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Updates from the list to 1.7.2 Release Notes

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Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@ -4,10 +4,13 @@ Git v1.7.2 Release Notes (draft)
Updates since v1.7.1
--------------------
* core.eol configuration and eol attribute are the new way to control
the end of line conventions for files in the working tree;
core.autocrlf overrides it, keeping the traditional behaviour by
default.
* core.eol configuration and text/eol attributes are the new way to control
the end of line conventions for files in the working tree.
* core.autocrlf has been made safer - it will now only handle line
endings for new files and files that are LF-only in the
repository. To normalize content that has been checked in with
CRLF, use the new eol/text attributes.
* 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
@ -45,8 +48,12 @@ Updates since v1.7.1
commit.
* "git cherry-pick" learned to pick a range of commits
(e.g. "cherry-pick A..B" and "cherry-pick --stdin"); this does not
have nicer sequencing control "rebase [-i]" has, though.
(e.g. "cherry-pick A..B" and "cherry-pick --stdin"), so did "git
revert"; these do not support the nicer sequencing control "rebase
[-i]" has, though.
* "git cherry-pick" and "git revert" learned --strategy option to specify
the merge strategy to be used when performing three-way merges.
* "git cvsserver" can be told to use pserver; its password file can be
stored outside the repository.
@ -74,7 +81,7 @@ Updates since v1.7.1
* Various options to "git grep" (e.g. --count, --name-only) work better
with binary files.
* "git grep" learned "-Ovi" to open the files with hits in yoru editor.
* "git grep" learned "-Ovi" to open the files with hits in your editor.
* "git help -w" learned "chrome" and "chromium" browsers.
@ -96,8 +103,6 @@ Updates since v1.7.1
* "git remote" learned "set-branches" subcommand.
* "git revert" learned --strategy option to specify the merge strategy.
* "git rev-list A..B" learned --ancestry-path option to further limit
the result to the commits that are on the ancestry chain between A and
B (i.e. commits that are not descendants of A are excluded).
@ -147,9 +152,6 @@ release, unless otherwise noted.
* "git diff" could show ambiguous abbreviation of blob object names on
its "index" line (3e5a188).
* "git rebase" did not faithfully reproduce a malformed author ident, that
is often seen in a repository converted from foreign SCMs (43c23251).
* "git reset --hard" started from a wrong directory and a working tree in
a nonstandard location is in use got confused (560fb6a1).