Update draft release notes to 1.7.4
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Nov 17, 2010 at 16:43 UTC
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@@ -15,9 +15,18 @@ Updates since v1.7.3
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/etc/gitattributes; core.attributesfile configuration variable can
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be used to customize the path to this file.
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+ * Bash completion script in contrib/ has been adjusted to be also
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+ usable by zsh.
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+
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+ * "git daemon" can take more than one --listen option to listen to
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+ multiple addresses.
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+
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* "git diff" and "git grep" learned how functions and subroutines
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in Fortran look like.
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+ * "git mergetool" tells vim/gvim to show three-way diff by default
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+ (use vimdiff2/gvimdiff2 as the tool name for old behaviour).
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* "git log -G<pattern>" limits the output to commits whose change has
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added or deleted lines that match the given pattern.
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@@ -25,13 +34,36 @@ Updates since v1.7.3
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deprecated; we might want to remove it in the future. Users can
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use the new --empty option to be more explicit instead.
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+ * "git repack -f" does not spend cycles to recompress objects in the
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+ non-delta representation anymore (use -F if you really mean it when
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+ e.g. you changed the compression level).
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* "git merge --log" used to limit the resulting merge log to 20
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entries; this is now customizable by giving e.g. "--log=47".
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+ * The default "recursive" merge strategy learned --rename-threshold
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+ option to influence the rename detection, similar to the -M option
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+ of "git diff". E.g. "git merge -Xrename-threshold=50% ..." to use
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+ this.
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+ * The "recursive" strategy also learned to ignore various whitespace
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+ changes; the most notable is -Xignore-space-at-eol.
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+ * "git send-email" learned "--to-cmd", similar to "--cc-cmd", to read
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+ recipient list from a command output.
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+ * "git send-email" learned to read and use "To:" from its input files.
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* you can extend "git shell", which is often used on boxes that allow
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git-only login over ssh as login shell, with custom set of
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commands.
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+ * "git submodule sync" updates metainformation for all submodules,
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+ not just the ones that have been checked out.
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+ * gitweb can use custom 'highlight' command with its configuration file.
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Also contains various documentation updates.
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@@ -41,14 +73,33 @@ Fixes since v1.7.3
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All of the fixes in v1.7.3.X maintenance series are included in this
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release, unless otherwise noted.
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+ * "diff" and friends incorrectly applied textconv filters to symlinks
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+ (d391c0ff).
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+ * "git apply" segfaulted when a bogus input is fed to it (24305cd70).
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+ * Running "git cherry-pick --ff" on a root commit segfaulted (6355e50).
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* "git log --author=me --author=her" did not find commits written by
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me or by her; instead it looked for commits written by me and by
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her, which is impossible.
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+ * "git merge-file" can be called from within a subdirectory now
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+ (55846b9a).
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+ * "git push --progress" shows progress indicators now.
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+ * "git repack" places its temporary packs under $GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY/pack
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+ instead of $GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY/ to avoid cross directory renames.
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+ * "git rev-list --format="...%x00..." incorrectly chopped its output
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+ at NUL (9130ac9fe).
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+ * "git submodule update --recursive --other-flags" passes flags down
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+ to its subinvocations.
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exec >/var/tmp/1
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-O=v1.7.3
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-O=v1.7.3.1-42-g34289ec
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+O=v1.7.3.2-245-g03276d9
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echo O=$(git describe master)
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git shortlog --no-merges ^maint ^$O master