Git 1.7.1.1Edit
From the official release announcement posted to the Git mailing list:
The latest maintenance release Git 1.7.1.1 is available at the
usual places:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/
git-1.7.1.1.tar.{gz,bz2} (source tarball)
git-htmldocs-1.7.1.1.tar.{gz,bz2} (preformatted docs)
git-manpages-1.7.1.1.tar.{gz,bz2} (preformatted docs)
The RPM binary packages for a few architectures are found in:
RPMS/$arch/git-*-1.7.1.1-1.fc11.$arch.rpm (RPM)
Git v1.7.1.1 Release Notes
==========================
Fixes since v1.7.1
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* 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.
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Changes since v1.7.1 are as follows:
Alexey Mahotkin (1):
xdiff/xmerge.c: use memset() instead of explicit for-loop
Bert Wesarg (1):
diff: fix coloring of extended diff headers
Björn Gustavsson (1):
apply: Allow blank *trailing* context lines to match beyond EOF
Björn Steinbrink (1):
diff: Support visibility modifiers in the PHP hunk header regexp
Bo Yang (1):
blame-options.txt: Add default value for `-M/-C` options.
Brandon Casey (1):
t/t9001: use egrep when regular expressions are involved
Brian Downing (1):
unpack-trees: Make index lookahead less pessimal
Brian Gernhardt (4):
send-email: Cleanup { style
send-email: Don't use FQDNs without a '.'
Document send-email --smtp-domain
send-email: Cleanup smtp-domain and add config
Charles Bailey (2):
stash: Don't overwrite files that have gone from the index
stash tests: stash can lose data in a file removed from the index
Chris Webb (1):
exec_cmd.c: replace hard-coded path list with one from <paths.h>
Christian Couder (3):
diff: fix "git show -C -C" output when renaming a binary file
commit: use value of GIT_REFLOG_ACTION env variable as reflog message
Documentation: grep: fix asciidoc problem with --
Clemens Buchacher (7):
do not overwrite files marked "assume unchanged"
Documentation: git-add does not update files marked "assume unchanged"
test get_git_work_tree() return value for NULL
get_cwd_relative(): do not misinterpret suffix as subdirectory
setup: document prefix
quote.c: separate quoting and relative path generation
ls-files: allow relative pathspec
Dmitry Potapov (1):
hash_object: correction for zero length file
Gary V. Vaughan (1):
git-compat-util.h: use apparently more common __sgi macro to detect SGI IRIX
Gerrit Pape (1):
git-submodule.sh: properly initialize shell variables
Henrik Grubbström (3):
attr: Fixed debug output for macro expansion.
attr: Allow multiple changes to an attribute on the same line.
attr: Expand macros immediately when encountered.
Ian McLean (1):
Fix "Out of memory? mmap failed" for files larger than 4GB on Windows
Ian Ward Comfort (1):
rebase -i: Abort cleanly if new base cannot be checked out
Jakub Narebski (1):
autoconf: Check if <paths.h> exists and set HAVE_PATHS_H
Jay Soffian (3):
commit.txt: clarify how --author argument is used
am: use get_author_ident_from_commit instead of mailinfo when rebasing
gitweb/Makefile: fix typo in gitweb.min.css rule
Jeff King (7):
handle "git --bare init <dir>" properly
docs: clarify meaning of -M for git-log
remove over-eager caching in sha1_file_name
pull: do nothing on --dry-run
commit: give advice on empty amend
Makefile: default pager on AIX to "more"
notes: check number of parameters to "git notes copy"
Johannes Sixt (1):
Thread-safe xmalloc and xrealloc needs a recursive mutex
Jonathan Nieder (25):
t7006: guard cleanup with test_expect_success
t5704 (bundle): add tests for bundle --stdin
fix "bundle --stdin" segfault
test-lib: Let tests specify commands to be run at end of test
commit --amend: cope with missing display name
Documentation/shortlog: scripted users should not rely on implicit HEAD
t4201 (shortlog): guard setup with test_expect_success
t4201 (shortlog): Test output format with multiple authors
shortlog: Document and test --format option
test-lib: some shells do not let $? propagate into an eval
cherry-pick: do not dump core when iconv fails
Documentation/notes: document format of notes trees
Documentation/notes: describe content of notes blobs
Documentation/notes: add configuration section
Documentation/notes: simplify treatment of default notes ref
Documentation/log: add a CONFIGURATION section
Documentation/notes: simplify treatment of default display refs
Documentation/notes: clean up description of rewriting configuration
Documentation/notes: nitpicks
post-receive-email: document command-line mode
Documentation/checkout: clarify description
gitignore.5: Clarify matching rules
rebase -i -p: document shortcomings
Documentation/checkout: clarify description
add-interactive: Clarify “remaining hunks in the file”
Junio C Hamano (10):
am -3: recover the diagnostic messages for corrupt patches
clone: quell the progress report from init and report on clone
t9129: fix UTF-8 locale detection
common_prefix: simplify and fix scanning for prefixes
Prepare draft release notes to 1.7.1.1
Update draft release notes to 1.7.1.1
tests: remove unnecessary '^' from 'expr' regular expression
Update draft release notes to 1.7.1.1
Update draft release notes to 1.7.1.1
Git 1.7.1.1
Leif Arne Storset (1):
Documentation/config.txt: GIT_NOTES_REWRITE_REF overrides notes.rewriteRef
Marcus Comstedt (1):
Add "Z" as an alias for the timezone "UTC"
Markus Heidelberg (4):
t7508: add test for "git status" refreshing the index
git status: refresh the index if possible
t7508: add a test for "git status" in a read-only repository
Documentation: rebase -i ignores options passed to "git am"
Michael J Gruber (10):
index-pack: fix trivial typo in usage string
t7508: test advice.statusHints
wt-status: take advice.statusHints seriously
Documentation: fix minor inconsistency
Documentation/gitdiffcore: fix order in pickaxe description
Documentation/SubmittingPatches: clarify GMail section and SMTP
completion: --set-upstream option for git-branch
Makefile: reenable install with NO_CURL
Documentation/config: describe status.submodulesummary
Documentation: A...B shortcut for checkout and rebase
Michal Sojka (1):
test-lib.sh: Add explicit license detail, with change from GPLv2 to GPLv2+.
Nazri Ramliy (1):
Documentation/pretty-{formats,options}: better reference for "format:<string>"
Nicolas Pitre (4):
Make xmalloc and xrealloc thread-safe
index-pack: smarter memory usage when resolving deltas
index-pack: rationalize unpack_entry_data()
index-pack: smarter memory usage when appending objects
Pete Harlan (1):
clone: reword messages to match the end-user perception
Peter Collingbourne (4):
Generalise the unlink_or_warn function
Implement the rmdir_or_warn function
Introduce remove_or_warn function
Remove a redundant errno test in a usage of remove_path
Philippe Bruhat (1):
Git.pm: better error message
Ping Yin (1):
Documentation/git-send-email: Add "Use gmail as the smtp server"
Ramkumar Ramachandra (1):
SubmittingPatches: Add new section about what to base work on
Ramsay Allan Jones (4):
Makefile: Fix 'clean' target to remove all gitweb build files
msvc: Fix some "expr evaluates to function" compiler warnings
msvc: Fix some compiler warnings
notes: Initialise variable to appease gcc
René Scharfe (3):
git diff too slow for a file
remove ecb parameter from xdi_diff_outf()
Fix checkout of large files to network shares on Windows XP
Scott Chacon (1):
Prompt for a username when an HTTP request 401s
Shawn O. Pearce (16):
tag.c: Correct indentation
tag.h: Remove unused signature field
tag.c: Refactor parse_tag_buffer to be saner to program
tag.c: Parse tagger date (if present)
describe: Break annotated tag ties by tagger date
http.c: Remove bad free of static block
t5550-http-fetch: Use subshell for repository operations
http.c: Tiny refactoring of finish_http_pack_request
http.c: Drop useless != NULL test in finish_http_pack_request
http.c: Don't store destination name in request structures
http.c: Remove unnecessary strdup of sha1_to_hex result
Introduce close_pack_index to permit replacement
Extract verify_pack_index for reuse from verify_pack
Allow parse_pack_index on temporary files
http-fetch: Use index-pack rather than verify-pack to check packs
http-fetch: Use temporary files for pack-*.idx until verified
Sverre Rabbelier (1):
Gitweb: ignore built file
Tay Ray Chuan (18):
t5541-http-push: add test for URLs with trailing slash
http: make end_url_with_slash() public
remote-curl: ensure that URLs have a trailing slash
http.c::new_http_pack_request: do away with the temp variable filename
t7604-merge-custom-message: shift expected output creation
t7604-merge-custom-message: show that --log doesn't append to -m
merge: update comment
merge: rename variable
fmt-merge-msg: minor refactor of fmt_merge_msg()
fmt-merge-msg: refactor merge title formatting
fmt-merge-msg: add function to append shortlog only
merge: --log appends shortlog to message if specified
GIT-VERSION-GEN: restrict tags used
t7502-commit: fix spelling
show-branch: use DEFAULT_ABBREV instead of 7
t7502-commit: add tests for summary output
t7502-commit: add summary output tests for empty and merge commits
commit::print_summary(): don't use format_commit_message()
Thomas Rast (2):
t/README: document --root option
send-email: ask about and declare 8bit mails
Tim Henigan (1):
Documentation/SubmittingPatches: Fix typo in GMail section
Tor Arntsen (1):
Change C99 comments to old-style C comments
Will Palmer (1):
pretty: Respect --abbrev option
Zhang Le (1):
git-mailinfo documentation: clarify -u/--encoding
bert Dvornik (1):
start_command: close cmd->err descriptor when fork/spawn fails
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason (3):
Move t6000lib.sh to lib-*
Turn setup code in t2007-checkout-symlink.sh into a test
notes: Initialize variable to appease Sun Studio