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1 Git v1.7.6 Release Notes (draft)
2 ========================
4 Updates since v1.7.5
5 --------------------
7 * Various git-svn updates.
9 * Updates the way content tags are handled in gitweb.
11 * Similar to branch names, tagnames that begin with "-" are now
12 disallowed.
14 * Clean-up of the C part of i18n (but not l10n---please wait)
15 continues.
17 * Processes spawned by "[alias] <name> = !process" in the configuration
18 can inspect GIT_PREFIX environment variable to learn where in the
19 working tree the original command was invoked.
21 * "git blame" learned "--abbrev[=<n>]" option to control the minimum
22 number of hexdigits shown for commit object names.
24 * Aborting "git commit --interactive" discards updates to the index
25 made during the interctive session.
27 * "git commit" learned a "--patch" option to directly jump to the
28 per-hunk selection UI of the interactive mode.
30 * "git diff -C -C" used to disable the rename detection entirely when
31 there are too many copy candidate paths in the tree; now it falls
32 back to "-C" when doing so would keep the copy candidate paths
33 under the rename detection limit.
35 * "git diff" and its family of commands learned --dirstat=0 to show
36 directories that contribute less than 0.1% of changes.
38 * "git diff" and its family of commands learned --dirstat=lines mode to
39 assess damage to the directory based on number of lines in the patch
40 output, not based on the similarity numbers.
42 * "git format-patch" learned "--quiet" option to suppress the output of
43 the names of generated files.
45 * "git format-patch" quotes people's names when it has RFC822 special
46 characters in it, e.g. "Junio C. Hamano" <jch@example.com>. Earlier
47 it was up to the user to do this when using its output.
49 * "git log" and friends learned a new "--notes" option to replace the
50 "--show-notes" option. Unlike "--show-notes", "--notes=<ref>" does
51 not imply showing the default notes.
53 * "git merge" learned "-" as a short-hand for "the previous branch", just
54 like the way "git checkout -" works.
56 * "git merge" uses "merge.ff" configuration variable to decide to always
57 create a merge commit (i.e. --no-ff, aka merge.ff=no), refuse to create
58 a merge commit (i.e. --ff-only, aka merge.ff=only). Setting merge.ff=yes
59 (or not setting it at all) restores the default behaviour of allowing
60 fast-forward to happen when possible.
62 * p4-import (from contrib) learned a new option --preserve-user.
64 * "git rebase" that does not specify on top of which branch to rebase
65 the current branch now uses @{upstream} of the current branch.
67 * "git rev-list --count" used with "--cherry-mark" counts the cherry-picked
68 commits separately, producing more a useful output.
70 * "git submodule update" learned "--force" option to get rid of local
71 changes in submodules and replace them with the up-to-date version.
73 * "git status" and friends ignore .gitmodules file while the file is
74 still in a conflicted state during a merge, to avoid using information
75 that is not final and possibly corrupt with conflict markers.
77 * Compressed tarball gitweb generates is made without the timestamp of
78 the tarball generation; snapshot from the same tree should result in
79 a same tarball.
81 Also contains various documentation updates and minor miscellaneous
82 changes.
85 Fixes since v1.7.5
86 ------------------
88 Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes in 1.7.5.X maintenance track are
89 included in this release.
91 * Setting $(prefix) in config.mak did not affect where etc/gitconfig
92 file is read from, even though passing it from the command line of
93 $(MAKE) did.
94 (merge kk/maint-prefix-in-config-mak later)
96 * The bash completion scripts should correctly work using zsh's bash
97 completion emulation layer now.
98 (merge fc/completion-zsh later)
100 * The logic to handle "&" (expand to UNIX username) in GECOS field
101 miscounted the length of the name it formatted.
102 (merge rg/copy-gecos-username later)
104 * "git cherry-pick -s resolve" failed to cherry-pick a root commit.
105 (merge jk/cherry-pick-root-with-resolve later)
107 * "git config" used to choke with an insanely long line.
108 (merge ef/maint-strbuf-init later)
110 * "git log --stdin path" with an input that has additional pathspec
111 used to corrupt memory.
112 (merge jc/maint-pathspec-stdin-and-cmdline later)
114 * "git send-pack" (hence "git push") over smalt-HTTP protocol could
115 deadlock when the client side pack-object died early.
116 (merge js/maint-send-pack-stateless-rpc-deadlock-fix later)
117 (merge jk/git-connection-deadlock-fix later)
119 ---
120 exec >/var/tmp/1
121 echo O=$(git describe master)
122 O=v1.7.5.1-339-g254fd97
123 git shortlog --no-merges ^maint ^$O master