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f696543d | 1 | Git v1.7.6 Release Notes |
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2 | ======================== |
3 | ||
4 | Updates since v1.7.5 | |
5 | -------------------- | |
6 | ||
7 | * Various git-svn updates. | |
8 | ||
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9 | * Updates the way content tags are handled in gitweb. Also adds |
10 | a UI to choose common timezone for displaying the dates. | |
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12 | * Similar to branch names, tagnames that begin with "-" are now |
13 | disallowed. | |
14 | ||
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15 | * Clean-up of the C part of i18n (but not l10n---please wait) |
16 | continues. | |
17 | ||
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18 | * The scripting part of the codebase is getting prepared for i18n/l10n. |
19 | ||
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20 | * Pushing and pulling from a repository with large number of refs that |
21 | point to identical commits are optimized by not listing the same commit | |
22 | during the common ancestor negotiation exchange with the other side. | |
23 | ||
24 | * Adding a file larger than core.bigfilethreshold (defaults to 1/2 Gig) | |
25 | using "git add" will send the contents straight to a packfile without | |
26 | having to hold it and its compressed representation both at the same | |
27 | time in memory. | |
28 | ||
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29 | * Processes spawned by "[alias] <name> = !process" in the configuration |
30 | can inspect GIT_PREFIX environment variable to learn where in the | |
31 | working tree the original command was invoked. | |
32 | ||
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33 | * A magic pathspec ":/" tells a command that limits its operation to |
34 | the current directory when ran from a subdirectory to work on the | |
35 | entire working tree. In general, ":/path/to/file" would be relative | |
36 | to the root of the working tree hierarchy. | |
37 | ||
38 | After "git reset --hard; edit Makefile; cd t/", "git add -u" would | |
39 | be a no-op, but "git add -u :/" would add the updated contents of | |
40 | the Makefile at the top level. If you want to name a path in the | |
41 | current subdirectory whose unusual name begins with ":/", you can | |
42 | name it by "./:/that/path" or by "\:/that/path". | |
43 | ||
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44 | * "git blame" learned "--abbrev[=<n>]" option to control the minimum |
45 | number of hexdigits shown for commit object names. | |
46 | ||
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47 | * "git blame" learned "--line-porcelain" that is less efficient but is |
48 | easier to parse. | |
49 | ||
b602ed7d | 50 | * Aborting "git commit --interactive" discards updates to the index |
2cbd969b | 51 | made during the interactive session. |
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52 | |
53 | * "git commit" learned a "--patch" option to directly jump to the | |
54 | per-hunk selection UI of the interactive mode. | |
55 | ||
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56 | * "git diff" and its family of commands learned --dirstat=0 to show |
57 | directories that contribute less than 0.1% of changes. | |
58 | ||
59 | * "git diff" and its family of commands learned --dirstat=lines mode to | |
60 | assess damage to the directory based on number of lines in the patch | |
61 | output, not based on the similarity numbers. | |
62 | ||
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63 | * "git format-patch" learned "--quiet" option to suppress the output of |
64 | the names of generated files. | |
65 | ||
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66 | * "git format-patch" quotes people's names when it has RFC822 special |
67 | characters in it, e.g. "Junio C. Hamano" <jch@example.com>. Earlier | |
68 | it was up to the user to do this when using its output. | |
69 | ||
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70 | * "git format-patch" can take an empty --subject-prefix now. |
71 | ||
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72 | * "git grep" learned the "-P" option to take pcre regular expressions. |
73 | ||
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74 | * "git log" and friends learned a new "--notes" option to replace the |
75 | "--show-notes" option. Unlike "--show-notes", "--notes=<ref>" does | |
76 | not imply showing the default notes. | |
77 | ||
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78 | * They also learned a log.abbrevCommit configuration variable to augment |
79 | the --abbrev-commit command line option. | |
80 | ||
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81 | * "git ls-remote" learned "--exit-code" option to consider it a |
82 | different kind of error when no remote ref to be shown. | |
83 | ||
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84 | * "git merge" learned "-" as a short-hand for "the previous branch", just |
85 | like the way "git checkout -" works. | |
86 | ||
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87 | * "git merge" uses "merge.ff" configuration variable to decide to always |
88 | create a merge commit (i.e. --no-ff, aka merge.ff=no), refuse to create | |
89 | a merge commit (i.e. --ff-only, aka merge.ff=only). Setting merge.ff=yes | |
90 | (or not setting it at all) restores the default behaviour of allowing | |
91 | fast-forward to happen when possible. | |
92 | ||
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93 | * p4-import (from contrib) learned a new option --preserve-user. |
94 | ||
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95 | * "git read-tree -m" learned "--dry-run" option that reports if a merge |
96 | would fail without touching the index nor the working tree. | |
97 | ||
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98 | * "git rebase" that does not specify on top of which branch to rebase |
99 | the current branch now uses @{upstream} of the current branch. | |
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101 | * "git rebase" finished either normally or with --abort did not |
102 | update the reflog for HEAD to record the event to come back to | |
103 | where it started from. | |
104 | ||
105 | * "git remote add -t only-this-branch --mirror=fetch" is now allowed. Earlier | |
106 | a fetch-mode mirror meant mirror everything, but now it only means refs are | |
107 | not renamed. | |
108 | ||
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109 | * "git rev-list --count" used with "--cherry-mark" counts the cherry-picked |
110 | commits separately, producing more a useful output. | |
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112 | * "git submodule update" learned "--force" option to get rid of local |
113 | changes in submodules and replace them with the up-to-date version. | |
114 | ||
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115 | * "git status" and friends ignore .gitmodules file while the file is |
116 | still in a conflicted state during a merge, to avoid using information | |
117 | that is not final and possibly corrupt with conflict markers. | |
118 | ||
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119 | Also contains various documentation updates and minor miscellaneous |
120 | changes. | |
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121 | |
122 | ||
123 | Fixes since v1.7.5 | |
124 | ------------------ | |
125 | ||
126 | Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes in 1.7.5.X maintenance track are | |
127 | included in this release. | |
128 | ||
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129 | * "git config" used to choke with an insanely long line. |
130 | (merge ef/maint-strbuf-init later) | |
131 | ||
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132 | * "git diff --quiet" did not work well with --diff-filter. |
133 | (merge jk/diff-not-so-quick later) | |
134 | ||
135 | * "git status -z" did not default to --porcelain output format. | |
136 | (merge bc/maint-status-z-to-use-porcelain later) |