X-Git-Url: https://asedeno.scripts.mit.edu/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2FRelNotes-1.7.2.txt;h=f24b3876af6e2edbfdd7e8af2eff445fb8e6f85d;hb=a7d7853463ae77fc3c8511283f5c896bee673b33;hp=37781b4f149a0af5a1c61a538ac320879f4470f2;hpb=cde3eadad2fcacc90792a31d0c2ed6890f373e63;p=git.git diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.2.txt index 37781b4f1..f24b3876a 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.2.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.2.txt @@ -4,37 +4,152 @@ Git v1.7.2 Release Notes (draft) 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 text/eol attributes are the new way to control + the end of line conventions for files in the working tree. + + * core.autocrlf has been made safer - it will now only handle line + endings for new files and files that are LF-only in the + repository. To normalize content that has been checked in with + CRLF, use the new eol/text attributes. + + * 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. + + * ':/' 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"), so did "git + revert"; these do not support the nicer sequencing control "rebase + [-i]" has, though. + + * "git cherry-pick" and "git revert" learned --strategy option to specify + the merge strategy to be used when performing three-way merges. + + * "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=" extends the existing "--color-words" + option, making it more useful in color-challenged environments. - * "git revert" learned --strategy option to specify the merge strategy. + * 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. - * 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. + * "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. - * 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 grep" learned "-Ovi" to open the files with hits in your editor. + + * "git help -w" learned "chrome" and "chromium" browsers. + + * "git log --decorate" shows commit decorations in various colours. + + * "git log --follow " follows across copies (it used to only follow + renames). This may make the processing more expensive. + + * "git log --pretty=format: