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bddcefc6 | 1 | Git v1.7.9 Release Notes |
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2 | ======================== |
3 | ||
4 | Updates since v1.7.8 | |
5 | -------------------- | |
6 | ||
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7 | * gitk updates accumulated since early 2011. |
8 | ||
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9 | * git-gui updated to 0.16.0. |
10 | ||
11 | * git-p4 (in contrib/) updates. | |
12 | ||
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13 | * Git uses gettext to translate its most common interface messages |
14 | into the user's language if translations are available and the | |
73313749 | 15 | locale is appropriately set. Distributors can drop new PO files |
5d6dfc7c | 16 | in po/ to add new translations. |
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73313749 | 18 | * The code to handle username/password for HTTP transactions used in |
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19 | "git push" & "git fetch" learned to talk "credential API" to |
20 | external programs to cache or store them, to allow integration with | |
21 | platform native keychain mechanisms. | |
22 | ||
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23 | * The input prompts in the terminal use our own getpass() replacement |
24 | when possible. HTTP transactions used to ask for the username without | |
25 | echoing back what was typed, but with this change you will see it as | |
26 | you type. | |
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73313749 | 28 | * The internals of "revert/cherry-pick" have been tweaked to prepare |
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29 | building more generic "sequencer" on top of the implementation that |
30 | drives them. | |
31 | ||
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32 | * "git rev-parse FETCH_HEAD" after "git fetch" without specifying |
33 | what to fetch from the command line will now show the commit that | |
34 | would be merged if the command were "git pull". | |
35 | ||
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36 | * "git add" learned to stream large files directly into a packfile |
37 | instead of writing them into individual loose object files. | |
38 | ||
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39 | * "git checkout -B <current branch> <elsewhere>" is a more intuitive |
40 | way to spell "git reset --keep <elsewhere>". | |
41 | ||
42 | * "git checkout" and "git merge" learned "--no-overwrite-ignore" option | |
43 | to tell Git that untracked and ignored files are not expendable. | |
44 | ||
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45 | * "git commit --amend" learned "--no-edit" option to say that the |
46 | user is amending the tree being recorded, without updating the | |
47 | commit log message. | |
48 | ||
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49 | * "git commit" and "git reset" re-learned the optimization to prime |
50 | the cache-tree information in the index, which makes it faster to | |
51 | write a tree object out after the index entries are updated. | |
52 | ||
53 | * "git commit" detects and rejects an attempt to stuff NUL byte in | |
54 | the commit log message. | |
55 | ||
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56 | * "git commit" learned "-S" to GPG-sign the commit; this can be shown |
57 | with the "--show-signature" option to "git log". | |
58 | ||
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59 | * fsck and prune are relatively lengthy operations that still go |
60 | silent while making the end-user wait. They learned to give progress | |
61 | output like other slow operations. | |
62 | ||
63 | * The set of built-in function-header patterns for various languages | |
64 | knows MATLAB. | |
65 | ||
5d6dfc7c | 66 | * "git log --format='<format>'" learned new %g[nNeE] specifiers to |
69204d0a | 67 | show information from the reflog entries when walking the reflog |
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68 | (i.e. with "-g"). |
69 | ||
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70 | * "git pull" can be used to fetch and merge an annotated/signed tag, |
71 | instead of the tip of a topic branch. The GPG signature from the | |
72 | signed tag is recorded in the resulting merge commit for later | |
73 | auditing. | |
74 | ||
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75 | * "git log" learned "--show-signature" option to show the signed tag |
76 | that was merged that is embedded in the merge commit. It also can | |
77 | show the signature made on the commit with "git commit -S". | |
78 | ||
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79 | * "git branch --edit-description" can be used to add descriptive text |
80 | to explain what a topic branch is about. | |
81 | ||
82 | * "git fmt-merge-msg" learned to take the branch description into | |
83 | account when preparing a merge summary that "git merge" records | |
84 | when merging a local branch. | |
85 | ||
86 | * "git request-pull" has been updated to convey more information | |
87 | useful for integrators to decide if a topic is worth merging and | |
88 | what is pulled is indeed what the requestor asked to pull, | |
89 | including: | |
90 | ||
91 | - the tip of the branch being requested to be merged; | |
92 | - the branch description describing what the topic is about; | |
93 | - the contents of the annotated tag, when requesting to pull a tag. | |
94 | ||
95 | * "git pull" learned to notice 'pull.rebase' configuration variable, | |
96 | which serves as a global fallback for setting 'branch.<name>.rebase' | |
97 | configuration variable per branch. | |
98 | ||
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99 | * "git tag" learned "--cleanup" option to control how the whitespaces |
100 | and empty lines in tag message are cleaned up. | |
101 | ||
102 | * "gitweb" learned to show side-by-side diff. | |
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103 | |
104 | Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups. | |
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105 | |
106 | ||
107 | Fixes since v1.7.8 | |
108 | ------------------ | |
109 | ||
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110 | Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.7.8 in the maintenance |
111 | releases are contained in this release (see release notes to them for | |
112 | details). |