Update draft release notes to 1.7.2

[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 +4,133 @@ Git v1.7.2 Release Notes (draft)
 Updates since v1.7.1
 --------------------
 
 Updates since v1.7.1
 --------------------
 

+ * 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.
+
+ * "git" wrapper learned "-c name=value" option to override configuration
+   variable from the command line.
+

  * 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.
 
  * 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.
 

+ * 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 commit --amend" on a commit with an invalid author-name line that
+   lacks the display name didn't work (fb7749e4).
+
+ * "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 --color" did not paint extended diff headers per line
+   (i.e. the coloring escape sequence didn't end at the end of line),
+   which confused "less -R".
+
+ * "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.
+
+ * 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 ls-files ../out/side/cwd" works now.
+
+ * "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 status [-s] --ignored" can be used to list ignored paths.

 
 

- * 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.
+ * "git status -s -b" shows the current branch in the output.
+
+ * Various "gitweb" enhancements and clean-ups, including syntax
+   highlighting, "plackup" support for instaweb, 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 recognize timezone "Z" as a synonym for "UTC" (75b37e70).
+
+ * We didn't URL decode "file:///path/to/repo" correctly when path/to/repo
+   had percent-encoded characters (638794c, 9d2e942).
+
+ * "git checkout" and "git rebase" overwrote paths that are marked "assume
+   unchanged" (aecda37c).
+
+ * "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 (7223dcaf).
+
+ * "git clone" did not configure remote.origin.url correctly for bare
+   clones (df61c889).
+
+ * "git diff" used to tell underlying xdiff machinery to work very hard to
+   minimize the output, but this often was spending too many extra cycles
+   for very little gain (582aa00).
+
+ * "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 merge --log" used to replace the custom message given by "-m" with
+   the shortlog, instead of appending to it (tc/merge-m-log).
+
+ * "git pull" accepted "--dry-run", gave it to underlying "git fetch" but
+   ignored the option itself, resulting in a bogus attempt to merge
+   unrelated commit (29609e68).
+
+ * "git reset --hard" started from a wrong directory and a working tree in
+   a nonstandard location is in use got confused (560fb6a1).
+
+ * "git show -C -C" and other corner cases lost diff metainfo output
+   in 1.7.0 (296c6bb).
+

 --
 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=v1.7.1-423-gae391ec
+echo O=$(git describe HEAD)
+git shortlog --no-merges HEAD ^maint ^$O