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   1Git v1.7.2 Release Notes (draft)
   2================================
   3
   4Updates since v1.7.1
   5--------------------
   6
   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.
  10
  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.
  18
  19 * "git" wrapper learned "-c name=value" option to override configuration
  20   variable from the command line.
  21
  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.
  25
  26 * "git checkout --orphan newbranch" is similar to "-b newbranch" but
  27   prepares to create a root commit that is not connected to any existing
  28   commit.
  29
  30 * "git commit --amend" on a commit with an invalid author-name line that
  31   lacks the display name didn't work (fb7749e4).
  32
  33 * "git cvsserver" can be told to use pserver; its password file can be
  34   stored outside the repository.
  35
  36 * The output from the textconv filter used by "git diff" can be cached to
  37   speed up their reuse.
  38
  39 * "git diff --color" did not paint extended diff headers per line
  40   (i.e. the coloring escape sequence didn't end at the end of line),
  41   which confused "less -R".
  42
  43 * "git diff --word-diff=<mode>" extends the existing "--color-words"
  44   option, making it more useful in color-challenged environments.
  45
  46 * The regexp to detect function headers used by "git diff" for PHP has
  47   been enhanced for visibility modifiers (public, protected, etc.) to
  48   better support PHP5.
  49
  50 * "git for-each-ref" learned "%(objectname:short)" that gives the object
  51   name abbreviated.
  52
  53 * Various options to "git grep" (e.g. --count, --name-only) work better
  54   with binary files.
  55
  56 * "git log --follow <path>" follows across copies (it used to only follow
  57   renames).  This may make the processing more expensive.
  58
  59 * "git notes prune" learned "-n" (dry-run) and "-v" options, similar to
  60   what "git prune" has.
  61
  62 * "git patch-id" can be fed a mbox without getting confused by the
  63   signature line in the format-patch output.
  64
  65 * "git revert" learned --strategy option to specify the merge strategy.
  66
  67 * "git status [-s] --ignored" can be used to list ignored paths.
  68
  69 * Various "gitweb" enhancements and clean-ups, including syntax
  70   highlighting.
  71
  72
  73Fixes since v1.7.1
  74------------------
  75
  76All of the fixes in v1.7.1.X maintenance series are included in this
  77release, unless otherwise noted.
  78
  79 * We didn't recognize timezone "Z" as a synonym for "UTC" (75b37e70).
  80
  81 * "git checkout" and "git rebase" overwrote paths that are marked "assume
  82   unchanged" (aecda37c).
  83
  84 * "git clone/fetch/pull" issued an incorrect error message when a ref and
  85   a symref that points to the ref were updated at the same time.  This
  86   obviously would update them to the same value, and should not result in
  87   an error condition (7223dcaf).
  88
  89 * "git clone" did not configure remote.origin.url correctly for bare
  90   clones (df61c889).
  91
  92 * "git diff" used to tell underlying xdiff machinery to work very hard to
  93   minimize the output, but this often was spending too many extra cycles
  94   for very little gain (582aa00).
  95
  96 * "git pull" accepted "--dry-run", gave it to underlying "git fetch" but
  97   ignored the option itself, resulting in a bogus attempt to merge
  98   unrelated commit (29609e68).
  99
 100 * "git reset --hard" started from a wrong directory and a working tree in
 101   a nonstandard location is in use got confused (560fb6a1).
 102
 103--
 104exec >/var/tmp/1
 105O=v1.7.1-336-g0925c02
 106echo O=$(git describe master)
 107git shortlog --no-merges master ^maint ^$O