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Git v1.7.2 Release Notes (draft)
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Updates since v1.7.1
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--------------------
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* The whitespace rules used in "git apply --whitespace" and "git diff"
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gained a new member in the family (tab-in-indent) to help projects with
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policy to indent only with spaces.
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* Authentication over http transport can now be made lazily, in that the
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request can first go to a URL without username, get a 401 response and
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then the client will ask for the username to use.
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* When working from a subdirectory, by default, git does not look for its
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metadirectory ".git" across filesystems, primarily to help people who
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have invocations of git in their custom PS1 prompts, as being outside
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of a git repository would look for ".git" all the way up to the root
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directory, and NFS mounts are often slow. DISCOVERY_ACROSS_FILESYSTEM
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environment variable can be used to tell git not to stop at a
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filesystem boundary.
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* "git" wrapper learned "-c name=value" option to override configuration
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variable from the command line.
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* After "git apply --whitespace=fix" removed trailing blank lines in an
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patch in a patch series, it failed to apply later patches that depend
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on the presense of such blank lines.
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* "git checkout --orphan newbranch" is similar to "-b newbranch" but
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prepares to create a root commit that is not connected to any existing
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commit.
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* "git commit --amend" on a commit with an invalid author-name line that
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lacks the display name didn't work (fb7749e4).
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* "git cvsserver" can be told to use pserver; its password file can be
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stored outside the repository.
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* "git describe" tie-breaks tags that point at the same commit better by
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paying attention to the tagger date (newer ones are preferred).
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* The output from the textconv filter used by "git diff" can be cached to
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speed up their reuse.
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* "git diff --color" did not paint extended diff headers per line
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(i.e. the coloring escape sequence didn't end at the end of line),
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which confused "less -R".
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* "git diff --word-diff=<mode>" extends the existing "--color-words"
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option, making it more useful in color-challenged environments.
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* The regexp to detect function headers used by "git diff" for PHP has
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been enhanced for visibility modifiers (public, protected, etc.) to
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better support PHP5.
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* "git fetch" over HTTP verifies the downloaded packfiles more robustly.
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* "git for-each-ref" learned "%(objectname:short)" that gives the object
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name abbreviated.
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* Various options to "git grep" (e.g. --count, --name-only) work better
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with binary files.
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* The memory usage by "git index-pack" (run during "git fetch" and "git
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push") got leaner.
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* "git log --follow <path>" follows across copies (it used to only follow
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renames). This may make the processing more expensive.
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* "git notes prune" learned "-n" (dry-run) and "-v" options, similar to
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what "git prune" has.
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* "git patch-id" can be fed a mbox without getting confused by the
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signature line in the format-patch output.
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* "git revert" learned --strategy option to specify the merge strategy.
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* "git send-email" learned --smtp-domain option to specify the domainname
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used in the EHLO/HELO exchange.
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* "git status [-s] --ignored" can be used to list ignored paths.
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* Various "gitweb" enhancements and clean-ups, including syntax
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highlighting.
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Fixes since v1.7.1
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------------------
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All of the fixes in v1.7.1.X maintenance series are included in this
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release, unless otherwise noted.
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* We didn't recognize timezone "Z" as a synonym for "UTC" (75b37e70).
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* In 1.7.1, "git status" stopped refreshing the index by mistake
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(e251a7b3^2).
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* We used to mistakenly think "../work" is a subdirectory of the current
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directory when we are in "../work-xyz" (490544b).
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* "git checkout" and "git rebase" overwrote paths that are marked "assume
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unchanged" (aecda37c).
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* "git clone/fetch/pull" issued an incorrect error message when a ref and
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a symref that points to the ref were updated at the same time. This
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obviously would update them to the same value, and should not result in
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an error condition (da3efdb).
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* "git clone" did not configure remote.origin.url correctly for bare
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clones (df61c889).
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* "git diff" used to tell underlying xdiff machinery to work very hard to
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minimize the output, but this often was spending too many extra cycles
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for very little gain (582aa00).
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* "git pull" accepted "--dry-run", gave it to underlying "git fetch" but
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ignored the option itself, resulting in a bogus attempt to merge
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unrelated commit (29609e68).
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* "git reset --hard" started from a wrong directory and a working tree in
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a nonstandard location is in use got confused (560fb6a1).
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* "git stash" incorrectly lost paths in the working tree that were
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previously removed from the index (7aa5d43).
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--
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exec >/var/tmp/1
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O=v1.7.1-336-g0925c02
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echo O=$(git describe master)
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git shortlog --no-merges master ^maint ^$O
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