1 Git v1.7.11 Release Notes
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7 UI, Workflows & Features
9 * A third-party tool "git subtree" is distributed in contrib/
18 Internal Implementation (please report possible regressions)
20 * More lower-level commands learned to use the streaming API to read
21 from the object store without keeping everything in core.
24 Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.
30 Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.7.10 in the maintenance
31 releases are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
34 * "git commit --author=$name" did not tell the name that was being
35 recorded in the resulting commit to hooks, even though it does do
36 so when the end user overrode the authorship via the
37 "GIT_AUTHOR_NAME" environment variable.
38 (merge 7dfe8ad jc/commit-hook-authorship later to maint).
40 * The regexp configured with diff.wordregex was incorrectly reused
42 (merge 6440d34 tr/maint-word-diff-regex-sticky later to maint).
44 * Running "notes merge --commit" failed to perform correctly when run
45 from any directory inside $GIT_DIR/. When "notes merge" stops with
46 conflicts, $GIT_DIR/NOTES_MERGE_WORKTREE is the place a user edits
48 (merge dabba59 jh/notes-merge-in-git-dir-worktree later to maint).