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1 Git v1.7.4 Release Notes (draft)
2 ================================
4 Updates since v1.7.3
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7 * The documentation Makefile now assumes by default asciidoc 8 and
8 docbook-xsl >= 1.73. If you have older versions, you can set
9 ASCIIDOC7 and ASCIIDOC_ROFF, respectively.
11 * The option parsers of various commands that create new branches (or
12 rename existing ones to a new name) were too loose and users were
13 allowed to give a branch a name that begins with a dash by creative
14 abuse of their command line options, which only led to burning
15 themselves. The name of a branch cannot begin with a dash now.
17 * System-wide fallback default attributes can be stored in
18 /etc/gitattributes; core.attributesfile configuration variable can
19 be used to customize the path to this file.
21 * The thread structure generated by "git send-email" has changed
22 slightly. Setting the cover letter of the latest series as a reply
23 to the cover letter of the previous series with --in-reply-to used
24 to make the new cover letter and all the patches replies to the
25 cover letter of the previous series; this has been changed to make
26 the patches in the new series replies to the new cover letter.
28 * Bash completion script in contrib/ has been adjusted to be usable with
29 Bash 4 (options with '=value' didn't complete) It has been also made
30 usable with zsh.
32 * Different pagers can be chosen depending on which subcommand is
33 being run under the pager, using "pager.<subcommand>" variable.
35 * The hardcoded tab-width of 8 used in whitespace breakage checks is now
36 configurable via the attributes mechanism.
38 * Support of case insensitive filesystems (i.e. "core.ignorecase") has
39 been improved. For example, the gitignore mechanism didn't pay attention
40 to the case insensitivity.
42 * The <tree>:<path> syntax to name a blob in a tree, and :<path>
43 syntax to name a blob in the index (e.g. "master:Makefile",
44 ":hello.c") have been extended. You can start <path> with "./" to
45 implicitly have the (sub)directory you are in prefixed to the
46 lookup. Similarly, ":../Makefile" from a subdirectory would mean
47 "the Makefile of the parent directory in the index".
49 * "git blame" learned --show-email option to display the e-mail
50 addresses instead of the names of authors.
52 * "git commit" learned --fixup and --squash options to help later invocation
53 of the interactive rebase.
55 * Command line options to "git cvsimport" whose names are in capital
56 letters (-A, -M, -R and -S) can now be specified as the default in
57 the .git/config file by their longer names (cvsimport.authorsFile,
58 cvsimport.mergeRegex, cvsimport.trackRevisions, cvsimport.ignorePaths).
60 * "git daemon" can be built in MinGW environment.
62 * "git daemon" can take more than one --listen option to listen to
63 multiple addresses.
65 * "git describe --exact-match" was optimized not to read commit
66 objects unnecessarily.
68 * "git diff" and "git grep" learned how functions and subroutines
69 in Fortran look like.
71 * "git fetch" learned "--recurse-submodules" option.
73 * "git mergetool" tells vim/gvim to show three-way diff by default
74 (use vimdiff2/gvimdiff2 as the tool name for old behaviour).
76 * "git log -G<pattern>" limits the output to commits whose change has
77 added or deleted lines that match the given pattern.
79 * "git read-tree" with no argument as a way to empty the index is
80 deprecated; we might want to remove it in the future. Users can
81 use the new --empty option to be more explicit instead.
83 * "git repack -f" does not spend cycles to recompress objects in the
84 non-delta representation anymore (use -F if you really mean it
85 e.g. after you changed the core.compression variable setting).
87 * "git merge --log" used to limit the resulting merge log to 20
88 entries; this is now customizable by giving e.g. "--log=47".
90 * "git merge" may work better when all files were moved out of a
91 directory in one branch while a new file is created in place of that
92 directory in the other branch.
94 * "git rebase --autosquash" can use SHA-1 object names to name which
95 commit to fix up (e.g. "fixup! e83c5163").
97 * The default "recursive" merge strategy learned --rename-threshold
98 option to influence the rename detection, similar to the -M option
99 of "git diff". From "git merge" frontend, "-X<strategy option>"
100 interface, e.g. "git merge -Xrename-threshold=50% ...", can be used
101 to trigger this.
103 * The "recursive" strategy also learned to ignore various whitespace
104 changes; the most notable is -Xignore-space-at-eol.
106 * "git send-email" learned "--to-cmd", similar to "--cc-cmd", to read
107 recipient list from a command output.
109 * "git send-email" learned to read and use "To:" from its input files.
111 * you can extend "git shell", which is often used on boxes that allow
112 git-only login over ssh as login shell, with custom set of
113 commands.
115 * The current branch name in "git status" output can be colored differently
116 from the generic header color by setting "color.status.branch" variable.
118 * "git submodule sync" updates metainformation for all submodules,
119 not just the ones that have been checked out.
121 * gitweb can use custom 'highlight' command with its configuration file.
123 * other gitweb updates.
126 Also contains various documentation updates.
129 Fixes since v1.7.3
130 ------------------
132 All of the fixes in v1.7.3.X maintenance series are included in this
133 release, unless otherwise noted.
135 * "git log --author=me --author=her" did not find commits written by
136 me or by her; instead it looked for commits written by me and by
137 her, which is impossible.
139 * "git push --progress" shows progress indicators now.
141 * "git repack" places its temporary packs under $GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY/pack
142 instead of $GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY/ to avoid cross directory renames.
144 * "git submodule update --recursive --other-flags" passes flags down
145 to its subinvocations.
147 ---
148 exec >/var/tmp/1
149 O=v1.7.4-rc1
150 echo O=$(git describe master)
151 git shortlog --no-merges ^maint ^$O master