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The latest feature release Git v1.7.12 is now available 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: 42ec1037f1ee5bfeb405710c83b73c0515ad26e6 ... [More] git-1.7.12.tar.gz 50bbfeba77af9a411cc1a1e41220782cf3fd9b5e git-htmldocs-1.7.12.tar.gz fb572729ca5c60161dc651564a50d4378507e20f git-manpages-1.7.12.tar.gz Also the following public repositories all have a copy of the v1.7.12 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 v1.7.12 Release Notes ========================= Updates since v1.7.11 --------------------- UI, Workflows & Features * Git can be told to normalize pathnames it read from readdir(3) and all arguments it got from the command line into precomposed UTF-8 (assuming that they come as decomposed UTF-8), in order to work around issues on Mac OS. I think there still are other places that need conversion (e.g. paths that are read from stdin for some commands), but this should be a good first step in the right direction. * Per-user $HOME/.gitconfig file can optionally be stored in $HOME/.config/git/config instead, which is in line with XDG. * The value of core.attributesfile and core.excludesfile default to $HOME/.config/git/attributes and $HOME/.config/git/ignore respectively when these files exist. * Logic to disambiguate abbreviated object names have been taught to take advantage of object types that are expected in the context, e.g. XXXXXX in the "git describe" output v1.2.3-gXXXXXX must be a commit object, not a blob nor a tree. This will help us prolong the lifetime of abbreviated object names. * "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. * "git help" used to always default to "man" format even on platforms where "man" viewer is not widely available. * "git clone --local $path" started its life as an experiment to optionally use link/copy when cloning a repository on the disk, but we didn't deprecate it after we made the option a no-op to always use the optimization. The command learned "--no-local" option to turn this off, as a more explicit alternative over use of file:// URL. * "git fetch" and friends used to say "remote side hung up unexpectedly" when they failed to get response they expect from the other side, but one common reason why they don't get expected response is that the remote repository does not exist or cannot be read. The error message in this case was updated to give better hints to the user. * "git help -w $cmd" can show HTML version of documentation for "git-$cmd" by setting help.htmlpath to somewhere other than the 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. * "git status" gives finer classification to various states of paths in conflicted state and offer advice messages in its output. * "git submodule" learned to deal with nested submodule structure where a module is contained within a module whose origin is specified as a relative URL to its superproject's origin. * A rather heavy-ish "git completion" script has been split to create a separate "git prompting" script, to help lazy-autoloading of the completion part while making prompting part always available. * "gitweb" pays attention to various forms of credits that are similar to "Signed-off-by:" lines in the commit objects and highlights them accordingly. 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. Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. (please report possible regressions) * Some tests showed false failures caused by a bug in ecryptofs. * We no longer use AsciiDoc7 syntax in our documentation and favor a more modern style. * "git am --rebasing" codepath was taught to grab authorship, log message and the patch text directly out of existing commits. This will help rebasing commits that have confusing "diff" output in their log messages. * "git index-pack" and "git pack-objects" use streaming API to read from the object store to avoid having to hold a large blob object in-core while they are doing their thing. * Code to match paths with exclude patterns learned to avoid calling fnmatch() by comparing fixed leading substring literally when possible. * "git log -n 1 -- rarely-touched-path" was spending unnecessary cycles after showing the first change to find the next one, only to discard it. * "git svn" got a large-looking code reorganization at the last minute before the code freeze. Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups. Fixes since v1.7.11 ------------------- 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). * "git submodule add" was confused when the superproject did not have its repository in its usual place in the working tree and GIT_DIR and GIT_WORK_TREE was used to access it. * "git commit --amend" let the user edit the log message and then died when the human-readable committer name was given insufficiently by getpwent(3). -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html [Less]

A release candidate Git v1.7.12-rc3 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: 8719af22c3479b3e21845a6fba0b9c56087a0280 ... [More] git-1.7.12.rc3.tar.gz 7dbb5ba4f9ed0202e7153e8728561922b3d9a788 git-htmldocs-1.7.12.rc3.tar.gz 6374e277f868d66ce6d5ab7909247bc107830519 git-manpages-1.7.12.rc3.tar.gz Also the following public repositories all have a copy of the v1.7.12-rc3 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 v1.7.12 Release Notes (draft) ========================= Updates since v1.7.11 --------------------- UI, Workflows & Features * Git can be told to normalize pathnames it read from readdir(3) and all arguments it got from the command line into precomposed UTF-8 (assuming that they come as decomposed UTF-8), in order to work around issues on Mac OS. I think there still are other places that need conversion (e.g. paths that are read from stdin for some commands), but this should be a good first step in the right direction. * Per-user $HOME/.gitconfig file can optionally be stored in $HOME/.config/git/config instead, which is in line with XDG. * The value of core.attributesfile and core.excludesfile default to $HOME/.config/git/attributes and $HOME/.config/git/ignore respectively when these files exist. * Logic to disambiguate abbreviated object names have been taught to take advantage of object types that are expected in the context, e.g. XXXXXX in the "git describe" output v1.2.3-gXXXXXX must be a commit object, not a blob nor a tree. This will help us prolong the lifetime of abbreviated object names. * "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. * "git help" used to always default to "man" format even on platforms where "man" viewer is not widely available. * "git clone --local $path" started its life as an experiment to optionally use link/copy when cloning a repository on the disk, but we didn't deprecate it after we made the option a no-op to always use the optimization. The command learned "--no-local" option to turn this off, as a more explicit alternative over use of file:// URL. * "git fetch" and friends used to say "remote side hung up unexpectedly" when they failed to get response they expect from the other side, but one common reason why they don't get expected response is that the remote repository does not exist or cannot be read. The error message in this case was updated to give better hints to the user. * "git help -w $cmd" can show HTML version of documentation for "git-$cmd" by setting help.htmlpath to somewhere other than the 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. * "git status" gives finer classification to various states of paths in conflicted state and offer advice messages in its output. * "git submodule" learned to deal with nested submodule structure where a module is contained within a module whose origin is specified as a relative URL to its superproject's origin. * A rather heavy-ish "git completion" script has been split to create a separate "git prompting" script, to help lazy-autoloading of the completion part while making prompting part always available. * "gitweb" pays attention to various forms of credits that are similar to "Signed-off-by:" lines in the commit objects and highlights them accordingly. 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. Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. (please report possible regressions) * Some tests showed false failures caused by a bug in ecryptofs. * We no longer use AsciiDoc7 syntax in our documentation and favor a more modern style. * "git am --rebasing" codepath was taught to grab authorship, log message and the patch text directly out of existing commits. This will help rebasing commits that have confusing "diff" output in their log messages. * "git index-pack" and "git pack-objects" use streaming API to read from the object store to avoid having to hold a large blob object in-core while they are doing their thing. * Code to match paths with exclude patterns learned to avoid calling fnmatch() by comparing fixed leading substring literally when possible. * "git log -n 1 -- rarely-touched-path" was spending unnecessary cycles after showing the first change to find the next one, only to discard it. * "git svn" got a large-looking code reorganization at the last minute before the code freeze. Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups. Fixes since v1.7.11 ------------------- 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). * "git submodule add" was confused when the superproject did not have its repository in its usual place in the working tree and GIT_DIR and GIT_WORK_TREE was used to access it. * "git commit --amend" let the user edit the log message and then died when the human-readable committer name was given insufficiently by getpwent(3). ---------------------------------------------------------------- Changes since v1.7.12-rc2 are as follows: Ben Walton (1): Enable HAVE_DEV_TTY for Solaris Jeff King (1): terminal: seek when switching between reading and writing Jiang Xin (2): l10n: Update one message in git.pot l10n: zh_CN.po: update one translation Junio C Hamano (2): Git 1.7.11.5 Git 1.7.12-rc3 Matthieu Moy (1): Documentation: list git-credential in plumbing commands Peter Baumann (1): git svn: reset invalidates the memoized mergeinfo caches Peter Krefting (1): l10n: Update Swedish translation (1168t0f0u) Ralf Thielow (1): l10n: de.po: translate 77 new messages Robert Luberda (1): git svn: handle errors and concurrent commits in dcommit Tran Ngoc Quan (1): l10n: vi.po: update one message -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html [Less]

The latest maintenance release Git v1.7.11.5 is now available 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: 44013d9418ef23dd8bb67e80b27c9327356bfae8 ... [More] git-1.7.11.5.tar.gz 8e19f56b2f484dc3327f1e8316c114dbe0ee2743 git-htmldocs-1.7.11.5.tar.gz d328241c130bbe38b12adf5702568c1edfff8623 git-manpages-1.7.11.5.tar.gz Also the following public repositories all have a copy of the v1.7.11.5 tag and the maint 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 v1.7.11.5 Release Notes =========================== Fixes since v1.7.11.4 --------------------- * The Makefile rule to create assembly output (primarily for debugging purposes) did not create it next to the source. * The code to avoid mistaken attempt to add the object directory itself as its own alternate could read beyond end of a string while comparison. * On some architectures, "block-sha1" did not compile correctly when compilers inferred alignment guarantees from our source we did not intend to make. * When talking to a remote running ssh on IPv6 enabled host, whose address is spelled as "[HOST]:PORT", we did not parse the address correctly and failed to connect. * git-blame.el (in compat/) have been updated to use Elisp more correctly. * "git checkout " to come back from a detached HEAD state incorrectly computed reachability of the detached HEAD, resulting in unnecessary warnings. * "git mergetool" did not support --tool-help option to give the list of supported backends, like "git difftool" does. * "git grep" stopped spawning an external "grep" long time ago, but a duplicated test to check internal and external "grep" was left behind. Also contains minor typofixes and documentation updates. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Changes since v1.7.11.4 are as follows: Heiko Voigt (1): link_alt_odb_entry: fix read over array bounds reported by valgrind Jeff King (1): checkout: don't confuse ref and object flags Jonathan Nieder (4): block-sha1: avoid pointer conversion that violates alignment constraints block-sha1: put expanded macro parameters in parentheses Makefile: fix location of listing produced by "make subdir/foo.s" Makefile: BLK_SHA1 does not require fast htonl() and unaligned loads Junio C Hamano (4): mergetool: support --tool-help option like difftool does Enumerate revision range specifiers in the documentation Prepare for 1.7.11.5 Git 1.7.11.5 Lawrence Mitchell (2): git-blame.el: Use with-current-buffer where appropriate git-blame.el: Do not use bare 0 to mean (point-min) Max Horn (1): Make documentation more consistent. Michael Schubert (1): Documentation/git-daemon: add missing word Ramkumar Ramachandra (1): commit: document a couple of options Ramsay Allan Jones (1): t7810-*.sh: Remove redundant test René Scharfe (1): git: Wrong parsing of ssh urls with IPv6 literals ignores port Rüdiger Sonderfeld (2): git-blame.el: use mapc instead of mapcar git-blame.el: Do not use goto-line in lisp code Štěpán Němec (1): doc: A few minor copy edits. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html [Less]

A release candidate Git v1.7.12-rc2 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: f05297c883b958d04c00a7aba8f234261efd8844 ... [More] git-1.7.12.rc2.tar.gz 931259a22e9d126c5c48deea0cbfeef246f93058 git-htmldocs-1.7.12.rc2.tar.gz 2262b31399f519b166f045f6aa63c8ec7e4ee515 git-manpages-1.7.12.rc2.tar.gz Also the following public repositories all have a copy of the v1.7.12-rc2 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 v1.7.12 Release Notes (draft) ========================= Updates since v1.7.11 --------------------- UI, Workflows & Features * Git can be told to normalize pathnames it read from readdir(3) and all arguments it got from the command line into precomposed UTF-8 (assuming that they come as decomposed UTF-8), in order to work around issues on Mac OS. I think there still are other places that need conversion (e.g. paths that are read from stdin for some commands), but this should be a good first step in the right direction. * Per-user $HOME/.gitconfig file can optionally be stored in $HOME/.config/git/config instead, which is in line with XDG. * The value of core.attributesfile and core.excludesfile default to $HOME/.config/git/attributes and $HOME/.config/git/ignore respectively when these files exist. * Logic to disambiguate abbreviated object names have been taught to take advantage of object types that are expected in the context, e.g. XXXXXX in the "git describe" output v1.2.3-gXXXXXX must be a commit object, not a blob nor a tree. This will help us prolong the lifetime of abbreviated object names. * "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. * "git help" used to always default to "man" format even on platforms where "man" viewer is not widely available. * "git clone --local $path" started its life as an experiment to optionally use link/copy when cloning a repository on the disk, but we didn't deprecate it after we made the option a no-op to always use the optimization. The command learned "--no-local" option to turn this off, as a more explicit alternative over use of file:// URL. * "git fetch" and friends used to say "remote side hung up unexpectedly" when they failed to get response they expect from the other side, but one common reason why they don't get expected response is that the remote repository does not exist or cannot be read. The error message in this case was updated to give better hints to the user. * "git help -w $cmd" can show HTML version of documentation for "git-$cmd" by setting help.htmlpath to somewhere other than the 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. * "git status" gives finer classification to various states of paths in conflicted state and offer advice messages in its output. * "git submodule" learned to deal with nested submodule structure where a module is contained within a module whose origin is specified as a relative URL to its superproject's origin. * A rather heavy-ish "git completion" script has been split to create a separate "git prompting" script, to help lazy-autoloading of the completion part while making prompting part always available. * "gitweb" pays attention to various forms of credits that are similar to "Signed-off-by:" lines in the commit objects and highlights them accordingly. 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. Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. (please report possible regressions) * Some tests showed false failures caused by a bug in ecryptofs. * We no longer use AsciiDoc7 syntax in our documentation and favor a more modern style. * "git am --rebasing" codepath was taught to grab authorship, log message and the patch text directly out of existing commits. This will help rebasing commits that have confusing "diff" output in their log messages. * "git index-pack" and "git pack-objects" use streaming API to read from the object store to avoid having to hold a large blob object in-core while they are doing their thing. * Code to match paths with exclude patterns learned to avoid calling fnmatch() by comparing fixed leading substring literally when possible. * "git log -n 1 -- rarely-touched-path" was spending unnecessary cycles after showing the first change to find the next one, only to discard it. * "git svn" got a large-looking code reorganization at the last minute before the code freeze. Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups. Fixes since v1.7.11 ------------------- 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). * "git grep" stopped spawning an external "grep" long time ago, but a duplicated test to check internal and external "grep" was left behind. (merge 4ca9453 rj/maint-grep-remove-redundant-test later to maint). * The code to avoid mistaken attempt to add the object directory itself as its own alternate could read beyond end of a string while comparison. (merge cb2912c hv/link-alt-odb-entry later to maint). * "git submodule add" was confused when the superproject did not have its repository in its usual place in the working tree and GIT_DIR and GIT_WORK_TREE was used to access it. * "git commit --amend" let the user edit the log message and then died when the human-readable committer name was given insufficiently by getpwent(3). ---------------------------------------------------------------- Changes since v1.7.12-rc1 are as follows: Jiang Xin (11): i18n: New keywords for xgettext extraction from sh i18n: rebase: mark messages for translation i18n: Rewrite gettext messages start with dash rebase: remove obsolete and unused LONG_USAGE which breaks xgettext i18n: am: mark more strings for translation Remove dead code which contains bad gettext block i18n: merge-recursive: mark strings for translation l10n: Update git.pot (4 new, 3 removed messages) l10n: zh_CN.po: translate 4 new messages l10n: Update git.pot (76 new, 4 removed messages) l10n: zh_CN.po: translate 76 new messages Johannes Sixt (1): Makefile: use overridable $(FIND) instead of hard-coded 'find' Junio C Hamano (3): Prepare for 1.7.11.5 Drop 1.7.11.x items from 1.7.12 release notes Git 1.7.12-rc2 Matthieu Moy (1): git-remote-mediawiki: replace TODO-list in comment by appropriate link Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy (1): i18n: leave \n out of translated diffstat Ralf Thielow (3): l10n: de.po: translate 4 new messages git-rebase.sh: fix typo in an error message merge-recursive: separate message for common ancestors Tran Ngoc Quan (2): l10n: vi.po: translate 4 new messages l10n: vi.po update to follow POT in 3b613 Štěpán Němec (1): doc: A few minor copy edits. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html [Less]

A release candidate Git v1.7.12-rc1 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: 34f04ef64fd60bec32388afe27cc4e447ca55229 ... [More] git-1.7.12.rc1.tar.gz 88a97012fd1454190e8eb49114d807921a526125 git-htmldocs-1.7.12.rc1.tar.gz bc77f11d8f9e19c9900e95d32b9495698d4eb86f git-manpages-1.7.12.rc1.tar.gz Also the following public repositories all have a copy of the v1.7.12-rc1 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 v1.7.12 Release Notes (draft) ========================= Updates since v1.7.11 --------------------- UI, Workflows & Features * Git can be told to normalize pathnames it read from readdir(3) and all arguments it got from the command line into precomposed UTF-8 (assuming that they come as decomposed UTF-8), in order to work around issues on Mac OS. I think there still are other places that need conversion (e.g. paths that are read from stdin for some commands), but this should be a good first step in the right direction. * Per-user $HOME/.gitconfig file can optionally be stored in $HOME/.config/git/config instead, which is in line with XDG. * The value of core.attributesfile and core.excludesfile default to $HOME/.config/git/attributes and $HOME/.config/git/ignore respectively when these files exist. * Logic to disambiguate abbreviated object names have been taught to take advantage of object types that are expected in the context, e.g. XXXXXX in the "git describe" output v1.2.3-gXXXXXX must be a commit object, not a blob nor a tree. This will help us prolong the lifetime of abbreviated object names. * "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. * "git help" used to always default to "man" format even on platforms where "man" viewer is not widely available. * "git clone --local $path" started its life as an experiment to optionally use link/copy when cloning a repository on the disk, but we didn't deprecate it after we made the option a no-op to always use the optimization. The command learned "--no-local" option to turn this off, as a more explicit alternative over use of file:// URL. * "git fetch" and friends used to say "remote side hung up unexpectedly" when they failed to get response they expect from the other side, but one common reason why they don't get expected response is that the remote repository does not exist or cannot be read. The error message in this case was updated to give better hints to the user. * git native protocol agents learned to show software version over the wire, so that the server log can be examined to see the vintage distribution of clients. * "git help -w $cmd" can show HTML version of documentation for "git-$cmd" by setting help.htmlpath to somewhere other than the 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. * "git status" gives finer classification to various states of paths in conflicted state and offer advice messages in its output. * "git submodule" learned to deal with nested submodule structure where a module is contained within a module whose origin is specified as a relative URL to its superproject's origin. * A rather heavy-ish "git completion" script has been split to create a separate "git prompting" script, to help lazy-autoloading of the completion part while making prompting part always available. * "gitweb" pays attention to various forms of credits that are similar to "Signed-off-by:" lines in the commit objects and highlights them accordingly. 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. Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. (please report possible regressions) * Some tests showed false failures caused by a bug in ecryptofs. * We no longer use AsciiDoc7 syntax in our documentation and favor a more modern style. * "git am --rebasing" codepath was taught to grab authorship, log message and the patch text directly out of existing commits. This will help rebasing commits that have confusing "diff" output in their log messages. * "git index-pack" and "git pack-objects" use streaming API to read from the object store to avoid having to hold a large blob object in-core while they are doing their thing. * Code to match paths with exclude patterns learned to avoid calling fnmatch() by comparing fixed leading substring literally when possible. * "git log -n 1 -- rarely-touched-path" was spending unnecessary cycles after showing the first change to find the next one, only to discard it. * "git svn" got a large-looking code reorganization at the last minute before the code freeze. Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups. Fixes since v1.7.11 ------------------- 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). * "git grep" stopped spawning an external "grep" long time ago, but a duplicated test to check internal and external "grep" was left behind. (merge 4ca9453 rj/maint-grep-remove-redundant-test later to maint). * The code to avoid mistaken attempt to add the object directory itself as its own alternate could read beyond end of a string while comparison. (merge cb2912c hv/link-alt-odb-entry later to maint). * "git checkout " to come back from a detached HEAD state incorrectly computed reachability of the detached HEAD, resulting in unnecessary warnings. (merge add416a jk/maint-checkout-orphan-check-fix later to maint). * The documentation for revision range specifiers (e.g. A..B, A^@) has been updated. (merge ca5ee2d mh/maint-revisions-doc later to maint). * "git submodule add" was confused when the superproject did not have its repository in its usual place in the working tree and GIT_DIR and GIT_WORK_TREE was used to access it. * "git mergetool" did not support --tool-help option to give the list of supported backends, like "git difftool" does. (merge 109859e jc/mergetool-tool-help later to maint). * "git commit --amend" let the user edit the log message and then died when the human-readable committer name was given insufficiently by getpwent(3). -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html [Less]

The latest maintenance release Git v1.7.11.4 is now available 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: 36180126eb2048d49b00f6092d83568df4e61c4c ... [More] git-1.7.11.4.tar.gz ceb4b4699a6561719aa07e01601ed5491206c075 git-htmldocs-1.7.11.4.tar.gz 032301a87832d738149925ad2912baa554ae2270 git-manpages-1.7.11.4.tar.gz Also the following public repositories all have a copy of the v1.7.11.4 tag and the maint 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 v1.7.11.4 Release Notes =========================== Fixes since v1.7.11.3 --------------------- * "$GIT_DIR/COMMIT_EDITMSG" file that is used to hold the commit log message user edits was not documented. * The advise() function did not use varargs correctly to format its message. * When "git am" failed, old timers knew to check .git/rebase-apply/patch to see what went wrong, but we never told the users about it. * "git commit-tree" learned a more natural "-p " order of arguments long time ago, but recently forgot it by mistake. * "git diff --no-ext-diff" did not output anything for a typechange filepair when GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF is in effect. * In 1.7.9 era, we taught "git rebase" about the raw timestamp format but we did not teach the same trick to "filter-branch", which rolled a similar logic on its own. * When "git submodule add" clones a submodule repository, it can get confused where to store the resulting submodule repository in the superproject's .git/ directory when there is a symbolic link in the path to the current directory. Also contains minor typofixes and documentation updates. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Changes since v1.7.11.3 are as follows: Jeff King (3): diff: test precedence of external diff drivers advice: pass varargs to strbuf_vaddf, not strbuf_addf commit: document the temporary commit message file Jens Lehmann (1): submodules: don't stumble over symbolic links when cloning recursively Junio C Hamano (7): filter-branch: do not forget the '@' prefix to force git-timestamp date.c: Fix off by one error in object-header date parsing t7003: add test to filter a branch with a commit at epoch commit-tree: resurrect command line parsing updates Revert "git-commit-tree(1): update synopsis" diff: correctly disable external_diff with --no-ext-diff Git 1.7.11.4 Paul Gortmaker (1): am: indicate where a failed patch is to be found -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html [Less]

A release candidate Git v1.7.12-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: 09016e819a69b49090756e9bc5c97a4df25c2f78 ... [More] git-1.7.12.rc0.tar.gz e85ad0780ff81eacdb05a10762060812bc9367dd git-htmldocs-1.7.12.rc0.tar.gz b641a9664c333518ede3b1d8b67d84d18f5b0e14 git-manpages-1.7.12.rc0.tar.gz Also the following public repositories all have a copy of the v1.7.12-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 v1.7.12 Release Notes (draft) ========================= Updates since v1.7.11 --------------------- UI, Workflows & Features * Git can be told to normalize pathnames it read from readdir(3) and all arguments it got from the command line into precomposed UTF-8 (assuming that they come as decomposed UTF-8), in order to work around issues on Mac OS. I think there still are other places that need conversion (e.g. paths that are read from stdin for some commands), but this should be a good first step in the right direction. * Per-user $HOME/.gitconfig file can optionally be stored in $HOME/.config/git/config instead, which is in line with XDG. * The value of core.attributesfile and core.excludesfile default to $HOME/.config/attributes and $HOME/.config/ignore respectively when these files exist. * Logic to disambiguate abbreviated object names have been taught to take advantage of object types that are expected in the context, e.g. XXXXXX in the "git describe" output v1.2.3-gXXXXXX must be a commit object, not a blob nor a tree. This will help us prolong the lifetime of abbreviated object names. * "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. * "git help" used to always default to "man" format even on platforms where "man" viewer is not widely available. * "git clone --local $path" started its life as an experiment to optionally use link/copy when cloning a repository on the disk, but we didn't deprecate it after we made the option a no-op to always use the optimization. The command learned "--no-local" option to turn this off, as a more explicit alternative over use of file:// URL. * "git fetch" and friends used to say "remote side hung up unexpectedly" when they failed to get response they expect from the other side, but one common reason why they don't get expected response is that the remote repository does not exist or cannot be read. The error message in this case was updated to give better hints to the user. * git native protocol agents learned to show software version over the wire, so that the server log can be examined to see the vintage distribution of clients. * "git help -w $cmd" can show HTML version of documentation for "git-$cmd" by setting help.htmlpath to somewhere other than the 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. * "git status" gives finer classification to various states of paths in conflicted state and offer advice messages in its output. * "git submodule" learned to deal with nested submodule structure where a module is contained within a module whose origin is specified as a relative URL to its superproject's origin. * A rather heavy-ish "git completion" script has been split to create a separate "git prompting" script, to help lazy-autoloading of the completion part while making prompting part always available. * "gitweb" pays attention to various forms of credits that are similar to "Signed-off-by:" lines in the commit objects and highlights them accordingly. 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. Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. (please report possible regressions) * Some tests showed false failures caused by a bug in ecryptofs. * We no longer use AsciiDoc7 syntax in our documentation and favor a more modern style. * "git am --rebasing" codepath was taught to grab authorship, log message and the patch text directly out of existing commits. This will help rebasing commits that have confusing "diff" output in their log messages. * "git index-pack" and "git pack-objects" use streaming API to read from the object store to avoid having to hold a large blob object in-core while they are doing their thing. * Code to match paths with exclude patterns learned to avoid calling fnmatch() by comparing fixed leading substring literally when possible. * "git log -n 1 -- rarely-touched-path" was spending unnecessary cycles after showing the first change to find the next one, only to discard it. Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups. Fixes since v1.7.11 ------------------- 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). * "git commit-tree" learned a more natural "-p " order of arguments long time ago, but recently forgot it by mistake. (merge 4b7518a kk/maint-commit-tree later to maint). * "git diff --no-ext-diff" did not output anything for a typechange filepair when GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF is in effect. (merge c12f82a jv/maint-no-ext-diff later to maint). * When "git am" failed, old timers knew to check .git/rebase-apply/patch to see what went wrong, but we never told the users about it. (merge 14bf2d5 pg/maint-1.7.9-am-where-is-patch later to maint). * When "git submodule add" clones a submodule repository, it can get confused where to store the resulting submodule repository in the superproject's .git/ directory when there is a symbolic link in the path to the current directory. (merge 6eafa6d jl/maint-1.7.10-recurse-submodules-with-symlink later to maint). * In 1.7.9 era, we taught "git rebase" about the raw timestamp format but we did not teach the same trick to "filter-branch", which rolled a similar logic on its own. (merge 44b85e89 jc/maint-filter-branch-epoch-date later to maint). -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html [Less]

The latest maintenance release Git v1.7.11.3 is now available 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: a10c420e4d9152d6059f41825904cfac3062b135 ... [More] git-1.7.11.3.tar.gz 41500708e87787d6139de413c4da91629aa79fa8 git-htmldocs-1.7.11.3.tar.gz 10151406ace1da92a70d203a7eb1c86024fdd919 git-manpages-1.7.11.3.tar.gz Also the following public repositories all have a copy of the v1.7.11.3 tag and the maint 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 v1.7.11.3 Release Notes =========================== Fixes since v1.7.11.3 --------------------- * The error message from "git push $there :bogo" (and its equivalent "git push $there --delete bogo") mentioned that we tried and failed to guess what ref is being deleted based on the LHS of the refspec, which we don't. * A handful of files and directories we create had tighter than necessary permission bits when the user wanted to have group writability (e.g. by setting "umask 002"). * "commit --amend" used to refuse amending a commit with an empty log message, with or without "--allow-empty-message". * "git commit --amend --only --" was meant to allow "Clever" people to rewrite the commit message without making any change even when they have already changes for the next commit added to their index, but it never worked as advertised since it was introduced in 1.3.0 era. * Even though the index can record pathnames longer than 1<<12 bytes, in some places we were not comparing them in full, potentially replacing index entries instead of adding. * "git show"'s auto-walking behaviour was an unreliable and unpredictable hack; it now behaves just like "git log" does when it walks. * "git diff", "git status" and anything that internally uses the comparison machinery was utterly broken when the difference involved a file with "-" as its name. This was due to the way "git diff --no-index" was incorrectly bolted on to the system, making any comparison that involves a file "-" at the root level incorrectly read from the standard input. * We did not have test to make sure "git rebase" without extra options filters out an empty commit in the original history. * "git fast-export" produced an input stream for fast-import without properly quoting pathnames when they contain SPs in them. * "git checkout --detach", when you are still on an unborn branch, should be forbidden, but it wasn't. * Some implementations of Perl terminates "lines" with CRLF even when the script is operating on just a sequence of bytes. Make sure to use "$PERL_PATH", the version of Perl the user told Git to use, in our tests to avoid unnecessary breakages in tests. Also contains minor typofixes and documentation updates. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Changes since v1.7.11.2 are as follows: Alex Riesen (1): Restore umasks influence on the permissions of work tree created by clone Chris Webb (2): git-checkout: disallow --detach on unborn branch Allow edit of empty message with commit --amend Jay Soffian (1): fast-export: quote paths with spaces Jeff King (3): push: don't guess at qualifying remote refs on deletion add: create ADD_EDIT.patch with mode 0666 commit: fix "--amend --only" with no pathspec Junio C Hamano (10): show: fix "range implies walking" t/test-lib.sh: export PERL_PATH for use in scripts tests: enclose $PERL_PATH in double quotes t/README: add a bit more Don'ts diff-index.c: do not pretend paths are pathspecs diff-index.c: unify handling of command line paths diff-index.c: "git diff" has no need to read blob from the standard input rerere: make rr-cache fanout directory honor umask cache_name_compare(): do not truncate while comparing paths Git 1.7.11.3 Martin von Zweigbergk (1): add test case for rebase of empty commit Thomas Rast (1): Demonstrate git-show is broken with ranges Vincent van Ravesteijn (1): t: Replace 'perl' by $PERL_PATH -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html [Less]

Hi, I've been wanting to announce Sharness [1] on this list for quite some time now, but never managed to do so. With the release of version 0.2.4, I think it's about time to change that. Sharness is a shell-based test harness library. It was ... [More] derived from the Git project and is basically a generalized and stripped-down version of t/test-lib.sh (I basically removed all things specific to Git). So when you know how to write tests for Git, it should be very familiar. I've been using Sharness to test my command-line applications [2] for over a year now. It's especially useful when you're doing continuous integration with a service like Travis CI [3]. Development of Sharness takes place at GitHub [4]. If you're interested, there might be some things I could contribute back to Git, e.g. the API documentation [5] I wrote in TomDoc format. Looking forward to your feedback. [1] http://mlafeldt.github.com/sharness [2] https://github.com/mlafeldt/sharness#projects-using-sharness [3] http://travis-ci.org/ [4] https://github.com/mlafeldt/sharness [5] https://github.com/mlafeldt/sharness/blob/master/API.md -Mathias -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html [Less]

Hello All, I'm glad to report that SubGit 1.0 RC1 is available for download at http://subgit.com/ SubGit is a server side tool that enables transparent two-way synchronization between Subversion and Git. Being installed into Subversion repository ... [More] , SubGit provides safe and smooth Svn to Git migration experience. This first release candidate of SubGit is ready for production use. Links that you may find useful: Download: http://www.subgit.com/download/ Comparison to Git-Svn: http://subgit.com/documentation/gitsvn.html Blog on practical SubGit usage: http://blog.subgit.com/ SubGit Issues tracker: http://issues.tmatesoft.com/issues/SGT Feel free to use SubGit for free and let us know if there is anything you miss. If you have any questions or suggestions on SubGit, we'd love to receive them at [email protected] Thanks, SubGit Team, TMate Software, http://subgit.com/ - Safe Svn to Git Migration! http://svnkit.com/ - Java [Sub]Versioning Library! http://hg4j.com/ - Java Mercurial Library! http://sqljet.com/ - Java SQLite Library! -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html [Less]