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.
+ * 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.
+
+ * 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.
- * "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.
+
+ * 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.
- * 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
------------------
- * 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.
+ * We didn't URL decode "file:///path/to/repo" correctly when path/to/repo
+ had percent-encoded characters (638794c, 9d2e942).
+
+ * "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 --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 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
-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
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