1 Git v1.7.2 Release Notes (draft)
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7 * The whitespace rules used in "git apply --whitespace" and "git diff"
8 gained a new member in the family (tab-in-indent) to help projects with
9 policy to indent only with spaces.
11 * When working from a subdirectory, by default, git does not look for its
12 metadirectory ".git" across filesystems, primarily to help people who
13 have invocations of git in their custom PS1 prompts, as being outside
14 of a git repository would look for ".git" all the way up to the root
15 directory, and NFS mounts are often slow. DISCOVERY_ACROSS_FILESYSTEM
16 environment variable can be used to tell git not to stop at a
19 * "git" wrapper learned "-c name=value" option to override configuration
20 variable from the command line.
22 * The message from "git am -3" has been improved when conflict
23 resolution ended up making the patch a no-op.
25 * "git checkout --orphan newbranch" is similar to "-b newbranch" but
26 prepares to create a root commit that is not connected to any existing
29 * "git commit --amend" on a commit with an invalid author-name line that
30 lacks the display name didn't work (fb7749e4).
32 * "git cvsserver" can be told to use pserver; its password file can be
33 stored outside the repository.
35 * The output from the textconv filter used by "git diff" can be cached to
38 * "git diff --word-diff=<mode>" extends the existing "--color-words"
39 option, making it more useful in color-challenged environments.
41 * The regexp to detect function headers used by "git diff" for PHP has
42 been enhanced for visibility modifiers (public, protected, etc.) to
45 * "diff.noprefix" configuration variable can be used to implicitly
46 ask for "diff --no-prefix" behaviour.
48 * "git for-each-ref" learned "%(objectname:short)" that gives the object
51 * Various options to "git grep" (e.g. --count, --name-only) work better
54 * "git help -w" learned "chrome" and "chromium" browsers.
56 * "git log --follow <path>" follows across copies (it used to only follow
57 renames). This may make the processing more expensive.
59 * "git ls-files ../out/side/cwd" works now.
61 * "git notes prune" learned "-n" (dry-run) and "-v" options, similar to
64 * "git patch-id" can be fed a mbox without getting confused by the
65 signature line in the format-patch output.
67 * "git remote" learned "set-branches" subcommand.
69 * "git revert" learned --strategy option to specify the merge strategy.
71 * "git status [-s] --ignored" can be used to list ignored paths.
73 * "git status -s -b" shows the current branch in the output.
75 * Various "gitweb" enhancements and clean-ups, including syntax
76 highlighting, "plackup" support for instaweb, etc.
82 All of the fixes in v1.7.1.X maintenance series are included in this
83 release, unless otherwise noted.
85 * We didn't URL decode "file:///path/to/repo" correctly when path/to/repo
86 had percent-encoded characters (638794c, 9d2e942).
88 * "git clone/fetch/pull" issued an incorrect error message when a ref and
89 a symref that points to the ref were updated at the same time. This
90 obviously would update them to the same value, and should not result in
91 an error condition (7223dcaf).
93 * "git clone" did not configure remote.origin.url correctly for bare
96 * "git diff --graph" works better with "--color-words" and other options
99 * "git diff" could show ambiguous abbreviation of blob object names on
100 its "index" line (3e5a188).
102 * "git merge --log" used to replace the custom message given by "-m" with
103 the shortlog, instead of appending to it (tc/merge-m-log).
105 * "git reset --hard" started from a wrong directory and a working tree in
106 a nonstandard location is in use got confused (560fb6a1).
108 * "git show -C -C" and other corner cases lost diff metainfo output
113 O=v1.7.1-423-gae391ec
114 echo O=$(git describe HEAD)
115 git shortlog --no-merges HEAD ^maint ^$O
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