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 * "git blame" learned "--abbrev[=<n>]" option to control the minimum 13 number of hexdigits shown for commit object names. 14 15 * "git diff -C -C" used to disable the rename detection entirely when 16 there are too many copy candidate paths in the tree; now it falls 17 back to "-C" when doing so would keep the copy candidate paths 18 under the rename detection limit. 19 20 * "git format-patch" learned "--quiet" option to suppress the output of 21 the names of generated files. 22 23 * "git log" and friends learned a new "--notes" option to replace the 24 "--show-notes" option. Unlike "--show-notes", "--notes=<ref>" does 25 not imply showing the default notes. 26 27 * "git merge" learned "-" as a short-hand for "the previous branch", just 28 like the way "git checkout -" works. 29 30 * "git rev-list --count" used with "--cherry-mark" counts the cherry-picked 31 commits separately, producing more a useful output. 32 33 * "git submodule update" learned "--force" option to get rid of local 34 changes in submodules and replace them with the up-to-date version. 35 36 * Compressed tarball gitweb generates is made without the timestamp of 37 the tarball generation; snapshot from the same tree should result in 38 a same tarball. 39 40Also contains various documentation updates. 41 42 43Fixes since v1.7.5 44------------------ 45 46Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes in 1.7.5.X maintenance track are 47included in this release. 48 49 * "git config" used to choke with an insanely long line. 50 (merge ef/maint-strbuf-init later) 51 52 * "diff -M --cached" used to use unmerged path as a possible rename 53 source candidate, which made no sense. 54 (merge mz/maint-rename-unmerged later) 55 56 * "git format-patch" when run with "--quiet" option used to produce a 57 nonsense result that consists of alternating empty output. 58 (merge early part of cn/format-patch-quiet later) 59 60 * "git format-patch" did not quote RFC822 special characters in the 61 email address (e.g From: Junio C. Hamano <jch@example.com>, not 62 From: "Junio C. Hamano" <jch@example.com>). 63 (merge jk/format-patch-quote-special-in-from later) 64 65 * "git mergetool" did not handle conflicted submoudules gracefully. 66 (merge jm/mergetool-submodules later) 67 68 * "git stash -p --no-keep-index" and "git stash --no-keep-index -p" now 69 mean the same thing. 70 (merge dm/stash-k-i-p later) 71 72 * "git upload-pack" (hence "git push" over git native protocol) had a 73 subtle race condition that could lead to a deadlock. 74 (merge jk/maint-upload-pack-shallow later) 75 76--- 77exec >/var/tmp/1 78echo O=$(git describe master) 79O=v1.7.5-184-g23f536c 80git shortlog --no-merges ^maint ^$O master