1Git v1.7.4 Release Notes (draft) 2================================ 3 4Updates since v1.7.3 5-------------------- 6 7 * The documentation Makefile now assumes by default asciidoc 8 and 8 docbook-xsl >= 1.73. If you have older versions, you can set 9 ASCIIDOC7 and ASCIIDOC_ROFF, respectively. 10 11 * The option parsers of various commands that create new branch (or 12 rename existing ones to a new name) were too loose and users were 13 allowed to call a branch with a name that begins with a dash by 14 creative abuse of their command line options, which only lead to 15 burn themselves. The name of a branch cannot begin with a dash 16 now. 17 18 * System-wide fallback default attributes can be stored in 19 /etc/gitattributes; core.attributesfile configuration variable can 20 be used to customize the path to this file. 21 22 * The thread structure generated by "git send-email" has changed 23 slightly. Setting the cover letter of the latest series as a reply 24 to the cover letter of the previous series with --in-reply-to used 25 to make the new cover letter and all the patches replies to the 26 cover letter of the previous series; this has been changed to make 27 the patches in the new series replies to the new cover letter. 28 29 * Bash completion script in contrib/ has been adjusted to be usable with 30 Bash 4 (options with '=value' didn't complete) It has been also made 31 usable with zsh. 32 33 * Different pagers can be chosen depending on which subcommand is 34 being run under the pager, using "pager.<subcommand>" variable. 35 36 * The hardcoded tab-width of 8 used in whitespace breakage checks is now 37 configurable via the attributes mechanism. 38 39 * Support of case insensitive filesystems (i.e. "core.ignorecase") has 40 been improved. For example, the gitignore mechanism didn't pay attention 41 to the case insensitivity. 42 43 * The <tree>:<path> syntax to name a blob in a tree, and :<path> 44 syntax to name a blob in the index (e.g. "master:Makefile", 45 ":hello.c") have been extended. You can start <path> with "./" to 46 implicitly have the (sub)directory you are in prefixed to the 47 lookup. Similarly, ":../Makefile" from a subdirectory would mean 48 "the Makefile of the parent directory in the index". 49 50 * "git blame" learned --show-email option to display the e-mail 51 addresses instead of the names of authors. 52 53 * "git commit" learned --fixup and --squash options to help later invocation 54 of the interactive rebase. 55 56 * "git daemon" can be built in MinGW environment. 57 58 * "git daemon" can take more than one --listen option to listen to 59 multiple addresses. 60 61 * "git describe --exact-match" was optimized not to read commit 62 objects unnecessarily. 63 64 * "git diff" and "git grep" learned how functions and subroutines 65 in Fortran look like. 66 67 * "git fetch" learned "--recurse-submodules" option. 68 69 * "git mergetool" tells vim/gvim to show three-way diff by default 70 (use vimdiff2/gvimdiff2 as the tool name for old behaviour). 71 72 * "git log -G<pattern>" limits the output to commits whose change has 73 added or deleted lines that match the given pattern. 74 75 * "git read-tree" with no argument as a way to empty the index is 76 deprecated; we might want to remove it in the future. Users can 77 use the new --empty option to be more explicit instead. 78 79 * "git repack -f" does not spend cycles to recompress objects in the 80 non-delta representation anymore (use -F if you really mean it 81 e.g. after you changed the core.compression variable setting). 82 83 * "git merge --log" used to limit the resulting merge log to 20 84 entries; this is now customizable by giving e.g. "--log=47". 85 86 * "git merge" may work better when all files were moved out of a 87 directory in one branch while a new file is created in place of that 88 directory in the other branch. 89 90 * "git rebase --autosquash" can use SHA-1 object names to name which 91 commit to fix up (e.g. "fixup! e83c5163"). 92 93 * The default "recursive" merge strategy learned --rename-threshold 94 option to influence the rename detection, similar to the -M option 95 of "git diff". From "git merge" frontend, "-X<strategy option>" 96 interface, e.g. "git merge -Xrename-threshold=50% ...", can be used 97 to trigger this. 98 99 * The "recursive" strategy also learned to ignore various whitespace 100 changes; the most notable is -Xignore-space-at-eol. 101 102 * "git send-email" learned "--to-cmd", similar to "--cc-cmd", to read 103 recipient list from a command output. 104 105 * "git send-email" learned to read and use "To:" from its input files. 106 107 * you can extend "git shell", which is often used on boxes that allow 108 git-only login over ssh as login shell, with custom set of 109 commands. 110 111 * The current branch name in "git status" output can be colored differently 112 from the generic header color by setting "color.status.branch" variable. 113 114 * "git submodule sync" updates metainformation for all submodules, 115 not just the ones that have been checked out. 116 117 * gitweb can use custom 'highlight' command with its configuration file. 118 119 * other gitweb updates. 120 121 122Also contains various documentation updates. 123 124 125Fixes since v1.7.3 126------------------ 127 128All of the fixes in v1.7.3.X maintenance series are included in this 129release, unless otherwise noted. 130 131 * "git log --author=me --author=her" did not find commits written by 132 me or by her; instead it looked for commits written by me and by 133 her, which is impossible. 134 135 * "git push --progress" shows progress indicators now. 136 137 * "git repack" places its temporary packs under $GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY/pack 138 instead of $GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY/ to avoid cross directory renames. 139 140 * "git submodule update --recursive --other-flags" passes flags down 141 to its subinvocations. 142 143--- 144exec >/var/tmp/1 145O=v1.7.3.4-687-g2cd900f 146echo O=$(git describe master) 147git shortlog --no-merges ^maint ^$O master