-Git v1.7.1 Release Notes (draft)
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+Git v1.7.1 Release Notes
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Updates since v1.7.0
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* Eric Raymond is the maintainer of updated CIAbot scripts, in contrib/.
+ * gitk updates.
+
* Some commands (e.g. svn and http interfaces) that interactively ask
- password can be told to use an external program given via GIT_ASKPASS.
+ for a password can be told to use an external program given via
+ GIT_ASKPASS.
* Conflict markers that lead the common ancestor in diff3-style output
- now has a label, which hopefully would help third-party tools that
+ now have a label, which hopefully would help third-party tools that
expect one.
* Comes with an updated bash-completion script.
* "git am" learned "--keep-cr" option to handle inputs that are
- mixture of changes to files with and without CRLF line endings.
+ a mixture of changes to files with and without CRLF line endings.
* "git cvsimport" learned -R option to leave revision mapping between
CVS revisions and resulting git commits.
- * "git diff --submodule" notices and descries dirty submodules.
+ * "git diff --submodule" notices and describes dirty submodules.
* "git for-each-ref" learned %(symref), %(symref:short) and %(flag)
tokens.
* "git log -p --first-parent -m" shows one-parent diff for merge
commits, instead of showing combined diff.
- * "git merge-file" learned to use custom conflict marker size and also use
- the "union merge" behaviour.
+ * "git merge-file" learned to use custom conflict marker size and also
+ to use the "union merge" behaviour.
- * "git notes" command has been rewritten in C and learned quite a
- many commands and features to help you carry notes forward across
- rebases and amends.
+ * "git notes" command has been rewritten in C and learned many commands
+ and features to help you carry notes forward across rebases and amends.
* "git request-pull" identifies the commit the request is relative to in
a more readable way.
near the tip while preserving your local changes in a way similar
to how "git checkout branch" does.
- * "git status" notices and descries dirty submodules.
+ * "git status" notices and describes dirty submodules.
* "git svn" should work better when interacting with repositories
with CRLF line endings.
* "git imap-send" learned to support CRAM-MD5 authentication.
+ * "gitweb" installation procedure can use "minified" js/css files
+ better.
+
+ * Various documentation updates.
+
Fixes since v1.7.0
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* "git add frotz/nitfol" did not complain when the entire frotz/ directory
was ignored.
+ * "git diff --stat" used "int" to count the size of differences,
+ which could result in overflowing.
+
* "git rev-list --pretty=oneline" didn't terminate a record with LF for
commits without any message.
* "git rev-list --abbrev-commit" defaulted to 40-byte abbreviations, unlike
newer tools in the git toolset.
-
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-exec >/var/tmp/1
-echo O=$(git describe)
-O=v1.7.0.4-382-gb807c52
-git shortlog --no-merges ^maint $O..