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1 Git v1.7.4 Release Notes (draft)
2 ================================
4 Updates since v1.7.3
5 --------------------
7 * The option parsers of various commands that create new branch (or
8 rename existing ones to a new name) were too loose and users were
9 allowed to call a branch with a name that begins with a dash by
10 creative abuse of their command line options, which only lead to
11 burn themselves. The name of a branch cannot begin with a dash
12 now.
14 * System-wide fallback default attributes can be stored in
15 /etc/gitattributes; core.attributesfile configuration variable can
16 be used to customize the path to this file.
18 * The thread structure generated by "git send-email" has changed
19 slightly. Setting the cover letter of the latest series as a reply
20 to the cover letter of the previous series with --in-reply-to used
21 to make the new cover letter and all the patches replies to the
22 cover letter of the previous series; this has been changed to make
23 the patches in the new series replies to the new cover letter.
25 * Bash completion script in contrib/ has been adjusted to be also
26 usable by zsh.
28 * "git blame" learned --show-email option to display the e-mail
29 addresses instead of the names of authors.
31 * "git daemon" can be built in MinGW environment.
33 * "git daemon" can take more than one --listen option to listen to
34 multiple addresses.
36 * "git diff" and "git grep" learned how functions and subroutines
37 in Fortran look like.
39 * "git mergetool" tells vim/gvim to show three-way diff by default
40 (use vimdiff2/gvimdiff2 as the tool name for old behaviour).
42 * "git log -G<pattern>" limits the output to commits whose change has
43 added or deleted lines that match the given pattern.
45 * "git read-tree" with no argument as a way to empty the index is
46 deprecated; we might want to remove it in the future. Users can
47 use the new --empty option to be more explicit instead.
49 * "git repack -f" does not spend cycles to recompress objects in the
50 non-delta representation anymore (use -F if you really mean it when
51 e.g. you changed the compression level).
53 * "git merge --log" used to limit the resulting merge log to 20
54 entries; this is now customizable by giving e.g. "--log=47".
56 * "git merge" may work better when all files were moved out of a
57 directory in one branch while a new file is created in place of that
58 directory in the other branch.
60 * "git rebase --autosquash" can use SHA-1 object names to name which
61 commit to fix up (e.g. "fixup! e83c5163").
63 * The default "recursive" merge strategy learned --rename-threshold
64 option to influence the rename detection, similar to the -M option
65 of "git diff". E.g. "git merge -Xrename-threshold=50% ..." to use
66 this.
68 * The "recursive" strategy also learned to ignore various whitespace
69 changes; the most notable is -Xignore-space-at-eol.
71 * "git send-email" learned "--to-cmd", similar to "--cc-cmd", to read
72 recipient list from a command output.
74 * "git send-email" learned to read and use "To:" from its input files.
76 * you can extend "git shell", which is often used on boxes that allow
77 git-only login over ssh as login shell, with custom set of
78 commands.
80 * "git submodule sync" updates metainformation for all submodules,
81 not just the ones that have been checked out.
83 * gitweb can use custom 'highlight' command with its configuration file.
86 Also contains various documentation updates.
89 Fixes since v1.7.3
90 ------------------
92 All of the fixes in v1.7.3.X maintenance series are included in this
93 release, unless otherwise noted.
95 * Smart HTTP transport used to incorrectly retry redirected POST
96 request with GET request (311e2ea006).
98 * "git apply" did not correctly handle patches that only change modes
99 if told to apply while stripping leading paths with -p option (aae1f6ac).
101 * "git apply" can deal with patches with timezone formatted with a
102 colon between the hours and minutes part (e.g. "-08:00" instead of
103 "-0800").
105 * "git checkout" removed an untracked file "foo" from the working
106 tree when switching to a branch that contains a tracked path
107 "foo/bar". Prevent this, just like the case where the conflicting
108 path were "foo" (c752e7f..7980872d).
110 * "git diff --check" reported an incorrect line number for added
111 blank lines at the end of file (8837d335).
113 * "git log --author=me --author=her" did not find commits written by
114 me or by her; instead it looked for commits written by me and by
115 her, which is impossible.
117 * "git merge" into an unborn branch removed an untracked file "foo"
118 from the working tree when merged branch had "foo" (2caf20c..172b642).
120 * "git push --progress" shows progress indicators now.
122 * "git repack" places its temporary packs under $GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY/pack
123 instead of $GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY/ to avoid cross directory renames.
125 * "git submodule update --recursive --other-flags" passes flags down
126 to its subinvocations.
128 ---
129 exec >/var/tmp/1
130 O=v1.7.3.2-450-g5b9c331
131 echo O=$(git describe master)
132 git shortlog --no-merges ^maint ^$O master