1Git v1.7.5 Release Notes (draft) 2======================== 3 4Updates since v1.7.4 5-------------------- 6 7 * Various MinGW portability fixes. 8 9 * Various git-p4 enhancements (in contrib). 10 11 * "git config" used to be also known as "git repo-config", but the old 12 name is now officially deprecated. 13 14 * "git checkout --detach <commit>" is a more user friendly synonym for 15 "git checkout <commit>^0". 16 17 * "git cherry-pick" and "git revert" can be told to use custom merge 18 strategy, similar to "git rebase". 19 20 * "rev-list --objects $revs -- $pathspec" would limit the objects listed 21 in its output properly with the pathspec, in preparation for narrow 22 clones. 23 24 * "git log" family of commands now understand globbing pathspecs. You 25 can say "git log -- '*.txt'" for example. 26 27 * "git rerere" learned a new subcommand "remaining", that is similar to 28 "status" that lists the paths that had conflicts that are known to 29 rerere, but excludes the paths that have already been marked as 30 resolved in the index from its output. "git mergetool" has been 31 updated to use this facility. 32 33 * A possible value to the "push.default" configuration variable, 34 'tracking', gained a synonym that more naturally describes what it 35 does, 'upstream'. 36 37Also contains various documentation updates. 38 39 40Fixes since v1.7.4 41------------------ 42 43All of the fixes in the v1.7.4.X maintenance series are included in this 44release, unless otherwise noted. 45 46 * "git merge" triggers prepare-commit-msg hook. Earlier, only "git 47 commit" to conclude an interrupted merge triggered the hook, leading to 48 an inconsistent overall user experience (js/maint-merge-use-prepare-commit-msg-hook). 49 50 51--- 52exec >/var/tmp/1 53O=v1.7.4 54O=v1.7.4.1-140-g8978166 55echo O=$(git describe 'master') 56git shortlog --no-merges ^maint ^$O master