-Git v1.7.2 Release Notes (draft)
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+Git v1.7.2 Release Notes
+========================
Updates since v1.7.1
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+ * core.eol configuration and text/eol attributes are the new way to control
+ the end of line conventions for files in the working tree.
+
+ * core.autocrlf has been made safer - it will now only handle line
+ endings for new files and files that are LF-only in the
+ repository. To normalize content that has been checked in with
+ CRLF, use the new eol/text attributes.
+
* The whitespace rules used in "git apply --whitespace" and "git diff"
gained a new member in the family (tab-in-indent) to help projects with
policy to indent only with spaces.
environment variable can be used to tell git not to stop at a
filesystem boundary.
+ * Usage help messages generated by parse-options library (i.e. most
+ of the Porcelain commands) are sent to the standard output now.
+
+ * ':/<string>' notation to look for a commit now takes regular expression
+ and it is not anchored at the beginning of the commit log message
+ anymore (this is a backward incompatible change).
+
* "git" wrapper learned "-c name=value" option to override configuration
variable from the command line.
+ * Improved portability for various platforms including older SunOS,
+ HP-UX 10/11, AIX, Tru64, etc. and platforms with Python 2.4.
+
* The message from "git am -3" has been improved when conflict
resolution ended up making the patch a no-op.
+ * "git blame" applies the textconv filter to the contents it works
+ on, when available.
+
* "git checkout --orphan newbranch" is similar to "-b newbranch" but
prepares to create a root commit that is not connected to any existing
commit.
- * "git commit --amend" on a commit with an invalid author-name line that
- lacks the display name didn't work (fb7749e4).
+ * "git cherry-pick" learned to pick a range of commits
+ (e.g. "cherry-pick A..B" and "cherry-pick --stdin"), so did "git
+ revert"; these do not support the nicer sequencing control "rebase
+ [-i]" has, though.
+
+ * "git cherry-pick" and "git revert" learned --strategy option to specify
+ the merge strategy to be used when performing three-way merges.
* "git cvsserver" can be told to use pserver; its password file can be
stored outside the repository.
* "git for-each-ref" learned "%(objectname:short)" that gives the object
name abbreviated.
+ * "git format-patch" learned --signature option and format.signature
+ configuration variable to customize the e-mail signature used in the
+ output.
+
* Various options to "git grep" (e.g. --count, --name-only) work better
with binary files.
+ * "git grep" learned "-Ovi" to open the files with hits in your editor.
+
* "git help -w" learned "chrome" and "chromium" browsers.
+ * "git log --decorate" shows commit decorations in various colours.
+
* "git log --follow <path>" follows across copies (it used to only follow
renames). This may make the processing more expensive.
- * "git ls-files ../out/side/cwd" works now.
+ * "git log --pretty=format:<template>" specifier learned "% <something>"
+ magic that inserts a space only when %<something> expands to a
+ non-empty string; this is similar to "%+<something>" magic, but is
+ useful in a context to generate a single line output.
* "git notes prune" learned "-n" (dry-run) and "-v" options, similar to
what "git prune" has.
* "git remote" learned "set-branches" subcommand.
- * "git revert" learned --strategy option to specify the merge strategy.
+ * "git rev-list A..B" learned --ancestry-path option to further limit
+ the result to the commits that are on the ancestry chain between A and
+ B (i.e. commits that are not descendants of A are excluded).
+
+ * "git show -5" is equivalent to "git show --do-walk 5"; this is similar
+ to the update to make "git show master..next" walk the history,
+ introduced in 1.6.4.
* "git status [-s] --ignored" can be used to list ignored paths.
* "git status -s -b" shows the current branch in the output.
+ * "git status" learned "--ignore-submodules" option.
+
* Various "gitweb" enhancements and clean-ups, including syntax
- highlighting, "plackup" support for instaweb, etc.
+ highlighting, "plackup" support for instaweb, .fcgi suffix to run
+ it as FastCGI script, etc.
+
+ * The test harness has been updated to produce TAP-friendly output.
+
+ * Many documentation improvement patches are also included.
Fixes since v1.7.1
release, unless otherwise noted.
* We didn't URL decode "file:///path/to/repo" correctly when path/to/repo
- had percent-encoded characters (638794c, 9d2e942).
-
- * "git clone/fetch/pull" issued an incorrect error message when a ref and
- a symref that points to the ref were updated at the same time. This
- obviously would update them to the same value, and should not result in
- an error condition (7223dcaf).
+ had percent-encoded characters (638794c, 9d2e942, ce83eda, 3c73a1d).
* "git clone" did not configure remote.origin.url correctly for bare
clones (df61c889).
* "git diff" could show ambiguous abbreviation of blob object names on
its "index" line (3e5a188).
- * "git merge --log" used to replace the custom message given by "-m" with
- the shortlog, instead of appending to it (tc/merge-m-log).
-
* "git reset --hard" started from a wrong directory and a working tree in
a nonstandard location is in use got confused (560fb6a1).
- * "git show -C -C" and other corner cases lost diff metainfo output
- in 1.7.0 (296c6bb).
-
---
-exec >/var/tmp/1
-O=v1.7.1-423-gae391ec
-echo O=$(git describe HEAD)
-git shortlog --no-merges HEAD ^maint ^$O
+ * "git read-tree -m A B" used to switch to branch B while retaining
+ local changes added an incorrect cache-tree information (b1f47514).