1Git v1.7.11 Release Notes 2========================= 3 4Updates since v1.7.10 5--------------------- 6 7UI, Workflows & Features 8 9 * A third-party tool "git subtree" is distributed in contrib/ 10 11 12Foreign Interface 13 14 15Performance 16 17 18Internal Implementation (please report possible regressions) 19 20 * More lower-level commands learned to use the streaming API to read 21 from the object store without keeping everything in core. 22 23 24Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups. 25 26 27Fixes since v1.7.10 28------------------- 29 30Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.7.10 in the maintenance 31releases are contained in this release (see release notes to them for 32details). 33 34 * "git commit --author=$name" did not tell the name that was being 35 recorded in the resulting commit to hooks, even though it does do 36 so when the end user overrode the authorship via the 37 "GIT_AUTHOR_NAME" environment variable. 38 (merge 7dfe8ad jc/commit-hook-authorship later to maint). 39 40 * The regexp configured with diff.wordregex was incorrectly reused 41 across files. 42 (merge 6440d34 tr/maint-word-diff-regex-sticky later to maint). 43 44 * Running "notes merge --commit" failed to perform correctly when run 45 from any directory inside $GIT_DIR/. When "notes merge" stops with 46 conflicts, $GIT_DIR/NOTES_MERGE_WORKTREE is the place a user edits 47 to resolve it. 48 (merge dabba59 jh/notes-merge-in-git-dir-worktree later to maint).