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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.4.txt index 9f946e218d..ace061f5fe 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.4.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.4.txt @@ -4,6 +4,10 @@ Git v1.7.4 Release Notes (draft) Updates since v1.7.3 -------------------- + * The documentation Makefile now assumes by default asciidoc 8 and + docbook-xsl >= 1.73. If you have older versions, you can set + ASCIIDOC7 and ASCIIDOC_ROFF, respectively. + * The option parsers of various commands that create new branch (or rename existing ones to a new name) were too loose and users were allowed to call a branch with a name that begins with a dash by @@ -15,15 +19,52 @@ Updates since v1.7.3 /etc/gitattributes; core.attributesfile configuration variable can be used to customize the path to this file. + * The thread structure generated by "git send-email" has changed + slightly. Setting the cover letter of the latest series as a reply + to the cover letter of the previous series with --in-reply-to used + to make the new cover letter and all the patches replies to the + cover letter of the previous series; this has been changed to make + the patches in the new series replies to the new cover letter. + * Bash completion script in contrib/ has been adjusted to be also usable by zsh. + * Different pagers can be chosen depending on which subcommand is + being run under the pager, using "pager.<subcommand>" variable. + + * The hardcoded tab-width of 8 used in whitespace breakage checks is now + configurable via the attributes mechanism. + + * Support of case insensitive filesystems (i.e. "core.ignorecase") has + been improved. For example, the gitignore mechanism didn't pay attention + to the case insensitivity. + + * The <tree>:<path> syntax to name a blob in a tree, and :<path> + syntax to name a blob in the index (e.g. "master:Makefile", + ":hello.c") have been extended. You can start <path> with "./" to + implicitly have the (sub)directory you are in prefixed to the + lookup. Similarly, ":../Makefile" from a subdirectory would mean + "the Makefile of the parent directory in the index". + + * "git blame" learned --show-email option to display the e-mail + addresses instead of the names of authors. + + * "git commit" learned --fixup and --squash options to help later invocation + of the interactive rebase. + + * "git daemon" can be built in MinGW environment. + * "git daemon" can take more than one --listen option to listen to multiple addresses. + * "git describe --exact-match" was optimized not to read commit + objects unnecessarily. + * "git diff" and "git grep" learned how functions and subroutines in Fortran look like. + * "git fetch" learned "--recurse-submodules" option. + * "git mergetool" tells vim/gvim to show three-way diff by default (use vimdiff2/gvimdiff2 as the tool name for old behaviour). @@ -41,6 +82,13 @@ Updates since v1.7.3 * "git merge --log" used to limit the resulting merge log to 20 entries; this is now customizable by giving e.g. "--log=47". + * "git merge" may work better when all files were moved out of a + directory in one branch while a new file is created in place of that + directory in the other branch. + + * "git rebase --autosquash" can use SHA-1 object names to name which + commit to fix up (e.g. "fixup! e83c5163"). + * The default "recursive" merge strategy learned --rename-threshold option to influence the rename detection, similar to the -M option of "git diff". E.g. "git merge -Xrename-threshold=50% ..." to use @@ -58,11 +106,16 @@ Updates since v1.7.3 git-only login over ssh as login shell, with custom set of commands. + * The current branch name in "git status" output can be colored differently + from the generic header color by setting "color.status.branch" variable. + * "git submodule sync" updates metainformation for all submodules, not just the ones that have been checked out. * gitweb can use custom 'highlight' command with its configuration file. + * other gitweb updates. + Also contains various documentation updates. @@ -73,33 +126,23 @@ Fixes since v1.7.3 All of the fixes in v1.7.3.X maintenance series are included in this release, unless otherwise noted. - * "diff" and friends incorrectly applied textconv filters to symlinks - (d391c0ff). - - * "git apply" segfaulted when a bogus input is fed to it (24305cd70). - - * Running "git cherry-pick --ff" on a root commit segfaulted (6355e50). - * "git log --author=me --author=her" did not find commits written by me or by her; instead it looked for commits written by me and by her, which is impossible. - * "git merge-file" can be called from within a subdirectory now - (55846b9a). + * "git merge" into an unborn branch removed an untracked file "foo" + from the working tree when merged branch had "foo" (2caf20c..172b642). * "git push --progress" shows progress indicators now. * "git repack" places its temporary packs under $GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY/pack instead of $GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY/ to avoid cross directory renames. - * "git rev-list --format="...%x00..." incorrectly chopped its output - at NUL (9130ac9fe). - * "git submodule update --recursive --other-flags" passes flags down to its subinvocations. --- exec >/var/tmp/1 -O=v1.7.3.2-245-g03276d9 +O=v1.7.3.4-567-g38a5932 echo O=$(git describe master) git shortlog --no-merges ^maint ^$O master |