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 checkout --orphan newbranch" is similar to "-b newbranch" but 41 prepares to create a root commit that is not connected to any existing 42 commit. 43 44 * "git cherry-pick" learned to pick a range of commits (e.g. "cherry-pick 45 A..B"); this does not have nicer sequencing control "rebase [-i]" has, 46 though. 47 48 * "git cvsserver" can be told to use pserver; its password file can be 49 stored outside the repository. 50 51 * The output from the textconv filter used by "git diff" can be cached to 52 speed up their reuse. 53 54 * "git diff --word-diff=<mode>" extends the existing "--color-words" 55 option, making it more useful in color-challenged environments. 56 57 * The regexp to detect function headers used by "git diff" for PHP has 58 been enhanced for visibility modifiers (public, protected, etc.) to 59 better support PHP5. 60 61 * "diff.noprefix" configuration variable can be used to implicitly 62 ask for "diff --no-prefix" behaviour. 63 64 * "git for-each-ref" learned "%(objectname:short)" that gives the object 65 name abbreviated. 66 67 * "git format-patch" learned --signature option and format.signature 68 configuration variable to customize the e-mail signature used in the 69 output. 70 71 * Various options to "git grep" (e.g. --count, --name-only) work better 72 with binary files. 73 74 * "git help -w" learned "chrome" and "chromium" browsers. 75 76 * "git log --follow <path>" follows across copies (it used to only follow 77 renames). This may make the processing more expensive. 78 79 * "git log --pretty=format:<template>" specifier learned "% <something>" 80 magic that inserts a space only when %<something> expands to a 81 non-empty string; this is similar to "%+<something>" magic, but is 82 useful in a context to generate a single line output. 83 84 * "git notes prune" learned "-n" (dry-run) and "-v" options, similar to 85 what "git prune" has. 86 87 * "git patch-id" can be fed a mbox without getting confused by the 88 signature line in the format-patch output. 89 90 * "git remote" learned "set-branches" subcommand. 91 92 * "git revert" learned --strategy option to specify the merge strategy. 93 94 * "git rev-list A..B" learned --ancestry-path option to further limit 95 the result to the commits that are on the ancestry chain between A and 96 B (i.e. commits that are not descendants of A are excluded). 97 98 * "git status [-s] --ignored" can be used to list ignored paths. 99 100 * "git status -s -b" shows the current branch in the output. 101 102 * Various "gitweb" enhancements and clean-ups, including syntax 103 highlighting, "plackup" support for instaweb, .fcgi suffix to run 104 it as FastCGI script, etc. 105 106 107Fixes since v1.7.1 108------------------ 109 110All of the fixes in v1.7.1.X maintenance series are included in this 111release, unless otherwise noted. 112 113 * We didn't URL decode "file:///path/to/repo" correctly when path/to/repo 114 had percent-encoded characters (638794c, 9d2e942). 115 116 * "git commit" did not honor GIT_REFLOG_ACTION environment variable, resulting 117 reflog messages for cherry-pick and revert actions to be recorded as "commit". 118 119 * "git clone/fetch/pull" issued an incorrect error message when a ref and 120 a symref that points to the ref were updated at the same time. This 121 obviously would update them to the same value, and should not result in 122 an error condition (0e71bc3). 123 124 * "git clone" did not configure remote.origin.url correctly for bare 125 clones (df61c889). 126 127 * "git diff" inside a tree with many pathnames that have certain 128 characters has become very slow in 1.7.0 by mistake (will merge 129 e53e6b443 to 'maint'). 130 131 * "git diff --graph" works better with "--color-words" and other options 132 (81fa024..4297c0a). 133 134 * "git diff" could show ambiguous abbreviation of blob object names on 135 its "index" line (3e5a188). 136 137 * "git reset --hard" started from a wrong directory and a working tree in 138 a nonstandard location is in use got confused (560fb6a1). 139 140-- 141exec >/var/tmp/1 142O=v1.7.1-568-g2c177a1 143echo O=$(git describe HEAD) 144git shortlog --no-merges HEAD ^maint ^$O