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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.2.txt index 37781b4f14..a1b5428df4 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.2.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.2.txt @@ -4,37 +4,112 @@ Git v1.7.2 Release Notes (draft) Updates since v1.7.1 -------------------- - * After "git apply --whitespace=fix" removed trailing blank lines in an - patch in a patch series, it failed to apply later patches that depend - on the presense of such blank lines. + * The whitespace rules used in "git apply --whitespace" and "git diff" + gained a new member in the family (tab-in-indent) to help projects with + policy to indent only with spaces. + + * When working from a subdirectory, by default, git does not look for its + metadirectory ".git" across filesystems, primarily to help people who + have invocations of git in their custom PS1 prompts, as being outside + of a git repository would look for ".git" all the way up to the root + directory, and NFS mounts are often slow. DISCOVERY_ACROSS_FILESYSTEM + environment variable can be used to tell git not to stop at a + filesystem boundary. + + * "git" wrapper learned "-c name=value" option to override configuration + variable from the command line. + + * The message from "git am -3" has been improved when conflict + resolution ended up making the patch a no-op. + + * "git checkout --orphan newbranch" is similar to "-b newbranch" but + prepares to create a root commit that is not connected to any existing + commit. + + * "git commit --amend" on a commit with an invalid author-name line that + lacks the display name didn't work (fb7749e4). + + * "git cvsserver" can be told to use pserver; its password file can be + stored outside the repository. * The output from the textconv filter used by "git diff" can be cached to speed up their reuse. - * "git send-email" learned --smtp-domain option to specify the domainname - used in the EHLO/HELO exchange. + * "git diff --word-diff=<mode>" extends the existing "--color-words" + option, making it more useful in color-challenged environments. + + * The regexp to detect function headers used by "git diff" for PHP has + been enhanced for visibility modifiers (public, protected, etc.) to + better support PHP5. + + * "diff.noprefix" configuration variable can be used to implicitly + ask for "diff --no-prefix" behaviour. + + * "git for-each-ref" learned "%(objectname:short)" that gives the object + name abbreviated. + + * Various options to "git grep" (e.g. --count, --name-only) work better + with binary files. + + * "git help -w" learned "chrome" and "chromium" browsers. + + * "git log --follow <path>" follows across copies (it used to only follow + renames). This may make the processing more expensive. + + * "git ls-files ../out/side/cwd" works now. + + * "git notes prune" learned "-n" (dry-run) and "-v" options, similar to + what "git prune" has. + + * "git patch-id" can be fed a mbox without getting confused by the + signature line in the format-patch output. + + * "git remote" learned "set-branches" subcommand. * "git revert" learned --strategy option to specify the merge strategy. - * The whitespace rules used in "git apply --whitespace" and "git diff" - gained a new member in the family (tab-in-indent) to help projects with - policy to indent only with spaces. + * "git status [-s] --ignored" can be used to list ignored paths. - * Authentication over http transport can now be made lazily, in that the - request can first go to a URL without username, get a 401 response and - then the client will ask for the username to use. + * "git status -s -b" shows the current branch in the output. + + * Various "gitweb" enhancements and clean-ups, including syntax + highlighting, "plackup" support for instaweb, etc. Fixes since v1.7.1 ------------------ - * In 1.7.1, "git status" stopped refreshing the index by mistake. - All of the fixes in v1.7.1.X maintenance series are included in this release, unless otherwise noted. + * We didn't URL decode "file:///path/to/repo" correctly when path/to/repo + had percent-encoded characters (638794c, 9d2e942). + + * "git clone/fetch/pull" issued an incorrect error message when a ref and + a symref that points to the ref were updated at the same time. This + obviously would update them to the same value, and should not result in + an error condition (7223dcaf). + + * "git clone" did not configure remote.origin.url correctly for bare + clones (df61c889). + + * "git diff --graph" works better with "--color-words" and other options + (81fa024..4297c0a). + + * "git diff" could show ambiguous abbreviation of blob object names on + its "index" line (3e5a188). + + * "git merge --log" used to replace the custom message given by "-m" with + the shortlog, instead of appending to it (tc/merge-m-log). + + * "git reset --hard" started from a wrong directory and a working tree in + a nonstandard location is in use got confused (560fb6a1). + + * "git show -C -C" and other corner cases lost diff metainfo output + in 1.7.0 (296c6bb). + -- exec >/var/tmp/1 -O=v1.7.1-77-gb751157 -echo O=$(git describe master) -git shortlog --no-merges master ^maint ^$O +O=v1.7.1-423-gae391ec +echo O=$(git describe HEAD) +git shortlog --no-merges HEAD ^maint ^$O |