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1 Git v1.7.4 Release Notes (draft)
2 ================================
4 Updates since v1.7.3
5 --------------------
7 * The option parsers of various commands that create new branch (or
8 rename existing ones to a new name) were too loose and users were
9 allowed to call a branch with a name that begins with a dash by
10 creative abuse of their command line options, which only lead to
11 burn themselves. The name of a branch cannot begin with a dash
12 now.
14 * System-wide fallback default attributes can be stored in
15 /etc/gitattributes; core.attributesfile configuration variable can
16 be used to customize the path to this file.
18 * "git diff" and "git grep" learned how functions and subroutines
19 in Fortran look like.
21 * "git log -G<pattern>" limits the output to commits whose change has
22 added or deleted lines that match the given pattern.
24 * "git read-tree" with no argument as a way to empty the index is
25 deprecated; we might want to remove it in the future. Users can
26 use the new --empty option to be more explicit instead.
28 * "git merge --log" used to limit the resulting merge log to 20
29 entries; this is now customizable by giving e.g. "--log=47".
31 * you can extend "git shell", which is often used on boxes that allow
32 git-only login over ssh as login shell, with custom set of
33 commands.
35 Also contains various documentation updates.
38 Fixes since v1.7.3
39 ------------------
41 All of the fixes in v1.7.3.X maintenance series are included in this
42 release, unless otherwise noted.
44 * "git log --author=me --author=her" did not find commits written by
45 me or by her; instead it looked for commits written by me and by
46 her, which is impossible.
49 ---
50 exec >/var/tmp/1
51 O=v1.7.3
52 O=v1.7.3.1-42-g34289ec
53 echo O=$(git describe master)
54 git shortlog --no-merges ^maint ^$O master