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Git v1.7.9 Release Notes
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Updates since v1.7.8
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* gitk updates accumulated since early 2011.
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* git-gui updated to 0.16.0.
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* git-p4 (in contrib/) updates.
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* Git uses gettext to translate its most common interface messages
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into the user's language if translations are available and the
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locale is appropriately set. Distributors can drop new PO files
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in po/ to add new translations.
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* The code to handle username/password for HTTP transactions used in
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"git push" & "git fetch" learned to talk "credential API" to
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external programs to cache or store them, to allow integration with
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platform native keychain mechanisms.
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* The input prompts in the terminal use our own getpass() replacement
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when possible. HTTP transactions used to ask for the username without
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echoing back what was typed, but with this change you will see it as
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you type.
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* The internals of "revert/cherry-pick" have been tweaked to prepare
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building more generic "sequencer" on top of the implementation that
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drives them.
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* "git rev-parse FETCH_HEAD" after "git fetch" without specifying
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what to fetch from the command line will now show the commit that
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would be merged if the command were "git pull".
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* "git add" learned to stream large files directly into a packfile
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instead of writing them into individual loose object files.
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* "git checkout -B <current branch> <elsewhere>" is a more intuitive
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way to spell "git reset --keep <elsewhere>".
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* "git checkout" and "git merge" learned "--no-overwrite-ignore" option
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to tell Git that untracked and ignored files are not expendable.
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* "git commit --amend" learned "--no-edit" option to say that the
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user is amending the tree being recorded, without updating the
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commit log message.
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* "git commit" and "git reset" re-learned the optimization to prime
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the cache-tree information in the index, which makes it faster to
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write a tree object out after the index entries are updated.
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* "git commit" detects and rejects an attempt to stuff NUL byte in
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the commit log message.
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* "git commit" learned "-S" to GPG-sign the commit; this can be shown
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with the "--show-signature" option to "git log".
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* fsck and prune are relatively lengthy operations that still go
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silent while making the end-user wait. They learned to give progress
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output like other slow operations.
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* The set of built-in function-header patterns for various languages
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knows MATLAB.
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* "git log --format='<format>'" learned new %g[nNeE] specifiers to
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show information from the reflog entries when walking the reflog
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(i.e. with "-g").
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* "git pull" can be used to fetch and merge an annotated/signed tag,
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instead of the tip of a topic branch. The GPG signature from the
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signed tag is recorded in the resulting merge commit for later
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auditing.
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* "git log" learned "--show-signature" option to show the signed tag
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that was merged that is embedded in the merge commit. It also can
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show the signature made on the commit with "git commit -S".
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* "git branch --edit-description" can be used to add descriptive text
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to explain what a topic branch is about.
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* "git fmt-merge-msg" learned to take the branch description into
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account when preparing a merge summary that "git merge" records
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when merging a local branch.
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* "git request-pull" has been updated to convey more information
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useful for integrators to decide if a topic is worth merging and
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what is pulled is indeed what the requestor asked to pull,
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including:
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- the tip of the branch being requested to be merged;
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- the branch description describing what the topic is about;
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- the contents of the annotated tag, when requesting to pull a tag.
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* "git pull" learned to notice 'pull.rebase' configuration variable,
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which serves as a global fallback for setting 'branch.<name>.rebase'
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configuration variable per branch.
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* "git tag" learned "--cleanup" option to control how the whitespaces
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and empty lines in tag message are cleaned up.
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* "gitweb" learned to show side-by-side diff.
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Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.
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Fixes since v1.7.8
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Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.7.8 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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