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@@ -4,6 +4,11 @@ Git v1.7.2 Release Notes (draft)

4 Updates since v1.7.1

5 --------------------

6

7 + * core.eol configuration and eol attribute are the new way to control

8 + the end of line conventions for files in the working tree;

9 + core.autocrlf overrides it, keeping the traditional behaviour by

10 + default.

11 +

12 * The whitespace rules used in "git apply --whitespace" and "git diff"

13 gained a new member in the family (tab-in-indent) to help projects with

14 policy to indent only with spaces.

@@ -16,9 +21,19 @@ Updates since v1.7.1

21 environment variable can be used to tell git not to stop at a

22 filesystem boundary.

23

24 + * Usage help messages generated by parse-options library (i.e. most

25 + of the Porcelain commands) are sent to the standard output now.

26 +

27 + * ':/<string>' notation to look for a commit now takes regular expression

28 + and it is not anchored at the beginning of the commit log message

29 + anymore (this is a backward incompatible change).

30 +

31 * "git" wrapper learned "-c name=value" option to override configuration

32 variable from the command line.

33

34 + * Improved portability for various platforms including older SunOS,

35 + HP-UX 10/11, AIX, Tru64, etc. and platforms with Python 2.4.

36 +

37 * The message from "git am -3" has been improved when conflict

38 resolution ended up making the patch a no-op.

39

@@ -26,8 +41,9 @@ Updates since v1.7.1

41 prepares to create a root commit that is not connected to any existing

42 commit.

43

29 - * "git commit --amend" on a commit with an invalid author-name line that

30 - lacks the display name didn't work (fb7749e4).

44 + * "git cherry-pick" learned to pick a range of commits (e.g. "cherry-pick

45 + A..B"); this does not have nicer sequencing control "rebase [-i]" has,

46 + though.

47

48 * "git cvsserver" can be told to use pserver; its password file can be

49 stored outside the repository.

@@ -48,6 +64,10 @@ Updates since v1.7.1

64 * "git for-each-ref" learned "%(objectname:short)" that gives the object

65 name abbreviated.

66

67 + * "git format-patch" learned --signature option and format.signature

68 + configuration variable to customize the e-mail signature used in the

69 + output.

70 +

71 * Various options to "git grep" (e.g. --count, --name-only) work better

72 with binary files.

73

@@ -56,7 +76,10 @@ Updates since v1.7.1

76 * "git log --follow <path>" follows across copies (it used to only follow

77 renames). This may make the processing more expensive.

78

59 - * "git ls-files ../out/side/cwd" works now.

79 + * "git log --pretty=format:<template>" specifier learned "% <something>"

80 + magic that inserts a space only when %<something> expands to a

81 + non-empty string; this is similar to "%+<something>" magic, but is

82 + useful in a context to generate a single line output.

83

84 * "git notes prune" learned "-n" (dry-run) and "-v" options, similar to

85 what "git prune" has.

@@ -68,12 +91,17 @@ Updates since v1.7.1

91

92 * "git revert" learned --strategy option to specify the merge strategy.

93

94 + * "git rev-list A..B" learned --ancestry-path option to further limit

95 + the result to the commits that are on the ancestry chain between A and

96 + B (i.e. commits that are not descendants of A are excluded).

97 +

98 * "git status [-s] --ignored" can be used to list ignored paths.

99

100 * "git status -s -b" shows the current branch in the output.

101

102 * Various "gitweb" enhancements and clean-ups, including syntax

76 - highlighting, "plackup" support for instaweb, etc.

103 + highlighting, "plackup" support for instaweb, .fcgi suffix to run

104 + it as FastCGI script, etc.

105

106

107 Fixes since v1.7.1

@@ -85,31 +113,32 @@ release, unless otherwise noted.

113 * We didn't URL decode "file:///path/to/repo" correctly when path/to/repo

114 had percent-encoded characters (638794c, 9d2e942).

115

116 + * "git commit" did not honor GIT_REFLOG_ACTION environment variable, resulting

117 + reflog messages for cherry-pick and revert actions to be recorded as "commit".

118 +

119 * "git clone/fetch/pull" issued an incorrect error message when a ref and

120 a symref that points to the ref were updated at the same time. This

121 obviously would update them to the same value, and should not result in

91 - an error condition (7223dcaf).

122 + an error condition (0e71bc3).

123

124 * "git clone" did not configure remote.origin.url correctly for bare

125 clones (df61c889).

126

127 + * "git diff" inside a tree with many pathnames that have certain

128 + characters has become very slow in 1.7.0 by mistake (will merge

129 + e53e6b443 to 'maint').

130 +

131 * "git diff --graph" works better with "--color-words" and other options

132 (81fa024..4297c0a).

133

134 * "git diff" could show ambiguous abbreviation of blob object names on

135 its "index" line (3e5a188).

136

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).

104 -

137 * "git reset --hard" started from a wrong directory and a working tree in

138 a nonstandard location is in use got confused (560fb6a1).

139

108 - * "git show -C -C" and other corner cases lost diff metainfo output

109 - in 1.7.0 (296c6bb).

110 -

140 --

141 exec >/var/tmp/1

113 -O=v1.7.1-423-gae391ec

142 +O=v1.7.1-568-g2c177a1

143 echo O=$(git describe HEAD)

144 git shortlog --no-merges HEAD ^maint ^$O

Update draft release notes to 1.7.2