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1 Git v1.7.2 Release Notes (draft)
2 ================================
4 Updates since v1.7.1
5 --------------------
7 * The whitespace rules used in "git apply --whitespace" and "git diff"
8 gained a new member in the family (tab-in-indent) to help projects with
9 policy to indent only with spaces.
11 * When working from a subdirectory, by default, git does not look for its
12 metadirectory ".git" across filesystems, primarily to help people who
13 have invocations of git in their custom PS1 prompts, as being outside
14 of a git repository would look for ".git" all the way up to the root
15 directory, and NFS mounts are often slow. DISCOVERY_ACROSS_FILESYSTEM
16 environment variable can be used to tell git not to stop at a
17 filesystem boundary.
19 * "git" wrapper learned "-c name=value" option to override configuration
20 variable from the command line.
22 * After "git apply --whitespace=fix" removed trailing blank lines in an
23 patch in a patch series, it failed to apply later patches that depend
24 on the presense of such blank lines.
26 * "git checkout --orphan newbranch" is similar to "-b newbranch" but
27 prepares to create a root commit that is not connected to any existing
28 commit.
30 * "git commit --amend" on a commit with an invalid author-name line that
31 lacks the display name didn't work (fb7749e4).
33 * "git cvsserver" can be told to use pserver; its password file can be
34 stored outside the repository.
36 * The output from the textconv filter used by "git diff" can be cached to
37 speed up their reuse.
39 * "git diff --color" did not paint extended diff headers per line
40 (i.e. the coloring escape sequence didn't end at the end of line),
41 which confused "less -R".
43 * "git diff --word-diff=<mode>" extends the existing "--color-words"
44 option, making it more useful in color-challenged environments.
46 * The regexp to detect function headers used by "git diff" for PHP has
47 been enhanced for visibility modifiers (public, protected, etc.) to
48 better support PHP5.
50 * "git for-each-ref" learned "%(objectname:short)" that gives the object
51 name abbreviated.
53 * Various options to "git grep" (e.g. --count, --name-only) work better
54 with binary files.
56 * "git log --follow <path>" follows across copies (it used to only follow
57 renames). This may make the processing more expensive.
59 * "git notes prune" learned "-n" (dry-run) and "-v" options, similar to
60 what "git prune" has.
62 * "git patch-id" can be fed a mbox without getting confused by the
63 signature line in the format-patch output.
65 * "git revert" learned --strategy option to specify the merge strategy.
67 * "git status [-s] --ignored" can be used to list ignored paths.
69 * Various "gitweb" enhancements and clean-ups, including syntax
70 highlighting.
73 Fixes since v1.7.1
74 ------------------
76 All of the fixes in v1.7.1.X maintenance series are included in this
77 release, unless otherwise noted.
79 * We didn't recognize timezone "Z" as a synonym for "UTC" (75b37e70).
81 * "git checkout" and "git rebase" overwrote paths that are marked "assume
82 unchanged" (aecda37c).
84 * "git clone/fetch/pull" issued an incorrect error message when a ref and
85 a symref that points to the ref were updated at the same time. This
86 obviously would update them to the same value, and should not result in
87 an error condition (7223dcaf).
89 * "git clone" did not configure remote.origin.url correctly for bare
90 clones (df61c889).
92 * "git diff" used to tell underlying xdiff machinery to work very hard to
93 minimize the output, but this often was spending too many extra cycles
94 for very little gain (582aa00).
96 * "git pull" accepted "--dry-run", gave it to underlying "git fetch" but
97 ignored the option itself, resulting in a bogus attempt to merge
98 unrelated commit (29609e68).
100 * "git reset --hard" started from a wrong directory and a working tree in
101 a nonstandard location is in use got confused (560fb6a1).
103 --
104 exec >/var/tmp/1
105 O=v1.7.1-336-g0925c02
106 echo O=$(git describe master)
107 git shortlog --no-merges master ^maint ^$O