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1 Git v1.7.9 Release Notes (draft)
2 ========================
4 Updates since v1.7.8
5 --------------------
7 * Porcelain commands like "git reset" did not distinguish deletions
8 and type-changes from ordinary modification, and reported them with
9 the same 'M' moniker. They now use 'D' (for deletion) and 'T' (for
10 type-change) to match "git status -s" and "git diff --name-status".
12 * fsck and prune are relatively lengthy operations that still go
13 silent while making the end-user wait. They learned to give progress
14 output like other slow operations.
16 * The set of built-in function-header patterns for various languages
17 knows MATLAB.
19 * "git pull" can be used to fetch and merge an annotated/signed tag,
20 instead of the tip of a topic branch. The GPG signature from the
21 signed tag is recorded in the resulting merge commit for later
22 auditing.
24 * "git branch --edit-description" can be used to add descriptive text
25 to explain what a topic branch is about.
27 * "git fmt-merge-msg" learned to take the branch description into
28 account when preparing a merge summary that "git merge" records
29 when merging a local branch.
31 * "git request-pull" has been updated to convey more information
32 useful for integrators to decide if a topic is worth merging and
33 what is pulled is indeed what the requestor asked to pull,
34 including:
36 - the tip of the branch being requested to be merged;
37 - the branch description describing what the topic is about;
38 - the contents of the annotated tag, when requesting to pull a tag.
40 * "git pull" learned to notice 'pull.rebase' configuration variable,
41 which serves as a global fallback for setting 'branch.<name>.rebase'
42 configuration variable per branch.
45 Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.
48 Fixes since v1.7.8
49 ------------------
51 * In some codepaths (notably, checkout and merge), the ignore patterns
52 recorded in $GIT_DIR/info/exclude were not honored. They now are.
53 (merge fc001b5 nd/maint-ignore-exclude later to maint).
56 --
57 exec >/var/tmp/1
58 O=v1.7.8-162-gd2c7807
59 echo O=$(git describe master)
60 git log --first-parent --oneline --reverse ^$O master
61 echo
62 git shortlog --no-merges ^$O ^maint master