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1 Git v1.7.6 Release Notes (draft)
2 ========================
4 Updates since v1.7.5
5 --------------------
7 * Various git-svn updates.
9 * Updates the way content tags are handled in gitweb.
11 * Clean-up of the C part of i18n (but not l10n---please wait)
12 continues.
14 * Processes spawned by "[alias] <name> = !process" in the configuration
15 can inspect GIT_PREFIX environment variable to learn where in the
16 working tree the original command was invoked.
18 * "git blame" learned "--abbrev[=<n>]" option to control the minimum
19 number of hexdigits shown for commit object names.
21 * "git diff -C -C" used to disable the rename detection entirely when
22 there are too many copy candidate paths in the tree; now it falls
23 back to "-C" when doing so would keep the copy candidate paths
24 under the rename detection limit.
26 * "git diff" and its family of commands learned --dirstat=0 to show
27 directories that contribute less than 0.1% of changes.
29 * "git diff" and its family of commands learned --dirstat=lines mode to
30 assess damage to the directory based on number of lines in the patch
31 output, not based on the similarity numbers.
33 * "git format-patch" learned "--quiet" option to suppress the output of
34 the names of generated files.
36 * "git format-patch" quotes people's names when it has RFC822 special
37 characters in it, e.g. "Junio C. Hamano" <jch@example.com>. Earlier
38 it was up to the user to do this when using its output.
40 * "git log" and friends learned a new "--notes" option to replace the
41 "--show-notes" option. Unlike "--show-notes", "--notes=<ref>" does
42 not imply showing the default notes.
44 * "git merge" learned "-" as a short-hand for "the previous branch", just
45 like the way "git checkout -" works.
47 * "git rebase" that does not specify on top of which branch to rebase
48 the current branch now uses @{upstream} of the current branch.
50 * "git rev-list --count" used with "--cherry-mark" counts the cherry-picked
51 commits separately, producing more a useful output.
53 * "git submodule update" learned "--force" option to get rid of local
54 changes in submodules and replace them with the up-to-date version.
56 * Compressed tarball gitweb generates is made without the timestamp of
57 the tarball generation; snapshot from the same tree should result in
58 a same tarball.
60 Also contains various documentation updates and minor miscellaneous
61 changes.
64 Fixes since v1.7.5
65 ------------------
67 Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes in 1.7.5.X maintenance track are
68 included in this release.
70 * "git add -p" did not work correctly when a hunk is split and then
71 one of them was given to the editor.
72 (merge jc/maint-add-p-overlapping-hunks later)
74 * "git add -u" did not resolve a conflict where our history deleted and
75 their history modified the same file, and the working tree resolved to
76 keep a file.
77 (merge jc/fix-add-u-unmerged later)
79 * "git config" used to choke with an insanely long line.
80 (merge ef/maint-strbuf-init later)
82 * "git format-patch" when run with "--quiet" option used to produce a
83 nonsense result that consists of alternating empty output.
84 (merge early part of cn/format-patch-quiet later)
86 * "git format-patch" did not quote RFC822 special characters in the
87 email address (e.g From: Junio C. Hamano <jch@example.com>, not
88 From: "Junio C. Hamano" <jch@example.com>).
89 (merge jk/format-patch-quote-special-in-from later)
91 * In "git merge", per-branch branch.<name>.mergeoptions configuration
92 variables did not override the fallback default merge.<option>
93 configuration variables such as merge.ff, merge.log, etc.
94 (merge jc/maint-branch-mergeoptions later)
96 * "git mergetool" did not handle conflicted submoudules gracefully.
97 (merge jm/mergetool-submodules later)
99 * "git send-pack" (hence "git push") over smalt-HTTP protocol could
100 deadlock when the client side pack-object died early.
101 (merge js/maint-send-pack-stateless-rpc-deadlock-fix later)
103 ---
104 exec >/var/tmp/1
105 echo O=$(git describe master)
106 O=v1.7.5.1-288-ge4ae6ef
107 git shortlog --no-merges ^maint ^$O master