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Updates since v1.7.3
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Updates since v1.7.3
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+ * 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 branch (or
rename existing ones to a new name) were too loose and users were
allowed to call a branch with a name that begins with a dash by
* The option parsers of various commands that create new branch (or
rename existing ones to a new name) were too loose and users were
allowed to call a branch with a name that begins with a dash by
/etc/gitattributes; core.attributesfile configuration variable can
be used to customize the path to this file.
/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 also
usable by zsh.
* Bash completion script in contrib/ has been adjusted to be also
usable by zsh.
+ * "git blame" learned --show-email option to display the e-mail
+ addresses instead of the names of authors.
+
+ * "git daemon" can be built in MinGW environment.
+
* "git daemon" can take more than one --listen option to listen to
multiple addresses.
* "git daemon" can take more than one --listen option to listen to
multiple addresses.
* "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 --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". E.g. "git merge -Xrename-threshold=50% ..." to use
* The default "recursive" merge strategy learned --rename-threshold
option to influence the rename detection, similar to the -M option
of "git diff". E.g. "git merge -Xrename-threshold=50% ..." to use
All of the fixes in v1.7.3.X maintenance series are included in this
release, unless otherwise noted.
All of the fixes in v1.7.3.X maintenance series are included in this
release, unless otherwise noted.
- * "diff" and friends incorrectly applied textconv filters to symlinks
- (d391c0ff).
-
- * "git apply" segfaulted when a bogus input is fed to it (24305cd70).
-
- * Running "git cherry-pick --ff" on a root commit segfaulted (6355e50).
+ * "git checkout" removed an untracked file "foo" from the working
+ tree when switching to a branch that contains a tracked path
+ "foo/bar". Prevent this, just like the case where the conflicting
+ path were "foo" (c752e7f..7980872d).
* "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 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 merge-file" can be called from within a subdirectory now
- (55846b9a).
+ * "git merge" into an unborn branch removed an untracked file "foo"
+ from the working tree when merged branch had "foo" (2caf20c..172b642).
* "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 push --progress" shows progress indicators now.
* "git repack" places its temporary packs under $GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY/pack
instead of $GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY/ to avoid cross directory renames.
- * "git rev-list --format="...%x00..." incorrectly chopped its output
- at NUL (9130ac9fe).
-
* "git submodule update --recursive --other-flags" passes flags down
to its subinvocations.
---
exec >/var/tmp/1
* "git submodule update --recursive --other-flags" passes flags down
to its subinvocations.
---
exec >/var/tmp/1
-O=v1.7.3.2-245-g03276d9
+O=v1.7.3.2-450-g5b9c331
echo O=$(git describe master)
git shortlog --no-merges ^maint ^$O master
echo O=$(git describe master)
git shortlog --no-merges ^maint ^$O master