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Git v1.7.6 Release Notes
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Updates since v1.7.5
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* Various git-svn updates.
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* Updates the way content tags are handled in gitweb. Also adds
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a UI to choose common timezone for displaying the dates.
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* Similar to branch names, tagnames that begin with "-" are now
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disallowed.
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* Clean-up of the C part of i18n (but not l10n---please wait)
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continues.
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* The scripting part of the codebase is getting prepared for i18n/l10n.
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* Pushing and pulling from a repository with large number of refs that
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point to identical commits are optimized by not listing the same commit
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during the common ancestor negotiation exchange with the other side.
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* Adding a file larger than core.bigfilethreshold (defaults to 1/2 Gig)
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using "git add" will send the contents straight to a packfile without
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having to hold it and its compressed representation both at the same
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time in memory.
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* Processes spawned by "[alias] <name> = !process" in the configuration
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can inspect GIT_PREFIX environment variable to learn where in the
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working tree the original command was invoked.
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* A magic pathspec ":/" tells a command that limits its operation to
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the current directory when ran from a subdirectory to work on the
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entire working tree. In general, ":/path/to/file" would be relative
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to the root of the working tree hierarchy.
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After "git reset --hard; edit Makefile; cd t/", "git add -u" would
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be a no-op, but "git add -u :/" would add the updated contents of
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the Makefile at the top level. If you want to name a path in the
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current subdirectory whose unusual name begins with ":/", you can
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name it by "./:/that/path" or by "\:/that/path".
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* "git blame" learned "--abbrev[=<n>]" option to control the minimum
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number of hexdigits shown for commit object names.
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* "git blame" learned "--line-porcelain" that is less efficient but is
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easier to parse.
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* Aborting "git commit --interactive" discards updates to the index
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made during the interactive session.
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* "git commit" learned a "--patch" option to directly jump to the
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per-hunk selection UI of the interactive mode.
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* "git diff" and its family of commands learned --dirstat=0 to show
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directories that contribute less than 0.1% of changes.
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* "git diff" and its family of commands learned --dirstat=lines mode to
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assess damage to the directory based on number of lines in the patch
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output, not based on the similarity numbers.
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* "git format-patch" learned "--quiet" option to suppress the output of
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the names of generated files.
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* "git format-patch" quotes people's names when it has RFC822 special
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characters in it, e.g. "Junio C. Hamano" <jch@example.com>. Earlier
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it was up to the user to do this when using its output.
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* "git format-patch" can take an empty --subject-prefix now.
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* "git grep" learned the "-P" option to take pcre regular expressions.
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* "git log" and friends learned a new "--notes" option to replace the
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"--show-notes" option. Unlike "--show-notes", "--notes=<ref>" does
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not imply showing the default notes.
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* They also learned a log.abbrevCommit configuration variable to augment
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the --abbrev-commit command line option.
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* "git ls-remote" learned "--exit-code" option to consider it a
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different kind of error when no remote ref to be shown.
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* "git merge" learned "-" as a short-hand for "the previous branch", just
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like the way "git checkout -" works.
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* "git merge" uses "merge.ff" configuration variable to decide to always
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create a merge commit (i.e. --no-ff, aka merge.ff=no), refuse to create
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a merge commit (i.e. --ff-only, aka merge.ff=only). Setting merge.ff=yes
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(or not setting it at all) restores the default behaviour of allowing
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fast-forward to happen when possible.
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* p4-import (from contrib) learned a new option --preserve-user.
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* "git read-tree -m" learned "--dry-run" option that reports if a merge
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would fail without touching the index nor the working tree.
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* "git rebase" that does not specify on top of which branch to rebase
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the current branch now uses @{upstream} of the current branch.
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* "git rebase" finished either normally or with --abort did not
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update the reflog for HEAD to record the event to come back to
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where it started from.
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* "git remote add -t only-this-branch --mirror=fetch" is now allowed. Earlier
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a fetch-mode mirror meant mirror everything, but now it only means refs are
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not renamed.
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* "git rev-list --count" used with "--cherry-mark" counts the cherry-picked
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commits separately, producing more a useful output.
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* "git submodule update" learned "--force" option to get rid of local
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changes in submodules and replace them with the up-to-date version.
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* "git status" and friends ignore .gitmodules file while the file is
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still in a conflicted state during a merge, to avoid using information
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that is not final and possibly corrupt with conflict markers.
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Also contains various documentation updates and minor miscellaneous
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changes.
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Fixes since v1.7.5
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Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes in 1.7.5.X maintenance track are
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included in this release.
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* "git config" used to choke with an insanely long line.
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(merge ef/maint-strbuf-init later)
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* "git diff --quiet" did not work well with --diff-filter.
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(merge jk/diff-not-so-quick later)
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* "git status -z" did not default to --porcelain output format.
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(merge bc/maint-status-z-to-use-porcelain later)
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