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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 branch (or
12 rename existing ones to a new name) were too loose and users were
13 allowed to call a branch with a name that begins with a dash by
14 creative abuse of their command line options, which only lead to
15 burn themselves. The name of a branch cannot begin with a dash
16 now.
18 * System-wide fallback default attributes can be stored in
19 /etc/gitattributes; core.attributesfile configuration variable can
20 be used to customize the path to this file.
22 * The thread structure generated by "git send-email" has changed
23 slightly. Setting the cover letter of the latest series as a reply
24 to the cover letter of the previous series with --in-reply-to used
25 to make the new cover letter and all the patches replies to the
26 cover letter of the previous series; this has been changed to make
27 the patches in the new series replies to the new cover letter.
29 * Bash completion script in contrib/ has been adjusted to be also
30 usable by zsh.
32 * "git blame" learned --show-email option to display the e-mail
33 addresses instead of the names of authors.
35 * "git daemon" can be built in MinGW environment.
37 * "git daemon" can take more than one --listen option to listen to
38 multiple addresses.
40 * "git diff" and "git grep" learned how functions and subroutines
41 in Fortran look like.
43 * "git mergetool" tells vim/gvim to show three-way diff by default
44 (use vimdiff2/gvimdiff2 as the tool name for old behaviour).
46 * "git log -G<pattern>" limits the output to commits whose change has
47 added or deleted lines that match the given pattern.
49 * "git read-tree" with no argument as a way to empty the index is
50 deprecated; we might want to remove it in the future. Users can
51 use the new --empty option to be more explicit instead.
53 * "git repack -f" does not spend cycles to recompress objects in the
54 non-delta representation anymore (use -F if you really mean it when
55 e.g. you changed the compression level).
57 * "git merge --log" used to limit the resulting merge log to 20
58 entries; this is now customizable by giving e.g. "--log=47".
60 * "git merge" may work better when all files were moved out of a
61 directory in one branch while a new file is created in place of that
62 directory in the other branch.
64 * "git rebase --autosquash" can use SHA-1 object names to name which
65 commit to fix up (e.g. "fixup! e83c5163").
67 * The default "recursive" merge strategy learned --rename-threshold
68 option to influence the rename detection, similar to the -M option
69 of "git diff". E.g. "git merge -Xrename-threshold=50% ..." to use
70 this.
72 * The "recursive" strategy also learned to ignore various whitespace
73 changes; the most notable is -Xignore-space-at-eol.
75 * "git send-email" learned "--to-cmd", similar to "--cc-cmd", to read
76 recipient list from a command output.
78 * "git send-email" learned to read and use "To:" from its input files.
80 * you can extend "git shell", which is often used on boxes that allow
81 git-only login over ssh as login shell, with custom set of
82 commands.
84 * "git submodule sync" updates metainformation for all submodules,
85 not just the ones that have been checked out.
87 * gitweb can use custom 'highlight' command with its configuration file.
90 Also contains various documentation updates.
93 Fixes since v1.7.3
94 ------------------
96 All of the fixes in v1.7.3.X maintenance series are included in this
97 release, unless otherwise noted.
99 * "git log --author=me --author=her" did not find commits written by
100 me or by her; instead it looked for commits written by me and by
101 her, which is impossible.
103 * "git merge" into an unborn branch removed an untracked file "foo"
104 from the working tree when merged branch had "foo" (2caf20c..172b642).
106 * "git push --progress" shows progress indicators now.
108 * "git repack" places its temporary packs under $GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY/pack
109 instead of $GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY/ to avoid cross directory renames.
111 * "git submodule update --recursive --other-flags" passes flags down
112 to its subinvocations.
114 ---
115 exec >/var/tmp/1
116 O=v1.7.3.2-450-g5b9c331
117 echo O=$(git describe master)
118 git shortlog --no-merges ^maint ^$O master