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1 Git v1.7.9 Release Notes
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4 Updates since v1.7.8
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7 * gitk updates accumulated since early 2011.
9 * git-gui updated to 0.16.0.
11 * git-p4 (in contrib/) updates.
13 * Git uses gettext to translate its most common interface messages
14 into the user's language if translations are available and the
15 locale is appropriately set. Distributors can drop in new PO files
16 in po/ to add new translations.
18 * The code to handle username/password for HTTP transaction used in
19 "git push" & "git fetch" learned to talk "credential API" to
20 external programs to cache or store them, to allow integration with
21 platform native keychain mechanisms.
23 * The prompted input in the terminal use our own getpass() replacement
24 when possible. HTTP transactions used to ask username without echoing
25 back what was typed, but with this change you will see it as you type.
27 * The internal of "revert/cherry-pick" has been tweaked to prepare
28 building more generic "sequencer" on top of the implementation that
29 drives them.
31 * "git rev-parse FETCH_HEAD" after "git fetch" without specifying
32 what to fetch from the command line will now show the commit that
33 would be merged if the command were "git pull".
35 * "git add" learned to stream large files directly into a packfile
36 instead of writing them into individual loose object files.
38 * "git checkout -B <current branch> <elsewhere>" is a more intuitive
39 way to spell "git reset --keep <elsewhere>".
41 * "git checkout" and "git merge" learned "--no-overwrite-ignore" option
42 to tell Git that untracked and ignored files are not expendable.
44 * "git commit --amend" learned "--no-edit" option to say that the
45 user is amending the tree being recorded, without updating the
46 commit log message.
48 * "git commit" and "git reset" re-learned the optimization to prime
49 the cache-tree information in the index, which makes it faster to
50 write a tree object out after the index entries are updated.
52 * "git commit" detects and rejects an attempt to stuff NUL byte in
53 the commit log message.
55 * "git commit" learned "-S" to GPG-sign the commit; this can be shown
56 with the "--show-signature" option to "git log".
58 * fsck and prune are relatively lengthy operations that still go
59 silent while making the end-user wait. They learned to give progress
60 output like other slow operations.
62 * The set of built-in function-header patterns for various languages
63 knows MATLAB.
65 * "git log --format='<format>'" learned new %g[nNeE] specifiers to
66 show information from the reflog entries when walking the reflog
67 (i.e. with "-g").
69 * "git pull" can be used to fetch and merge an annotated/signed tag,
70 instead of the tip of a topic branch. The GPG signature from the
71 signed tag is recorded in the resulting merge commit for later
72 auditing.
74 * "git log" learned "--show-signature" option to show the signed tag
75 that was merged that is embedded in the merge commit. It also can
76 show the signature made on the commit with "git commit -S".
78 * "git branch --edit-description" can be used to add descriptive text
79 to explain what a topic branch is about.
81 * "git fmt-merge-msg" learned to take the branch description into
82 account when preparing a merge summary that "git merge" records
83 when merging a local branch.
85 * "git request-pull" has been updated to convey more information
86 useful for integrators to decide if a topic is worth merging and
87 what is pulled is indeed what the requestor asked to pull,
88 including:
90 - the tip of the branch being requested to be merged;
91 - the branch description describing what the topic is about;
92 - the contents of the annotated tag, when requesting to pull a tag.
94 * "git pull" learned to notice 'pull.rebase' configuration variable,
95 which serves as a global fallback for setting 'branch.<name>.rebase'
96 configuration variable per branch.
98 * "git tag" learned "--cleanup" option to control how the whitespaces
99 and empty lines in tag message are cleaned up.
101 * "gitweb" learned to show side-by-side diff.
103 Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.
106 Fixes since v1.7.8
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109 Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.7.8 in the maintenance
110 releases are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
111 details).