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1 Git v1.7.6 Release Notes
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4 Updates since v1.7.5
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7 * Various git-svn updates.
9 * Updates the way content tags are handled in gitweb. Also adds
10 a UI to choose common timezone for displaying the dates.
12 * Similar to branch names, tagnames that begin with "-" are now
13 disallowed.
15 * Clean-up of the C part of i18n (but not l10n---please wait)
16 continues.
18 * The scripting part of the codebase is getting prepared for i18n/l10n.
20 * Pushing and pulling from a repository with large number of refs that
21 point to identical commits are optimized by not listing the same commit
22 during the common ancestor negotiation exchange with the other side.
24 * Adding a file larger than core.bigfilethreshold (defaults to 1/2 Gig)
25 using "git add" will send the contents straight to a packfile without
26 having to hold it and its compressed representation both at the same
27 time in memory.
29 * Processes spawned by "[alias] <name> = !process" in the configuration
30 can inspect GIT_PREFIX environment variable to learn where in the
31 working tree the original command was invoked.
33 * A magic pathspec ":/" tells a command that limits its operation to
34 the current directory when ran from a subdirectory to work on the
35 entire working tree. In general, ":/path/to/file" would be relative
36 to the root of the working tree hierarchy.
38 After "git reset --hard; edit Makefile; cd t/", "git add -u" would
39 be a no-op, but "git add -u :/" would add the updated contents of
40 the Makefile at the top level. If you want to name a path in the
41 current subdirectory whose unusual name begins with ":/", you can
42 name it by "./:/that/path" or by "\:/that/path".
44 * "git blame" learned "--abbrev[=<n>]" option to control the minimum
45 number of hexdigits shown for commit object names.
47 * "git blame" learned "--line-porcelain" that is less efficient but is
48 easier to parse.
50 * Aborting "git commit --interactive" discards updates to the index
51 made during the interactive session.
53 * "git commit" learned a "--patch" option to directly jump to the
54 per-hunk selection UI of the interactive mode.
56 * "git diff" and its family of commands learned --dirstat=0 to show
57 directories that contribute less than 0.1% of changes.
59 * "git diff" and its family of commands learned --dirstat=lines mode to
60 assess damage to the directory based on number of lines in the patch
61 output, not based on the similarity numbers.
63 * "git format-patch" learned "--quiet" option to suppress the output of
64 the names of generated files.
66 * "git format-patch" quotes people's names when it has RFC822 special
67 characters in it, e.g. "Junio C. Hamano" <jch@example.com>. Earlier
68 it was up to the user to do this when using its output.
70 * "git format-patch" can take an empty --subject-prefix now.
72 * "git grep" learned the "-P" option to take pcre regular expressions.
74 * "git log" and friends learned a new "--notes" option to replace the
75 "--show-notes" option. Unlike "--show-notes", "--notes=<ref>" does
76 not imply showing the default notes.
78 * They also learned a log.abbrevCommit configuration variable to augment
79 the --abbrev-commit command line option.
81 * "git ls-remote" learned "--exit-code" option to consider it a
82 different kind of error when no remote ref to be shown.
84 * "git merge" learned "-" as a short-hand for "the previous branch", just
85 like the way "git checkout -" works.
87 * "git merge" uses "merge.ff" configuration variable to decide to always
88 create a merge commit (i.e. --no-ff, aka merge.ff=no), refuse to create
89 a merge commit (i.e. --ff-only, aka merge.ff=only). Setting merge.ff=yes
90 (or not setting it at all) restores the default behaviour of allowing
91 fast-forward to happen when possible.
93 * p4-import (from contrib) learned a new option --preserve-user.
95 * "git read-tree -m" learned "--dry-run" option that reports if a merge
96 would fail without touching the index nor the working tree.
98 * "git rebase" that does not specify on top of which branch to rebase
99 the current branch now uses @{upstream} of the current branch.
101 * "git rebase" finished either normally or with --abort did not
102 update the reflog for HEAD to record the event to come back to
103 where it started from.
105 * "git remote add -t only-this-branch --mirror=fetch" is now allowed. Earlier
106 a fetch-mode mirror meant mirror everything, but now it only means refs are
107 not renamed.
109 * "git rev-list --count" used with "--cherry-mark" counts the cherry-picked
110 commits separately, producing more a useful output.
112 * "git submodule update" learned "--force" option to get rid of local
113 changes in submodules and replace them with the up-to-date version.
115 * "git status" and friends ignore .gitmodules file while the file is
116 still in a conflicted state during a merge, to avoid using information
117 that is not final and possibly corrupt with conflict markers.
119 Also contains various documentation updates and minor miscellaneous
120 changes.
123 Fixes since v1.7.5
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126 Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes in 1.7.5.X maintenance track are
127 included in this release.
129 * "git config" used to choke with an insanely long line.
130 (merge ef/maint-strbuf-init later)
132 * "git diff --quiet" did not work well with --diff-filter.
133 (merge jk/diff-not-so-quick later)
135 * "git status -z" did not default to --porcelain output format.
136 (merge bc/maint-status-z-to-use-porcelain later)