| Git v1.7.1 Release Notes (draft) |
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| Updates since v1.7.0 |
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| * Some commands (e.g. svn and http interfaces) that interactively ask |
| password can be told to use an external program given via GIT_ASKPASS. |
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| * "git am" learned "--keep-cr" option to handle inputs that are |
| mixture of changes to files with and without CRLF line endings. |
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| * "git cvsimport" learned -R option to leave revision mapping between |
| CVS revisions and resulting git commits. |
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| * "git diff --submodule" notices and descries dirty submodules. |
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| * "git for-each-ref" learned %(symref), %(symref:short) and %(flag) |
| tokens. |
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| * "git hash-object --stdin-paths" can take "--no-filters" option now. |
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| * "git init" can be told to look at init.templatedir configuration |
| variable (obviously that has to come from either /etc/gitconfig or |
| $HOME/.gitconfig). |
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| * "git grep" learned "--no-index" option, to search inside contents that |
| are not managed by git. |
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| * "git grep" learned --color=auto/always/never. |
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| * "git grep" learned to paint filename and line-number in colors. |
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| * "git log -p --first-parent -m" shows one-parent diff for merge |
| commits, instead of showing combined diff. |
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| * "git merge-file" learned to use custom conflict marker size and also use |
| the "union merge" behaviour. |
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| * "git notes" command has been rewritten in C and learned quite a |
| many commands and features to help you carry notes forward across |
| rebases and amends. |
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| * "git request-pull" identifies the commit the request is relative to in |
| a more readable way. |
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| * "git reset" learned "--keep" option that lets you discard commits |
| near the tip while preserving your local changes in a way similar |
| to how "git checkout branch" does. |
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| * "git status" notices and descries dirty submodules. |
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| * "git svn" should work better when interacting with repositories |
| with CRLF line endings. |
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| * "git imap-send" learned to support CRAM-MD5 authentication. |
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| Fixes since v1.7.0 |
| ------------------ |
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| All of the fixes in v1.7.0.X maintenance series are included in this |
| release, unless otherwise noted. |
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| * "git add frotz/nitfol" did not complain when the entire frotz/ directory |
| was ignored. |
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| --- |
| exec >/var/tmp/1 |
| echo O=$(git describe) |
| O=v1.7.0.3-310-g99f5b08 |
| git shortlog --no-merges ^maint $O.. |
