Merge branch 'pb/maint-perl-errmsg-no-dir'

[git.git] / Documentation / RelNotes-1.7.2.txt

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--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.2.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.2.txt
@@ -4,37 +4,141 @@ Git v1.7.2 Release Notes (draft)
 Updates since v1.7.1
 --------------------
 
 Updates since v1.7.1
 --------------------
 

- * After "git apply --whitespace=fix" removed trailing blank lines in an
-   patch in a patch series, it failed to apply later patches that depend
-   on the presense of such blank lines.
+ * 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 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"); 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.
 
 
  * The output from the textconv filter used by "git diff" can be cached to
    speed up their reuse.
 

- * "git send-email" learned --smtp-domain option to specify the domainname
-   used in the EHLO/HELO exchange.
+ * "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 help -w" learned "chrome" and "chromium" browsers.
+
+ * "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 revert" learned --strategy option to specify the merge strategy.
 

- * 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.
+ * "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 status [-s] --ignored" can be used to list ignored paths.
+
+ * "git status -s -b" shows the current branch in the output.

 
 

- * Authentication over http transport can now be made lazily, in that the
-   request can first go to a URL without username, get a 401 response and
-   then the client will ask for the username to use.
+ * 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
 ------------------
 
 
 
 Fixes since v1.7.1
 ------------------
 

- * In 1.7.1, "git status" stopped refreshing the index by mistake.
-

 All of the fixes in v1.7.1.X maintenance series are included in this
 release, unless otherwise noted.
 
 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 reset --hard" started from a wrong directory and a working tree in
+   a nonstandard location is in use got confused (560fb6a1).
+

 --
 exec >/var/tmp/1
 --
 exec >/var/tmp/1

-O=v1.7.1-77-gb751157
-echo O=$(git describe master)
-git shortlog --no-merges master ^maint ^$O
+O=v1.7.1-568-g2c177a1
+echo O=$(git describe HEAD)
+git shortlog --no-merges HEAD ^maint ^$O