1 Git v1.7.12 Release Notes
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7 UI, Workflows & Features
9 * Git can be told to normalize pathnames it read from readdir(3) and
10 all arguments it got from the command line into precomposed UTF-8
11 (assuming that they come as decomposed UTF-8), in order to work
12 around issues on Mac OS.
14 I think there still are other places that need conversion
15 (e.g. paths that are read from stdin for some commands), but this
16 should be a good first step in the right direction.
18 * Per-user $HOME/.gitconfig file can optionally be stored in
19 $HOME/.config/git/config instead, which is in line with XDG.
21 * The value of core.attributesfile and core.excludesfile default to
22 $HOME/.config/git/attributes and $HOME/.config/git/ignore respectively
23 when these files exist.
25 * Logic to disambiguate abbreviated object names have been taught to
26 take advantage of object types that are expected in the context,
27 e.g. XXXXXX in the "git describe" output v1.2.3-gXXXXXX must be a
28 commit object, not a blob nor a tree. This will help us prolong
29 the lifetime of abbreviated object names.
31 * "git apply" learned to wiggle the base version and perform three-way
32 merge when a patch does not exactly apply to the version you have.
34 * Scripted Porcelain writers now have access to the credential API via
35 the "git credential" plumbing command.
37 * "git help" used to always default to "man" format even on platforms
38 where "man" viewer is not widely available.
40 * "git clone --local $path" started its life as an experiment to
41 optionally use link/copy when cloning a repository on the disk, but
42 we didn't deprecate it after we made the option a no-op to always
43 use the optimization. The command learned "--no-local" option to
44 turn this off, as a more explicit alternative over use of file://
47 * "git fetch" and friends used to say "remote side hung up
48 unexpectedly" when they failed to get response they expect from the
49 other side, but one common reason why they don't get expected
50 response is that the remote repository does not exist or cannot be
51 read. The error message in this case was updated to give better
54 * "git help -w $cmd" can show HTML version of documentation for
55 "git-$cmd" by setting help.htmlpath to somewhere other than the
56 default location where the build procedure installs them locally;
57 the variable can even point at a http:// URL.
59 * "git rebase [-i] --root $tip" can now be used to rewrite all the
60 history leading to "$tip" down to the root commit.
62 * "git rebase -i" learned "-x <cmd>" to insert "exec <cmd>" after
63 each commit in the resulting history.
65 * "git status" gives finer classification to various states of paths
66 in conflicted state and offer advice messages in its output.
68 * "git submodule" learned to deal with nested submodule structure
69 where a module is contained within a module whose origin is
70 specified as a relative URL to its superproject's origin.
72 * A rather heavy-ish "git completion" script has been split to create
73 a separate "git prompting" script, to help lazy-autoloading of the
74 completion part while making prompting part always available.
76 * "gitweb" pays attention to various forms of credits that are
77 similar to "Signed-off-by:" lines in the commit objects and
78 highlights them accordingly.
83 * "mediawiki" remote helper (in contrib/) learned to handle file
86 * "git p4" now uses "Jobs:" and "p4 move" when appropriate.
88 * vcs-svn has been updated to clean-up compilation, lift 32-bit
92 Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. (please report possible regressions)
94 * Some tests showed false failures caused by a bug in ecryptofs.
96 * We no longer use AsciiDoc7 syntax in our documentation and favor a
99 * "git am --rebasing" codepath was taught to grab authorship, log
100 message and the patch text directly out of existing commits. This
101 will help rebasing commits that have confusing "diff" output in
104 * "git index-pack" and "git pack-objects" use streaming API to read
105 from the object store to avoid having to hold a large blob object
106 in-core while they are doing their thing.
108 * Code to match paths with exclude patterns learned to avoid calling
109 fnmatch() by comparing fixed leading substring literally when
112 * "git log -n 1 -- rarely-touched-path" was spending unnecessary
113 cycles after showing the first change to find the next one, only to
116 * "git svn" got a large-looking code reorganization at the last
117 minute before the code freeze.
120 Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.
126 Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.7.11 in the maintenance
127 releases are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
130 * "git submodule add" was confused when the superproject did not have
131 its repository in its usual place in the working tree and GIT_DIR
132 and GIT_WORK_TREE was used to access it.
134 * "git commit --amend" let the user edit the log message and then died
135 when the human-readable committer name was given insufficiently by
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