1 Git v1.7.9 Release Notes
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7 * gitk updates accumulated since early 2011.
9 * git-gui updated to 0.16.0.
11 * git-p4 (in contrib/) updates.
13 * Git uses gettext to translate its most common interface messages
14 into the user's language if translations are available and the
15 locale is appropriately set. Distributors can drop new PO files
16 in po/ to add new translations.
18 * The code to handle username/password for HTTP transactions used in
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.
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
28 * The internals of "revert/cherry-pick" have been tweaked to prepare
29 building more generic "sequencer" on top of the implementation that
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".
36 * "git add" learned to stream large files directly into a packfile
37 instead of writing them into individual loose object files.
39 * "git checkout -B <current branch> <elsewhere>" is a more intuitive
40 way to spell "git reset --keep <elsewhere>".
42 * "git checkout" and "git merge" learned "--no-overwrite-ignore" option
43 to tell Git that untracked and ignored files are not expendable.
45 * "git commit --amend" learned "--no-edit" option to say that the
46 user is amending the tree being recorded, without updating the
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.
53 * "git commit" detects and rejects an attempt to stuff NUL byte in
54 the commit log message.
56 * "git commit" learned "-S" to GPG-sign the commit; this can be shown
57 with the "--show-signature" option to "git log".
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.
63 * The set of built-in function-header patterns for various languages
66 * "git log --format='<format>'" learned new %g[nNeE] specifiers to
67 show information from the reflog entries when walking the reflog
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
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".
79 * "git branch --edit-description" can be used to add descriptive text
80 to explain what a topic branch is about.
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.
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,
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.
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.
99 * "git tag" learned "--cleanup" option to control how the whitespaces
100 and empty lines in tag message are cleaned up.
102 * "gitweb" learned to show side-by-side diff.
104 Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.
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