docbook-xsl >= 1.73. If you have older versions, you can set
ASCIIDOC7 and ASCIIDOC_ROFF, respectively.
- * The option parsers of various commands that create new branch (or
+ * The option parsers of various commands that create new branches (or
rename existing ones to a new name) were too loose and users were
- allowed to call a branch with a name that begins with a dash by
- creative abuse of their command line options, which only lead to
- burn themselves. The name of a branch cannot begin with a dash
- now.
+ allowed to give a branch a name that begins with a dash by creative
+ abuse of their command line options, which only led to burning
+ themselves. The name of a branch cannot begin with a dash now.
* System-wide fallback default attributes can be stored in
/etc/gitattributes; core.attributesfile configuration variable can
cover letter of the previous series; this has been changed to make
the patches in the new series replies to the new cover letter.
- * Bash completion script in contrib/ has been adjusted to be also
- usable by zsh.
+ * Bash completion script in contrib/ has been adjusted to be usable with
+ Bash 4 (options with '=value' didn't complete) It has been also made
+ usable with zsh.
* Different pagers can be chosen depending on which subcommand is
being run under the pager, using "pager.<subcommand>" variable.
* "git commit" learned --fixup and --squash options to help later invocation
of the interactive rebase.
+ * Command line options to "git cvsimport" whose names are in capital
+ letters (-A, -M, -R and -S) can now be specified as the default in
+ the .git/config file by their longer names (cvsimport.authorsFile,
+ cvsimport.mergeRegex, cvsimport.trackRevisions, cvsimport.ignorePaths).
+
* "git daemon" can be built in MinGW environment.
* "git daemon" can take more than one --listen option to listen to
use the new --empty option to be more explicit instead.
* "git repack -f" does not spend cycles to recompress objects in the
- non-delta representation anymore (use -F if you really mean it when
- e.g. you changed the compression level).
+ non-delta representation anymore (use -F if you really mean it
+ e.g. after you changed the core.compression variable setting).
* "git merge --log" used to limit the resulting merge log to 20
entries; this is now customizable by giving e.g. "--log=47".
* The default "recursive" merge strategy learned --rename-threshold
option to influence the rename detection, similar to the -M option
- of "git diff". E.g. "git merge -Xrename-threshold=50% ..." to use
- this.
+ of "git diff". From "git merge" frontend, "-X<strategy option>"
+ interface, e.g. "git merge -Xrename-threshold=50% ...", can be used
+ to trigger this.
* The "recursive" strategy also learned to ignore various whitespace
changes; the most notable is -Xignore-space-at-eol.
me or by her; instead it looked for commits written by me and by
her, which is impossible.
- * "git merge" into an unborn branch removed an untracked file "foo"
- from the working tree when merged branch had "foo" (2caf20c..172b642).
-
* "git push --progress" shows progress indicators now.
* "git repack" places its temporary packs under $GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY/pack
---
exec >/var/tmp/1
-O=v1.7.3.4-567-g38a5932
+O=v1.7.4-rc1
echo O=$(git describe master)
git shortlog --no-merges ^maint ^$O master