Git v1.7.12 Release Notes ========================= Updates since v1.7.11 --------------------- UI, Workflows & Features * Per-user $HOME/.gitconfig file can optionally be stored in $HOME/.config/git/config instead, which is in line with XDG. * The value of core.attributesfile and core.excludesfile default to $HOME/.config/attributes and $HOME/.config/ignore respectively when these files exist. * Scripted Porcelain writers now have access to the credential API via the "git credential" plumbing command. * "git help" used to always default to "man" format even on platforms where "man" viewer is not widely available. * "git clone --local $path" started its life as an experiment to optionally use link/copy when cloning a repository on the disk, but we didn't deprecate it after we made the option a no-op to always use the optimization. The command learned "--no-local" option to turn this off, as a more explicit alternative over use of file:// URL. * "git fetch" and friends used to say "remote side hung up unexpectedly" when they failed to get response they expect from the other side, but one common reason why they don't get expected response is that the remote repository does not exist or cannot be read. The error message in this case was updated to give better hints to the user. * git native protocol agents learned to show software version over the wire, so that the server log can be examined to see the vintage distribution of clients. * "git help -w $cmd" can show HTML version of documentation for "git-$cmd" by setting help.htmlpath to somewhere other than the default location where the build procedure installs them locally; the variable can even point at a http:// URL. * "git rebase -i" learned "-x " to insert "exec " after each commit in the resulting history. * "git status" gives finer classification to various states of paths in conflicted state and offer advice messages in its output. * "git submodule" learned to deal with nested submodule structure where a module is contained within a module whose origin is specified as a relative URL to its superproject's origin. * A rather heavy-ish "git completion" script has been split to create a separate "git prompting" script, to help lazy-autoloading of the completion part while making prompting part always available. Foreign Interface Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. (please report possible regressions) * Some tests showed false failures caused by a bug in ecryptofs. * We no longer use AsciiDoc7 syntax in our documentation and favor a more modern style. * "git index-pack" and "git pack-objects" use streaming API to read from the object store to avoid having to hold a large blob object in-core while they are doing their thing. * Code to match paths with exclude patterns learned to avoid calling fnmatch() by comparing fixed leading substring literally when possible. Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups. Fixes since v1.7.11 ------------------- Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.7.11 in the maintenance releases are contained in this release (see release notes to them for details). * We did not have test to make sure "git rebase" without extra options filters out an empty commit in the original history. (merge 2b5ba7b mz/empty-rebase-test later to maint). * "git fast-export" produced an input stream for fast-import without properly quoting pathnames when they contain SPs in them. (merge ff59f6d js/fast-export-paths-with-spaces later to maint). * "git checkout --detach", when you are still on an unborn branch, should be forbidden, but it wasn't. (merge 8ced1aa cw/no-detaching-an-unborn later to maint). * Some implementations of Perl terminates "lines" with CRLF even when the script is operating on just a sequence of bytes. Make sure to use "$PERL_PATH", the version of Perl the user told Git to use, in our tests to avoid unnecessary breakages in tests. (merge ad78585 vr/use-our-perl-in-tests later to maint).