The latest feature release Git 1.7.7 is available.
The release tarballs are found at:
http://code.google.com/p/git-core/downloads/list
and their SHA-1 checksums are:
bbf85bd767ca6b7e9caa1489bb4ba7ec64e0ab35 git-1.7.7.tar.gz
33183db94fd25e001bd8a9fd6696b992f61e28d8 git-htmldocs-1.7.7.tar.gz
75d3cceb46f7a46eeb825033dff76af5eb5ea3d9 git-manpages-1.7.7.tar.gz
Also the following public repositories all have a copy of the v1.7.7 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
The release tag and the tarballs can be verified with my GPG key if anybody is so inclined. To get my public key:
$ git fetch git://repo.or.cz/alt-git.git refs/tags/junio-gpg-pub
$ git rev-parse FETCH_HEAD
680865b90b18efbc9402ea979adf0302c6dfe72e
$ git cat-file blob FETCH_HEAD | gpg --import
and then make sure that you got my key by checking the output from "gpg --fingerprint", which should contain these lines:
pub 1024D/F3119B9A 2004-01-28
Key fingerprint = 3565 2A26 2040 E066 C9A7 4A7D C0C6 D9A4 F311 9B9A
uid Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The tarball description at http://code.google.com/p/git-core/downloads/list contains the same list of SHA-1 checksums shown above and signed with my GPG key.
Have fun.
Git v1.7.7 Release Notes
========================
Updates since v1.7.6
--------------------
* The scripting part of the codebase is getting prepared for i18n/l10n.
* Interix, Cygwin and Minix ports got updated.
* Various updates to git-p4 (in contrib/), fast-import, and git-svn.
* Gitweb learned to read from /etc/gitweb-common.conf when it exists,
before reading from gitweb_config.perl or from /etc/gitweb.conf
(this last one is read only when per-repository gitweb_config.perl
does not exist).
* Various codepaths that invoked zlib deflate/inflate assumed that these
functions can compress or uncompress more than 4GB data in one call on
platforms with 64-bit long, which has been corrected.
* Git now recognizes loose objects written by other implementations that
use a non-standard window size for zlib deflation (e.g. Agit running on
Android with 4kb window). We used to reject anything that was not
deflated with 32kb window.
* Interaction between the use of pager and coloring of the output has
been improved, especially when a command that is not built-in was
involved.
* "git am" learned to pass the "--exclude=<path>" option through to underlying
"git apply".
* You can now feed many empty lines before feeding an mbox file to
"git am".
* "git archive" can be told to pass the output to gzip compression and
produce "archive.tar.gz".
* "git bisect" can be used in a bare repository (provided that the test
you perform per each iteration does not need a working tree, of
course).
* The length of abbreviated object names in "git branch -v" output
now honors the core.abbrev configuration variable.
* "git check-attr" can take relative paths from the command line.
* "git check-attr" learned an "--all" option to list the attributes for a
given path.
* "git checkout" (both the code to update the files upon checking out a
different branch and the code to checkout a specific set of files) learned
to stream the data from object store when possible, without having to
read the entire contents of a file into memory first. An earlier round
of this code that is not in any released version had a large leak but
now it has been plugged.
* "git clone" can now take a "--config key=value" option to set the
repository configuration options that affect the initial checkout.
* "git commit <paths>..." now lets you feed relative pathspecs that
refer to outside your current subdirectory.
* "git diff --stat" learned a --stat-count option to limit the output of
a diffstat report.
* "git diff" learned a "--histogram" option to use a different diff
generation machinery stolen from jgit, which might give better
performance.
* "git diff" had a weird worst case behaviour that can be triggered
when comparing files with potentially many places that could match.
* "git fetch", "git push" and friends no longer show connection
errors for addresses that couldn't be connected to when at least one
address succeeds (this is arguably a regression but a deliberate
one).
* "git grep" learned "--break" and "--heading" options, to let users mimic
the output format of "ack".
* "git grep" learned a "-W" option that shows wider context using the same
logic used by "git diff" to determine the hunk header.
* Invoking the low-level "git http-fetch" without "-a" option (which
git itself never did---normal users should not have to worry about
this) is now deprecated.
* The "--decorate" option to "git log" and its family learned to
highlight grafted and replaced commits.
* "git rebase master topci" no longer spews usage hints after giving
the "fatal: no such branch: topci" error message.
* The recursive merge strategy implementation got a fairly large
fix for many corner cases that may rarely happen in real world
projects (it has been verified that none of the 16000+ merges in
the Linux kernel history back to v2.6.12 is affected with the
corner case bugs this update fixes).
* "git stash" learned an "--include-untracked option".
* "git submodule update" used to stop at the first error updating a
submodule; it now goes on to update other submodules that can be
updated, and reports the ones with errors at the end.
* "git push" can be told with the "--recurse-submodules=check" option to
refuse pushing of the supermodule, if any of its submodules'
commits hasn't been pushed out to their remotes.
* "git upload-pack" and "git receive-pack" learned to pretend that only a
subset of the refs exist in a repository. This may help a site to
put many tiny repositories into one repository (this would not be
useful for larger repositories as repacking would be problematic).
* "git verify-pack" has been rewritten to use the "index-pack" machinery
that is more efficient in reading objects in packfiles.
* test scripts for gitweb tried to run even when CGI-related perl modules
are not installed; they now exit early when the latter are unavailable.
Also contains various documentation updates and minor miscellaneous
changes.
Fixes since v1.7.6
------------------
Unless otherwise noted, all fixes in the 1.7.6.X maintenance track are
included in this release.
* "git branch -m" and "git checkout -b" incorrectly allowed the tip
of the branch that is currently checked out updated.
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Friday, September 30, 2011
Friday, September 23, 2011
Git 1.7.7-rc3 and 1.7.6.4 are out
I gave up waiting on kernel.org and really wanted to do the 1.7.7 final toward this weekend, but found a corner case regression in the recursive merge backend (again). 1.7.7-rc3 contains a quick fix for it, and needs to be cooked for a few days at least, so the final will have to wait at least until mid next week.
1.7.6.4 merges a handful of fixes that have already been merged to the master branch and are included in 1.7.7-rc3.
They are both available at
http://code.google.com/p/git-core/downloads/list
and also are found in my public repositories at various hosting sites:
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
1.7.6.4 merges a handful of fixes that have already been merged to the master branch and are included in 1.7.7-rc3.
They are both available at
http://code.google.com/p/git-core/downloads/list
and also are found in my public repositories at various hosting sites:
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
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Return of html/man branches
I have not built and published these two branches myself for quite some time, as I let the post update hook of my public repository automatically fetch updates from the 'master' branch to another work area, format the documentation, make commits and push the result back to the public repository, all automated at the kernel.org infrastructure.
Unfortunately, kernel.org has been down for quite a while. So as a "time-permits" and "experimental" basis, I've started publishing these two branches after formatting the documentation locally on my primary development machine to the other public repositories.
I won't promise that I'll rebuild the docs every time I push the 'master' branch out, like the system I used to have at kernel.org did for me, but this will have to do in the meantime.
Monday, September 19, 2011
Fun with url.$that.insteadOf
It is not exactly fun that I and others have to do this, but while k.org is down:
$ git -c url.http://code.google.com/p/git-core.insteadof=git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git fetch
lets me reuse all the fetch refspec configuration items I have for the "origin" remote.
To make this semi-permanent, I could have the following in my $HOME/.gitconfig but I have been hoping that k.org would come back before I actually do it and haven't done so:
Not exactly fun, but...
$ git -c url.http://code.google.com/p/git-core.insteadof=git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git fetch
lets me reuse all the fetch refspec configuration items I have for the "origin" remote.
To make this semi-permanent, I could have the following in my $HOME/.gitconfig but I have been hoping that k.org would come back before I actually do it and haven't done so:
[url "http://code.google.com/p/git-core"]
insteadOf = git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git
Monday, September 12, 2011
Git User's Survey 2011
Here is from Jakub Narebski who is again running "Git User's Survey" this year for us.
The Git User's Survey 2011 is now up! Please devote a few minutes of
your time to fill out the simple questionnaire; it'll help the Git
community understand your needs, what you like about Git (and what you
don't), and overall help us improve it.
The survey will be open from 5 September till 3 October 2011.
The results will be published at GitSurvey2011 page on Git Wiki.
The Git User's Survey 2011 is now up! Please devote a few minutes of
your time to fill out the simple questionnaire; it'll help the Git
community understand your needs, what you like about Git (and what you
don't), and overall help us improve it.
The survey will be open from 5 September till 3 October 2011.
The results will be published at GitSurvey2011 page on Git Wiki.
1.7.7-rc1 is out
As I have been postponing of tagging this feature freeze release candidate for a while, hoping that k.org would regain its health soon enough, we are seriously slipping. I was hoping to tag the final by the end of August, but now it is almost mid September.
In any case, the shape of the upcoming release is fairly clear now. Please help finding regressions so that we can have a solid final release by the end of this month if not earlier.
A release candidate tarball is found at:
http://code.google.com/p/git-
and its SHA-1 checksum is:
80dfcce410d2f36ffed4c8b48c8c89
Also the following public repositories all have a copy of the v1.7.7-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-
url = git://git.sourceforge.jp/
url = git://git-core.git.
url = https://github.com/gitster/git
Git v1.7.7 Release Notes (draft)
========================
Updates since v1.7.6
--------------------
* The scripting part of the codebase is getting prepared for i18n/l10n.
* Interix, Cygwin and Minix ports got updated.
* Various updates to git-p4 (in contrib/), fast-import, and git-svn.
* Gitweb learned to read from /etc/gitweb-common.conf when it exists,
before reading from gitweb_config.perl or from /etc/gitweb.conf
(this last one is read only when per-repository gitweb_config.perl
does not exist).
* Various codepaths that invoked zlib deflate/inflate assumed that these
functions can compress or uncompress more than 4GB data in one call on
platforms with 64-bit long, which has been corrected.
* Git now recognizes loose objects written by other implementations that
use a non-standard window size for zlib deflation (e.g. Agit running on
Android with 4kb window). We used to reject anything that was not
deflated with 32kb window.
* Interaction between the use of pager and coloring of the output has
been improved, especially when a command that is not built-in was
involved.
* "git am" learned to pass the "--exclude=<path>" option through to underlying
"git apply".
* You can now feed many empty lines before feeding an mbox file to
"git am".
* "git archive" can be told to pass the output to gzip compression and
produce "archive.tar.gz".
* "git bisect" can be used in a bare repository (provided that the test
you perform per each iteration does not need a working tree, of
course).
* The length of abbreviated object names in "git branch -v" output
now honors the core.abbrev configuration variable.
* "git check-attr" can take relative paths from the command line.
* "git check-attr" learned an "--all" option to list the attributes for a
given path.
* "git checkout" (both the code to update the files upon checking out a
different branch and the code to checkout a specific set of files) learned
to stream the data from object store when possible, without having to
read the entire contents of a file into memory first. An earlier round
of this code that is not in any released version had a large leak but
now it has been plugged.
* "git clone" can now take a "--config key=value" option to set the
repository configuration options that affect the initial checkout.
* "git commit <paths>..." now lets you feed relative pathspecs that
refer to outside your current subdirectory.
* "git diff --stat" learned a --stat-count option to limit the output of
a diffstat report.
* "git diff" learned a "--histogram" option to use a different diff
generation machinery stolen from jgit, which might give better
performance.
* "git diff" had a weird worst case behaviour that can be triggered
when comparing files with potentially many places that could match.
* "git fetch", "git push" and friends no longer show connection
errors for addresses that couldn't be connected to when at least one
address succeeds (this is arguably a regression but a deliberate
one).
* "git grep" learned "--break" and "--heading" options, to let users mimic
the output format of "ack".
* "git grep" learned a "-W" option that shows wider context using the same
logic used by "git diff" to determine the hunk header.
* Invoking the low-level "git http-fetch" without "-a" option (which
git itself never did---normal users should not have to worry about
this) is now deprecated.
* The "--decorate" option to "git log" and its family learned to
highlight grafted and replaced commits.
* "git rebase master topci" no longer spews usage hints after giving
the "fatal: no such branch: topci" error message.
* The recursive merge strategy implementation got a fairly large
fix for many corner cases that may rarely happen in real world
projects (it has been verified that none of the 16000+ merges in
the Linux kernel history back to v2.6.12 is affected with the
corner case bugs this update fixes).
* "git stash" learned an "--include-untracked option".
* "git submodule update" used to stop at the first error updating a
submodule; it now goes on to update other submodules that can be
updated, and reports the ones with errors at the end.
* "git push" can be told with the "--recurse-submodules=check" option to
refuse pushing of the supermodule, if any of its submodules'
commits hasn't been pushed out to their remotes.
* "git upload-pack" and "git receive-pack" learned to pretend that only a
subset of the refs exist in a repository. This may help a site to
put many tiny repositories into one repository (this would not be
useful for larger repositories as repacking would be problematic).
* "git verify-pack" has been rewritten to use the "index-pack" machinery
that is more efficient in reading objects in packfiles.
* test scripts for gitweb tried to run even when CGI-related perl modules
are not installed; they now exit early when the latter are unavailable.
Also contains various documentation updates and minor miscellaneous
changes.
Fixes since v1.7.6
------------------
Unless otherwise noted, all fixes in the 1.7.6.X maintenance track are
included in this release.
* The error reporting logic of "git am" when the command is fed a file
whose mail-storage format is unknown was fixed.
(merge dff4b0e gb/maint-am-patch-format-
* "git branch --set-upstream @{-1} foo" did not expand @{-1} correctly.
(merge e9d4f74 mg/branch-set-upstream-
* "git branch -m" and "git checkout -b" incorrectly allowed the tip
of the branch that is currently checked out updated.
(merge 55c4a67 ci/forbid-unwanted-current-
* "git check-ref-format --print" used to parrot a candidate string that
began with a slash (e.g. /refs/heads/master) without stripping it, to make
the result a suitably normalized string the caller can append to "$GIT_DIR/".
(merge f3738c1 mh/check-ref-format-print-
* "git clone" failed to clone locally from a ".git" file that itself
is not a directory but is a pointer to one.
(merge 9b0ebc7 nd/maint-clone-gitdir later to 'maint').
* "git clone" from a local repository that borrows from another
object store using a relative path in its objects/info/alternates
file did not adjust the alternates in the resulting repository.
(merge e6baf4a1 jc/maint-clone-alternates later to 'maint').
* "git describe --dirty" did not refresh the index before checking the
state of the working tree files.
(cherry-pick bb57148 ac/describe-dirty-refresh later to 'maint').
* "git ls-files ../$path" that is run from a subdirectory reported errors
incorrectly when there is no such path that matches the given pathspec.
(merge 0f64bfa cb/maint-ls-files-error-report later to 'maint').
In any case, the shape of the upcoming release is fairly clear now. Please help finding regressions so that we can have a solid final release by the end of this month if not earlier.
A release candidate tarball is found at:
http://code.google.com/p/git-
and its SHA-1 checksum is:
80dfcce410d2f36ffed4c8b48c8c89
Also the following public repositories all have a copy of the v1.7.7-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-
url = git://git.sourceforge.jp/
url = git://git-core.git.
url = https://github.com/gitster/git
Git v1.7.7 Release Notes (draft)
========================
Updates since v1.7.6
--------------------
* The scripting part of the codebase is getting prepared for i18n/l10n.
* Interix, Cygwin and Minix ports got updated.
* Various updates to git-p4 (in contrib/), fast-import, and git-svn.
* Gitweb learned to read from /etc/gitweb-common.conf when it exists,
before reading from gitweb_config.perl or from /etc/gitweb.conf
(this last one is read only when per-repository gitweb_config.perl
does not exist).
* Various codepaths that invoked zlib deflate/inflate assumed that these
functions can compress or uncompress more than 4GB data in one call on
platforms with 64-bit long, which has been corrected.
* Git now recognizes loose objects written by other implementations that
use a non-standard window size for zlib deflation (e.g. Agit running on
Android with 4kb window). We used to reject anything that was not
deflated with 32kb window.
* Interaction between the use of pager and coloring of the output has
been improved, especially when a command that is not built-in was
involved.
* "git am" learned to pass the "--exclude=<path>" option through to underlying
"git apply".
* You can now feed many empty lines before feeding an mbox file to
"git am".
* "git archive" can be told to pass the output to gzip compression and
produce "archive.tar.gz".
* "git bisect" can be used in a bare repository (provided that the test
you perform per each iteration does not need a working tree, of
course).
* The length of abbreviated object names in "git branch -v" output
now honors the core.abbrev configuration variable.
* "git check-attr" can take relative paths from the command line.
* "git check-attr" learned an "--all" option to list the attributes for a
given path.
* "git checkout" (both the code to update the files upon checking out a
different branch and the code to checkout a specific set of files) learned
to stream the data from object store when possible, without having to
read the entire contents of a file into memory first. An earlier round
of this code that is not in any released version had a large leak but
now it has been plugged.
* "git clone" can now take a "--config key=value" option to set the
repository configuration options that affect the initial checkout.
* "git commit <paths>..." now lets you feed relative pathspecs that
refer to outside your current subdirectory.
* "git diff --stat" learned a --stat-count option to limit the output of
a diffstat report.
* "git diff" learned a "--histogram" option to use a different diff
generation machinery stolen from jgit, which might give better
performance.
* "git diff" had a weird worst case behaviour that can be triggered
when comparing files with potentially many places that could match.
* "git fetch", "git push" and friends no longer show connection
errors for addresses that couldn't be connected to when at least one
address succeeds (this is arguably a regression but a deliberate
one).
* "git grep" learned "--break" and "--heading" options, to let users mimic
the output format of "ack".
* "git grep" learned a "-W" option that shows wider context using the same
logic used by "git diff" to determine the hunk header.
* Invoking the low-level "git http-fetch" without "-a" option (which
git itself never did---normal users should not have to worry about
this) is now deprecated.
* The "--decorate" option to "git log" and its family learned to
highlight grafted and replaced commits.
* "git rebase master topci" no longer spews usage hints after giving
the "fatal: no such branch: topci" error message.
* The recursive merge strategy implementation got a fairly large
fix for many corner cases that may rarely happen in real world
projects (it has been verified that none of the 16000+ merges in
the Linux kernel history back to v2.6.12 is affected with the
corner case bugs this update fixes).
* "git stash" learned an "--include-untracked option".
* "git submodule update" used to stop at the first error updating a
submodule; it now goes on to update other submodules that can be
updated, and reports the ones with errors at the end.
* "git push" can be told with the "--recurse-submodules=check" option to
refuse pushing of the supermodule, if any of its submodules'
commits hasn't been pushed out to their remotes.
* "git upload-pack" and "git receive-pack" learned to pretend that only a
subset of the refs exist in a repository. This may help a site to
put many tiny repositories into one repository (this would not be
useful for larger repositories as repacking would be problematic).
* "git verify-pack" has been rewritten to use the "index-pack" machinery
that is more efficient in reading objects in packfiles.
* test scripts for gitweb tried to run even when CGI-related perl modules
are not installed; they now exit early when the latter are unavailable.
Also contains various documentation updates and minor miscellaneous
changes.
Fixes since v1.7.6
------------------
Unless otherwise noted, all fixes in the 1.7.6.X maintenance track are
included in this release.
* The error reporting logic of "git am" when the command is fed a file
whose mail-storage format is unknown was fixed.
(merge dff4b0e gb/maint-am-patch-format-
* "git branch --set-upstream @{-1} foo" did not expand @{-1} correctly.
(merge e9d4f74 mg/branch-set-upstream-
* "git branch -m" and "git checkout -b" incorrectly allowed the tip
of the branch that is currently checked out updated.
(merge 55c4a67 ci/forbid-unwanted-current-
* "git check-ref-format --print" used to parrot a candidate string that
began with a slash (e.g. /refs/heads/master) without stripping it, to make
the result a suitably normalized string the caller can append to "$GIT_DIR/".
(merge f3738c1 mh/check-ref-format-print-
* "git clone" failed to clone locally from a ".git" file that itself
is not a directory but is a pointer to one.
(merge 9b0ebc7 nd/maint-clone-gitdir later to 'maint').
* "git clone" from a local repository that borrows from another
object store using a relative path in its objects/info/alternates
file did not adjust the alternates in the resulting repository.
(merge e6baf4a1 jc/maint-clone-alternates later to 'maint').
* "git describe --dirty" did not refresh the index before checking the
state of the working tree files.
(cherry-pick bb57148 ac/describe-dirty-refresh later to 'maint').
* "git ls-files ../$path" that is run from a subdirectory reported errors
incorrectly when there is no such path that matches the given pathspec.
(merge 0f64bfa cb/maint-ls-files-error-report later to 'maint').
1.7.6.3 is out
Git 1.7.6.3 is out with 20 fixes from 8 people.
Git v1.7.6.3 Release Notes
==========================
Fixes since v1.7.6.2
--------------------
* "git -c var=value subcmd" misparsed the custom configuration when
value contained an equal sign.
* "git fetch" had a major performance regression, wasting many
needless cycles in a repository where there is no submodules
present. This was especially bad, when there were many refs.
* "git reflog $refname" did not default to the "show" subcommand as
the documentation advertised the command to do.
* "git reset" did not leave meaningful log message in the reflog.
* "git status --ignored" did not show ignored items when there is no
untracked items.
* "git tag --contains $commit" was unnecessarily inefficient.
Also contains minor fixes and documentation updates.
Git v1.7.6.3 Release Notes
==========================
Fixes since v1.7.6.2
--------------------
* "git -c var=value subcmd" misparsed the custom configuration when
value contained an equal sign.
* "git fetch" had a major performance regression, wasting many
needless cycles in a repository where there is no submodules
present. This was especially bad, when there were many refs.
* "git reflog $refname" did not default to the "show" subcommand as
the documentation advertised the command to do.
* "git reset" did not leave meaningful log message in the reflog.
* "git status --ignored" did not show ignored items when there is no
untracked items.
* "git tag --contains $commit" was unnecessarily inefficient.
Also contains minor fixes and documentation updates.