1Git v1.7.6 Release Notes (draft) 2======================== 3 4Updates since v1.7.5 5-------------------- 6 7 * Various git-svn updates. 8 9 * Clean-up of the C part of i18n (but not l10n---please wait) 10 continues. 11 12 * When an object "$tree:$path" does not exist, if $path does exist in the 13 subtree of $tree that corresponds to the subdirectory the user is in, 14 git now suggests using "$tree:./$path" in addition to the advice to use 15 the full path from the root of the working tree. 16 17 * "git blame" learned "--abbrev[=<n>]" option to control the minimum 18 number of hexdigits shown for commit object names. 19 20 * "git clean" used to fail on an empty directory that is not readable, 21 even though rmdir(2) could remove such a directory. Now we attempt it 22 as the last resort. 23 24 * "git diff -C -C" used to disable the rename detection entirely when 25 there are too many copy candidate paths in the tree; now it falls 26 back to "-C" when doing so would keep the copy candidate paths 27 under the rename detection limit. 28 29 * "git format-patch" learned "--quiet" option to suppress the output of 30 the names of generated files. 31 32 * "git log" and friends learned a new "--notes" option to replace the 33 "--show-notes" option. Unlike "--show-notes", "--notes=<ref>" does 34 not imply showing the default notes. 35 36 * "git merge" learned "-" as a short-hand for "the previous branch", just 37 like the way "git checkout -" works. 38 39 * "git pack-object" now takes core.bigfilethreashold into account, just 40 like fast-imoprt does. 41 42 * "git reflog" allows options like "--format=.." to be given. 43 44 * "git stash apply" can now apply to a working tree with changes as long 45 as there is no overlapping change as the stash being applied. 46 47 * "git submodule update" learned "--force" option to get rid of local 48 changes in submodules and replace them with the up-to-date version. 49 50 * "git stash apply @{99999}" now is diagnosed as an error, unless you 51 really have that many stash entries. 52 53Also contains various documentation updates. 54 55 56Fixes since v1.7.5 57------------------ 58 59Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes in 1.7.5.X maintenance track are 60included in this release. 61 62 * "git config" used to choke with an insanely long line. 63 (merge ef/maint-strbuf-init later) 64 65 * The "--dirstat" option of "diff" family of commands used to totally 66 ignore a change that only rearranged lines within a file. Such a 67 change now counts as at least a minimum but non zero change. 68 69 * The "--dirstat" option of "diff" family of commands used to use the 70 pathname in the original, instead of the pathname in the result, 71 when renames are involved. 72 (merge jh/dirstat for the above two later) 73 74 * "diff -M --cached" used to use unmerged path as a possible rename 75 source candidate, which made no sense. 76 (merge mz/maint-rename-unmerged later) 77 78 * "git format-patch" when run with "--quiet" option used to produce a 79 nonsense result that consists of alternating empty output. 80 (merge early part of cn/format-patch-quiet later) 81 82 * "git stash -p --no-keep-index" and "git stash --no-keep-index -p" now 83 mean the same thing. 84 (merge dm/stash-k-i-p later) 85 86 * "git upload-pack" (hence "git push" over git native protocol) had a 87 subtle race condition that could lead to a deadlock. 88 (merge jk/maint-upload-pack-shallow later) 89 90--- 91exec >/var/tmp/1 92echo O=$(git describe master) 93O=v1.7.5-184-g23f536c 94git shortlog --no-merges ^maint ^$O master