-Git v1.7.1 Release Notes (draft)
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+Git v1.7.1 Release Notes
+========================
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.
- * Color values given to "color.<cmd>.<slot>" configuration can now have
- more than one attributes (e.g. "bold ul").
+ * Conflict markers that lead the common ancestor in diff3-style output
+ now have a label, which hopefully would help third-party tools that
+ expect one.
- * "git apply --whitespace=fix" didn't work well when an early patch in
- a patch series adds trailing blank lines and a later one depended on
- such a block of blank lines at the end.
+ * 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 describes dirty submodules.
+
* "git for-each-ref" learned %(symref), %(symref:short) and %(flag)
tokens.
* "git grep" learned to paint filename and line-number in colors.
- * "git merge-file" learned to use custom conflict marker size and also use
- the "union merge" behaviour.
+ * "git log -p --first-parent -m" shows one-parent diff for merge
+ commits, instead of showing combined diff.
- * "git notes" command has been rewritten in C and learned quite a
- many commands.
+ * "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 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 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.
----
-exec >/var/tmp/1
-echo O=$(git describe)
-O=v1.7.0.2-323-g0d0925c
-git shortlog --no-merges ^maint $O..
+ * "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.