Updates since v1.7.1
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- * core.eol configuration and eol attribute are the new way to control
- the end of line conventions for files in the working tree;
- core.autocrlf overrides it, keeping the traditional behaviour by
- default.
+ * 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
commit.
* "git cherry-pick" learned to pick a range of commits
- (e.g. "cherry-pick A..B" and "cherry-pick --stdin"); this does not
- have nicer sequencing control "rebase [-i]" has, though.
+ (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.
* 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 yoru editor.
+ * "git grep" learned "-Ovi" to open the files with hits in your editor.
* "git help -w" learned "chrome" and "chromium" browsers.
* "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 diff" could show ambiguous abbreviation of blob object names on
its "index" line (3e5a188).
- * "git rebase" did not faithfully reproduce a malformed author ident, that
- is often seen in a repository converted from foreign SCMs (43c23251).
-
* "git reset --hard" started from a wrong directory and a working tree in
a nonstandard location is in use got confused (560fb6a1).