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1 Git v1.7.5 Release Notes (draft)
2 ========================
4 Updates since v1.7.4
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7 * Various MinGW portability fixes.
9 * Various git-p4 enhancements (in contrib).
11 * Various vcs-svn enhancements.
13 * Various git-gui updates (0.14.0).
15 * Update to more modern HP-UX port.
17 * The codebase is getting prepared for i18n/l10n; no translated
18 strings nor translation mechanism in the code yet, but the strings
19 are being marked for l10n.
21 * The bash completion script can now complete symmetric difference
22 for "git diff" command, e.g. "git diff ...bra<TAB>".
24 * The default minimum length of abbreviated and unique object names
25 can now be configured by setting the core.abbrev configuration
26 variable.
28 * "git apply -v" reports offset lines when the patch does not apply at
29 the exact location recorded in the diff output.
31 * "git config" used to be also known as "git repo-config", but the old
32 name is now officially deprecated.
34 * "git checkout --detach <commit>" is a more user friendly synonym for
35 "git checkout <commit>^0".
37 * "git checkout" performed on detached HEAD gives a warning and
38 advice when the commit being left behind will become unreachable from
39 any branch or tag.
41 * "git cherry-pick" and "git revert" can be told to use a custom merge
42 strategy, similar to "git rebase".
44 * "git cherry-pick" remembers which commit failed to apply when it is
45 stopped by conflicts, making it unnecessary to use "commit -c $commit"
46 to conclude it.
48 * "git cvsimport" bails out immediately when the cvs server cannot be
49 reached, without spewing unnecessary error messages that complain about
50 the server response it never got.
52 * "git fetch" vs "git upload-pack" transfer learned 'no-done'
53 protocol extension to save one round-trip after the content
54 negotiation is done. This saves one HTTP RPC, reducing the overall
55 latency for a trivial fetch.
57 * "git fetch" can be told to recursively fetch submodules on-demand.
59 * "git grep -f <filename>" learned to treat "-" as "read from the
60 standard input stream".
62 * "git grep --no-index" did not honor pathspecs correctly, returning
63 paths outside the specified area.
65 * "git init" learned the --separate-git-dir option to allow the git
66 directory for a new repository created elsewhere and linked via the
67 gitdir mechanism. This is primarily to help submodule support later
68 to switch between a branch of superproject that has the submodule
69 and another that does not.
71 * "git log" type commands now understand globbing pathspecs. You
72 can say "git log -- '*.txt'" for example.
74 * "git log" family of commands learned --cherry and --cherry-mark
75 options that can be used to view two diverged branches while omitting
76 or highlighting equivalent changes that appear on both sides of a
77 symmetric difference (e.g. "log --cherry A...B").
79 * A lazy "git merge" that didn't say what to merge used to be an error.
80 When run on a branch that has an upstream defined, however, the command
81 now merges from the configured upstream.
83 * "git mergetool" learned how to drive "beyond compare 3" as well.
85 * "git rerere forget" without pathspec used to forget all the saved
86 conflicts that relate to the current merge; it now requires you to
87 give it pathspecs.
89 * "git rev-list --objects $revs -- $pathspec" now limits the objects listed
90 in its output properly with the pathspec, in preparation for narrow
91 clones.
93 * "git push" with no parameters gives better advice messages when
94 "tracking" is used as the push.default semantics or there is no remote
95 configured yet.
97 * A possible value to the "push.default" configuration variable,
98 'tracking', gained a synonym that more naturally describes what it
99 does, 'upstream'.
101 * "git rerere" learned a new subcommand "remaining" that is similar to
102 "status" and lists the paths that had conflicts which are known to
103 rerere, but excludes the paths that have already been marked as
104 resolved in the index from its output. "git mergetool" has been
105 updated to use this facility.
107 Also contains various documentation updates.
110 Fixes since v1.7.4
111 ------------------
113 All of the fixes in the v1.7.4.X maintenance series are included in this
114 release, unless otherwise noted.
116 * "git fetch" from a client that is mostly following the remote
117 needlessly told all of its refs to the server for both sides to
118 compute the set of objects that need to be transferred efficiently,
119 instead of stopping when the server heard enough. In a project with
120 many tags, this turns out to be extremely wasteful, especially over
121 the smart HTTP transport (sp/maint-{upload,fetch}-pack-stop-early~1).
123 * "git fetch" run from a repository that uses the same repository as
124 its alternate object store as the repository it is fetching from
125 did not tell the server that it already has access to objects
126 reachable from the refs in their common alternate object store,
127 causing it to fetch unnecessary objects (jc/maint-fetch-alt).
129 * "git remote add --mirror" created a configuration that is suitable for
130 doing both a mirror fetch and a mirror push at the same time, which
131 made little sense. We now warn and require the command line to specify
132 either --mirror=fetch or --mirror=push.
134 ---
135 exec >/var/tmp/1
136 O=v1.7.5-rc1
137 echo O=$(git describe 'master')
138 git shortlog --no-merges ^maint ^$O master