1Git v1.7.4 Release Notes (draft) 2================================ 3 4Updates since v1.7.3 5-------------------- 6 7 * The option parsers of various commands that create new branch (or 8 rename existing ones to a new name) were too loose and users were 9 allowed to call a branch with a name that begins with a dash by 10 creative abuse of their command line options, which only lead to 11 burn themselves. The name of a branch cannot begin with a dash 12 now. 13 14 * System-wide fallback default attributes can be stored in 15 /etc/gitattributes; core.attributesfile configuration variable can 16 be used to customize the path to this file. 17 18 * "git diff" and "git grep" learned how functions and subroutines 19 in Fortran look like. 20 21 * "git log -G<pattern>" limits the output to commits whose change has 22 added or deleted lines that match the given pattern. 23 24 * "git read-tree" with no argument as a way to empty the index is 25 deprecated; we might want to remove it in the future. Users can 26 use the new --empty option to be more explicit instead. 27 28 * "git merge --log" used to limit the resulting merge log to 20 29 entries; this is now customizable by giving e.g. "--log=47". 30 31 * you can extend "git shell", which is often used on boxes that allow 32 git-only login over ssh as login shell, with custom set of 33 commands. 34 35Also contains various documentation updates. 36 37 38Fixes since v1.7.3 39------------------ 40 41All of the fixes in v1.7.3.X maintenance series are included in this 42release, unless otherwise noted. 43 44 * "git log --author=me --author=her" did not find commits written by 45 me or by her; instead it looked for commits written by me and by 46 her, which is impossible. 47 48 49--- 50exec >/var/tmp/1 51O=v1.7.3 52O=v1.7.3.1-42-g34289ec 53echo O=$(git describe master) 54git shortlog --no-merges ^maint ^$O master