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Git v1.7.11 Release Notes
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Updates since v1.7.10
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UI, Workflows & Features
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* A new mode for push, "simple", which is a cross between "current"
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and "upstream", has been introduced. "git push" without any refspec
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will push the current branch out to the same name at the remote
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repository only when it is set to track the branch with the same
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name over there. The plan is to make this mode the new default
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value when push.default is not configured.
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* A couple of commands learned the "--column" option to produce
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columnar output.
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* A third-party tool "git subtree" is distributed in contrib/
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* A remote helper that acts as a proxy and caches ssl session for the
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https:// transport is added to the contrib/ area.
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* Error messages given when @{u} is used for a branch without its
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upstream configured have been clarified.
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* Even with the "-q"uiet option, "checkout" used to report setting up
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tracking. Also "branch" learned the "-q"uiet option to squelch
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informational message.
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* Your build platform may support hardlinks but you may prefer not to
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use them, e.g. when installing to DESTDIR to make a tarball and
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untarring on a filesystem that has poor support for hardlinks.
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There is a Makefile option NO_INSTALL_HARDLINKS for you.
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* The smart-http backend used to always override GIT_COMMITTER_*
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variables with REMOTE_USER and REMOTE_ADDR, but these variables are
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now preserved when set.
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* "git am" learned the "--include" option, which is an opposite of
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existing the "--exclude" option.
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* When "git am -3" needs to fall back to an application of the patch
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to a synthesized preimage followed by a 3-way merge, the paths that
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needed such treatment are now reported to the end user, so that the
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result in them can be eyeballed with extra care.
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* The output from "diff/log --stat" used to always allocate 4 columns
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to show the number of modified lines, but not anymore.
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* "git difftool" learned the "--dir-diff" option to spawn external
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diff tools that can compare two directory hierarchies at a time
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after populating two temporary directories, instead of running an
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instance of the external tool once per a file pair.
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* The "fmt-merge-msg" command learned to list the primary contributors
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involved in the side topic you are merging in a comment in the merge
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commit template.
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* "git rebase" learned to optionally keep commits that do not
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introduce any change in the original history.
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* "git push --recurse-submodules" learned to optionally look into the
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histories of submodules bound to the superproject and push them
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out.
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* A 'snapshot' request to "gitweb" honors If-Modified-Since: header,
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based on the commit date.
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* "gitweb" learned to highlight the patch it outputs even more.
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Foreign Interface
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* "git svn" used to die with unwanted SIGPIPE when talking with an HTTP
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server that uses keep-alive.
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* "git svn" learned to use platform specific authentication
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providers, e.g. gnome-keyring, kwallet, etc.
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* "git p4" has been moved out of the contrib/ area and has seen more
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work on importing labels as tags from (and exporting tags as labels
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to) p4.
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Performance and Internal Implementation (please report possible regressions)
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* Bash completion script (in contrib/) have been cleaned up to make
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future work on it simpler.
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* An experimental "version 4" format of the index file has been
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introduced to reduce on-disk footprint and I/O overhead.
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* "git archive" learned to produce its output without reading the
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blob object it writes out in memory in its entirety.
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* "git index-pack" that runs when fetching or pushing objects to
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complete the packfile on the receiving end learned to use multiple
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threads to do its job when available.
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* The code to compute hash values for lines used by the internal diff
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engine was optimized on little-endian machines, using the same
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trick the kernel folks came up with.
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* "git apply" had some memory leaks plugged.
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* Setting up a revision traversal with many starting points was
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inefficient as these were placed in a date-order priority queue
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one-by-one. Now they are collected in the queue unordered first,
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and sorted immediately before getting used.
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* More lower-level commands learned to use the streaming API to read
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from the object store without keeping everything in core.
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* The weighting parameters to suggestion command name typo have been
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tweaked, so that "git tags" will suggest "tag?" and not "stage?".
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* Because "sh" on the user's PATH may be utterly broken on some
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systems, run-command API now uses SHELL_PATH, not /bin/sh, when
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spawning an external command (not applicable to Windows port).
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* The API to iterate over the refs/ hierarchy has been tweaked to
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allow walking only a subset of it more efficiently.
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Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.
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Fixes since v1.7.10
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-------------------
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Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.7.10 in the maintenance
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releases are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
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details).
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* "git submodule init" used to report "registered for path ..."
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even for submodules that were registered earlier.
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(cherry-pick c1c259e jl/submodule-report-new-path-once later to maint).
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* "git diff --stat" used to fully count a binary file with modified
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execution bits whose contents is unmodified, which was not quite
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right.
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