1 Git v1.7.2 Release Notes (draft)
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4 Updates since v1.7.1
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7 * The whitespace rules used in "git apply --whitespace" and "git diff"
8 gained a new member in the family (tab-in-indent) to help projects with
9 policy to indent only with spaces.
11 * When working from a subdirectory, by default, git does not look for its
12 metadirectory ".git" across filesystems, primarily to help people who
13 have invocations of git in their custom PS1 prompts, as being outside
14 of a git repository would look for ".git" all the way up to the root
15 directory, and NFS mounts are often slow. DISCOVERY_ACROSS_FILESYSTEM
16 environment variable can be used to tell git not to stop at a
17 filesystem boundary.
19 * "git" wrapper learned "-c name=value" option to override configuration
20 variable from the command line.
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 * The message from "git am -3" has been improved when conflict
27 resolution ended up making the patch a no-op.
29 * "git checkout --orphan newbranch" is similar to "-b newbranch" but
30 prepares to create a root commit that is not connected to any existing
31 commit.
33 * "git commit --amend" on a commit with an invalid author-name line that
34 lacks the display name didn't work (fb7749e4).
36 * "git cvsserver" can be told to use pserver; its password file can be
37 stored outside the repository.
39 * The output from the textconv filter used by "git diff" can be cached to
40 speed up their reuse.
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 diff --word-diff=<mode>" extends the existing "--color-words"
47 option, making it more useful in color-challenged environments.
49 * The regexp to detect function headers used by "git diff" for PHP has
50 been enhanced for visibility modifiers (public, protected, etc.) to
51 better support PHP5.
53 * "diff.noprefix" configuration variable can be used to implicitly
54 ask for "diff --no-prefix" behaviour.
56 * "git for-each-ref" learned "%(objectname:short)" that gives the object
57 name abbreviated.
59 * Various options to "git grep" (e.g. --count, --name-only) work better
60 with binary files.
62 * "git help -w" learned "chrome" and "chromium" browsers.
64 * "git log --follow <path>" follows across copies (it used to only follow
65 renames). This may make the processing more expensive.
67 * "git ls-files ../out/side/cwd" works now.
69 * "git notes prune" learned "-n" (dry-run) and "-v" options, similar to
70 what "git prune" has.
72 * "git patch-id" can be fed a mbox without getting confused by the
73 signature line in the format-patch output.
75 * "git remote" learned "set-branches" subcommand.
77 * "git revert" learned --strategy option to specify the merge strategy.
79 * "git status [-s] --ignored" can be used to list ignored paths.
81 * "git status -s -b" shows the current branch in the output.
83 * Various "gitweb" enhancements and clean-ups, including syntax
84 highlighting, "plackup" support for instaweb, etc.
87 Fixes since v1.7.1
88 ------------------
90 All of the fixes in v1.7.1.X maintenance series are included in this
91 release, unless otherwise noted.
93 * We didn't recognize timezone "Z" as a synonym for "UTC" (75b37e70).
95 * We didn't URL decode "file:///path/to/repo" correctly when path/to/repo
96 had percent-encoded characters (638794c, 9d2e942).
98 * "git checkout" and "git rebase" overwrote paths that are marked "assume
99 unchanged" (aecda37c).
101 * "git clone/fetch/pull" issued an incorrect error message when a ref and
102 a symref that points to the ref were updated at the same time. This
103 obviously would update them to the same value, and should not result in
104 an error condition (7223dcaf).
106 * "git clone" did not configure remote.origin.url correctly for bare
107 clones (df61c889).
109 * "git diff" used to tell underlying xdiff machinery to work very hard to
110 minimize the output, but this often was spending too many extra cycles
111 for very little gain (582aa00).
113 * "git diff --graph" works better with "--color-words" and other options
114 (81fa024..4297c0a).
116 * "git diff" could show ambiguous abbreviation of blob object names on
117 its "index" line (3e5a188).
119 * "git merge --log" used to replace the custom message given by "-m" with
120 the shortlog, instead of appending to it (tc/merge-m-log).
122 * "git pull" accepted "--dry-run", gave it to underlying "git fetch" but
123 ignored the option itself, resulting in a bogus attempt to merge
124 unrelated commit (29609e68).
126 * "git reset --hard" started from a wrong directory and a working tree in
127 a nonstandard location is in use got confused (560fb6a1).
129 * "git show -C -C" and other corner cases lost diff metainfo output
130 in 1.7.0 (296c6bb).
132 --
133 exec >/var/tmp/1
134 O=v1.7.1-423-gae391ec
135 echo O=$(git describe HEAD)
136 git shortlog --no-merges HEAD ^maint ^$O