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- Git v1.7.2 Release Notes
- ========================
-
- Updates since v1.7.1
- --------------------
-
- * core.eol configuration and text/eol attributes are the new way to control
- the end of line conventions for files in the working tree.
-
- * core.autocrlf has been made safer - it will now only handle line
- endings for new files and files that are LF-only in the
- repository. To normalize content that has been checked in with
- CRLF, use the new eol/text attributes.
-
- * The whitespace rules used in "git apply --whitespace" and "git diff"
- gained a new member in the family (tab-in-indent) to help projects with
- policy to indent only with spaces.
-
- * When working from a subdirectory, by default, git does not look for its
- metadirectory ".git" across filesystems, primarily to help people who
- have invocations of git in their custom PS1 prompts, as being outside
- of a git repository would look for ".git" all the way up to the root
- directory, and NFS mounts are often slow. DISCOVERY_ACROSS_FILESYSTEM
- environment variable can be used to tell git not to stop at a
- filesystem boundary.
-
- * Usage help messages generated by parse-options library (i.e. most
- of the Porcelain commands) are sent to the standard output now.
-
- * ':/<string>' notation to look for a commit now takes regular expression
- and it is not anchored at the beginning of the commit log message
- anymore (this is a backward incompatible change).
-
- * "git" wrapper learned "-c name=value" option to override configuration
- variable from the command line.
-
- * Improved portability for various platforms including older SunOS,
- HP-UX 10/11, AIX, Tru64, etc. and platforms with Python 2.4.
-
- * The message from "git am -3" has been improved when conflict
- resolution ended up making the patch a no-op.
-
- * "git blame" applies the textconv filter to the contents it works
- on, when available.
-
- * "git checkout --orphan newbranch" is similar to "-b newbranch" but
- prepares to create a root commit that is not connected to any existing
- commit.
-
- * "git cherry-pick" learned to pick a range of commits
- (e.g. "cherry-pick A..B" and "cherry-pick --stdin"), so did "git
- revert"; these do not support the nicer sequencing control "rebase
- [-i]" has, though.
-
- * "git cherry-pick" and "git revert" learned --strategy option to specify
- the merge strategy to be used when performing three-way merges.
-
- * "git cvsserver" can be told to use pserver; its password file can be
- stored outside the repository.
-
- * The output from the textconv filter used by "git diff" can be cached to
- speed up their reuse.
-
- * "git diff --word-diff=<mode>" extends the existing "--color-words"
- option, making it more useful in color-challenged environments.
-
- * The regexp to detect function headers used by "git diff" for PHP has
- been enhanced for visibility modifiers (public, protected, etc.) to
- better support PHP5.
-
- * "diff.noprefix" configuration variable can be used to implicitly
- ask for "diff --no-prefix" behaviour.
-
- * "git for-each-ref" learned "%(objectname:short)" that gives the object
- name abbreviated.
-
- * "git format-patch" learned --signature option and format.signature
- configuration variable to customize the e-mail signature used in the
- output.
-
- * Various options to "git grep" (e.g. --count, --name-only) work better
- with binary files.
-
- * "git grep" learned "-Ovi" to open the files with hits in your editor.
-
- * "git help -w" learned "chrome" and "chromium" browsers.
-
- * "git log --decorate" shows commit decorations in various colours.
-
- * "git log --follow <path>" follows across copies (it used to only follow
- renames). This may make the processing more expensive.
-
- * "git log --pretty=format:<template>" specifier learned "% <something>"
- magic that inserts a space only when %<something> expands to a
- non-empty string; this is similar to "%+<something>" magic, but is
- useful in a context to generate a single line output.
-
- * "git notes prune" learned "-n" (dry-run) and "-v" options, similar to
- what "git prune" has.
-
- * "git patch-id" can be fed a mbox without getting confused by the
- signature line in the format-patch output.
-
- * "git remote" learned "set-branches" subcommand.
-
- * "git rev-list A..B" learned --ancestry-path option to further limit
- the result to the commits that are on the ancestry chain between A and
- B (i.e. commits that are not descendants of A are excluded).
-
- * "git show -5" is equivalent to "git show --do-walk 5"; this is similar
- to the update to make "git show master..next" walk the history,
- introduced in 1.6.4.
-
- * "git status [-s] --ignored" can be used to list ignored paths.
-
- * "git status -s -b" shows the current branch in the output.
-
- * "git status" learned "--ignore-submodules" option.
-
- * Various "gitweb" enhancements and clean-ups, including syntax
- highlighting, "plackup" support for instaweb, .fcgi suffix to run
- it as FastCGI script, etc.
-
- * The test harness has been updated to produce TAP-friendly output.
-
- * Many documentation improvement patches are also included.
-
-
- Fixes since v1.7.1
- ------------------
-
- All of the fixes in v1.7.1.X maintenance series are included in this
- release, unless otherwise noted.
-
- * We didn't URL decode "file:///path/to/repo" correctly when path/to/repo
- had percent-encoded characters (638794c, 9d2e942, ce83eda, 3c73a1d).
-
- * "git clone" did not configure remote.origin.url correctly for bare
- clones (df61c889).
-
- * "git diff --graph" works better with "--color-words" and other options
- (81fa024..4297c0a).
-
- * "git diff" could show ambiguous abbreviation of blob object names on
- its "index" line (3e5a188).
-
- * "git reset --hard" started from a wrong directory and a working tree in
- a nonstandard location is in use got confused (560fb6a1).
-
- * "git read-tree -m A B" used to switch to branch B while retaining
- local changes added an incorrect cache-tree information (b1f47514).
-