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1 | Git v1.7.2 Release Notes |
2 | ======================== | |
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3 | |
4 | Updates since v1.7.1 | |
5 | -------------------- | |
6 | ||
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7 | * core.eol configuration and text/eol attributes are the new way to control |
8 | the end of line conventions for files in the working tree. | |
9 | ||
10 | * core.autocrlf has been made safer - it will now only handle line | |
11 | endings for new files and files that are LF-only in the | |
12 | repository. To normalize content that has been checked in with | |
13 | CRLF, use the new eol/text attributes. | |
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15 | * The whitespace rules used in "git apply --whitespace" and "git diff" |
16 | gained a new member in the family (tab-in-indent) to help projects with | |
17 | policy to indent only with spaces. | |
18 | ||
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19 | * When working from a subdirectory, by default, git does not look for its |
20 | metadirectory ".git" across filesystems, primarily to help people who | |
21 | have invocations of git in their custom PS1 prompts, as being outside | |
22 | of a git repository would look for ".git" all the way up to the root | |
23 | directory, and NFS mounts are often slow. DISCOVERY_ACROSS_FILESYSTEM | |
24 | environment variable can be used to tell git not to stop at a | |
25 | filesystem boundary. | |
26 | ||
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27 | * Usage help messages generated by parse-options library (i.e. most |
28 | of the Porcelain commands) are sent to the standard output now. | |
29 | ||
30 | * ':/<string>' notation to look for a commit now takes regular expression | |
31 | and it is not anchored at the beginning of the commit log message | |
32 | anymore (this is a backward incompatible change). | |
33 | ||
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34 | * "git" wrapper learned "-c name=value" option to override configuration |
35 | variable from the command line. | |
36 | ||
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37 | * Improved portability for various platforms including older SunOS, |
38 | HP-UX 10/11, AIX, Tru64, etc. and platforms with Python 2.4. | |
39 | ||
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40 | * The message from "git am -3" has been improved when conflict |
41 | resolution ended up making the patch a no-op. | |
42 | ||
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43 | * "git blame" applies the textconv filter to the contents it works |
44 | on, when available. | |
45 | ||
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46 | * "git checkout --orphan newbranch" is similar to "-b newbranch" but |
47 | prepares to create a root commit that is not connected to any existing | |
48 | commit. | |
49 | ||
45e9a825 | 50 | * "git cherry-pick" learned to pick a range of commits |
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51 | (e.g. "cherry-pick A..B" and "cherry-pick --stdin"), so did "git |
52 | revert"; these do not support the nicer sequencing control "rebase | |
53 | [-i]" has, though. | |
54 | ||
55 | * "git cherry-pick" and "git revert" learned --strategy option to specify | |
56 | the merge strategy to be used when performing three-way merges. | |
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57 | |
58 | * "git cvsserver" can be told to use pserver; its password file can be | |
59 | stored outside the repository. | |
60 | ||
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61 | * The output from the textconv filter used by "git diff" can be cached to |
62 | speed up their reuse. | |
63 | ||
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64 | * "git diff --word-diff=<mode>" extends the existing "--color-words" |
65 | option, making it more useful in color-challenged environments. | |
66 | ||
67 | * The regexp to detect function headers used by "git diff" for PHP has | |
68 | been enhanced for visibility modifiers (public, protected, etc.) to | |
69 | better support PHP5. | |
70 | ||
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71 | * "diff.noprefix" configuration variable can be used to implicitly |
72 | ask for "diff --no-prefix" behaviour. | |
73 | ||
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74 | * "git for-each-ref" learned "%(objectname:short)" that gives the object |
75 | name abbreviated. | |
76 | ||
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77 | * "git format-patch" learned --signature option and format.signature |
78 | configuration variable to customize the e-mail signature used in the | |
79 | output. | |
80 | ||
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81 | * Various options to "git grep" (e.g. --count, --name-only) work better |
82 | with binary files. | |
83 | ||
16adc7cb | 84 | * "git grep" learned "-Ovi" to open the files with hits in your editor. |
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86 | * "git help -w" learned "chrome" and "chromium" browsers. |
87 | ||
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88 | * "git log --decorate" shows commit decorations in various colours. |
89 | ||
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90 | * "git log --follow <path>" follows across copies (it used to only follow |
91 | renames). This may make the processing more expensive. | |
92 | ||
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93 | * "git log --pretty=format:<template>" specifier learned "% <something>" |
94 | magic that inserts a space only when %<something> expands to a | |
95 | non-empty string; this is similar to "%+<something>" magic, but is | |
96 | useful in a context to generate a single line output. | |
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98 | * "git notes prune" learned "-n" (dry-run) and "-v" options, similar to |
99 | what "git prune" has. | |
100 | ||
101 | * "git patch-id" can be fed a mbox without getting confused by the | |
102 | signature line in the format-patch output. | |
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104 | * "git remote" learned "set-branches" subcommand. |
105 | ||
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106 | * "git rev-list A..B" learned --ancestry-path option to further limit |
107 | the result to the commits that are on the ancestry chain between A and | |
108 | B (i.e. commits that are not descendants of A are excluded). | |
109 | ||
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110 | * "git show -5" is equivalent to "git show --do-walk 5"; this is similar |
111 | to the update to make "git show master..next" walk the history, | |
112 | introduced in 1.6.4. | |
113 | ||
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114 | * "git status [-s] --ignored" can be used to list ignored paths. |
115 | ||
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116 | * "git status -s -b" shows the current branch in the output. |
117 | ||
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118 | * "git status" learned "--ignore-submodules" option. |
119 | ||
6068cdcc | 120 | * Various "gitweb" enhancements and clean-ups, including syntax |
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121 | highlighting, "plackup" support for instaweb, .fcgi suffix to run |
122 | it as FastCGI script, etc. | |
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124 | * The test harness has been updated to produce TAP-friendly output. |
125 | ||
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126 | * Many documentation improvement patches are also included. |
127 | ||
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128 | |
129 | Fixes since v1.7.1 | |
130 | ------------------ | |
131 | ||
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132 | All of the fixes in v1.7.1.X maintenance series are included in this |
133 | release, unless otherwise noted. | |
134 | ||
049e98c8 | 135 | * We didn't URL decode "file:///path/to/repo" correctly when path/to/repo |
9918285f | 136 | had percent-encoded characters (638794c, 9d2e942, ce83eda, 3c73a1d). |
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137 | |
138 | * "git clone" did not configure remote.origin.url correctly for bare | |
139 | clones (df61c889). | |
140 | ||
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141 | * "git diff --graph" works better with "--color-words" and other options |
142 | (81fa024..4297c0a). | |
143 | ||
144 | * "git diff" could show ambiguous abbreviation of blob object names on | |
145 | its "index" line (3e5a188). | |
146 | ||
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147 | * "git reset --hard" started from a wrong directory and a working tree in |
148 | a nonstandard location is in use got confused (560fb6a1). | |
149 | ||
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150 | * "git read-tree -m A B" used to switch to branch B while retaining |
151 | local changes added an incorrect cache-tree information (b1f47514). |