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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 * Updates the way content tags are handled in gitweb.
11 * Clean-up of the C part of i18n (but not l10n---please wait)
12 continues.
14 * Processes spawned by "[alias] <name> = !process" in the configuration
15 can inspect GIT_PREFIX environment variable to learn where in the
16 working tree the original command was invoked.
18 * "git blame" learned "--abbrev[=<n>]" option to control the minimum
19 number of hexdigits shown for commit object names.
21 * Aborting "git commit --interactive" discards updates to the index
22 made during the interctive session.
24 * "git commit" learned a "--patch" option to directly jump to the
25 per-hunk selection UI of the interactive mode.
27 * "git diff -C -C" used to disable the rename detection entirely when
28 there are too many copy candidate paths in the tree; now it falls
29 back to "-C" when doing so would keep the copy candidate paths
30 under the rename detection limit.
32 * "git diff" and its family of commands learned --dirstat=0 to show
33 directories that contribute less than 0.1% of changes.
35 * "git diff" and its family of commands learned --dirstat=lines mode to
36 assess damage to the directory based on number of lines in the patch
37 output, not based on the similarity numbers.
39 * "git format-patch" learned "--quiet" option to suppress the output of
40 the names of generated files.
42 * "git format-patch" quotes people's names when it has RFC822 special
43 characters in it, e.g. "Junio C. Hamano" <jch@example.com>. Earlier
44 it was up to the user to do this when using its output.
46 * "git log" and friends learned a new "--notes" option to replace the
47 "--show-notes" option. Unlike "--show-notes", "--notes=<ref>" does
48 not imply showing the default notes.
50 * "git merge" learned "-" as a short-hand for "the previous branch", just
51 like the way "git checkout -" works.
53 * "git merge" uses "merge.ff" configuration variable to decide to always
54 create a merge commit (i.e. --no-ff, aka merge.ff=no), refuse to create
55 a merge commit (i.e. --ff-only, aka merge.ff=only). Setting merge.ff=yes
56 (or not setting it at all) restores the default behaviour of allowing
57 fast-forward to happen when possible.
59 * "git rebase" that does not specify on top of which branch to rebase
60 the current branch now uses @{upstream} of the current branch.
62 * "git rev-list --count" used with "--cherry-mark" counts the cherry-picked
63 commits separately, producing more a useful output.
65 * "git submodule update" learned "--force" option to get rid of local
66 changes in submodules and replace them with the up-to-date version.
68 * Compressed tarball gitweb generates is made without the timestamp of
69 the tarball generation; snapshot from the same tree should result in
70 a same tarball.
72 Also contains various documentation updates and minor miscellaneous
73 changes.
76 Fixes since v1.7.5
77 ------------------
79 Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes in 1.7.5.X maintenance track are
80 included in this release.
82 * Setting $(prefix) in config.mak did not affect where etc/gitconfig
83 file is read from, even though passing it from the command line of
84 $(MAKE) did.
85 (merge kk/maint-prefix-in-config-mak later)
87 * The bash completion scripts should correctly work using zsh's bash
88 completion emulation layer now.
89 (merge either fc/completion-zsh later)
91 * "git config" used to choke with an insanely long line.
92 (merge ef/maint-strbuf-init later)
94 * "git send-pack" (hence "git push") over smalt-HTTP protocol could
95 deadlock when the client side pack-object died early.
96 (merge js/maint-send-pack-stateless-rpc-deadlock-fix later)
98 ---
99 exec >/var/tmp/1
100 echo O=$(git describe master)
101 O=v1.7.5.1-339-g254fd97
102 git shortlog --no-merges ^maint ^$O master