1Git v1.7.4 Release Notes (draft) 2================================ 3 4Updates since v1.7.3 5-------------------- 6 7 * The option parsers of various commands that create new branch (or 8 rename existing ones to a new name) were too loose and users were 9 allowed to call a branch with a name that begins with a dash by 10 creative abuse of their command line options, which only lead to 11 burn themselves. The name of a branch cannot begin with a dash 12 now. 13 14 * System-wide fallback default attributes can be stored in 15 /etc/gitattributes; core.attributesfile configuration variable can 16 be used to customize the path to this file. 17 18 * Bash completion script in contrib/ has been adjusted to be also 19 usable by zsh. 20 21 * "git daemon" can take more than one --listen option to listen to 22 multiple addresses. 23 24 * "git diff" and "git grep" learned how functions and subroutines 25 in Fortran look like. 26 27 * "git mergetool" tells vim/gvim to show three-way diff by default 28 (use vimdiff2/gvimdiff2 as the tool name for old behaviour). 29 30 * "git log -G<pattern>" limits the output to commits whose change has 31 added or deleted lines that match the given pattern. 32 33 * "git read-tree" with no argument as a way to empty the index is 34 deprecated; we might want to remove it in the future. Users can 35 use the new --empty option to be more explicit instead. 36 37 * "git repack -f" does not spend cycles to recompress objects in the 38 non-delta representation anymore (use -F if you really mean it when 39 e.g. you changed the compression level). 40 41 * "git merge --log" used to limit the resulting merge log to 20 42 entries; this is now customizable by giving e.g. "--log=47". 43 44 * The default "recursive" merge strategy learned --rename-threshold 45 option to influence the rename detection, similar to the -M option 46 of "git diff". E.g. "git merge -Xrename-threshold=50% ..." to use 47 this. 48 49 * The "recursive" strategy also learned to ignore various whitespace 50 changes; the most notable is -Xignore-space-at-eol. 51 52 * "git send-email" learned "--to-cmd", similar to "--cc-cmd", to read 53 recipient list from a command output. 54 55 * "git send-email" learned to read and use "To:" from its input files. 56 57 * you can extend "git shell", which is often used on boxes that allow 58 git-only login over ssh as login shell, with custom set of 59 commands. 60 61 * "git submodule sync" updates metainformation for all submodules, 62 not just the ones that have been checked out. 63 64 * gitweb can use custom 'highlight' command with its configuration file. 65 66 67Also contains various documentation updates. 68 69 70Fixes since v1.7.3 71------------------ 72 73All of the fixes in v1.7.3.X maintenance series are included in this 74release, unless otherwise noted. 75 76 * "diff" and friends incorrectly applied textconv filters to symlinks 77 (d391c0ff). 78 79 * "git apply" segfaulted when a bogus input is fed to it (24305cd70). 80 81 * Running "git cherry-pick --ff" on a root commit segfaulted (6355e50). 82 83 * "git log --author=me --author=her" did not find commits written by 84 me or by her; instead it looked for commits written by me and by 85 her, which is impossible. 86 87 * "git merge-file" can be called from within a subdirectory now 88 (55846b9a). 89 90 * "git push --progress" shows progress indicators now. 91 92 * "git repack" places its temporary packs under $GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY/pack 93 instead of $GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY/ to avoid cross directory renames. 94 95 * "git rev-list --format="...%x00..." incorrectly chopped its output 96 at NUL (9130ac9fe). 97 98 * "git submodule update --recursive --other-flags" passes flags down 99 to its subinvocations. 100 101--- 102exec >/var/tmp/1 103O=v1.7.3.2-245-g03276d9 104echo O=$(git describe master) 105git shortlog --no-merges ^maint ^$O master