1Git v1.7.12 Release Notes 2========================= 3 4Updates since v1.7.11 5--------------------- 6 7UI, Workflows & Features 8 9 * Git can be told to normalize pathnames it read from readdir(3) and 10 all arguments it got from the command line into precomposed UTF-8 11 (assuming that they come as decomposed UTF-8), in order to work 12 around issues on Mac OS. 13 14 I think there still are other places that need conversion 15 (e.g. paths that are read from stdin for some commands), but this 16 should be a good first step in the right direction. 17 18 * Per-user $HOME/.gitconfig file can optionally be stored in 19 $HOME/.config/git/config instead, which is in line with XDG. 20 21 * The value of core.attributesfile and core.excludesfile default to 22 $HOME/.config/git/attributes and $HOME/.config/git/ignore respectively 23 when these files exist. 24 25 * Logic to disambiguate abbreviated object names have been taught to 26 take advantage of object types that are expected in the context, 27 e.g. XXXXXX in the "git describe" output v1.2.3-gXXXXXX must be a 28 commit object, not a blob nor a tree. This will help us prolong 29 the lifetime of abbreviated object names. 30 31 * "git apply" learned to wiggle the base version and perform three-way 32 merge when a patch does not exactly apply to the version you have. 33 34 * Scripted Porcelain writers now have access to the credential API via 35 the "git credential" plumbing command. 36 37 * "git help" used to always default to "man" format even on platforms 38 where "man" viewer is not widely available. 39 40 * "git clone --local $path" started its life as an experiment to 41 optionally use link/copy when cloning a repository on the disk, but 42 we didn't deprecate it after we made the option a no-op to always 43 use the optimization. The command learned "--no-local" option to 44 turn this off, as a more explicit alternative over use of file:// 45 URL. 46 47 * "git fetch" and friends used to say "remote side hung up 48 unexpectedly" when they failed to get response they expect from the 49 other side, but one common reason why they don't get expected 50 response is that the remote repository does not exist or cannot be 51 read. The error message in this case was updated to give better 52 hints to the user. 53 54 * "git help -w $cmd" can show HTML version of documentation for 55 "git-$cmd" by setting help.htmlpath to somewhere other than the 56 default location where the build procedure installs them locally; 57 the variable can even point at a http:// URL. 58 59 * "git rebase [-i] --root $tip" can now be used to rewrite all the 60 history leading to "$tip" down to the root commit. 61 62 * "git rebase -i" learned "-x <cmd>" to insert "exec <cmd>" after 63 each commit in the resulting history. 64 65 * "git status" gives finer classification to various states of paths 66 in conflicted state and offer advice messages in its output. 67 68 * "git submodule" learned to deal with nested submodule structure 69 where a module is contained within a module whose origin is 70 specified as a relative URL to its superproject's origin. 71 72 * A rather heavy-ish "git completion" script has been split to create 73 a separate "git prompting" script, to help lazy-autoloading of the 74 completion part while making prompting part always available. 75 76 * "gitweb" pays attention to various forms of credits that are 77 similar to "Signed-off-by:" lines in the commit objects and 78 highlights them accordingly. 79 80 81Foreign Interface 82 83 * "mediawiki" remote helper (in contrib/) learned to handle file 84 attachments. 85 86 * "git p4" now uses "Jobs:" and "p4 move" when appropriate. 87 88 * vcs-svn has been updated to clean-up compilation, lift 32-bit 89 limitations, etc. 90 91 92Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. (please report possible regressions) 93 94 * Some tests showed false failures caused by a bug in ecryptofs. 95 96 * We no longer use AsciiDoc7 syntax in our documentation and favor a 97 more modern style. 98 99 * "git am --rebasing" codepath was taught to grab authorship, log 100 message and the patch text directly out of existing commits. This 101 will help rebasing commits that have confusing "diff" output in 102 their log messages. 103 104 * "git index-pack" and "git pack-objects" use streaming API to read 105 from the object store to avoid having to hold a large blob object 106 in-core while they are doing their thing. 107 108 * Code to match paths with exclude patterns learned to avoid calling 109 fnmatch() by comparing fixed leading substring literally when 110 possible. 111 112 * "git log -n 1 -- rarely-touched-path" was spending unnecessary 113 cycles after showing the first change to find the next one, only to 114 discard it. 115 116 * "git svn" got a large-looking code reorganization at the last 117 minute before the code freeze. 118 119 120Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups. 121 122 123Fixes since v1.7.11 124------------------- 125 126Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.7.11 in the maintenance 127releases are contained in this release (see release notes to them for 128details). 129 130 * "git submodule add" was confused when the superproject did not have 131 its repository in its usual place in the working tree and GIT_DIR 132 and GIT_WORK_TREE was used to access it. 133 134 * "git commit --amend" let the user edit the log message and then died 135 when the human-readable committer name was given insufficiently by 136 getpwent(3).