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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.2.txt index a1b5428df..9f6a90428 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.2.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.2.txt @@ -4,6 +4,11 @@ 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. + * 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. @@ -16,9 +21,19 @@ Updates since v1.7.1 environment variable can be used to tell git not to stop at a filesystem boundary. + * Usage help messages generated by parse-options library (i.e. most + of the Porcelain commands) are sent to the standard output now. + + * ':/<string>' notation to look for a commit now takes regular expression + and it is not anchored at the beginning of the commit log message + anymore (this is a backward incompatible change). + * "git" wrapper learned "-c name=value" option to override configuration variable from the command line. + * Improved portability for various platforms including older SunOS, + HP-UX 10/11, AIX, Tru64, etc. and platforms with Python 2.4. + * The message from "git am -3" has been improved when conflict resolution ended up making the patch a no-op. @@ -26,8 +41,9 @@ Updates since v1.7.1 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 cherry-pick" learned to pick a range of commits (e.g. "cherry-pick + A..B"); this does not have nicer sequencing control "rebase [-i]" has, + though. * "git cvsserver" can be told to use pserver; its password file can be stored outside the repository. @@ -48,6 +64,10 @@ Updates since v1.7.1 * "git for-each-ref" learned "%(objectname:short)" that gives the object name abbreviated. + * "git format-patch" learned --signature option and format.signature + configuration variable to customize the e-mail signature used in the + output. + * Various options to "git grep" (e.g. --count, --name-only) work better with binary files. @@ -56,7 +76,10 @@ Updates since v1.7.1 * "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 log --pretty=format:<template>" specifier learned "% <something>" + magic that inserts a space only when %<something> expands to a + non-empty string; this is similar to "%+<something>" magic, but is + useful in a context to generate a single line output. * "git notes prune" learned "-n" (dry-run) and "-v" options, similar to what "git prune" has. @@ -68,12 +91,17 @@ Updates since v1.7.1 * "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). + * "git status [-s] --ignored" can be used to list ignored paths. * "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. + highlighting, "plackup" support for instaweb, .fcgi suffix to run + it as FastCGI script, etc. Fixes since v1.7.1 @@ -85,31 +113,32 @@ 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 commit" did not honor GIT_REFLOG_ACTION environment variable, resulting + reflog messages for cherry-pick and revert actions to be recorded as "commit". + * "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). + an error condition (0e71bc3). * "git clone" did not configure remote.origin.url correctly for bare clones (df61c889). + * "git diff" inside a tree with many pathnames that have certain + characters has become very slow in 1.7.0 by mistake (will merge + e53e6b443 to 'maint'). + * "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=v1.7.1-423-gae391ec +O=v1.7.1-568-g2c177a1 echo O=$(git describe HEAD) git shortlog --no-merges HEAD ^maint ^$O |