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1 Git v1.7.2 Release Notes (draft)
2 ================================
4 Updates since v1.7.1
5 --------------------
7 * core.eol configuration and eol attribute are the new way to control
8 the end of line conventions for files in the working tree;
9 core.autocrlf overrides it, keeping the traditional behaviour by
10 default.
12 * The whitespace rules used in "git apply --whitespace" and "git diff"
13 gained a new member in the family (tab-in-indent) to help projects with
14 policy to indent only with spaces.
16 * When working from a subdirectory, by default, git does not look for its
17 metadirectory ".git" across filesystems, primarily to help people who
18 have invocations of git in their custom PS1 prompts, as being outside
19 of a git repository would look for ".git" all the way up to the root
20 directory, and NFS mounts are often slow. DISCOVERY_ACROSS_FILESYSTEM
21 environment variable can be used to tell git not to stop at a
22 filesystem boundary.
24 * Usage help messages generated by parse-options library (i.e. most
25 of the Porcelain commands) are sent to the standard output now.
27 * ':/<string>' notation to look for a commit now takes regular expression
28 and it is not anchored at the beginning of the commit log message
29 anymore (this is a backward incompatible change).
31 * "git" wrapper learned "-c name=value" option to override configuration
32 variable from the command line.
34 * Improved portability for various platforms including older SunOS,
35 HP-UX 10/11, AIX, Tru64, etc. and platforms with Python 2.4.
37 * The message from "git am -3" has been improved when conflict
38 resolution ended up making the patch a no-op.
40 * "git checkout --orphan newbranch" is similar to "-b newbranch" but
41 prepares to create a root commit that is not connected to any existing
42 commit.
44 * "git cherry-pick" learned to pick a range of commits (e.g. "cherry-pick
45 A..B"); this does not have nicer sequencing control "rebase [-i]" has,
46 though.
48 * "git cvsserver" can be told to use pserver; its password file can be
49 stored outside the repository.
51 * The output from the textconv filter used by "git diff" can be cached to
52 speed up their reuse.
54 * "git diff --word-diff=<mode>" extends the existing "--color-words"
55 option, making it more useful in color-challenged environments.
57 * The regexp to detect function headers used by "git diff" for PHP has
58 been enhanced for visibility modifiers (public, protected, etc.) to
59 better support PHP5.
61 * "diff.noprefix" configuration variable can be used to implicitly
62 ask for "diff --no-prefix" behaviour.
64 * "git for-each-ref" learned "%(objectname:short)" that gives the object
65 name abbreviated.
67 * "git format-patch" learned --signature option and format.signature
68 configuration variable to customize the e-mail signature used in the
69 output.
71 * Various options to "git grep" (e.g. --count, --name-only) work better
72 with binary files.
74 * "git help -w" learned "chrome" and "chromium" browsers.
76 * "git log --follow <path>" follows across copies (it used to only follow
77 renames). This may make the processing more expensive.
79 * "git log --pretty=format:<template>" specifier learned "% <something>"
80 magic that inserts a space only when %<something> expands to a
81 non-empty string; this is similar to "%+<something>" magic, but is
82 useful in a context to generate a single line output.
84 * "git notes prune" learned "-n" (dry-run) and "-v" options, similar to
85 what "git prune" has.
87 * "git patch-id" can be fed a mbox without getting confused by the
88 signature line in the format-patch output.
90 * "git remote" learned "set-branches" subcommand.
92 * "git revert" learned --strategy option to specify the merge strategy.
94 * "git rev-list A..B" learned --ancestry-path option to further limit
95 the result to the commits that are on the ancestry chain between A and
96 B (i.e. commits that are not descendants of A are excluded).
98 * "git status [-s] --ignored" can be used to list ignored paths.
100 * "git status -s -b" shows the current branch in the output.
102 * Various "gitweb" enhancements and clean-ups, including syntax
103 highlighting, "plackup" support for instaweb, .fcgi suffix to run
104 it as FastCGI script, etc.
107 Fixes since v1.7.1
108 ------------------
110 All of the fixes in v1.7.1.X maintenance series are included in this
111 release, unless otherwise noted.
113 * We didn't URL decode "file:///path/to/repo" correctly when path/to/repo
114 had percent-encoded characters (638794c, 9d2e942).
116 * "git commit" did not honor GIT_REFLOG_ACTION environment variable, resulting
117 reflog messages for cherry-pick and revert actions to be recorded as "commit".
119 * "git clone/fetch/pull" issued an incorrect error message when a ref and
120 a symref that points to the ref were updated at the same time. This
121 obviously would update them to the same value, and should not result in
122 an error condition (0e71bc3).
124 * "git clone" did not configure remote.origin.url correctly for bare
125 clones (df61c889).
127 * "git diff" inside a tree with many pathnames that have certain
128 characters has become very slow in 1.7.0 by mistake (will merge
129 e53e6b443 to 'maint').
131 * "git diff --graph" works better with "--color-words" and other options
132 (81fa024..4297c0a).
134 * "git diff" could show ambiguous abbreviation of blob object names on
135 its "index" line (3e5a188).
137 * "git reset --hard" started from a wrong directory and a working tree in
138 a nonstandard location is in use got confused (560fb6a1).
140 --
141 exec >/var/tmp/1
142 O=v1.7.1-568-g2c177a1
143 echo O=$(git describe HEAD)
144 git shortlog --no-merges HEAD ^maint ^$O