-Git v1.7.6 Release Notes (draft)
+Git v1.7.6 Release Notes
========================
Updates since v1.7.5
easier to parse.
* Aborting "git commit --interactive" discards updates to the index
- made during the interctive session.
+ made during the interactive session.
* "git commit" learned a "--patch" option to directly jump to the
per-hunk selection UI of the interactive mode.
- * "git diff -C -C" used to disable the rename detection entirely when
- there are too many copy candidate paths in the tree; now it falls
- back to "-C" when doing so would keep the copy candidate paths
- under the rename detection limit.
-
* "git diff" and its family of commands learned --dirstat=0 to show
directories that contribute less than 0.1% of changes.
characters in it, e.g. "Junio C. Hamano" <jch@example.com>. Earlier
it was up to the user to do this when using its output.
+ * "git format-patch" can take an empty --subject-prefix now.
+
+ * "git grep" learned the "-P" option to take pcre regular expressions.
+
* "git log" and friends learned a new "--notes" option to replace the
"--show-notes" option. Unlike "--show-notes", "--notes=<ref>" does
not imply showing the default notes.
* p4-import (from contrib) learned a new option --preserve-user.
+ * "git read-tree -m" learned "--dry-run" option that reports if a merge
+ would fail without touching the index nor the working tree.
+
* "git rebase" that does not specify on top of which branch to rebase
the current branch now uses @{upstream} of the current branch.
+ * "git rebase" finished either normally or with --abort did not
+ update the reflog for HEAD to record the event to come back to
+ where it started from.
+
+ * "git remote add -t only-this-branch --mirror=fetch" is now allowed. Earlier
+ a fetch-mode mirror meant mirror everything, but now it only means refs are
+ not renamed.
+
* "git rev-list --count" used with "--cherry-mark" counts the cherry-picked
commits separately, producing more a useful output.
Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes in 1.7.5.X maintenance track are
included in this release.
- * The single-key mode of "git add -p" was easily fooled into thinking
- that it was told to add everthing ('a') when up-arrow was pressed by
- mistake.
- (merge tr/add-i-no-escape later)
-
* "git config" used to choke with an insanely long line.
(merge ef/maint-strbuf-init later)
----
-exec >/var/tmp/1
-echo O=$(git describe master)
-O=v1.7.5.3-365-g7eacc2b
-git shortlog --no-merges ^maint ^$O master
+ * "git diff --quiet" did not work well with --diff-filter.
+ (merge jk/diff-not-so-quick later)
+
+ * "git status -z" did not default to --porcelain output format.
+ (merge bc/maint-status-z-to-use-porcelain later)