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Git v1.7.8 Release Notes
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Updates since v1.7.7
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* Some git-svn, git-gui, git-p4 (in contrib) and msysgit updates.
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* Updates to bash completion scripts.
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* The build procedure has been taught to take advantage of computed
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dependency automatically when the compiler supports it.
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* The date parser now accepts timezone designators that lack minutes
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part and also has a colon between "hh:mm".
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* The contents of the /etc/mailname file, if exists, is used as the
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default value of the hostname part of the committer/author e-mail.
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* "git am" learned how to read from patches generated by Hg.
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* "git archive" talking with a remote repository can report errors
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from the remote side in a more informative way.
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* "git branch" learned an explicit --list option to ask for branches
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listed, optionally with a glob matching pattern to limit its output.
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* "git check-attr" learned "--cached" option to look at .gitattributes
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files from the index, not from the working tree.
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* Variants of "git cherry-pick" and "git revert" that take multiple
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commits learned to "--continue" and "--abort".
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* "git daemon" gives more human readable error messages to clients
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using ERR packets when appropriate.
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* Errors at the network layer is logged by "git daemon".
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* "git diff" learned "--minimal" option to spend extra cycles to come
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up with a minimal patch output.
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* "git diff" learned "--function-context" option to show the whole
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function as context that was affected by a change.
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* "git difftool" can be told to skip launching the tool for a path by
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answering 'n' to its prompt.
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* "git fetch" learned to honor transfer.fsckobjects configuration to
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validate the objects that were received from the other end, just like
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"git receive-pack" (the receiving end of "git push") does.
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* "git fetch" makes sure that the set of objects it received from the
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other end actually completes the history before updating the refs.
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"git receive-pack" (the receiving end of "git push") learned to do the
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same.
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* "git fetch" learned that fetching/cloning from a regular file on the
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filesystem is not necessarily a request to unpack a bundle file; the
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file could be ".git" with "gitdir: <path>" in it.
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* "git for-each-ref" learned "%(contents:subject)", "%(contents:body)"
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and "%(contents:signature)". The last one is useful for signed tags.
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* "git grep" used to incorrectly pay attention to .gitignore files
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scattered in the directory it was working in even when "--no-index"
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option was used. It no longer does this. The "--exclude-standard"
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option needs to be given to explicitly activate the ignore
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mechanism.
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* "git grep" learned "--untracked" option, where given patterns are
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searched in untracked (but not ignored) files as well as tracked
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files in the working tree, so that matches in new but not yet
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added files do not get missed.
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* The recursive merge backend no longer looks for meaningless
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existing merges in submodules unless in the outermost merge.
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* "git log" and friends learned "--children" option.
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* "git ls-remote" learned to respond to "-h"(elp) requests.
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* "mediawiki" remote helper can interact with (surprise!) MediaWiki
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with "git fetch" & "git push".
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* "git merge" learned the "--edit" option to allow users to edit the
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merge commit log message.
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* "git rebase -i" can be told to use special purpose editor suitable
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only for its insn sheet via sequence.editor configuration variable.
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* "git send-email" learned to respond to "-h"(elp) requests.
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* "git send-email" allows the value given to sendemail.aliasfile to begin
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with "~/" to refer to the $HOME directory.
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* "git send-email" forces use of Authen::SASL::Perl to work around
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issues between Authen::SASL::Cyrus and AUTH PLAIN/LOGIN.
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* "git stash" learned "--include-untracked" option to stash away
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untracked/ignored cruft from the working tree.
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* "git submodule clone" does not leak an error message to the UI
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level unnecessarily anymore.
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* "git submodule update" learned to honor "none" as the value for
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submodule.<name>.update to specify that the named submodule should
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not be checked out by default.
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* When populating a new submodule directory with "git submodule init",
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the $GIT_DIR metainformation directory for submodules is created inside
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$GIT_DIR/modules/<name>/ directory of the superproject and referenced
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via the gitfile mechanism. This is to make it possible to switch
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between commits in the superproject that has and does not have the
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submodule in the tree without re-cloning.
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* "gitweb" leaked unescaped control characters from syntax hiliter
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outputs.
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* "gitweb" can be told to give custom string at the end of the HTML
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HEAD element.
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* "gitweb" now has its own manual pages.
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Also contains other documentation updates and minor code cleanups.
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Fixes since v1.7.7
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Unless otherwise noted, all fixes in the 1.7.7.X maintenance track are
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included in this release.
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* HTTP transport did not use pushurl correctly, and also did not tell
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what host it is trying to authenticate with when asking for
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credentials.
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(merge deba493 jk/http-auth later to maint).
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* "git blame" was aborted if started from an uncommitted content and
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the path had the textconv filter in effect.
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(merge 8518088 ss/blame-textconv-fake-working-tree later to maint).
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* Adding many refs to the local repository in one go (e.g. "git fetch"
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that fetches many tags) and looking up a ref by name in a repository
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with too many refs were unnecessarily slow.
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(merge 17d68a54d jp/get-ref-dir-unsorted later to maint).
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* Report from "git commit" on untracked files was confused under
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core.ignorecase option.
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(merge 395c7356 jk/name-hash-dirent later to maint).
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* "git merge" did not understand ":/<pattern>" as a way to name a commit.
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" "git push" on the receiving end used to call post-receive and post-update
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hooks for attempted removal of non-existing refs.
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(merge 160b81ed ph/push-to-delete-nothing later to maint).
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* Help text for "git remote set-url" and "git remote set-branches"
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were misspelled.
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(merge c49904e fc/remote-seturl-usage-fix later to maint).
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(merge 656cdf0 jc/remote-setbranches-usage-fix later to maint).
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