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author | Jonathan Maw <jonathan.maw@codethink.co.uk> | 2013-09-30 15:08:10 +0100 |
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committer | Jonathan Maw <jonathan.maw@codethink.co.uk> | 2013-09-30 15:08:10 +0100 |
commit | 43efcf42382e87de4aa423e5e1607958ad1717d0 (patch) | |
tree | 7e19a0765b0dd6885fbdf69d3a8d0159a1b42de8 /Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.txt | |
parent | 45d74c4b0fe38218b4569a90da7102cf48d616c2 (diff) | |
parent | c7fd06b6411fb04eb4d9acd7f8822a288a50dc17 (diff) | |
download | git-43efcf42382e87de4aa423e5e1607958ad1717d0.tar.gz |
Merge branch 'baserock/jonathanmaw/S9007/upgrade-git' into baserock/morphbaserock/morph
Reviewed-by: Lars Wirzenius <lars.wirzenius@codethink.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Silverstone <daniel.silverstone@codethink.co.uk>
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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.txt index 79397eb6c7..95320aad5d 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.txt @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -Git v1.7.9 Release Notes (draft) +Git v1.7.9 Release Notes ======================== Updates since v1.7.8 @@ -12,22 +12,27 @@ Updates since v1.7.8 * 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 + locale is appropriately set. Distributors can drop new PO files in po/ to add new translations. - * The code to handle username/password for HTTP transaction used in + * The code to handle username/password for HTTP transactions 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 input prompts in the terminal use our own getpass() replacement + when possible. HTTP transactions used to ask for the 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 + * The internals of "revert/cherry-pick" have 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. @@ -59,7 +64,7 @@ Updates since v1.7.8 knows MATLAB. * "git log --format='<format>'" learned new %g[nNeE] specifiers to - show information from the reflog entries when warlking the reflog + show information from the reflog entries when walking the reflog (i.e. with "-g"). * "git pull" can be used to fetch and merge an annotated/signed tag, @@ -105,11 +110,3 @@ 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). - --- -exec >/var/tmp/1 -O=v1.7.8.2-301-g48de656 -echo O=$(git describe master) -git log --first-parent --oneline --reverse ^$O master -echo -git shortlog --no-merges ^$O ^maint master |