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1 Git v1.8.0 Release Notes
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4 Backward compatibility notes
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7 In the next major release, we will change the behaviour of the "git
8 push" command. When "git push [$there]" does not say what to push, we
9 have used the traditional "matching" semantics (all your branches were
10 sent to the remote as long as there already are branches of the same
11 name over there). We will use the "simple" semantics, that pushes the
12 current branch to the branch with the same name only when the current
13 branch is set to integrate with that remote branch. There is a user
14 preference configuration variable "push.default" to change this, and
15 "git push" will warn about the upcoming change until you set this
16 variable.
19 Updates since v1.7.12
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22 UI, Workflows & Features
24 * "git difftool --dir-diff" learned to use symbolic links to prepare
25 temporary copy of the working tree when available.
27 * "git grep" learned to use a non-standard pattern type by default if
28 a configuration variable tells it to.
30 Foreign Interface
32 * "git svn" has been updated to work with SVN 1.7.
35 Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. (please report possible regressions)
37 * The "check-docs" build target has been updated and greatly
38 simplified.
40 * The documentation in the TeXinfo format was using indented output
41 for materials meant to be examples that are better typeset in
42 monospace.
44 Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.
47 Fixes since v1.7.12
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50 Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.7.12 in the
51 maintenance track are contained in this release (see release notes
52 to them for details).
55 * When "git push" triggered the automatic gc on the receiving end, a
56 message from "git prune" that said it was removing cruft leaked to
57 the standard output, breaking the communication protocol.
58 (merge 4b7f2fa bc/receive-pack-stdout-protection later to maint).
60 * "git diff" had a confusion between taking data from a path in the
61 working tree and taking data from an object that happens to have
62 name 0{40} recorded in a tree.
63 (merge c479d14 jk/maint-null-in-trees later to maint).
65 * The output from "git diff -B" for a file that ends with an
66 incomplete line did not put "\ No newline..." on a line of its own.
68 * "git send-email" did not unquote encoded words that appear on the
69 header correctly, and lost "_" from strings.
70 (merge b622d4d tr/maint-send-email-2047 later to maint).
72 * When the user gives an argument that can be taken as both a
73 revision name and a pathname without disambiguating with "--", we
74 used to give a help message "Use '--' to separate". The message
75 has been clarified to show where that '--' goes on the command
76 line.
77 (merge 4d4b573 mm/die-with-dashdash-help later to maint).
79 * "gitweb" when used with PATH_INFO failed to notice directories with
80 SP (and other characters that need URL-style quoting) in them.
81 (merge cacfc09 js/gitweb-path-info-unquote later to maint).