X-Git-Url: https://asedeno.scripts.mit.edu/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2FRelNotes-1.7.2.txt;h=9f6a9042867b6fa8e34e457731875981c67d5e41;hb=6aa206413ad7755577cfe29b8ffd16082c211a07;hp=1df22be1269d7ccff01330523e4d805934f8bf59;hpb=2ad6b143536273335be6e21f1500513911ea7315;p=git.git diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.2.txt index 1df22be12..9f6a90428 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.2.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.2.txt @@ -4,6 +4,11 @@ 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. @@ -16,19 +21,29 @@ Updates since v1.7.1 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. + + * ':/' 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. - * 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. + * 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 commit --amend" on a commit with an invalid author-name line that - lacks the display name didn't work (fb7749e4). + * "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. @@ -36,10 +51,6 @@ Updates since v1.7.1 * The output from the textconv filter used by "git diff" can be cached to speed up their reuse. - * "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=" extends the existing "--color-words" option, making it more useful in color-challenged environments. @@ -47,27 +58,50 @@ Updates since v1.7.1 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 " follows across copies (it used to only follow renames). This may make the processing more expensive. + * "git log --pretty=format: