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From: Junio C Hamano on 30 Jun 2010 20:20 A release candidate Git 1.7.2.rc1 is available at the usual places for testing: http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/ git-1.7.2.rc1.tar.{gz,bz2} (source tarball) git-htmldocs-1.7.2.rc1.tar.{gz,bz2} (preformatted docs) git-manpages-1.7.2.rc1.tar.{gz,bz2} (preformatted docs) The RPM binary packages for a few architectures are found in: testing/git-*-1.7.2.rc1-1.fc11.$arch.rpm (RPM) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Git v1.7.2 Release Notes (draft) ================================ Updates since v1.7.1 -------------------- * core.eol configuration and eol attribute are the new way to control the end of line conventions for files in the working tree; core.autocrlf overrides it, keeping the traditional behaviour by default. * The whitespace rules used in "git apply --whitespace" and "git diff" gained a new member in the family (tab-in-indent) to help projects with policy to indent only with spaces. * When working from a subdirectory, by default, git does not look for its metadirectory ".git" across filesystems, primarily to help people who have invocations of git in their custom PS1 prompts, as being outside of a git repository would look for ".git" all the way up to the root directory, and NFS mounts are often slow. DISCOVERY_ACROSS_FILESYSTEM environment variable can be used to tell git not to stop at a filesystem boundary. * Usage help messages generated by parse-options library (i.e. most of the Porcelain commands) are sent to the standard output now. * ':/<string>' notation to look for a commit now takes regular expression and it is not anchored at the beginning of the commit log message anymore (this is a backward incompatible change). * "git" wrapper learned "-c name=value" option to override configuration variable from the command line. * Improved portability for various platforms including older SunOS, HP-UX 10/11, AIX, Tru64, etc. and platforms with Python 2.4. * The message from "git am -3" has been improved when conflict resolution ended up making the patch a no-op. * "git blame" applies the textconv filter to the contents it works on, when available. * "git checkout --orphan newbranch" is similar to "-b newbranch" but prepares to create a root commit that is not connected to any existing commit. * "git cherry-pick" learned to pick a range of commits (e.g. "cherry-pick A..B" and "cherry-pick --stdin"); this does not have nicer sequencing control "rebase [-i]" has, though. * "git cvsserver" can be told to use pserver; its password file can be stored outside the repository. * The output from the textconv filter used by "git diff" can be cached to speed up their reuse. * "git diff --word-diff=<mode>" extends the existing "--color-words" option, making it more useful in color-challenged environments. * The regexp to detect function headers used by "git diff" for PHP has been enhanced for visibility modifiers (public, protected, etc.) to better support PHP5. * "diff.noprefix" configuration variable can be used to implicitly ask for "diff --no-prefix" behaviour. * "git for-each-ref" learned "%(objectname:short)" that gives the object name abbreviated. * "git format-patch" learned --signature option and format.signature configuration variable to customize the e-mail signature used in the output. * Various options to "git grep" (e.g. --count, --name-only) work better with binary files. * "git grep" learned "-Ovi" to open the files with hits in yoru editor. * "git help -w" learned "chrome" and "chromium" browsers. * "git log --decorate" shows commit decorations in various colours. * "git log --follow <path>" follows across copies (it used to only follow renames). This may make the processing more expensive. * "git log --pretty=format:<template>" specifier learned "% <something>" magic that inserts a space only when %<something> expands to a non-empty string; this is similar to "%+<something>" magic, but is useful in a context to generate a single line output. * "git notes prune" learned "-n" (dry-run) and "-v" options, similar to what "git prune" has. * "git patch-id" can be fed a mbox without getting confused by the signature line in the format-patch output. * "git remote" learned "set-branches" subcommand. * "git revert" learned --strategy option to specify the merge strategy. * "git rev-list A..B" learned --ancestry-path option to further limit the result to the commits that are on the ancestry chain between A and B (i.e. commits that are not descendants of A are excluded). * "git show -5" is equivalent to "git show --do-walk 5"; this is similar to the update to make "git show master..next" walk the history, introduced in 1.6.4. * "git status [-s] --ignored" can be used to list ignored paths. * "git status -s -b" shows the current branch in the output. * "git status" learned "--ignore-submodules" option. * Various "gitweb" enhancements and clean-ups, including syntax highlighting, "plackup" support for instaweb, .fcgi suffix to run it as FastCGI script, etc. Fixes since v1.7.1 ------------------ All of the fixes in v1.7.1.X maintenance series are included in this release, unless otherwise noted. * We didn't URL decode "file:///path/to/repo" correctly when path/to/repo had percent-encoded characters (638794c, 9d2e942). * "git commit" did not honor GIT_REFLOG_ACTION environment variable, resulting reflog messages for cherry-pick and revert actions to be recorded as "commit". * "git clone/fetch/pull" issued an incorrect error message when a ref and a symref that points to the ref were updated at the same time. This obviously would update them to the same value, and should not result in an error condition (0e71bc3). * "git clone" did not configure remote.origin.url correctly for bare clones (df61c889). * "git diff" inside a tree with many pathnames that have certain characters has become very slow in 1.7.0 by mistake (will merge e53e6b443 to 'maint'). * "git diff --graph" works better with "--color-words" and other options (81fa024..4297c0a). * "git diff" could show ambiguous abbreviation of blob object names on its "index" line (3e5a188). * "git rebase" did not faithfully reproduce a malformed author ident, that is often seen in a repository converted from foreign SCMs (43c23251). * "git reset --hard" started from a wrong directory and a working tree in a nonstandard location is in use got confused (560fb6a1). ---------------------------------------------------------------- Changes since v1.7.2-rc0 are as follows: Andrew Sayers (2): bash-completion: Fix __git_ps1 to work with "set -u" bash completion: Support "divergence from upstream" messages in __git_ps1 Brandon Casey (4): t/lib-pager.sh: remove unnecessary '^' from 'expr' regular expression t/t7811-grep-open.sh: ensure fake "less" is made executable t/t7811-grep-open.sh: remove broken/redundant creation of fake "less" script t/t9001: use egrep when regular expressions are involved Brian Gernhardt (1): t4027,4041: Use test -s to test for an empty file Christian Couder (1): revert: accept arbitrary rev-list options Jeff King (1): notes: check number of parameters to "git notes copy" Jens Lehmann (4): git diff: rename test that had a conflicting name Add optional parameters to the diff option "--ignore-submodules" git submodule: ignore dirty submodules for summary and status Add the option "--ignore-submodules" to "git status" Johannes Schindelin (3): Unify code paths of threaded greps grep: Add the option '--open-files-in-pager' grep -O: allow optional argument specifying the pager (or editor) Jonathan Nieder (3): grep: refactor grep_objects loop into its own function t3508 (cherry-pick): futureproof against unmerged files revert: do not rebuild argv on heap Julian Phillips (6): string_list: Fix argument order for print_string_list string_list: Fix argument order for for_each_string_list string_list: Fix argument order for string_list_insert string_list: Fix argument order for string_list_insert_at_index string_list: Fix argument order for string_list_lookup string_list: Fix argument order for string_list_append Junio C Hamano (5): url_decode: URL scheme ends with a colon and does not require a slash Update draft release notes to 1.7.1.1 Git 1.7.1.1 git.spec.in: Add gitweb subpackage Git 1.7.2-rc1 Michael J Gruber (4): t6018: add tests for rev-list's --branches and --tags t6018: make sure all tested symbolic names are different revs git-rev-parse.txt: Document ":path" specifier git-rev-parse.txt: Add more examples for caret and colon Nazri Ramliy (5): commit.h: add 'type' to struct name_decoration log-tree.c: Use struct name_decoration's type for classifying decoration log --decorate: Colorize commit decorations Allow customizable commit decorations colors Add test for correct coloring of git log --decoration Ramsay Allan Jones (2): msvc: Select the "fast" definition of the {get,put}_be32() macros notes: Initialise variable to appease gcc Thomas Rast (1): rev-list: introduce --count option -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo(a)vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ |