1 Git v1.7.1.1 Release Notes (draft)
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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 * "git am -3" did not show diagnosis when the patch in the message was corrupt.
22 * After "git apply --whitespace=fix" removed trailing blank lines in an
23 patch in a patch series, it failed to apply later patches that depend
24 on the presense of such blank lines.
26 * "git bundle --stdin" segfaulted.
28 * "git checkout" and "git rebase" overwrote paths that are marked "assume
31 * "git commit --amend" on a commit with an invalid author-name line that
32 lacks the display name didn't work.
34 * "git describe" did not tie-break tags that point at the same commit
35 correctly; newer ones are preferred by paying attention to the
38 * "git diff" used to tell underlying xdiff machinery to work very hard to
39 minimize the output, but this often was spending too many extra cycles
42 * "git diff --color" did not paint extended diff headers per line
43 (i.e. the coloring escape sequence didn't end at the end of line),
44 which confused "less -R".
46 * "git fetch" over HTTP verifies the downloaded packfiles more robustly.
48 * The memory usage by "git index-pack" (run during "git fetch" and "git
51 * "GIT_DIR=foo.git git init --bare bar.git" created foo.git instead of bar.git.
53 * "git log --abbrev=$num --format='%h' ignored --abbrev=$num.
55 * "git ls-files ../out/side/cwd" refused to work.
57 * "git merge --log" used to replace the custom message given by "-m" with
58 the shortlog, instead of appending to it.
60 * "git pull" accepted "--dry-run", gave it to underlying "git fetch" but
61 ignored the option itself, resulting in a bogus attempt to merge
64 * "git reset --hard" started from a wrong directory and a working tree in
65 a nonstandard location is in use got confused.
67 * "git send-email" lacked a way to specify the domainname used in the
68 EHLO/HELO exchange, causing rejected connection from picky servers.
69 It learned --smtp-domain option to solve this issue.
71 * "git show -C -C" and other corner cases lost diff metainfo output
74 * "git stash" incorrectly lost paths in the working tree that were
75 previously removed from the index.
77 * "git status" stopped refreshing the index by mistake in 1.7.1.
79 * "git status" showed excess "hints" even when advice.statusHints is set to false.
81 And other minor fixes and documentation updates.
87 echo O=$(git describe HEAD)
88 git shortlog --no-merges HEAD ^$O