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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.2.txt index aa79f06..b463fd2 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.2.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.2.txt @@ -4,10 +4,13 @@ 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. + * core.eol configuration and text/eol attributes are the new way to control + the end of line conventions for files in the working tree. + + * core.autocrlf has been made safer - it will now only handle line + endings for new files and files that are LF-only in the + repository. To normalize content that has been checked in with + CRLF, use the new eol/text attributes. * 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 @@ -45,8 +48,12 @@ Updates since v1.7.1 commit. * "git cherry-pick" learned to pick a range of commits - (e.g. "cherry-pick A..B" and "cherry-pick --stdin"); this does not - have nicer sequencing control "rebase [-i]" has, though. + (e.g. "cherry-pick A..B" and "cherry-pick --stdin"), so did "git + revert"; these do not support the nicer sequencing control "rebase + [-i]" has, though. + + * "git cherry-pick" and "git revert" learned --strategy option to specify + the merge strategy to be used when performing three-way merges. * "git cvsserver" can be told to use pserver; its password file can be stored outside the repository. @@ -74,7 +81,7 @@ Updates since v1.7.1 * Various options to "git grep" (e.g. --count, --name-only) work better with binary files. - * "git grep" learned "-Ovi" to open the files with hits in yoru editor. + * "git grep" learned "-Ovi" to open the files with hits in your editor. * "git help -w" learned "chrome" and "chromium" browsers. @@ -96,8 +103,6 @@ Updates since v1.7.1 * "git remote" learned "set-branches" subcommand. - * "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). @@ -147,9 +152,6 @@ release, unless otherwise noted. * "git diff" could show ambiguous abbreviation of blob object names on its "index" line (3e5a188). - * "git rebase" did not faithfully reproduce a malformed author ident, that - is often seen in a repository converted from foreign SCMs (43c23251). - * "git reset --hard" started from a wrong directory and a working tree in a nonstandard location is in use got confused (560fb6a1). |