1Git v1.7.2 Release Notes (draft) 2================================ 3 4Updates since v1.7.1 5-------------------- 6 7 * The whitespace rules used in "git apply --whitespace" and "git diff" 8 gained a new member in the family (tab-in-indent) to help projects with 9 policy to indent only with spaces. 10 11 * When working from a subdirectory, by default, git does not look for its 12 metadirectory ".git" across filesystems, primarily to help people who 13 have invocations of git in their custom PS1 prompts, as being outside 14 of a git repository would look for ".git" all the way up to the root 15 directory, and NFS mounts are often slow. DISCOVERY_ACROSS_FILESYSTEM 16 environment variable can be used to tell git not to stop at a 17 filesystem boundary. 18 19 * "git" wrapper learned "-c name=value" option to override configuration 20 variable from the command line. 21 22 * The message from "git am -3" has been improved when conflict 23 resolution ended up making the patch a no-op. 24 25 * "git checkout --orphan newbranch" is similar to "-b newbranch" but 26 prepares to create a root commit that is not connected to any existing 27 commit. 28 29 * "git commit --amend" on a commit with an invalid author-name line that 30 lacks the display name didn't work (fb7749e4). 31 32 * "git cvsserver" can be told to use pserver; its password file can be 33 stored outside the repository. 34 35 * The output from the textconv filter used by "git diff" can be cached to 36 speed up their reuse. 37 38 * "git diff --word-diff=<mode>" extends the existing "--color-words" 39 option, making it more useful in color-challenged environments. 40 41 * The regexp to detect function headers used by "git diff" for PHP has 42 been enhanced for visibility modifiers (public, protected, etc.) to 43 better support PHP5. 44 45 * "diff.noprefix" configuration variable can be used to implicitly 46 ask for "diff --no-prefix" behaviour. 47 48 * "git for-each-ref" learned "%(objectname:short)" that gives the object 49 name abbreviated. 50 51 * Various options to "git grep" (e.g. --count, --name-only) work better 52 with binary files. 53 54 * "git help -w" learned "chrome" and "chromium" browsers. 55 56 * "git log --follow <path>" follows across copies (it used to only follow 57 renames). This may make the processing more expensive. 58 59 * "git ls-files ../out/side/cwd" works now. 60 61 * "git notes prune" learned "-n" (dry-run) and "-v" options, similar to 62 what "git prune" has. 63 64 * "git patch-id" can be fed a mbox without getting confused by the 65 signature line in the format-patch output. 66 67 * "git remote" learned "set-branches" subcommand. 68 69 * "git revert" learned --strategy option to specify the merge strategy. 70 71 * "git status [-s] --ignored" can be used to list ignored paths. 72 73 * "git status -s -b" shows the current branch in the output. 74 75 * Various "gitweb" enhancements and clean-ups, including syntax 76 highlighting, "plackup" support for instaweb, etc. 77 78 79Fixes since v1.7.1 80------------------ 81 82All of the fixes in v1.7.1.X maintenance series are included in this 83release, unless otherwise noted. 84 85 * We didn't URL decode "file:///path/to/repo" correctly when path/to/repo 86 had percent-encoded characters (638794c, 9d2e942). 87 88 * "git clone/fetch/pull" issued an incorrect error message when a ref and 89 a symref that points to the ref were updated at the same time. This 90 obviously would update them to the same value, and should not result in 91 an error condition (7223dcaf). 92 93 * "git clone" did not configure remote.origin.url correctly for bare 94 clones (df61c889). 95 96 * "git diff --graph" works better with "--color-words" and other options 97 (81fa024..4297c0a). 98 99 * "git diff" could show ambiguous abbreviation of blob object names on 100 its "index" line (3e5a188). 101 102 * "git merge --log" used to replace the custom message given by "-m" with 103 the shortlog, instead of appending to it (tc/merge-m-log). 104 105 * "git reset --hard" started from a wrong directory and a working tree in 106 a nonstandard location is in use got confused (560fb6a1). 107 108 * "git show -C -C" and other corner cases lost diff metainfo output 109 in 1.7.0 (296c6bb). 110 111-- 112exec >/var/tmp/1 113O=v1.7.1-423-gae391ec 114echo O=$(git describe HEAD) 115git shortlog --no-merges HEAD ^maint ^$O