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   1Git v1.7.4 Release Notes (draft)
   2================================
   3
   4Updates since v1.7.3
   5--------------------
   6
   7 * The documentation Makefile now assumes by default asciidoc 8 and
   8   docbook-xsl >= 1.73. If you have older versions, you can set
   9   ASCIIDOC7 and ASCIIDOC_ROFF, respectively.
  10
  11 * The option parsers of various commands that create new branch (or
  12   rename existing ones to a new name) were too loose and users were
  13   allowed to call a branch with a name that begins with a dash by
  14   creative abuse of their command line options, which only lead to
  15   burn themselves.  The name of a branch cannot begin with a dash
  16   now.
  17
  18 * System-wide fallback default attributes can be stored in
  19   /etc/gitattributes; core.attributesfile configuration variable can
  20   be used to customize the path to this file.
  21
  22 * The thread structure generated by "git send-email" has changed
  23   slightly.  Setting the cover letter of the latest series as a reply
  24   to the cover letter of the previous series with --in-reply-to used
  25   to make the new cover letter and all the patches replies to the
  26   cover letter of the previous series; this has been changed to make
  27   the patches in the new series replies to the new cover letter.
  28
  29 * Bash completion script in contrib/ has been adjusted to be also
  30   usable by zsh.
  31
  32 * Different pagers can be chosen depending on which subcommand is
  33   being run under the pager, using "pager.<subcommand>" variable.
  34
  35 * The hardcoded tab-width of 8 used in whitespace breakage checks is now
  36   configurable via the attributes mechanism.
  37
  38 * Support of case insensitive filesystems (i.e. "core.ignorecase") has
  39   been improved.  For example, the gitignore mechanism didn't pay attention
  40   to the case insensitivity.
  41
  42 * The <tree>:<path> syntax to name a blob in a tree, and :<path>
  43   syntax to name a blob in the index (e.g. "master:Makefile",
  44   ":hello.c") have been extended.  You can start <path> with "./" to
  45   implicitly have the (sub)directory you are in prefixed to the
  46   lookup.  Similarly, ":../Makefile" from a subdirectory would mean
  47   "the Makefile of the parent directory in the index".
  48
  49 * "git blame" learned --show-email option to display the e-mail
  50   addresses instead of the names of authors.
  51
  52 * "git commit" learned --fixup and --squash options to help later invocation
  53   of the interactive rebase.
  54
  55 * "git daemon" can be built in MinGW environment.
  56
  57 * "git daemon" can take more than one --listen option to listen to
  58   multiple addresses.
  59
  60 * "git describe --exact-match" was optimized not to read commit
  61   objects unnecessarily.
  62
  63 * "git diff" and "git grep" learned how functions and subroutines
  64   in Fortran look like.
  65
  66 * "git fetch" learned "--recurse-submodules" option.
  67
  68 * "git mergetool" tells vim/gvim to show three-way diff by default
  69   (use vimdiff2/gvimdiff2 as the tool name for old behaviour).
  70
  71 * "git log -G<pattern>" limits the output to commits whose change has
  72   added or deleted lines that match the given pattern.
  73
  74 * "git read-tree" with no argument as a way to empty the index is
  75   deprecated; we might want to remove it in the future.  Users can
  76   use the new --empty option to be more explicit instead.
  77
  78 * "git repack -f" does not spend cycles to recompress objects in the
  79   non-delta representation anymore (use -F if you really mean it when
  80   e.g. you changed the compression level).
  81
  82 * "git merge --log" used to limit the resulting merge log to 20
  83   entries; this is now customizable by giving e.g. "--log=47".
  84
  85 * "git merge" may work better when all files were moved out of a
  86   directory in one branch while a new file is created in place of that
  87   directory in the other branch.
  88
  89 * "git rebase --autosquash" can use SHA-1 object names to name which
  90   commit to fix up (e.g. "fixup! e83c5163").
  91
  92 * The default "recursive" merge strategy learned --rename-threshold
  93   option to influence the rename detection, similar to the -M option
  94   of "git diff".  E.g. "git merge -Xrename-threshold=50% ..." to use
  95   this.
  96
  97 * The "recursive" strategy also learned to ignore various whitespace
  98   changes; the most notable is -Xignore-space-at-eol.
  99
 100 * "git send-email" learned "--to-cmd", similar to "--cc-cmd", to read
 101   recipient list from a command output.
 102
 103 * "git send-email" learned to read and use "To:" from its input files.
 104
 105 * you can extend "git shell", which is often used on boxes that allow
 106   git-only login over ssh as login shell, with custom set of
 107   commands.
 108
 109 * The current branch name in "git status" output can be colored differently
 110   from the generic header color by setting "color.status.branch" variable.
 111
 112 * "git submodule sync" updates metainformation for all submodules,
 113   not just the ones that have been checked out.
 114
 115 * gitweb can use custom 'highlight' command with its configuration file.
 116
 117 * other gitweb updates.
 118
 119
 120Also contains various documentation updates.
 121
 122
 123Fixes since v1.7.3
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 125
 126All of the fixes in v1.7.3.X maintenance series are included in this
 127release, unless otherwise noted.
 128
 129 * "git log --author=me --author=her" did not find commits written by
 130   me or by her; instead it looked for commits written by me and by
 131   her, which is impossible.
 132
 133 * "git merge" into an unborn branch removed an untracked file "foo"
 134   from the working tree when merged branch had "foo" (2caf20c..172b642).
 135
 136 * "git push --progress" shows progress indicators now.
 137
 138 * "git repack" places its temporary packs under $GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY/pack
 139   instead of $GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY/ to avoid cross directory renames.
 140
 141 * "git submodule update --recursive --other-flags" passes flags down
 142   to its subinvocations.
 143
 144---
 145exec >/var/tmp/1
 146O=v1.7.3.4-567-g38a5932
 147echo O=$(git describe master)
 148git shortlog --no-merges ^maint ^$O master