Git v1.7.4 Release Notes (draft) ================================ Updates since v1.7.3 -------------------- * The documentation Makefile now assumes by default asciidoc 8 and docbook-xsl >= 1.73. If you have older versions, you can set ASCIIDOC7 and ASCIIDOC_ROFF, respectively. * The option parsers of various commands that create new branches (or rename existing ones to a new name) were too loose and users were allowed to give a branch a name that begins with a dash by creative abuse of their command line options, which only led to burning themselves. The name of a branch cannot begin with a dash now. * System-wide fallback default attributes can be stored in /etc/gitattributes; core.attributesfile configuration variable can be used to customize the path to this file. * The thread structure generated by "git send-email" has changed slightly. Setting the cover letter of the latest series as a reply to the cover letter of the previous series with --in-reply-to used to make the new cover letter and all the patches replies to the cover letter of the previous series; this has been changed to make the patches in the new series replies to the new cover letter. * Bash completion script in contrib/ has been adjusted to be usable with Bash 4 (options with '=value' didn't complete) It has been also made usable with zsh. * Different pagers can be chosen depending on which subcommand is being run under the pager, using "pager." variable. * The hardcoded tab-width of 8 used in whitespace breakage checks is now configurable via the attributes mechanism. * Support of case insensitive filesystems (i.e. "core.ignorecase") has been improved. For example, the gitignore mechanism didn't pay attention to the case insensitivity. * The : syntax to name a blob in a tree, and : syntax to name a blob in the index (e.g. "master:Makefile", ":hello.c") have been extended. You can start with "./" to implicitly have the (sub)directory you are in prefixed to the lookup. Similarly, ":../Makefile" from a subdirectory would mean "the Makefile of the parent directory in the index". * "git blame" learned --show-email option to display the e-mail addresses instead of the names of authors. * "git commit" learned --fixup and --squash options to help later invocation of the interactive rebase. * "git daemon" can be built in MinGW environment. * "git daemon" can take more than one --listen option to listen to multiple addresses. * "git describe --exact-match" was optimized not to read commit objects unnecessarily. * "git diff" and "git grep" learned how functions and subroutines in Fortran look like. * "git fetch" learned "--recurse-submodules" option. * "git mergetool" tells vim/gvim to show three-way diff by default (use vimdiff2/gvimdiff2 as the tool name for old behaviour). * "git log -G" limits the output to commits whose change has added or deleted lines that match the given pattern. * "git read-tree" with no argument as a way to empty the index is deprecated; we might want to remove it in the future. Users can use the new --empty option to be more explicit instead. * "git repack -f" does not spend cycles to recompress objects in the non-delta representation anymore (use -F if you really mean it e.g. after you changed the core.compression variable setting). * "git merge --log" used to limit the resulting merge log to 20 entries; this is now customizable by giving e.g. "--log=47". * "git merge" may work better when all files were moved out of a directory in one branch while a new file is created in place of that directory in the other branch. * "git rebase --autosquash" can use SHA-1 object names to name which commit to fix up (e.g. "fixup! e83c5163"). * The default "recursive" merge strategy learned --rename-threshold option to influence the rename detection, similar to the -M option of "git diff". From "git merge" frontend, "-X" interface, e.g. "git merge -Xrename-threshold=50% ...", can be used to trigger this. * The "recursive" strategy also learned to ignore various whitespace changes; the most notable is -Xignore-space-at-eol. * "git send-email" learned "--to-cmd", similar to "--cc-cmd", to read recipient list from a command output. * "git send-email" learned to read and use "To:" from its input files. * you can extend "git shell", which is often used on boxes that allow git-only login over ssh as login shell, with custom set of commands. * The current branch name in "git status" output can be colored differently from the generic header color by setting "color.status.branch" variable. * "git submodule sync" updates metainformation for all submodules, not just the ones that have been checked out. * gitweb can use custom 'highlight' command with its configuration file. * other gitweb updates. Also contains various documentation updates. Fixes since v1.7.3 ------------------ All of the fixes in v1.7.3.X maintenance series are included in this release, unless otherwise noted. * "git log --author=me --author=her" did not find commits written by me or by her; instead it looked for commits written by me and by her, which is impossible. * "git push --progress" shows progress indicators now. * "git repack" places its temporary packs under $GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY/pack instead of $GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY/ to avoid cross directory renames. * "git submodule update --recursive --other-flags" passes flags down to its subinvocations. --- exec >/var/tmp/1 O=v1.7.3.4-687-g2cd900f echo O=$(git describe master) git shortlog --no-merges ^maint ^$O master