[ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.5.2.2
Junio C Hamano
gitster at pobox.com
Wed Aug 31 22:00:02 BST 2011
The latest maintenance release GIT 1.5.2.2 is available at the
usual places:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/
git-1.5.2.2.tar.{gz,bz2} (tarball)
git-htmldocs-1.5.2.2.tar.{gz,bz2} (preformatted docs)
git-manpages-1.5.2.2.tar.{gz,bz2} (preformatted docs)
RPMS/$arch/git-*-1.5.2.2-1.$arch.rpm (RPM)
GIT v1.5.2.2 Release Notes
==========================
Fixes since v1.5.2.1
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* Usability fix
- git-gui is shipped with its updated blame interface. It is
rumored that the older one was not just unusable but was
active health hazard, but this one is actually pretty.
Please see for yourself.
* Bugfixes
- "git checkout fubar" was utterly confused when there is a
branch fubar and a tag fubar at the same time. It correctly
checks out the branch fubar now.
- "git clone /path/foo" to clone a local /path/foo.git
repository left an incorrect configuration.
- "git send-email" correctly unquotes RFC 2047 quoted names in
the patch-email before using their values.
- We did not accept number of seconds since epoch older than
year 2000 as a valid timestamp. We now interpret positive
integers more than 8 digits as such, which allows us to
express timestamps more recent than March 1973.
- git-cvsimport did not work when you have GIT_DIR to point
your repository at a nonstandard location.
- Some systems (notably, Solaris) lack hstrerror() to make
h_errno human readable; prepare a replacement
implementation.
- .gitignore file listed git-core.spec but what we generate is
git.spec, and nobody noticed for a long time.
- "git-merge-recursive" does not try to run file level merge
on binary files.
- "git-branch --track" did not create tracking configuration
correctly when the branch name had slash in it.
- The email address of the user specified with user.email
configuration was overriden by EMAIL environment variable.
- The tree parser did not warn about tree entries with
nonsense file modes, and assumed they must be blobs.
- "git log -z" without any other request to generate diff still
invoked the diff machinery, wasting cycles.
* Documentation
- Many updates to fix stale or missing documentation.
- Although our documentation was primarily meant to be formatted
with AsciiDoc7, formatting with AsciiDoc8 is supported better.
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Changes since v1.5.2.1 are as follows:
Alex Riesen (3):
Make the installation target of git-gui a little less chatty
Fix clone to setup the origin if its name ends with .git
Add a local implementation of hstrerror for the system which do not have it
Gerrit Pape (1):
Fix typo in remote branch example in git user manual
J. Bruce Fields (4):
user-manual: quick-start updates
user-manual: add a missing section ID
Documentation: user-manual todo
tutorial: use "project history" instead of "changelog" in header
Jakub Narebski (1):
Generated spec file to be ignored is named git.spec and not git-core.spec
Johannes Schindelin (2):
Move buffer_is_binary() to xdiff-interface.h
merge-recursive: refuse to merge binary files
Johannes Sixt (1):
Accept dates before 2000/01/01 when specified as seconds since the epoch
Junio C Hamano (6):
checkout: do not get confused with ambiguous tag/branch names
$EMAIL is a last resort fallback, as it's system-wide.
git-branch --track: fix tracking branch computation.
Avoid diff cost on "git log -z"
Documentation: adjust to AsciiDoc 8
GIT 1.5.2.2
Kristian H淡gsberg (1):
Unquote From line from patch before comparing with given from address.
Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino (1):
git-cherry: Document 'limit' command-line option
Matthijs Melchior (1):
New selection indication and softer colors
Michael Milligan (1):
git-cvsimport: Make sure to use $git_dir always instead of .git sometimes
Sam Vilain (2):
fix documentation of unpack-objects -n
Don't assume tree entries that are not dirs are blobs
Shawn O. Pearce (47):
git-gui: Allow creating a branch when none exists
git-gui: Allow as few as 0 lines of diff context
git-gui: Don't quit when we destroy a child widget
git-gui: Attach font_ui to all spinbox widgets
git-gui: Verify Tcl/Tk is new enough for our needs
Revert "Make the installation target of git-gui a little less chatty"
git-gui: Add a 4 digit commit abbreviation to the blame viewer
git-gui: Cleanup blame::new widget initialization
git-gui: Remove empty blank line at end of blame
git-gui: Improve the coloring in blame viewer
git-gui: Simplify consecutive lines that come from the same commit
git-gui: Use arror cursor in blame viewer file data
git-gui: Display tooltips in blame viewer
git-gui: Highlight the blame commit header from everything else
git-gui: Remove unnecessary reshow of blamed commit
git-gui: Cleanup minor style nit
git-gui: Space the commit group continuation out in blame view
git-gui: Show author initials in blame groups
git-gui: Allow the user to control the blame/commit split point
git-gui: Display a progress bar during blame annotation gathering
git-gui: Allow digging through history in blame viewer
git-gui: Combine blame groups only if commit and filename match
git-gui: Show original filename in blame tooltip
git-gui: Use a label instead of a button for the back button
git-gui: Clip the commit summaries in the blame history menu
git-gui: Remove the loaded column from the blame viewer
git-gui: Remove unnecessary space between columns in blame viewer
git-gui: Use lighter colors in blame view
git-gui: Make the line number column slightly wider in blame
git-gui: Automatically expand the line number column as needed
git-gui: Remove unused commit_list from blame viewer
git-gui: Better document our blame variables
git-gui: Cleanup redundant column management in blame viewer
git-gui: Switch internal blame structure to Tcl lists
git-gui: Label the uncommitted blame history entry
git-gui: Rename fields in blame viewer to better descriptions
git-gui: Display the "Loading annotation..." message in italic
git-gui: Run blame twice on the same file and display both outputs
git-gui: Display both commits in our tooltips
git-gui: Jump to original line in blame viewer
git-gui: Use three colors for the blame viewer background
git-gui: Improve our labeling of blame annotation types
git-gui: Favor the original annotations over the recent ones
git-gui: Changed blame header bar background to match main window
git-gui: Include 'war on whitespace' fixes from git.git
git-gui: Give amend precedence to HEAD over MERGE_MSG
git-gui: Save geometry before the window layout is damaged
william pursell (1):
Make command description imperative statement, not third-person present.
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