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1 Git v1.7.2 Release Notes (draft)
2 ================================
4 Updates since v1.7.1
5 --------------------
7 * core.eol configuration and eol attribute are the new way to control
8 the end of line conventions for files in the working tree;
9 core.autocrlf overrides it, keeping the traditional behaviour by
10 default.
12 * The whitespace rules used in "git apply --whitespace" and "git diff"
13 gained a new member in the family (tab-in-indent) to help projects with
14 policy to indent only with spaces.
16 * When working from a subdirectory, by default, git does not look for its
17 metadirectory ".git" across filesystems, primarily to help people who
18 have invocations of git in their custom PS1 prompts, as being outside
19 of a git repository would look for ".git" all the way up to the root
20 directory, and NFS mounts are often slow. DISCOVERY_ACROSS_FILESYSTEM
21 environment variable can be used to tell git not to stop at a
22 filesystem boundary.
24 * Usage help messages generated by parse-options library (i.e. most
25 of the Porcelain commands) are sent to the standard output now.
27 * ':/<string>' notation to look for a commit now takes regular expression
28 and it is not anchored at the beginning of the commit log message
29 anymore (this is a backward incompatible change).
31 * "git" wrapper learned "-c name=value" option to override configuration
32 variable from the command line.
34 * Improved portability for various platforms including older SunOS,
35 HP-UX 10/11, AIX, Tru64, etc. and platforms with Python 2.4.
37 * The message from "git am -3" has been improved when conflict
38 resolution ended up making the patch a no-op.
40 * "git blame" applies the textconv filter to the contents it works
41 on, when available.
43 * "git checkout --orphan newbranch" is similar to "-b newbranch" but
44 prepares to create a root commit that is not connected to any existing
45 commit.
47 * "git cherry-pick" learned to pick a range of commits
48 (e.g. "cherry-pick A..B" and "cherry-pick --stdin"); this does not
49 have nicer sequencing control "rebase [-i]" has, though.
51 * "git cvsserver" can be told to use pserver; its password file can be
52 stored outside the repository.
54 * The output from the textconv filter used by "git diff" can be cached to
55 speed up their reuse.
57 * "git diff --word-diff=<mode>" extends the existing "--color-words"
58 option, making it more useful in color-challenged environments.
60 * The regexp to detect function headers used by "git diff" for PHP has
61 been enhanced for visibility modifiers (public, protected, etc.) to
62 better support PHP5.
64 * "diff.noprefix" configuration variable can be used to implicitly
65 ask for "diff --no-prefix" behaviour.
67 * "git for-each-ref" learned "%(objectname:short)" that gives the object
68 name abbreviated.
70 * "git format-patch" learned --signature option and format.signature
71 configuration variable to customize the e-mail signature used in the
72 output.
74 * Various options to "git grep" (e.g. --count, --name-only) work better
75 with binary files.
77 * "git grep" learned "-Ovi" to open the files with hits in yoru editor.
79 * "git help -w" learned "chrome" and "chromium" browsers.
81 * "git log --decorate" shows commit decorations in various colours.
83 * "git log --follow <path>" follows across copies (it used to only follow
84 renames). This may make the processing more expensive.
86 * "git log --pretty=format:<template>" specifier learned "% <something>"
87 magic that inserts a space only when %<something> expands to a
88 non-empty string; this is similar to "%+<something>" magic, but is
89 useful in a context to generate a single line output.
91 * "git notes prune" learned "-n" (dry-run) and "-v" options, similar to
92 what "git prune" has.
94 * "git patch-id" can be fed a mbox without getting confused by the
95 signature line in the format-patch output.
97 * "git remote" learned "set-branches" subcommand.
99 * "git revert" learned --strategy option to specify the merge strategy.
101 * "git rev-list A..B" learned --ancestry-path option to further limit
102 the result to the commits that are on the ancestry chain between A and
103 B (i.e. commits that are not descendants of A are excluded).
105 * "git show -5" is equivalent to "git show --do-walk 5"; this is similar
106 to the update to make "git show master..next" walk the history,
107 introduced in 1.6.4.
109 * "git status [-s] --ignored" can be used to list ignored paths.
111 * "git status -s -b" shows the current branch in the output.
113 * "git status" learned "--ignore-submodules" option.
115 * Various "gitweb" enhancements and clean-ups, including syntax
116 highlighting, "plackup" support for instaweb, .fcgi suffix to run
117 it as FastCGI script, etc.
120 Fixes since v1.7.1
121 ------------------
123 All of the fixes in v1.7.1.X maintenance series are included in this
124 release, unless otherwise noted.
126 * We didn't URL decode "file:///path/to/repo" correctly when path/to/repo
127 had percent-encoded characters (638794c, 9d2e942).
129 * "git commit" did not honor GIT_REFLOG_ACTION environment variable, resulting
130 reflog messages for cherry-pick and revert actions to be recorded as "commit".
132 * "git clone/fetch/pull" issued an incorrect error message when a ref and
133 a symref that points to the ref were updated at the same time. This
134 obviously would update them to the same value, and should not result in
135 an error condition (0e71bc3).
137 * "git clone" did not configure remote.origin.url correctly for bare
138 clones (df61c889).
140 * "git diff" inside a tree with many pathnames that have certain
141 characters has become very slow in 1.7.0 by mistake (will merge
142 e53e6b443 to 'maint').
144 * "git diff --graph" works better with "--color-words" and other options
145 (81fa024..4297c0a).
147 * "git diff" could show ambiguous abbreviation of blob object names on
148 its "index" line (3e5a188).
150 * "git rebase" did not faithfully reproduce a malformed author ident, that
151 is often seen in a repository converted from foreign SCMs (43c23251).
153 * "git reset --hard" started from a wrong directory and a working tree in
154 a nonstandard location is in use got confused (560fb6a1).
156 --
157 exec >/var/tmp/1
158 O=v1.7.2-rc0-60-g2927a50
159 echo O=$(git describe HEAD)
160 git shortlog --no-merges HEAD ^maint ^$O