without any refspec will push the current branch out to the same name at the remote repository only when it is set to track the branch with the same name over there. The plan is to make this mode the new default value when push.default is not configured. * A couple of commands learned the "--column" option to produce columnar output. * A third-party tool "git subtree" is distributed in contrib/ * Error messages given when @{u} is used for a branch without its upstream configured have been clatified. * Even with "-q"uiet option, "checkout" used to report setting up tracking. Also "branch" learned the "-q"uiet option to squelch informational message. * Your build platform may support hardlinks but you may prefer not to use them, e.g. when installing to DESTDIR to make a tarball and untarring on a filesystem that has poor support for hardlinks. There is a Makefile option NO_INSTALL_HARDLINKS for you. * The smart-http backend used to always override GIT_COMMITTER_* variables with REMOTE_USER and REMOTE_ADDR, but these variables are now preserved when set. * "git am" learned the "--include" option, which is an opposite of existing the "--exclude" option. * When "git am -3" needs to fall back to an application to a synthesized preimage followed by a 3-way merge, the paths that needed such treatment are now reported to the end user, so that the result in them can be eyeballed with extra care. * The output from "diff/log --stat" used to always allocate 4 columns to show the number of modified lines, but not anymore. * "git difftool" learned the "--dir-diff" option to spawn external diff tools that can compare two directory hierarchies at a time after populating two temporary directories, instead of running an instance of the external tool once per a file pair. * The "fmt-merge-msg" command learns to list the primary contributors involved in the side topic you are merging. * "git rebase" learned to optionally keep commits that do not introduce any change in the original history. * "git push --recurse-submodules" learned to optionally look into the histories of submodules bound to the superproject and push them out. * A 'snapshot' request to "gitweb" honors If-Modified-Since: header, based on the commit date. * "gitweb" learned to highlight the patch it outputs even more. Foreign Interface * "git svn" used to die with unwanted SIGPIPE when talking with HTTP server that uses keep-alive. * "git svn" learned to use platform specific authentication providers, e.g. gnome-keyring, kwallet, etc. * "git p4" has been moved out of contrib/ area and has seen more work on importing labels as tags from (and exporting tags as labels to) p4. Performance and Internal Implementation (please report possible regressions) * Bash completion script (in contrib/) have been cleaned up to make future work on it simpler. * An experimental "version 4" format of the index file has been introduced to reduce on-disk footprint and I/O overhead. * "git archive" learned to produce its output without reading the blob object it writes out in memory in its entirety. * "git index-pack" that runs when fetching or pushing objects to complete the packfile on the receiving end learned to use multiple threads to do its job when available. * The code to compute hash values for lines used by the internal diff engine was optimized on little-endian machines, using the same trick the kernel folks came up with. * "git apply" had some memory leaks plugged. * Setting up a revision traversal with many starting points was inefficient as these were placed in a date-order priority queue one-by-one. Now they are collected in the queue unordered first, and sorted immediately before getting used. * More lower-level commands learned to use the streaming API to read from the object store without keeping everything in core. * Because "sh" on the user's PATH may be utterly broken on some systems, run-command API now uses SHELL_PATH, not /bin/sh, when spawning an external command (not applicable to Windows port). * The API to iterate over refs/ hierarchy has been tweaked to allow walking only a subset of it more efficiently. Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups. Fixes since v1.7.10 ------------------- Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.7.10 in the maintenance releases are contained in this release (see release notes to them for details). * The progress indicator for a large "git checkout" was sent to stderr even if it is not a terminal. (merge e9fc64c ap/checkout-no-progress-for-non-tty later to maint). * A name taken from mailmap was copied into an internal buffer incorrectly and could overun the buffer if it is too long. (merge c9b4e9e jk/format-person-part-buffer-limit later to maint). * A malformed commit object that has a header line chomped in the middle could kill git with a NULL pointer dereference. (merge a9c7a8a jk/pretty-commit-header-incomplete-line later to maint). * An author/committer name that is a single character was mishandled as an invalid name by mistake. (merge d9955fd jk/ident-split-fix later to maint). * "git grep -e '$pattern'", unlike the case where the patterns are read from a file, did not treat individual lines in the given pattern argument as separate regular expressions as it should. (merge ec83061 rs/maint-grep-F later to maint). * "git diff --stat" used to fully count a binary file with modified execution bits whose contents is unmodified, which was not quite right.