* "git" wrapper learned "-c name=value" option to override configuration
variable from the command line.
- * After "git apply --whitespace=fix" removed trailing blank lines in an
- patch in a patch series, it failed to apply later patches that depend
- on the presense of such blank lines.
-
* The message from "git am -3" has been improved when conflict
resolution ended up making the patch a no-op.
* The output from the textconv filter used by "git diff" can be cached to
speed up their reuse.
- * "git diff --color" did not paint extended diff headers per line
- (i.e. the coloring escape sequence didn't end at the end of line),
- which confused "less -R".
-
* "git diff --word-diff=<mode>" extends the existing "--color-words"
option, making it more useful in color-challenged environments.
All of the fixes in v1.7.1.X maintenance series are included in this
release, unless otherwise noted.
- * We didn't recognize timezone "Z" as a synonym for "UTC" (75b37e70).
-
* We didn't URL decode "file:///path/to/repo" correctly when path/to/repo
had percent-encoded characters (638794c, 9d2e942).
- * "git checkout" and "git rebase" overwrote paths that are marked "assume
- unchanged" (aecda37c).
-
* "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
* "git clone" did not configure remote.origin.url correctly for bare
clones (df61c889).
- * "git diff" used to tell underlying xdiff machinery to work very hard to
- minimize the output, but this often was spending too many extra cycles
- for very little gain (582aa00).
-
* "git diff --graph" works better with "--color-words" and other options
(81fa024..4297c0a).
* "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 pull" accepted "--dry-run", gave it to underlying "git fetch" but
- ignored the option itself, resulting in a bogus attempt to merge
- unrelated commit (29609e68).
-
* "git reset --hard" started from a wrong directory and a working tree in
a nonstandard location is in use got confused (560fb6a1).