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1 Git v1.7.2 Release Notes (draft)
2 ================================
4 Updates since v1.7.1
5 --------------------
7 * The whitespace rules used in "git apply --whitespace" and "git diff"
8 gained a new member in the family (tab-in-indent) to help projects with
9 policy to indent only with spaces.
11 * Authentication over http transport can now be made lazily, in that the
12 request can first go to a URL without username, get a 401 response and
13 then the client will ask for the username to use.
15 * When working from a subdirectory, by default, git does not look for its
16 metadirectory ".git" across filesystems, primarily to help people who
17 have invocations of git in their custom PS1 prompts, as being outside
18 of a git repository would look for ".git" all the way up to the root
19 directory, and NFS mounts are often slow. DISCOVERY_ACROSS_FILESYSTEM
20 environment variable can be used to tell git not to stop at a
21 filesystem boundary.
23 * "git" wrapper learned "-c name=value" option to override configuration
24 variable from the command line.
26 * After "git apply --whitespace=fix" removed trailing blank lines in an
27 patch in a patch series, it failed to apply later patches that depend
28 on the presense of such blank lines.
30 * "git checkout --orphan newbranch" is similar to "-b newbranch" but
31 prepares to create a root commit that is not connected to any existing
32 commit.
34 * "git commit --amend" on a commit with an invalid author-name line that
35 lacks the display name didn't work (fb7749e4).
37 * "git cvsserver" can be told to use pserver; its password file can be
38 stored outside the repository.
40 * "git describe" tie-breaks tags that point at the same commit better by
41 paying attention to the tagger date (newer ones are preferred).
43 * The output from the textconv filter used by "git diff" can be cached to
44 speed up their reuse.
46 * "git diff --color" did not paint extended diff headers per line
47 (i.e. the coloring escape sequence didn't end at the end of line),
48 which confused "less -R".
50 * "git diff --word-diff=<mode>" extends the existing "--color-words"
51 option, making it more useful in color-challenged environments.
53 * The regexp to detect function headers used by "git diff" for PHP has
54 been enhanced for visibility modifiers (public, protected, etc.) to
55 better support PHP5.
57 * "git fetch" over HTTP verifies the downloaded packfiles more robustly.
59 * "git for-each-ref" learned "%(objectname:short)" that gives the object
60 name abbreviated.
62 * Various options to "git grep" (e.g. --count, --name-only) work better
63 with binary files.
65 * The memory usage by "git index-pack" (run during "git fetch" and "git
66 push") got leaner.
68 * "git log --follow <path>" follows across copies (it used to only follow
69 renames). This may make the processing more expensive.
71 * "git notes prune" learned "-n" (dry-run) and "-v" options, similar to
72 what "git prune" has.
74 * "git patch-id" can be fed a mbox without getting confused by the
75 signature line in the format-patch output.
77 * "git revert" learned --strategy option to specify the merge strategy.
79 * "git send-email" learned --smtp-domain option to specify the domainname
80 used in the EHLO/HELO exchange.
82 * "git status [-s] --ignored" can be used to list ignored paths.
84 * Various "gitweb" enhancements and clean-ups, including syntax
85 highlighting.
88 Fixes since v1.7.1
89 ------------------
91 All of the fixes in v1.7.1.X maintenance series are included in this
92 release, unless otherwise noted.
94 * We didn't recognize timezone "Z" as a synonym for "UTC" (75b37e70).
96 * In 1.7.1, "git status" stopped refreshing the index by mistake
97 (e251a7b3^2).
99 * We used to mistakenly think "../work" is a subdirectory of the current
100 directory when we are in "../work-xyz" (490544b).
102 * "git checkout" and "git rebase" overwrote paths that are marked "assume
103 unchanged" (aecda37c).
105 * "git clone/fetch/pull" issued an incorrect error message when a ref and
106 a symref that points to the ref were updated at the same time. This
107 obviously would update them to the same value, and should not result in
108 an error condition (da3efdb).
110 * "git clone" did not configure remote.origin.url correctly for bare
111 clones (df61c889).
113 * "git diff" used to tell underlying xdiff machinery to work very hard to
114 minimize the output, but this often was spending too many extra cycles
115 for very little gain (582aa00).
117 * "git pull" accepted "--dry-run", gave it to underlying "git fetch" but
118 ignored the option itself, resulting in a bogus attempt to merge
119 unrelated commit (29609e68).
121 * "git reset --hard" started from a wrong directory and a working tree in
122 a nonstandard location is in use got confused (560fb6a1).
124 * "git stash" incorrectly lost paths in the working tree that were
125 previously removed from the index (7aa5d43).
127 --
128 exec >/var/tmp/1
129 O=v1.7.1-336-g0925c02
130 echo O=$(git describe master)
131 git shortlog --no-merges master ^maint ^$O