From 8228a23b35f6bd34a87d4d839d06e7c18ae9e750 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Junio C Hamano Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2012 23:48:37 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Fourth batch for 1.7.12 Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.txt | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.txt index f49eef51b7..34f301d557 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.txt @@ -16,6 +16,13 @@ UI, Workflows & Features 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. @@ -64,6 +71,14 @@ 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 clone --single-branch" to clone a single branch did not limit + the cloning to the specified branch. + (merge 0ec4b16 nd/clone-single-fix later to maint). + + * "git diff --no-index" did not correctly handle relative paths and + did not correctly give exit codes when run under "--quiet" option. + (merge 304970d th/diff-no-index-fixes later to maint). + * When "git log" gets "--simplify-merges/by-decoration" together with "--first-parent", the combination of these options makes the simplification logic to use in-core commit objects that haven't