1Git v1.7.2 Release Notes (draft) 2================================ 3 4Updates since v1.7.1 5-------------------- 6 7 * core.eol configuration and eol attribute are the new way to control 8 the end of line conventions for files in the working tree; 9 core.autocrlf overrides it, keeping the traditional behaviour by 10 default. 11 12 * The whitespace rules used in "git apply --whitespace" and "git diff" 13 gained a new member in the family (tab-in-indent) to help projects with 14 policy to indent only with spaces. 15 16 * When working from a subdirectory, by default, git does not look for its 17 metadirectory ".git" across filesystems, primarily to help people who 18 have invocations of git in their custom PS1 prompts, as being outside 19 of a git repository would look for ".git" all the way up to the root 20 directory, and NFS mounts are often slow. DISCOVERY_ACROSS_FILESYSTEM 21 environment variable can be used to tell git not to stop at a 22 filesystem boundary. 23 24 * Usage help messages generated by parse-options library (i.e. most 25 of the Porcelain commands) are sent to the standard output now. 26 27 * ':/<string>' notation to look for a commit now takes regular expression 28 and it is not anchored at the beginning of the commit log message 29 anymore (this is a backward incompatible change). 30 31 * "git" wrapper learned "-c name=value" option to override configuration 32 variable from the command line. 33 34 * Improved portability for various platforms including older SunOS, 35 HP-UX 10/11, AIX, Tru64, etc. and platforms with Python 2.4. 36 37 * The message from "git am -3" has been improved when conflict 38 resolution ended up making the patch a no-op. 39 40 * "git blame" applies the textconv filter to the contents it works 41 on, when available. 42 43 * "git checkout --orphan newbranch" is similar to "-b newbranch" but 44 prepares to create a root commit that is not connected to any existing 45 commit. 46 47 * "git cherry-pick" learned to pick a range of commits (e.g. "cherry-pick 48 A..B"); this does not have nicer sequencing control "rebase [-i]" has, 49 though. 50 51 * "git cvsserver" can be told to use pserver; its password file can be 52 stored outside the repository. 53 54 * The output from the textconv filter used by "git diff" can be cached to 55 speed up their reuse. 56 57 * "git diff --word-diff=<mode>" extends the existing "--color-words" 58 option, making it more useful in color-challenged environments. 59 60 * The regexp to detect function headers used by "git diff" for PHP has 61 been enhanced for visibility modifiers (public, protected, etc.) to 62 better support PHP5. 63 64 * "diff.noprefix" configuration variable can be used to implicitly 65 ask for "diff --no-prefix" behaviour. 66 67 * "git for-each-ref" learned "%(objectname:short)" that gives the object 68 name abbreviated. 69 70 * "git format-patch" learned --signature option and format.signature 71 configuration variable to customize the e-mail signature used in the 72 output. 73 74 * Various options to "git grep" (e.g. --count, --name-only) work better 75 with binary files. 76 77 * "git help -w" learned "chrome" and "chromium" browsers. 78 79 * "git log --follow <path>" follows across copies (it used to only follow 80 renames). This may make the processing more expensive. 81 82 * "git log --pretty=format:<template>" specifier learned "% <something>" 83 magic that inserts a space only when %<something> expands to a 84 non-empty string; this is similar to "%+<something>" magic, but is 85 useful in a context to generate a single line output. 86 87 * "git notes prune" learned "-n" (dry-run) and "-v" options, similar to 88 what "git prune" has. 89 90 * "git patch-id" can be fed a mbox without getting confused by the 91 signature line in the format-patch output. 92 93 * "git remote" learned "set-branches" subcommand. 94 95 * "git revert" learned --strategy option to specify the merge strategy. 96 97 * "git rev-list A..B" learned --ancestry-path option to further limit 98 the result to the commits that are on the ancestry chain between A and 99 B (i.e. commits that are not descendants of A are excluded). 100 101 * "git show -5" is equivalent to "git show --do-walk 5"; this is similar 102 to the update to make "git show master..next" walk the history, 103 introduced in 1.6.4. 104 105 * "git status [-s] --ignored" can be used to list ignored paths. 106 107 * "git status -s -b" shows the current branch in the output. 108 109 * Various "gitweb" enhancements and clean-ups, including syntax 110 highlighting, "plackup" support for instaweb, .fcgi suffix to run 111 it as FastCGI script, etc. 112 113 114Fixes since v1.7.1 115------------------ 116 117All of the fixes in v1.7.1.X maintenance series are included in this 118release, unless otherwise noted. 119 120 * We didn't URL decode "file:///path/to/repo" correctly when path/to/repo 121 had percent-encoded characters (638794c, 9d2e942). 122 123 * "git commit" did not honor GIT_REFLOG_ACTION environment variable, resulting 124 reflog messages for cherry-pick and revert actions to be recorded as "commit". 125 126 * "git clone/fetch/pull" issued an incorrect error message when a ref and 127 a symref that points to the ref were updated at the same time. This 128 obviously would update them to the same value, and should not result in 129 an error condition (0e71bc3). 130 131 * "git clone" did not configure remote.origin.url correctly for bare 132 clones (df61c889). 133 134 * "git diff" inside a tree with many pathnames that have certain 135 characters has become very slow in 1.7.0 by mistake (will merge 136 e53e6b443 to 'maint'). 137 138 * "git diff --graph" works better with "--color-words" and other options 139 (81fa024..4297c0a). 140 141 * "git diff" could show ambiguous abbreviation of blob object names on 142 its "index" line (3e5a188). 143 144 * "git rebase" did not faithfully reproduce a malformed author ident, that 145 is often seen in a repository converted from foreign SCMs (43c23251). 146 147 * "git reset --hard" started from a wrong directory and a working tree in 148 a nonstandard location is in use got confused (560fb6a1). 149 150-- 151exec >/var/tmp/1 152O=v1.7.1-592-gcf4403a 153echo O=$(git describe HEAD) 154git shortlog --no-merges HEAD ^maint ^$O