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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.txt | 40 |
1 files changed, 23 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.txt index 3f4c63ab3..7931f7707 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.txt @@ -79,6 +79,9 @@ Foreign Interface 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. @@ -120,23 +123,26 @@ 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). - * When a submodule repository uses alternate object store mechanism, - some commands that were started from the superproject did not - notice it and failed with "No such object" errors. The subcommands - of "git submodule" command that properly recursed into the - submodule in a separate process were OK; only the ones that cheated - and peeked directly into the submodule's repository from the - primary process were affected. - (merge 5e73633 hv/submodule-alt-odb later to maint). - - * The directory path used in "git diff --no-index", when it recurses - down, was broken with a recent update after v1.7.10.1 release. - (merge 176a335 bp/diff-no-index-strbuf-fix later to maint). - - * "git status --porcelain" ignored "--branch" option by mistake. The - output for "git status --branch -z" was also incorrect and did not - terminate the record for the current branch name with NUL as asked. - (merge d4a6bf1 jk/maint-status-porcelain-z-b later to maint). + * 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 |