1Git v1.7.6 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 diff -C -C" used to disable the rename detection entirely when 22 there are too many copy candidate paths in the tree; now it falls 23 back to "-C" when doing so would keep the copy candidate paths 24 under the rename detection limit. 25 26 * "git format-patch" learned "--quiet" option to suppress the output of 27 the names of generated files. 28 29 * "git merge" learned "-" as a short-hand for "the previous branch", just 30 like the way "git checkout -" works. 31 32 * "git pack-object" now takes core.bigfilethreashold into account, just 33 like fast-imoprt does. 34 35 * "git reflog" allows options like "--format=.." to be given. 36 37 * "git stash apply" can now apply to a working tree with changes as long 38 as there is no overlapping change as the stash being applied. 39 40 * "git stash apply @{99999}" now is diagnosed as an error, unless you 41 really have that many stash entries. 42 43Also contains various documentation updates. 44 45 46Fixes since v1.7.5 47------------------ 48 49Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes in 1.7.5.X maintenance track are 50included in this release. 51 52 * The "--date=relative" output format used to say "X years, 12 months" 53 when it should have said "X+1 years". 54 (merge mg/x-years-12-months later) 55 56 * "git config" used to choke with an insanely long line. 57 (merge ef/maint-strbuf-init later) 58 59 * The "--dirstat" option of "diff" family of commands used to totally 60 ignore a change that only rearranged lines within a file. Such a 61 change now counts as at least a minimum but non zero change. 62 63 * The "--dirstat" option of "diff" family of commands used to use the 64 pathname in the original, instead of the pathname in the result, 65 when renames are involved. 66 (merge jh/dirstat for the above two later) 67 68 * "git format-patch" when run with "--quiet" option used to produce a 69 nonsense result that consists of alternating empty output. 70 (merge early part of cn/format-patch-quiet later) 71 72 * "git stash -p --no-keep-index" and "git stash --no-keep-index -p" now 73 mean the same thing. 74 (merge dm/stash-k-i-p later) 75 76 * "git upload-pack" (hence "git push" over git native protocol) had a 77 subtle race condition that could lead to a deadlock. 78 (merge jk/maint-upload-pack-shallow later) 79 80--- 81exec >/var/tmp/1 82echo O=$(git describe master) 83O=v1.7.5-140-g5ae6f5c 84git shortlog --no-merges ^maint ^$O master