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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 * Clean-up of the C part of i18n (but not l10n---please wait)
10 continues.
12 * "git blame" learned "--abbrev[=<n>]" option to control the minimum
13 number of hexdigits shown for commit object names.
15 * "git diff -C -C" used to disable the rename detection entirely when
16 there are too many copy candidate paths in the tree; now it falls
17 back to "-C" when doing so would keep the copy candidate paths
18 under the rename detection limit.
20 * "git format-patch" learned "--quiet" option to suppress the output of
21 the names of generated files.
23 * "git log" and friends learned a new "--notes" option to replace the
24 "--show-notes" option. Unlike "--show-notes", "--notes=<ref>" does
25 not imply showing the default notes.
27 * "git merge" learned "-" as a short-hand for "the previous branch", just
28 like the way "git checkout -" works.
30 * "git rev-list --count" used with "--cherry-mark" counts the cherry-picked
31 commits separately, producing more a useful output.
33 * "git submodule update" learned "--force" option to get rid of local
34 changes in submodules and replace them with the up-to-date version.
36 * Compressed tarball gitweb generates is made without the timestamp of
37 the tarball generation; snapshot from the same tree should result in
38 a same tarball.
40 Also contains various documentation updates.
43 Fixes since v1.7.5
44 ------------------
46 Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes in 1.7.5.X maintenance track are
47 included in this release.
49 * "git config" used to choke with an insanely long line.
50 (merge ef/maint-strbuf-init later)
52 * "diff -M --cached" used to use unmerged path as a possible rename
53 source candidate, which made no sense.
54 (merge mz/maint-rename-unmerged later)
56 * "git format-patch" when run with "--quiet" option used to produce a
57 nonsense result that consists of alternating empty output.
58 (merge early part of cn/format-patch-quiet later)
60 * "git format-patch" did not quote RFC822 special characters in the
61 email address (e.g From: Junio C. Hamano <jch@example.com>, not
62 From: "Junio C. Hamano" <jch@example.com>).
63 (merge jk/format-patch-quote-special-in-from later)
65 * "git mergetool" did not handle conflicted submoudules gracefully.
66 (merge jm/mergetool-submodules later)
68 * "git stash -p --no-keep-index" and "git stash --no-keep-index -p" now
69 mean the same thing.
70 (merge dm/stash-k-i-p later)
72 * "git upload-pack" (hence "git push" over git native protocol) had a
73 subtle race condition that could lead to a deadlock.
74 (merge jk/maint-upload-pack-shallow later)
76 ---
77 exec >/var/tmp/1
78 echo O=$(git describe master)
79 O=v1.7.5-184-g23f536c
80 git shortlog --no-merges ^maint ^$O master