diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.txt index 067c476e3c..d5a522d915 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.txt @@ -22,6 +22,9 @@ UI, Workflows & Features $HOME/.config/attributes and $HOME/.config/ignore respectively when these files exist. + * "git apply" learned to wiggle the base version and perform three-way + merge when a patch does not exactly apply to the version you have. + * Scripted Porcelain writers now have access to the credential API via the "git credential" plumbing command. @@ -51,6 +54,9 @@ UI, Workflows & Features default location where the build procedure installs them locally; the variable can even point at a http:// URL. + * "git rebase [-i] --root $tip" can now be used to rewrite all the + history leading to "$tip" down to the root commit. + * "git rebase -i" learned "-x " to insert "exec " after each commit in the resulting history. @@ -71,6 +77,8 @@ Foreign Interface * "mediawiki" remote helper (in contrib/) learned to handle file attachments. + * "git p4" now uses "Jobs:" and "p4 move" when appropriate. + * vcs-svn has been updated to clean-up compilation, lift 32-bit limitations, etc. @@ -106,6 +114,32 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.7.11 in the maintenance releases are contained in this release (see release notes to them for details). + * The error message from "git push $there :bogo" (and its equivalent + "git push $there --delete bogo") mentioned that we tried and failed + to guess what ref is being deleted based on the LHS of the refspec, + which we don't. + (merge 5742c82 jk/push-delete-ref-error-message later to maint). + + * A handful of files and directories we create had tighter than + necessary permission bits when the user wanted to have group + writability (e.g. by setting "umask 002"). + (merge 6ff2b72 ar/clone-honor-umask-at-top later to maint). + + * "commit --amend" used to refuse amending a commit with an empty log + message, with or without "--allow-empty-message". + (merge d9a9357 cw/amend-commit-without-message later to maint). + + * "git commit --amend --only --" was meant to allow "Clever" people to + rewrite the commit message without making any change even when they + have already changes for the next commit added to their index, but + it never worked as advertised since it was introduced in 1.3.0 era. + (merge ea2d4ed jk/maint-commit-amend-only-no-paths later to maint). + + * Even though the index can record pathnames longer than 1<<12 bytes, + in some places we were not comparing them in full, potentially + replacing index entries instead of adding. + (merge d5f5333 tg/maint-cache-name-compare later to maint). + * "git show"'s auto-walking behaviour was an unreliable and unpredictable hack; it now behaves just like "git log" does when it walks.