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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 * When an object "$tree:$path" does not exist, if $path does exist in the
13 subtree of $tree that corresponds to the subdirectory the user is in,
14 git now suggests using "$tree:./$path" in addition to the advice to use
15 the full path from the root of the working tree.
17 * "git blame" learned "--abbrev[=<n>]" option to control the minimum
18 number of hexdigits shown for commit object names.
20 * "git clean" used to fail on an empty directory that is not readable,
21 even though rmdir(2) could remove such a directory. Now we attempt it
22 as the last resort.
24 * "git diff -C -C" used to disable the rename detection entirely when
25 there are too many copy candidate paths in the tree; now it falls
26 back to "-C" when doing so would keep the copy candidate paths
27 under the rename detection limit.
29 * "git format-patch" learned "--quiet" option to suppress the output of
30 the names of generated files.
32 * "git log" and friends learned a new "--notes" option to replace the
33 "--show-notes" option. Unlike "--show-notes", "--notes=<ref>" does
34 not imply showing the default notes.
36 * "git merge" learned "-" as a short-hand for "the previous branch", just
37 like the way "git checkout -" works.
39 * "git pack-object" now takes core.bigfilethreashold into account, just
40 like fast-imoprt does.
42 * "git reflog" allows options like "--format=.." to be given.
44 * "git stash apply" can now apply to a working tree with changes as long
45 as there is no overlapping change as the stash being applied.
47 * "git submodule update" learned "--force" option to get rid of local
48 changes in submodules and replace them with the up-to-date version.
50 * "git stash apply @{99999}" now is diagnosed as an error, unless you
51 really have that many stash entries.
53 Also contains various documentation updates.
56 Fixes since v1.7.5
57 ------------------
59 Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes in 1.7.5.X maintenance track are
60 included in this release.
62 * "git config" used to choke with an insanely long line.
63 (merge ef/maint-strbuf-init later)
65 * The "--dirstat" option of "diff" family of commands used to totally
66 ignore a change that only rearranged lines within a file. Such a
67 change now counts as at least a minimum but non zero change.
69 * The "--dirstat" option of "diff" family of commands used to use the
70 pathname in the original, instead of the pathname in the result,
71 when renames are involved.
72 (merge jh/dirstat for the above two later)
74 * "diff -M --cached" used to use unmerged path as a possible rename
75 source candidate, which made no sense.
76 (merge mz/maint-rename-unmerged later)
78 * "git format-patch" when run with "--quiet" option used to produce a
79 nonsense result that consists of alternating empty output.
80 (merge early part of cn/format-patch-quiet later)
82 * "git stash -p --no-keep-index" and "git stash --no-keep-index -p" now
83 mean the same thing.
84 (merge dm/stash-k-i-p later)
86 * "git upload-pack" (hence "git push" over git native protocol) had a
87 subtle race condition that could lead to a deadlock.
88 (merge jk/maint-upload-pack-shallow later)
90 ---
91 exec >/var/tmp/1
92 echo O=$(git describe master)
93 O=v1.7.5-184-g23f536c
94 git shortlog --no-merges ^maint ^$O master