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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 * Bash completion script in contrib/ has been adjusted to be also
19 usable by zsh.
21 * "git daemon" can take more than one --listen option to listen to
22 multiple addresses.
24 * "git diff" and "git grep" learned how functions and subroutines
25 in Fortran look like.
27 * "git mergetool" tells vim/gvim to show three-way diff by default
28 (use vimdiff2/gvimdiff2 as the tool name for old behaviour).
30 * "git log -G<pattern>" limits the output to commits whose change has
31 added or deleted lines that match the given pattern.
33 * "git read-tree" with no argument as a way to empty the index is
34 deprecated; we might want to remove it in the future. Users can
35 use the new --empty option to be more explicit instead.
37 * "git repack -f" does not spend cycles to recompress objects in the
38 non-delta representation anymore (use -F if you really mean it when
39 e.g. you changed the compression level).
41 * "git merge --log" used to limit the resulting merge log to 20
42 entries; this is now customizable by giving e.g. "--log=47".
44 * The default "recursive" merge strategy learned --rename-threshold
45 option to influence the rename detection, similar to the -M option
46 of "git diff". E.g. "git merge -Xrename-threshold=50% ..." to use
47 this.
49 * The "recursive" strategy also learned to ignore various whitespace
50 changes; the most notable is -Xignore-space-at-eol.
52 * "git send-email" learned "--to-cmd", similar to "--cc-cmd", to read
53 recipient list from a command output.
55 * "git send-email" learned to read and use "To:" from its input files.
57 * you can extend "git shell", which is often used on boxes that allow
58 git-only login over ssh as login shell, with custom set of
59 commands.
61 * "git submodule sync" updates metainformation for all submodules,
62 not just the ones that have been checked out.
64 * gitweb can use custom 'highlight' command with its configuration file.
67 Also contains various documentation updates.
70 Fixes since v1.7.3
71 ------------------
73 All of the fixes in v1.7.3.X maintenance series are included in this
74 release, unless otherwise noted.
76 * "diff" and friends incorrectly applied textconv filters to symlinks
77 (d391c0ff).
79 * "git apply" segfaulted when a bogus input is fed to it (24305cd70).
81 * Running "git cherry-pick --ff" on a root commit segfaulted (6355e50).
83 * "git log --author=me --author=her" did not find commits written by
84 me or by her; instead it looked for commits written by me and by
85 her, which is impossible.
87 * "git merge-file" can be called from within a subdirectory now
88 (55846b9a).
90 * "git push --progress" shows progress indicators now.
92 * "git repack" places its temporary packs under $GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY/pack
93 instead of $GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY/ to avoid cross directory renames.
95 * "git rev-list --format="...%x00..." incorrectly chopped its output
96 at NUL (9130ac9fe).
98 * "git submodule update --recursive --other-flags" passes flags down
99 to its subinvocations.
101 ---
102 exec >/var/tmp/1
103 O=v1.7.3.2-245-g03276d9
104 echo O=$(git describe master)
105 git shortlog --no-merges ^maint ^$O master