1Git v1.7.1 Release Notes (draft) 2================================ 3 4Updates since v1.7.0 5-------------------- 6 7 * Some commands (e.g. svn and http interfaces) that interactively ask 8 password can be told to use an external program given via GIT_ASKPASS. 9 10 * Color values given to "color.<cmd>.<slot>" configuration can now have 11 more than one attributes (e.g. "bold ul"). 12 13 * "git apply --whitespace=fix" didn't work well when an early patch in 14 a patch series adds trailing blank lines and a later one depended on 15 such a block of blank lines at the end. 16 17 * "git am" learned "--keep-cr" option to handle inputs that are 18 mixture of changes to files with and without CRLF line endings. 19 20 * "git cvsimport" learned -R option to leave revision mapping between 21 CVS revisions and resulting git commits. 22 23 * "git for-each-ref" learned %(symref), %(symref:short) and %(flag) 24 tokens. 25 26 * "git hash-object --stdin-paths" can take "--no-filters" option now. 27 28 * "git init" can be told to look at init.templatedir configuration 29 variable (obviously that has to come from either /etc/gitconfig or 30 $HOME/.gitconfig). 31 32 * "git grep" learned "--no-index" option, to search inside contents that 33 are not managed by git. 34 35 * "git grep" learned --color=auto/always/never. 36 37 * "git grep" learned to paint filename and line-number in colors. 38 39 * "git merge-file" learned to use custom conflict marker size and also use 40 the "union merge" behaviour. 41 42 * "git notes" command has been rewritten in C and learned quite a 43 many commands. 44 45 * "git request-pull" identifies the commit the request is relative to in 46 a more readable way. 47 48 * "git reset" learned "--keep" option that lets you discard commits 49 near the tip while preserving your local changes in a way similar 50 to how "git checkout branch" does. 51 52 * "git svn" should work better when interacting with repositories 53 with CRLF line endings. 54 55 * "git imap-send" learned to support CRAM-MD5 authentication. 56 57Fixes since v1.7.0 58------------------ 59 60All of the fixes in v1.7.0.X maintenance series are included in this 61release, unless otherwise noted. 62 63 * "git add frotz/nitfol" did not complain when the entire frotz/ directory 64 was ignored. 65 66--- 67exec >/var/tmp/1 68echo O=$(git describe) 69O=v1.7.0.2-323-g0d0925c 70git shortlog --no-merges ^maint $O..