1 Git v1.7.1.1 Release Notes
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7 * Authentication over http transport can now be made lazily, in that the
8 request can first go to a URL without username, get a 401 response and
9 then the client will ask for the username to use.
11 * We used to mistakenly think "../work" is a subdirectory of the current
12 directory when we are in "../work-xyz".
14 * The attribute mechanism now allows an entry that uses an attribute
15 macro that set/unset one attribute, immediately followed by an
16 overriding setting; this makes attribute macros much easier to use.
18 * We didn't recognize timezone "Z" as a synonym for "UTC" (75b37e70).
20 * In 1.7.0, read-tree and user commands that use the mechanism such as
21 checkout and merge were fixed to handle switching between branches one
22 of which has a file while the other has a directory at the same path
23 correctly even when there are some "confusing" pathnames in them. But
24 the algorithm used for this fix was suboptimal and had a terrible
25 performance degradation especially in larger trees.
27 * "git am -3" did not show diagnosis when the patch in the message was corrupt.
29 * After "git apply --whitespace=fix" removed trailing blank lines in an
30 patch in a patch series, it failed to apply later patches that depend
31 on the presence of such blank lines.
33 * "git bundle --stdin" segfaulted.
35 * "git checkout" and "git rebase" overwrote paths that are marked "assume
38 * "git commit --amend" on a commit with an invalid author-name line that
39 lacks the display name didn't work.
41 * "git describe" did not tie-break tags that point at the same commit
42 correctly; newer ones are preferred by paying attention to the
45 * "git diff" used to tell underlying xdiff machinery to work very hard to
46 minimize the output, but this often was spending too many extra cycles
49 * "git diff --color" did not paint extended diff headers per line
50 (i.e. the coloring escape sequence didn't end at the end of line),
51 which confused "less -R".
53 * "git fetch" over HTTP verifies the downloaded packfiles more robustly.
55 * The memory usage by "git index-pack" (run during "git fetch" and "git
58 * "GIT_DIR=foo.git git init --bare bar.git" created foo.git instead of bar.git.
60 * "git log --abbrev=$num --format='%h' ignored --abbrev=$num.
62 * "git ls-files ../out/side/cwd" refused to work.
64 * "git merge --log" used to replace the custom message given by "-m" with
65 the shortlog, instead of appending to it.
67 * "git notes copy" without any other argument segfaulted.
69 * "git pull" accepted "--dry-run", gave it to underlying "git fetch" but
70 ignored the option itself, resulting in a bogus attempt to merge
73 * "git rebase" did not faithfully reproduce a malformed author ident, that
74 is often seen in a repository converted from foreign SCMs.
76 * "git reset --hard" started from a wrong directory and a working tree in
77 a nonstandard location is in use got confused.
79 * "git send-email" lacked a way to specify the domainname used in the
80 EHLO/HELO exchange, causing rejected connection from picky servers.
81 It learned --smtp-domain option to solve this issue.
83 * "git send-email" did not declare a content-transfer-encoding and
84 content-type even when its payload needs to be sent in 8-bit.
86 * "git show -C -C" and other corner cases lost diff metainfo output
89 * "git stash" incorrectly lost paths in the working tree that were
90 previously removed from the index.
92 * "git status" stopped refreshing the index by mistake in 1.7.1.
94 * "git status" showed excess "hints" even when advice.statusHints is set to false.
96 And other minor fixes and documentation updates.