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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.4.txt index 05e8a43a3b..9f946e218d 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.4.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.4.txt @@ -15,9 +15,18 @@ Updates since v1.7.3 /etc/gitattributes; core.attributesfile configuration variable can be used to customize the path to this file. + * Bash completion script in contrib/ has been adjusted to be also + usable by zsh. + + * "git daemon" can take more than one --listen option to listen to + multiple addresses. + * "git diff" and "git grep" learned how functions and subroutines in Fortran look like. + * "git mergetool" tells vim/gvim to show three-way diff by default + (use vimdiff2/gvimdiff2 as the tool name for old behaviour). + * "git log -G<pattern>" limits the output to commits whose change has added or deleted lines that match the given pattern. @@ -25,13 +34,36 @@ Updates since v1.7.3 deprecated; we might want to remove it in the future. Users can use the new --empty option to be more explicit instead. + * "git repack -f" does not spend cycles to recompress objects in the + non-delta representation anymore (use -F if you really mean it when + e.g. you changed the compression level). + * "git merge --log" used to limit the resulting merge log to 20 entries; this is now customizable by giving e.g. "--log=47". + * The default "recursive" merge strategy learned --rename-threshold + option to influence the rename detection, similar to the -M option + of "git diff". E.g. "git merge -Xrename-threshold=50% ..." to use + this. + + * The "recursive" strategy also learned to ignore various whitespace + changes; the most notable is -Xignore-space-at-eol. + + * "git send-email" learned "--to-cmd", similar to "--cc-cmd", to read + recipient list from a command output. + + * "git send-email" learned to read and use "To:" from its input files. + * you can extend "git shell", which is often used on boxes that allow git-only login over ssh as login shell, with custom set of commands. + * "git submodule sync" updates metainformation for all submodules, + not just the ones that have been checked out. + + * gitweb can use custom 'highlight' command with its configuration file. + + Also contains various documentation updates. @@ -41,14 +73,33 @@ Fixes since v1.7.3 All of the fixes in v1.7.3.X maintenance series are included in this release, unless otherwise noted. + * "diff" and friends incorrectly applied textconv filters to symlinks + (d391c0ff). + + * "git apply" segfaulted when a bogus input is fed to it (24305cd70). + + * Running "git cherry-pick --ff" on a root commit segfaulted (6355e50). + * "git log --author=me --author=her" did not find commits written by me or by her; instead it looked for commits written by me and by her, which is impossible. + * "git merge-file" can be called from within a subdirectory now + (55846b9a). + + * "git push --progress" shows progress indicators now. + + * "git repack" places its temporary packs under $GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY/pack + instead of $GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY/ to avoid cross directory renames. + + * "git rev-list --format="...%x00..." incorrectly chopped its output + at NUL (9130ac9fe). + + * "git submodule update --recursive --other-flags" passes flags down + to its subinvocations. --- exec >/var/tmp/1 -O=v1.7.3 -O=v1.7.3.1-42-g34289ec +O=v1.7.3.2-245-g03276d9 echo O=$(git describe master) git shortlog --no-merges ^maint ^$O master |