1Git v1.7.5 Release Notes (draft) 2======================== 3 4Updates since v1.7.5 5-------------------- 6 7 * Various git-svn updates. 8 9 * When an object "$tree:$path" does not exist, if $path does exist in the 10 subtree of $tree that corresponds to the subdirectory the user is in, 11 git now suggests using "$tree:./$path" in addition to the advice to use 12 the full path from the root of the working tree. 13 14 * "git blame" learned "--abbrev[=<n>]" option to control the minimum 15 number of hexdigits shown for commit object names. 16 17 * "git clean" used to fail on an empty directory that is not readable, 18 even though rmdir(2) could remove such a directory. Now we attempt it 19 as the last resort. 20 21 * "git format-patch" learned "--quiet" option to suppress the output of 22 the names of generated files. 23 24 * "git merge" learned "-" as a short-hand for "the previous branch", just 25 like the way "git checkout -" works. 26 27 * "git pack-object" now takes core.bigfilethreashold into account, just 28 like fast-imoprt does. 29 30 * "git reflog" allows options like "--format=.." to be given. 31 32 * "git stash apply" can now apply to a working tree with changes as long 33 as there is no overlapping change as the stash being applied. 34 35 * "git stash apply @{99999}" now is diagnosed as an error, unless you 36 really have that many stash entries. 37 38Also contains various documentation updates. 39 40 41Fixes since v1.7.5 42------------------ 43 44Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes in 1.7.5.X maintenance track are 45included in this release. 46 47 * The "--date=relative" output format used to say "X years, 12 months" 48 when it should have said "X+1 years". 49 (merge mg/x-years-12-months later) 50 51 * "git config" used to choke with an insanely long line. 52 (merge ef/maint-strbuf-init later) 53 54 * The "--dirstat" option of "diff" family of commands used to totally 55 ignore a change that only rearranged lines within a file. Such a 56 change now counts as at least a minimum but non zero change. 57 58 * The "--dirstat" option of "diff" family of commands used to use the 59 pathname in the original, instead of the pathname in the result, 60 when renames are involved. 61 (merge jh/dirstat for the above two later) 62 63 * "git format-patch" when run with "--quiet" option used to produce a 64 nonsense result that consists of alternating empty output. 65 (merge early part of cn/format-patch-quiet later) 66 67 * "git stash -p --no-keep-index" and "git stash --no-keep-index -p" now 68 mean the same thing. 69 (merge dm/stash-k-i-p later) 70 71 * "git upload-pack" (hence "git push" over git native protocol) had a 72 subtle race condition that could lead to a deadlock. 73 (merge jk/maint-upload-pack-shallow later) 74 75--- 76exec >/var/tmp/1 77echo O=$(git describe master) 78O=v1.7.5 79git shortlog --no-merges ^maint ^$O master