1Git v1.7.12 Release Notes 2========================= 3 4Updates since v1.7.11 5--------------------- 6 7UI, Workflows & Features 8 9 * Git can be told to normalize pathnames it read from readdir(3) and 10 all arguments it got from the command line into precomposed UTF-8 11 (assuming that they come as decomposed UTF-8), in order to work 12 around issues on Mac OS. 13 14 I think there still are other places that need conversion 15 (e.g. paths that are read from stdin for some commands), but this 16 should be a good first step in the right direction. 17 18 * Per-user $HOME/.gitconfig file can optionally be stored in 19 $HOME/.config/git/config instead, which is in line with XDG. 20 21 * The value of core.attributesfile and core.excludesfile default to 22 $HOME/.config/attributes and $HOME/.config/ignore respectively when 23 these files exist. 24 25 * Logic to disambiguate abbreviated object names have been taught to 26 take advantage of object types that are expected in the context, 27 e.g. XXXXXX in the "git describe" output v1.2.3-gXXXXXX must be a 28 commit object, not a blob nor a tree. This will help us prolong 29 the lifetime of abbreviated object names. 30 31 * "git apply" learned to wiggle the base version and perform three-way 32 merge when a patch does not exactly apply to the version you have. 33 34 * Scripted Porcelain writers now have access to the credential API via 35 the "git credential" plumbing command. 36 37 * "git help" used to always default to "man" format even on platforms 38 where "man" viewer is not widely available. 39 40 * "git clone --local $path" started its life as an experiment to 41 optionally use link/copy when cloning a repository on the disk, but 42 we didn't deprecate it after we made the option a no-op to always 43 use the optimization. The command learned "--no-local" option to 44 turn this off, as a more explicit alternative over use of file:// 45 URL. 46 47 * "git fetch" and friends used to say "remote side hung up 48 unexpectedly" when they failed to get response they expect from the 49 other side, but one common reason why they don't get expected 50 response is that the remote repository does not exist or cannot be 51 read. The error message in this case was updated to give better 52 hints to the user. 53 54 * git native protocol agents learned to show software version over 55 the wire, so that the server log can be examined to see the vintage 56 distribution of clients. 57 58 * "git help -w $cmd" can show HTML version of documentation for 59 "git-$cmd" by setting help.htmlpath to somewhere other than the 60 default location where the build procedure installs them locally; 61 the variable can even point at a http:// URL. 62 63 * "git rebase [-i] --root $tip" can now be used to rewrite all the 64 history leading to "$tip" down to the root commit. 65 66 * "git rebase -i" learned "-x <cmd>" to insert "exec <cmd>" after 67 each commit in the resulting history. 68 69 * "git status" gives finer classification to various states of paths 70 in conflicted state and offer advice messages in its output. 71 72 * "git submodule" learned to deal with nested submodule structure 73 where a module is contained within a module whose origin is 74 specified as a relative URL to its superproject's origin. 75 76 * A rather heavy-ish "git completion" script has been split to create 77 a separate "git prompting" script, to help lazy-autoloading of the 78 completion part while making prompting part always available. 79 80 81Foreign Interface 82 83 * "mediawiki" remote helper (in contrib/) learned to handle file 84 attachments. 85 86 * "git p4" now uses "Jobs:" and "p4 move" when appropriate. 87 88 * vcs-svn has been updated to clean-up compilation, lift 32-bit 89 limitations, etc. 90 91 92Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. (please report possible regressions) 93 94 * Some tests showed false failures caused by a bug in ecryptofs. 95 96 * We no longer use AsciiDoc7 syntax in our documentation and favor a 97 more modern style. 98 99 * "git am --rebasing" codepath was taught to grab authorship, log 100 message and the patch text directly out of existing commits. This 101 will help rebasing commits that have confusing "diff" output in 102 their log messages. 103 104 * "git index-pack" and "git pack-objects" use streaming API to read 105 from the object store to avoid having to hold a large blob object 106 in-core while they are doing their thing. 107 108 * Code to match paths with exclude patterns learned to avoid calling 109 fnmatch() by comparing fixed leading substring literally when 110 possible. 111 112 * "git log -n 1 -- rarely-touched-path" was spending unnecessary 113 cycles after showing the first change to find the next one, only to 114 discard it. 115 116 117Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups. 118 119 120Fixes since v1.7.11 121------------------- 122 123Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.7.11 in the maintenance 124releases are contained in this release (see release notes to them for 125details). 126 127 * When "git am" failed, old timers knew to check .git/rebase-apply/patch 128 to see what went wrong, but we never told the users about it. 129 (merge 14bf2d5 pg/maint-1.7.9-am-where-is-patch later to maint). 130 131 * When "git submodule add" clones a submodule repository, it can get 132 confused where to store the resulting submodule repository in the 133 superproject's .git/ directory when there is a symbolic link in the 134 path to the current directory. 135 (merge 6eafa6d jl/maint-1.7.10-recurse-submodules-with-symlink later to maint). 136 137 * In 1.7.9 era, we taught "git rebase" about the raw timestamp format 138 but we did not teach the same trick to "filter-branch", which rolled 139 a similar logic on its own. 140 (merge 44b85e89 jc/maint-filter-branch-epoch-date later to maint).