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   1Git v1.7.2 Release Notes (draft)
   2================================
   3
   4Updates since v1.7.1
   5--------------------
   6
   7 * core.eol configuration and eol attribute are the new way to control
   8   the end of line conventions for files in the working tree;
   9   core.autocrlf overrides it, keeping the traditional behaviour by
  10   default.
  11
  12 * The whitespace rules used in "git apply --whitespace" and "git diff"
  13   gained a new member in the family (tab-in-indent) to help projects with
  14   policy to indent only with spaces.
  15
  16 * When working from a subdirectory, by default, git does not look for its
  17   metadirectory ".git" across filesystems, primarily to help people who
  18   have invocations of git in their custom PS1 prompts, as being outside
  19   of a git repository would look for ".git" all the way up to the root
  20   directory, and NFS mounts are often slow.  DISCOVERY_ACROSS_FILESYSTEM
  21   environment variable can be used to tell git not to stop at a
  22   filesystem boundary.
  23
  24 * Usage help messages generated by parse-options library (i.e. most
  25   of the Porcelain commands) are sent to the standard output now.
  26
  27 * ':/<string>' notation to look for a commit now takes regular expression
  28   and it is not anchored at the beginning of the commit log message
  29   anymore (this is a backward incompatible change).
  30
  31 * "git" wrapper learned "-c name=value" option to override configuration
  32   variable from the command line.
  33
  34 * Improved portability for various platforms including older SunOS,
  35   HP-UX 10/11, AIX, Tru64, etc. and platforms with Python 2.4.
  36
  37 * The message from "git am -3" has been improved when conflict
  38   resolution ended up making the patch a no-op.
  39
  40 * "git blame" applies the textconv filter to the contents it works
  41   on, when available.
  42
  43 * "git checkout --orphan newbranch" is similar to "-b newbranch" but
  44   prepares to create a root commit that is not connected to any existing
  45   commit.
  46
  47 * "git cherry-pick" learned to pick a range of commits
  48   (e.g. "cherry-pick A..B" and "cherry-pick --stdin"); this does not
  49   have nicer sequencing control "rebase [-i]" has, though.
  50
  51 * "git cvsserver" can be told to use pserver; its password file can be
  52   stored outside the repository.
  53
  54 * The output from the textconv filter used by "git diff" can be cached to
  55   speed up their reuse.
  56
  57 * "git diff --word-diff=<mode>" extends the existing "--color-words"
  58   option, making it more useful in color-challenged environments.
  59
  60 * The regexp to detect function headers used by "git diff" for PHP has
  61   been enhanced for visibility modifiers (public, protected, etc.) to
  62   better support PHP5.
  63
  64 * "diff.noprefix" configuration variable can be used to implicitly
  65   ask for "diff --no-prefix" behaviour.
  66
  67 * "git for-each-ref" learned "%(objectname:short)" that gives the object
  68   name abbreviated.
  69
  70 * "git format-patch" learned --signature option and format.signature
  71   configuration variable to customize the e-mail signature used in the
  72   output.
  73
  74 * Various options to "git grep" (e.g. --count, --name-only) work better
  75   with binary files.
  76
  77 * "git grep" learned "-Ovi" to open the files with hits in yoru editor.
  78
  79 * "git help -w" learned "chrome" and "chromium" browsers.
  80
  81 * "git log --decorate" shows commit decorations in various colours.
  82
  83 * "git log --follow <path>" follows across copies (it used to only follow
  84   renames).  This may make the processing more expensive.
  85
  86 * "git log --pretty=format:<template>" specifier learned "% <something>"
  87   magic that inserts a space only when %<something> expands to a
  88   non-empty string; this is similar to "%+<something>" magic, but is
  89   useful in a context to generate a single line output.
  90
  91 * "git notes prune" learned "-n" (dry-run) and "-v" options, similar to
  92   what "git prune" has.
  93
  94 * "git patch-id" can be fed a mbox without getting confused by the
  95   signature line in the format-patch output.
  96
  97 * "git remote" learned "set-branches" subcommand.
  98
  99 * "git revert" learned --strategy option to specify the merge strategy.
 100
 101 * "git rev-list A..B" learned --ancestry-path option to further limit
 102   the result to the commits that are on the ancestry chain between A and
 103   B (i.e. commits that are not descendants of A are excluded).
 104
 105 * "git show -5" is equivalent to "git show --do-walk 5"; this is similar
 106   to the update to make "git show master..next" walk the history,
 107   introduced in 1.6.4.
 108
 109 * "git status [-s] --ignored" can be used to list ignored paths.
 110
 111 * "git status -s -b" shows the current branch in the output.
 112
 113 * "git status" learned "--ignore-submodules" option.
 114
 115 * Various "gitweb" enhancements and clean-ups, including syntax
 116   highlighting, "plackup" support for instaweb, .fcgi suffix to run
 117   it as FastCGI script, etc.
 118
 119
 120Fixes since v1.7.1
 121------------------
 122
 123All of the fixes in v1.7.1.X maintenance series are included in this
 124release, unless otherwise noted.
 125
 126 * We didn't URL decode "file:///path/to/repo" correctly when path/to/repo
 127   had percent-encoded characters (638794c, 9d2e942).
 128
 129 * "git commit" did not honor GIT_REFLOG_ACTION environment variable, resulting
 130   reflog messages for cherry-pick and revert actions to be recorded as "commit".
 131
 132 * "git clone/fetch/pull" issued an incorrect error message when a ref and
 133   a symref that points to the ref were updated at the same time.  This
 134   obviously would update them to the same value, and should not result in
 135   an error condition (0e71bc3).
 136
 137 * "git clone" did not configure remote.origin.url correctly for bare
 138   clones (df61c889).
 139
 140 * "git diff" inside a tree with many pathnames that have certain
 141   characters has become very slow in 1.7.0 by mistake (will merge
 142   e53e6b443 to 'maint').
 143
 144 * "git diff --graph" works better with "--color-words" and other options
 145   (81fa024..4297c0a).
 146
 147 * "git diff" could show ambiguous abbreviation of blob object names on
 148   its "index" line (3e5a188).
 149
 150 * "git rebase" did not faithfully reproduce a malformed author ident, that
 151   is often seen in a repository converted from foreign SCMs (43c23251).
 152
 153 * "git reset --hard" started from a wrong directory and a working tree in
 154   a nonstandard location is in use got confused (560fb6a1).
 155
 156--
 157exec >/var/tmp/1
 158O=v1.7.2-rc0-60-g2927a50
 159echo O=$(git describe HEAD)
 160git shortlog --no-merges HEAD ^maint ^$O