Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.1.txt

   1 Git v1.7.1 Release Notes
   2 ========================
   3
   4 Updates since v1.7.0
   5 --------------------
   6
   7  * Eric Raymond is the maintainer of updated CIAbot scripts, in contrib/.
   8
   9  * gitk updates.
  10
  11  * Some commands (e.g. svn and http interfaces) that interactively ask
  12    for a password can be told to use an external program given via
  13    GIT_ASKPASS.
  14
  15  * Conflict markers that lead the common ancestor in diff3-style output
  16    now have a label, which hopefully would help third-party tools that
  17    expect one.
  18
  19  * Comes with an updated bash-completion script.
  20
  21  * "git am" learned "--keep-cr" option to handle inputs that are
  22    a mixture of changes to files with and without CRLF line endings.
  23
  24  * "git cvsimport" learned -R option to leave revision mapping between
  25    CVS revisions and resulting git commits.
  26
  27  * "git diff --submodule" notices and describes dirty submodules.
  28
  29  * "git for-each-ref" learned %(symref), %(symref:short) and %(flag)
  30    tokens.
  31
  32  * "git hash-object --stdin-paths" can take "--no-filters" option now.
  33
  34  * "git init" can be told to look at init.templatedir configuration
  35    variable (obviously that has to come from either /etc/gitconfig or
  36    $HOME/.gitconfig).
  37
  38  * "git grep" learned "--no-index" option, to search inside contents that
  39    are not managed by git.
  40
  41  * "git grep" learned --color=auto/always/never.
  42
  43  * "git grep" learned to paint filename and line-number in colors.
  44
  45  * "git log -p --first-parent -m" shows one-parent diff for merge
  46    commits, instead of showing combined diff.
  47
  48  * "git merge-file" learned to use custom conflict marker size and also
  49    to use the "union merge" behaviour.
  50
  51  * "git notes" command has been rewritten in C and learned many commands
  52    and features to help you carry notes forward across rebases and amends.
  53
  54  * "git request-pull" identifies the commit the request is relative to in
  55    a more readable way.
  56
  57  * "git reset" learned "--keep" option that lets you discard commits
  58    near the tip while preserving your local changes in a way similar
  59    to how "git checkout branch" does.
  60
  61  * "git status" notices and describes dirty submodules.
  62
  63  * "git svn" should work better when interacting with repositories
  64    with CRLF line endings.
  65
  66  * "git imap-send" learned to support CRAM-MD5 authentication.
  67
  68  * "gitweb" installation procedure can use "minified" js/css files
  69    better.
  70
  71  * Various documentation updates.
  72
  73 Fixes since v1.7.0
  74 ------------------
  75
  76 All of the fixes in v1.7.0.X maintenance series are included in this
  77 release, unless otherwise noted.
  78
  79  * "git add frotz/nitfol" did not complain when the entire frotz/ directory
  80    was ignored.
  81
  82  * "git diff --stat" used "int" to count the size of differences,
  83    which could result in overflowing.
  84
  85  * "git rev-list --pretty=oneline" didn't terminate a record with LF for
  86    commits without any message.
  87
  88  * "git rev-list --abbrev-commit" defaulted to 40-byte abbreviations, unlike
  89    newer tools in the git toolset.