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1 Git v1.7.5 Release Notes (draft)
2 ========================
4 Updates since v1.7.5
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7 * Various git-svn updates.
9 * When an object "$tree:$path" does not exist, if $path does exist in the
10 subtree of $tree that corresponds to the subdirectory the user is in,
11 git now suggests using "$tree:./$path" in addition to the advice to use
12 the full path from the root of the working tree.
14 * "git blame" learned "--abbrev[=<n>]" option to control the minimum
15 number of hexdigits shown for commit object names.
17 * "git clean" used to fail on an empty directory that is not readable,
18 even though rmdir(2) could remove such a directory. Now we attempt it
19 as the last resort.
21 * "git format-patch" learned "--quiet" option to suppress the output of
22 the names of generated files.
24 * "git merge" learned "-" as a short-hand for "the previous branch", just
25 like the way "git checkout -" works.
27 * "git pack-object" now takes core.bigfilethreashold into account, just
28 like fast-imoprt does.
30 * "git reflog" allows options like "--format=.." to be given.
32 * "git stash apply" can now apply to a working tree with changes as long
33 as there is no overlapping change as the stash being applied.
35 * "git stash apply @{99999}" now is diagnosed as an error, unless you
36 really have that many stash entries.
38 Also contains various documentation updates.
41 Fixes since v1.7.5
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44 Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes in 1.7.5.X maintenance track are
45 included in this release.
47 * The "--date=relative" output format used to say "X years, 12 months"
48 when it should have said "X+1 years".
49 (merge mg/x-years-12-months later)
51 * "git config" used to choke with an insanely long line.
52 (merge ef/maint-strbuf-init later)
54 * The "--dirstat" option of "diff" family of commands used to totally
55 ignore a change that only rearranged lines within a file. Such a
56 change now counts as at least a minimum but non zero change.
58 * The "--dirstat" option of "diff" family of commands used to use the
59 pathname in the original, instead of the pathname in the result,
60 when renames are involved.
61 (merge jh/dirstat for the above two later)
63 * "git format-patch" when run with "--quiet" option used to produce a
64 nonsense result that consists of alternating empty output.
65 (merge early part of cn/format-patch-quiet later)
67 * "git stash -p --no-keep-index" and "git stash --no-keep-index -p" now
68 mean the same thing.
69 (merge dm/stash-k-i-p later)
71 * "git upload-pack" (hence "git push" over git native protocol) had a
72 subtle race condition that could lead to a deadlock.
73 (merge jk/maint-upload-pack-shallow later)
75 ---
76 exec >/var/tmp/1
77 echo O=$(git describe master)
78 O=v1.7.5
79 git shortlog --no-merges ^maint ^$O master