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Git v1.7.4 Release Notes
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Updates since v1.7.3
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--------------------
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* The documentation Makefile now assumes by default asciidoc 8 and
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docbook-xsl >= 1.73. If you have older versions, you can set
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ASCIIDOC7 and ASCIIDOC_ROFF, respectively.
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* The option parsers of various commands that create new branches (or
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rename existing ones to a new name) were too loose and users were
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allowed to give a branch a name that begins with a dash by creative
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abuse of their command line options, which only led to burning
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themselves. The name of a branch cannot begin with a dash now.
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* System-wide fallback default attributes can be stored in
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/etc/gitattributes; the core.attributesfile configuration variable can
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be used to customize the path to this file.
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* The thread structure generated by "git send-email" has changed
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slightly. Setting the cover letter of the latest series as a reply
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to the cover letter of the previous series with --in-reply-to used
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to make the new cover letter and all the patches replies to the
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cover letter of the previous series; this has been changed to make
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the patches in the new series replies to the new cover letter.
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* The Bash completion script in contrib/ has been adjusted to be usable with
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Bash 4 (options with '=value' didn't complete). It has been also made
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usable with zsh.
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* Different pagers can be chosen depending on which subcommand is
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being run under the pager, using the "pager.<subcommand>" variable.
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* The hardcoded tab-width of 8 that is used in whitespace breakage checks is now
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configurable via the attributes mechanism.
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* Support of case insensitive filesystems (i.e. "core.ignorecase") has
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been improved. For example, the gitignore mechanism didn't pay attention
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to case insensitivity.
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* The <tree>:<path> syntax for naming a blob in a tree, and the :<path>
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syntax for naming a blob in the index (e.g. "master:Makefile",
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":hello.c") have been extended. You can start <path> with "./" to
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implicitly have the (sub)directory you are in prefixed to the
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lookup. Similarly, ":../Makefile" from a subdirectory would mean
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"the Makefile of the parent directory in the index".
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* "git blame" learned the --show-email option to display the e-mail
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addresses instead of the names of authors.
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* "git commit" learned the --fixup and --squash options to help later invocation
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of interactive rebase.
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* Command line options to "git cvsimport" whose names are in capital
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letters (-A, -M, -R and -S) can now be specified as the default in
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the .git/config file by their longer names (cvsimport.authorsFile,
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cvsimport.mergeRegex, cvsimport.trackRevisions, cvsimport.ignorePaths).
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* "git daemon" can be built in the MinGW environment.
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* "git daemon" can take more than one --listen option to listen to
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multiple addresses.
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* "git describe --exact-match" was optimized not to read commit
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objects unnecessarily.
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* "git diff" and "git grep" learned what functions and subroutines
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in Fortran, Pascal and Perl look like.
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* "git fetch" learned the "--recurse-submodules" option.
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* "git mergetool" tells vim/gvim to show a three-way diff by default
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(use vimdiff2/gvimdiff2 as the tool name for old behavior).
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* "git log -G<pattern>" limits the output to commits whose change has
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added or deleted lines that match the given pattern.
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* "git read-tree" with no argument as a way to empty the index is
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deprecated; we might want to remove it in the future. Users can
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use the new --empty option to be more explicit instead.
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* "git repack -f" does not spend cycles to recompress objects in the
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non-delta representation anymore (use -F if you really mean it
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e.g. after you changed the core.compression variable setting).
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* "git merge --log" used to limit the resulting merge log to 20
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entries; this is now customizable by giving e.g. "--log=47".
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* "git merge" may work better when all files were moved out of a
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directory in one branch while a new file is created in place of that
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directory in the other branch.
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* "git merge" learned the "--abort" option, synonymous to
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"git reset --merge" when a merge is in progress.
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* "git notes" learned the "merge" subcommand to merge notes refs.
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In addition to the default manual conflict resolution, there are
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also several notes merge strategies for automatically resolving
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notes merge conflicts.
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* "git rebase --autosquash" can use SHA-1 object names to name the
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commit which is to be fixed up (e.g. "fixup! e83c5163").
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* The default "recursive" merge strategy learned the --rename-threshold
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option to influence the rename detection, similar to the -M option
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of "git diff". From the "git merge" frontend, the "-X<strategy option>"
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interface, e.g. "git merge -Xrename-threshold=50% ...", can be used
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to trigger this.
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* The "recursive" strategy also learned to ignore various whitespace
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changes; the most notable is -Xignore-space-at-eol.
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* "git send-email" learned "--to-cmd", similar to "--cc-cmd", to read
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the recipient list from a command output.
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* "git send-email" learned to read and use "To:" from its input files.
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* you can extend "git shell", which is often used on boxes that allow
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git-only login over ssh as login shell, with a custom set of
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commands.
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* The current branch name in "git status" output can be colored differently
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from the generic header color by setting the "color.status.branch" variable.
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* "git submodule sync" updates metainformation for all submodules,
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not just the ones that have been checked out.
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* gitweb can use a custom 'highlight' command with its configuration file.
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* other gitweb updates.
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Also contains various documentation updates.
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Fixes since v1.7.3
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------------------
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All of the fixes in the v1.7.3.X maintenance series are included in this
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release, unless otherwise noted.
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* "git log --author=me --author=her" did not find commits written by
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me or by her; instead it looked for commits written by me and by
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her, which is impossible.
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* "git push --progress" shows progress indicators now.
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* "git rebase -i" showed a confusing error message when given a
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branch name that does not exist.
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* "git repack" places its temporary packs under $GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY/pack
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instead of $GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY/ to avoid cross directory renames.
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* "git submodule update --recursive --other-flags" passes flags down
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to its subinvocations.
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