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1 Git v1.7.2 Release Notes
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4 Updates since v1.7.1
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7 * core.eol configuration and text/eol attributes are the new way to control
8 the end of line conventions for files in the working tree.
10 * core.autocrlf has been made safer - it will now only handle line
11 endings for new files and files that are LF-only in the
12 repository. To normalize content that has been checked in with
13 CRLF, use the new eol/text attributes.
15 * The whitespace rules used in "git apply --whitespace" and "git diff"
16 gained a new member in the family (tab-in-indent) to help projects with
17 policy to indent only with spaces.
19 * When working from a subdirectory, by default, git does not look for its
20 metadirectory ".git" across filesystems, primarily to help people who
21 have invocations of git in their custom PS1 prompts, as being outside
22 of a git repository would look for ".git" all the way up to the root
23 directory, and NFS mounts are often slow. DISCOVERY_ACROSS_FILESYSTEM
24 environment variable can be used to tell git not to stop at a
25 filesystem boundary.
27 * Usage help messages generated by parse-options library (i.e. most
28 of the Porcelain commands) are sent to the standard output now.
30 * ':/<string>' notation to look for a commit now takes regular expression
31 and it is not anchored at the beginning of the commit log message
32 anymore (this is a backward incompatible change).
34 * "git" wrapper learned "-c name=value" option to override configuration
35 variable from the command line.
37 * Improved portability for various platforms including older SunOS,
38 HP-UX 10/11, AIX, Tru64, etc. and platforms with Python 2.4.
40 * The message from "git am -3" has been improved when conflict
41 resolution ended up making the patch a no-op.
43 * "git blame" applies the textconv filter to the contents it works
44 on, when available.
46 * "git checkout --orphan newbranch" is similar to "-b newbranch" but
47 prepares to create a root commit that is not connected to any existing
48 commit.
50 * "git cherry-pick" learned to pick a range of commits
51 (e.g. "cherry-pick A..B" and "cherry-pick --stdin"), so did "git
52 revert"; these do not support the nicer sequencing control "rebase
53 [-i]" has, though.
55 * "git cherry-pick" and "git revert" learned --strategy option to specify
56 the merge strategy to be used when performing three-way merges.
58 * "git cvsserver" can be told to use pserver; its password file can be
59 stored outside the repository.
61 * The output from the textconv filter used by "git diff" can be cached to
62 speed up their reuse.
64 * "git diff --word-diff=<mode>" extends the existing "--color-words"
65 option, making it more useful in color-challenged environments.
67 * The regexp to detect function headers used by "git diff" for PHP has
68 been enhanced for visibility modifiers (public, protected, etc.) to
69 better support PHP5.
71 * "diff.noprefix" configuration variable can be used to implicitly
72 ask for "diff --no-prefix" behaviour.
74 * "git for-each-ref" learned "%(objectname:short)" that gives the object
75 name abbreviated.
77 * "git format-patch" learned --signature option and format.signature
78 configuration variable to customize the e-mail signature used in the
79 output.
81 * Various options to "git grep" (e.g. --count, --name-only) work better
82 with binary files.
84 * "git grep" learned "-Ovi" to open the files with hits in your editor.
86 * "git help -w" learned "chrome" and "chromium" browsers.
88 * "git log --decorate" shows commit decorations in various colours.
90 * "git log --follow <path>" follows across copies (it used to only follow
91 renames). This may make the processing more expensive.
93 * "git log --pretty=format:<template>" specifier learned "% <something>"
94 magic that inserts a space only when %<something> expands to a
95 non-empty string; this is similar to "%+<something>" magic, but is
96 useful in a context to generate a single line output.
98 * "git notes prune" learned "-n" (dry-run) and "-v" options, similar to
99 what "git prune" has.
101 * "git patch-id" can be fed a mbox without getting confused by the
102 signature line in the format-patch output.
104 * "git remote" learned "set-branches" subcommand.
106 * "git rev-list A..B" learned --ancestry-path option to further limit
107 the result to the commits that are on the ancestry chain between A and
108 B (i.e. commits that are not descendants of A are excluded).
110 * "git show -5" is equivalent to "git show --do-walk 5"; this is similar
111 to the update to make "git show master..next" walk the history,
112 introduced in 1.6.4.
114 * "git status [-s] --ignored" can be used to list ignored paths.
116 * "git status -s -b" shows the current branch in the output.
118 * "git status" learned "--ignore-submodules" option.
120 * Various "gitweb" enhancements and clean-ups, including syntax
121 highlighting, "plackup" support for instaweb, .fcgi suffix to run
122 it as FastCGI script, etc.
124 * The test harness has been updated to produce TAP-friendly output.
126 * Many documentation improvement patches are also included.
129 Fixes since v1.7.1
130 ------------------
132 All of the fixes in v1.7.1.X maintenance series are included in this
133 release, unless otherwise noted.
135 * We didn't URL decode "file:///path/to/repo" correctly when path/to/repo
136 had percent-encoded characters (638794c, 9d2e942, ce83eda, 3c73a1d).
138 * "git clone" did not configure remote.origin.url correctly for bare
139 clones (df61c889).
141 * "git diff --graph" works better with "--color-words" and other options
142 (81fa024..4297c0a).
144 * "git diff" could show ambiguous abbreviation of blob object names on
145 its "index" line (3e5a188).
147 * "git reset --hard" started from a wrong directory and a working tree in
148 a nonstandard location is in use got confused (560fb6a1).
150 * "git read-tree -m A B" used to switch to branch B while retaining
151 local changes added an incorrect cache-tree information (b1f47514).