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Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@ -6,6 +6,16 @@ Updates since v1.7.11
UI, Workflows & Features UI, Workflows & Features
* Per-user $HOME/.gitconfig file can optionally be stored in
$HOME/.config/git/config instead, which is in line with XDG.
* The value of core.attributesfile and core.excludesfile default to
$HOME/.config/attributes and $HOME/.config/ignore respectively when
these files exist.
* Scripted Porcelain writers now have access to the credential API via
the "git credential" plumbing command.
* "git help" used to always default to "man" format even on platforms * "git help" used to always default to "man" format even on platforms
where "man" viewer is not widely available. where "man" viewer is not widely available.
@ -27,6 +37,11 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
the wire, so that the server log can be examined to see the vintage the wire, so that the server log can be examined to see the vintage
distribution of clients. distribution of clients.
* "git help -w $cmd" can show HTML version of documentation for
"git-$cmd" by setting help.htmlpath to somewhere other than the
default location where the build procedure installs them locally;
the variable can even point at a http:// URL.
* "git rebase -i" learned "-x <cmd>" to insert "exec <cmd>" after * "git rebase -i" learned "-x <cmd>" to insert "exec <cmd>" after
each commit in the resulting history. each commit in the resulting history.
@ -71,6 +86,34 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.7.11 in the maintenance
releases are contained in this release (see release notes to them for releases are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
details). details).
* We did not have test to make sure "git rebase" without extra options
filters out an empty commit in the original history.
(merge 2b5ba7b mz/empty-rebase-test later to maint).
* "git fast-export" produced an input stream for fast-import without
properly quoting pathnames when they contain SPs in them.
(merge ff59f6d js/fast-export-paths-with-spaces later to maint).
* "git checkout --detach", when you are still on an unborn branch,
should be forbidden, but it wasn't.
(merge 8ced1aa cw/no-detaching-an-unborn later to maint).
* Some implementations of Perl terminates "lines" with CRLF even when
the script is operating on just a sequence of bytes. Make sure to
use "$PERL_PATH", the version of Perl the user told Git to use, in
our tests to avoid unnecessary breakages in tests.
(merge ad78585 vr/use-our-perl-in-tests later to maint).
* "git blame" did not try to make sure that the abbreviated commit
object names in its output are unique.
(merge b31272f jc/maint-blame-unique-abbrev later to maint).
* On Cygwin, the platform pread(2) is not thread safe, just like our
own compat/ emulation, and cannot be used in the index-pack
program. Makefile variable NO_THREAD_SAFE_PREAD can be defined to
avoid use of this function in a threaded program.
(merge c0f8654 rj/platform-pread-may-be-thread-unsafe later to maint).
* "git clone --single-branch" to clone a single branch did not limit * "git clone --single-branch" to clone a single branch did not limit
the cloning to the specified branch. the cloning to the specified branch.
(merge 0ec4b16 nd/clone-single-fix later to maint). (merge 0ec4b16 nd/clone-single-fix later to maint).