Update draft release notes to 1.7.2
It is loooong overdue. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@@ -4,37 +4,128 @@ Git v1.7.2 Release Notes (draft)
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Updates since v1.7.1
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+ * The whitespace rules used in "git apply --whitespace" and "git diff"
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+ gained a new member in the family (tab-in-indent) to help projects with
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+ policy to indent only with spaces.
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+
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+ * Authentication over http transport can now be made lazily, in that the
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+ request can first go to a URL without username, get a 401 response and
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+ then the client will ask for the username to use.
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+
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+ * When working from a subdirectory, by default, git does not look for its
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+ metadirectory ".git" across filesystems, primarily to help people who
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+ have invocations of git in their custom PS1 prompts, as being outside
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+ of a git repository would look for ".git" all the way up to the root
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+ directory, and NFS mounts are often slow. DISCOVERY_ACROSS_FILESYSTEM
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+ environment variable can be used to tell git not to stop at a
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+ filesystem boundary.
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+
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+ * "git" wrapper learned "-c name=value" option to override configuration
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+ variable from the command line.
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* After "git apply --whitespace=fix" removed trailing blank lines in an
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patch in a patch series, it failed to apply later patches that depend
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on the presense of such blank lines.
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+ * "git checkout --orphan newbranch" is similar to "-b newbranch" but
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+ prepares to create a root commit that is not connected to any existing
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+ commit.
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+ * "git commit --amend" on a commit with an invalid author-name line that
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+ lacks the display name didn't work (fb7749e4).
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+ * "git cvsserver" can be told to use pserver; its password file can be
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+ stored outside the repository.
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+ * "git describe" tie-breaks tags that point at the same commit better by
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+ paying attention to the tagger date (newer ones are preferred).
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* The output from the textconv filter used by "git diff" can be cached to
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speed up their reuse.
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- * "git send-email" learned --smtp-domain option to specify the domainname
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- used in the EHLO/HELO exchange.
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+ * "git diff --color" did not paint extended diff headers per line
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+ (i.e. the coloring escape sequence didn't end at the end of line),
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+ which confused "less -R".
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+ * "git diff --word-diff=<mode>" extends the existing "--color-words"
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+ option, making it more useful in color-challenged environments.
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+ * The regexp to detect function headers used by "git diff" for PHP has
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+ been enhanced for visibility modifiers (public, protected, etc.) to
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+ better support PHP5.
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+ * "git fetch" over HTTP verifies the downloaded packfiles more robustly.
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+ * "git for-each-ref" learned "%(objectname:short)" that gives the object
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+ name abbreviated.
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+ * Various options to "git grep" (e.g. --count, --name-only) work better
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+ with binary files.
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+ * The memory usage by "git index-pack" (run during "git fetch" and "git
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+ push") got leaner.
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+ * "git log --follow <path>" follows across copies (it used to only follow
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+ renames). This may make the processing more expensive.
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+ * "git notes prune" learned "-n" (dry-run) and "-v" options, similar to
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+ what "git prune" has.
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+ * "git patch-id" can be fed a mbox without getting confused by the
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+ signature line in the format-patch output.
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* "git revert" learned --strategy option to specify the merge strategy.
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- * The whitespace rules used in "git apply --whitespace" and "git diff"
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- gained a new member in the family (tab-in-indent) to help projects with
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- policy to indent only with spaces.
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+ * "git send-email" learned --smtp-domain option to specify the domainname
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+ used in the EHLO/HELO exchange.
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- * Authentication over http transport can now be made lazily, in that the
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- request can first go to a URL without username, get a 401 response and
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- then the client will ask for the username to use.
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+ * "git status [-s] --ignored" can be used to list ignored paths.
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+ * Various "gitweb" enhancements and clean-ups, including syntax
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+ highlighting.
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Fixes since v1.7.1
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- * In 1.7.1, "git status" stopped refreshing the index by mistake.
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All of the fixes in v1.7.1.X maintenance series are included in this
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release, unless otherwise noted.
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+ * We didn't recognize timezone "Z" as a synonym for "UTC" (75b37e70).
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+ * In 1.7.1, "git status" stopped refreshing the index by mistake
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+ (e251a7b3^2).
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+ * We used to mistakenly think "../work" is a subdirectory of the current
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+ directory when we are in "../work-xyz" (490544b).
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+ * "git checkout" and "git rebase" overwrote paths that are marked "assume
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+ unchanged" (aecda37c).
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+ * "git clone/fetch/pull" issued an incorrect error message when a ref and
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+ a symref that points to the ref were updated at the same time. This
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+ obviously would update them to the same value, and should not result in
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+ an error condition (da3efdb).
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+ * "git clone" did not configure remote.origin.url correctly for bare
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+ clones (df61c889).
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+ * "git diff" used to tell underlying xdiff machinery to work very hard to
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+ minimize the output, but this often was spending too many extra cycles
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+ for very little gain (582aa00).
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+ * "git pull" accepted "--dry-run", gave it to underlying "git fetch" but
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+ ignored the option itself, resulting in a bogus attempt to merge
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+ unrelated commit (29609e68).
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+ * "git reset --hard" started from a wrong directory and a working tree in
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+ a nonstandard location is in use got confused (560fb6a1).
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+ * "git stash" incorrectly lost paths in the working tree that were
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+ previously removed from the index (7aa5d43).
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--
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exec >/var/tmp/1
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-O=v1.7.1-77-gb751157
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+O=v1.7.1-336-g0925c02
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echo O=$(git describe master)
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git shortlog --no-merges master ^maint ^$O