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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.4.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d5bca73 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.4.txt @@ -0,0 +1,156 @@ +Git v1.7.4 Release Notes +======================== + +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 branches (or + rename existing ones to a new name) were too loose and users were + allowed to give a branch a name that begins with a dash by creative + abuse of their command line options, which only led to burning + themselves. The name of a branch cannot begin with a dash now. + + * System-wide fallback default attributes can be stored in + /etc/gitattributes; the 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. + + * The Bash completion script in contrib/ has been adjusted to be usable with + Bash 4 (options with '=value' didn't complete). It has been also made + usable with zsh. + + * Different pagers can be chosen depending on which subcommand is + being run under the pager, using the "pager.<subcommand>" variable. + + * The hardcoded tab-width of 8 that is 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 case insensitivity. + + * The <tree>:<path> syntax for naming a blob in a tree, and the :<path> + syntax for naming 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 the --show-email option to display the e-mail + addresses instead of the names of authors. + + * "git commit" learned the --fixup and --squash options to help later invocation + of interactive rebase. + + * Command line options to "git cvsimport" whose names are in capital + letters (-A, -M, -R and -S) can now be specified as the default in + the .git/config file by their longer names (cvsimport.authorsFile, + cvsimport.mergeRegex, cvsimport.trackRevisions, cvsimport.ignorePaths). + + * "git daemon" can be built in the 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 what functions and subroutines + in Fortran, Pascal and Perl look like. + + * "git fetch" learned the "--recurse-submodules" option. + + * "git mergetool" tells vim/gvim to show a three-way diff by default + (use vimdiff2/gvimdiff2 as the tool name for old behavior). + + * "git log -G<pattern>" limits the output to commits whose change has + added or deleted lines that match the given pattern. + + * "git read-tree" with no argument as a way to empty the index is + deprecated; we might want to remove it in the future. Users can + use the new --empty option to be more explicit instead. + + * "git repack -f" does not spend cycles to recompress objects in the + non-delta representation anymore (use -F if you really mean it + e.g. after you changed the core.compression variable setting). + + * "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 merge" learned the "--abort" option, synonymous to + "git reset --merge" when a merge is in progress. + + * "git notes" learned the "merge" subcommand to merge notes refs. + In addition to the default manual conflict resolution, there are + also several notes merge strategies for automatically resolving + notes merge conflicts. + + * "git rebase --autosquash" can use SHA-1 object names to name the + commit which is to be fixed up (e.g. "fixup! e83c5163"). + + * The default "recursive" merge strategy learned the --rename-threshold + option to influence the rename detection, similar to the -M option + of "git diff". From the "git merge" frontend, the "-X<strategy option>" + interface, e.g. "git merge -Xrename-threshold=50% ...", can be used + to trigger this. + + * The "recursive" strategy also learned to ignore various whitespace + changes; the most notable is -Xignore-space-at-eol. + + * "git send-email" learned "--to-cmd", similar to "--cc-cmd", to read + the recipient list from a command output. + + * "git send-email" learned to read and use "To:" from its input files. + + * you can extend "git shell", which is often used on boxes that allow + git-only login over ssh as login shell, with a custom set of + commands. + + * The current branch name in "git status" output can be colored differently + from the generic header color by setting the "color.status.branch" variable. + + * "git submodule sync" updates metainformation for all submodules, + not just the ones that have been checked out. + + * gitweb can use a custom 'highlight' command with its configuration file. + + * other gitweb updates. + + +Also contains various documentation updates. + + +Fixes since v1.7.3 +------------------ + +All of the fixes in the v1.7.3.X maintenance series are included in this +release, unless otherwise noted. + + * "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 push --progress" shows progress indicators now. + + * "git rebase -i" showed a confusing error message when given a + branch name that does not exist. + + * "git repack" places its temporary packs under $GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY/pack + instead of $GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY/ to avoid cross directory renames. + + * "git submodule update --recursive --other-flags" passes flags down + to its subinvocations. |