| Git v1.7.4 Release Notes (draft) |
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| Updates since v1.7.3 |
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| * The option parsers of various commands that create new branch (or |
| rename existing ones to a new name) were too loose and users were |
| allowed to call a branch with a name that begins with a dash by |
| creative abuse of their command line options, which only lead to |
| burn themselves. The name of a branch cannot begin with a dash |
| now. |
| |
| * System-wide fallback default attributes can be stored in |
| /etc/gitattributes; core.attributesfile configuration variable can |
| be used to customize the path to this file. |
| |
| * "git diff" and "git grep" learned how functions and subroutines |
| in Fortran look like. |
| |
| * "git log -G<pattern>" limits the output to commits whose change has |
| added or deleted lines that match the given pattern. |
| |
| * "git read-tree" with no argument as a way to empty the index is |
| deprecated; we might want to remove it in the future. Users can |
| use the new --empty option to be more explicit instead. |
| |
| * "git merge --log" used to limit the resulting merge log to 20 |
| entries; this is now customizable by giving e.g. "--log=47". |
| |
| * you can extend "git shell", which is often used on boxes that allow |
| git-only login over ssh as login shell, with custom set of |
| commands. |
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| Also contains various documentation updates. |
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| Fixes since v1.7.3 |
| ------------------ |
| |
| All of the fixes in v1.7.3.X maintenance series are included in this |
| release, unless otherwise noted. |
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| * "git log --author=me --author=her" did not find commits written by |
| me or by her; instead it looked for commits written by me and by |
| her, which is impossible. |
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| --- |
| exec >/var/tmp/1 |
| O=v1.7.3 |
| O=v1.7.3.1-42-g34289ec |
| echo O=$(git describe master) |
| git shortlog --no-merges ^maint ^$O master |