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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.2.txt index 37781b4..2dea6ff 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.2.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.2.txt @@ -4,37 +4,128 @@ Git v1.7.2 Release Notes (draft) Updates since v1.7.1 -------------------- + * 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. + + * Authentication over http transport can now be made lazily, in that the + request can first go to a URL without username, get a 401 response and + then the client will ask for the username to use. + + * When working from a subdirectory, by default, git does not look for its + metadirectory ".git" across filesystems, primarily to help people who + have invocations of git in their custom PS1 prompts, as being outside + of a git repository would look for ".git" all the way up to the root + directory, and NFS mounts are often slow. DISCOVERY_ACROSS_FILESYSTEM + environment variable can be used to tell git not to stop at a + filesystem boundary. + + * "git" wrapper learned "-c name=value" option to override configuration + variable from the command line. + * After "git apply --whitespace=fix" removed trailing blank lines in an patch in a patch series, it failed to apply later patches that depend on the presense of such blank lines. + * "git checkout --orphan newbranch" is similar to "-b newbranch" but + 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 cvsserver" can be told to use pserver; its password file can be + stored outside the repository. + + * "git describe" tie-breaks tags that point at the same commit better by + paying attention to the tagger date (newer ones are preferred). + * The output from the textconv filter used by "git diff" can be cached to speed up their reuse. - * "git send-email" learned --smtp-domain option to specify the domainname - used in the EHLO/HELO exchange. + * "git diff --color" did not paint extended diff headers per line + (i.e. the coloring escape sequence didn't end at the end of line), + which confused "less -R". + + * "git diff --word-diff=<mode>" extends the existing "--color-words" + option, making it more useful in color-challenged environments. + + * The regexp to detect function headers used by "git diff" for PHP has + been enhanced for visibility modifiers (public, protected, etc.) to + better support PHP5. + + * "git fetch" over HTTP verifies the downloaded packfiles more robustly. + + * "git for-each-ref" learned "%(objectname:short)" that gives the object + name abbreviated. + + * Various options to "git grep" (e.g. --count, --name-only) work better + with binary files. + + * The memory usage by "git index-pack" (run during "git fetch" and "git + push") got leaner. + + * "git log --follow <path>" follows across copies (it used to only follow + renames). This may make the processing more expensive. + + * "git notes prune" learned "-n" (dry-run) and "-v" options, similar to + what "git prune" has. + + * "git patch-id" can be fed a mbox without getting confused by the + signature line in the format-patch output. * "git revert" learned --strategy option to specify the merge strategy. - * 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. + * "git send-email" learned --smtp-domain option to specify the domainname + used in the EHLO/HELO exchange. - * Authentication over http transport can now be made lazily, in that the - request can first go to a URL without username, get a 401 response and - then the client will ask for the username to use. + * "git status [-s] --ignored" can be used to list ignored paths. + + * Various "gitweb" enhancements and clean-ups, including syntax + highlighting. Fixes since v1.7.1 ------------------ - * In 1.7.1, "git status" stopped refreshing the index by mistake. - All of the fixes in v1.7.1.X maintenance series are included in this release, unless otherwise noted. + * We didn't recognize timezone "Z" as a synonym for "UTC" (75b37e70). + + * In 1.7.1, "git status" stopped refreshing the index by mistake + (e251a7b3^2). + + * We used to mistakenly think "../work" is a subdirectory of the current + directory when we are in "../work-xyz" (490544b). + + * "git checkout" and "git rebase" overwrote paths that are marked "assume + unchanged" (aecda37c). + + * "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 (da3efdb). + + * "git clone" did not configure remote.origin.url correctly for bare + clones (df61c889). + + * "git diff" used to tell underlying xdiff machinery to work very hard to + minimize the output, but this often was spending too many extra cycles + for very little gain (582aa00). + + * "git pull" accepted "--dry-run", gave it to underlying "git fetch" but + ignored the option itself, resulting in a bogus attempt to merge + unrelated commit (29609e68). + + * "git reset --hard" started from a wrong directory and a working tree in + a nonstandard location is in use got confused (560fb6a1). + + * "git stash" incorrectly lost paths in the working tree that were + previously removed from the index (7aa5d43). + -- exec >/var/tmp/1 -O=v1.7.1-77-gb751157 +O=v1.7.1-336-g0925c02 echo O=$(git describe master) git shortlog --no-merges master ^maint ^$O |