FYI, On Jul 21, Junio C Hamano wrote: > The latest feature release Git 1.7.2 is available at the usual > places: > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/ > > git-1.7.2.tar.{gz,bz2} (source tarball) > git-htmldocs-1.7.2.tar.{gz,bz2} (preformatted docs) > git-manpages-1.7.2.tar.{gz,bz2} (preformatted docs) > > The RPM binary packages for a few architectures are found in: > > RPMS/$arch/git-*-1.7.2-1.fc11.$arch.rpm (RPM) > > We have 500+ non-merge commits from 93 contributors, among which 28 are > new contributors, since the last release (1.7.1). Thanks everybody for > working hard to make git a better system ;-). > > > Git v1.7.2 Release Notes > ======================== > > Updates since v1.7.1 > -------------------- > > * 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. > > * ':/<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 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 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 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 <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 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 show -5" is equivalent to "git show --do-walk 5"; this is similar > to the update to make "git show master..next" walk the history, > introduced in 1.6.4. > > * "git status [-s] --ignored" can be used to list ignored paths. > > * "git status -s -b" shows the current branch in the output. > > * "git status" learned "--ignore-submodules" option. > > * Various "gitweb" enhancements and clean-ups, including syntax > highlighting, "plackup" support for instaweb, .fcgi suffix to run > it as FastCGI script, etc. > > * The test harness has been updated to produce TAP-friendly output. > > * Many documentation improvement patches are also included. > > > Fixes since v1.7.1 > ------------------ > > 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, ce83eda, 3c73a1d). > > * "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 reset --hard" started from a wrong directory and a working tree in > a nonstandard location is in use got confused (560fb6a1). > > * "git read-tree -m A B" used to switch to branch B while retaining > local changes added an incorrect cache-tree information (b1f47514).
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