@@ -9,9 +9,16 @@ Updates since v1.7.5
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* Clean-up of the C part of i18n (but not l10n---please wait)
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continues.
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+ * Processes spawned by "[alias] <name> = !process" in the configuration
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+ can inspect GIT_PREFIX environment variable to learn where in the
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+ working tree the original command was invoked.
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* "git blame" learned "--abbrev[=<n>]" option to control the minimum
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number of hexdigits shown for commit object names.
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+ * "git cvsimport" learned that CVSNT stores its password file in a
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+ location different from the traditional CVS.
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+
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* "git diff -C -C" used to disable the rename detection entirely when
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there are too many copy candidate paths in the tree; now it falls
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back to "-C" when doing so would keep the copy candidate paths
@@ -20,13 +27,20 @@ Updates since v1.7.5
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* "git format-patch" learned "--quiet" option to suppress the output of
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the names of generated files.
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+ * "git format-patch" quotes people's names when it has RFC822 special
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+ characters in it, e.g. "Junio C. Hamano" <
[email protected] >. Earlier
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+ it was up to the user to do this when using its output.
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* "git log" and friends learned a new "--notes" option to replace the
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"--show-notes" option. Unlike "--show-notes", "--notes=<ref>" does
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not imply showing the default notes.
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* "git merge" learned "-" as a short-hand for "the previous branch", just
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like the way "git checkout -" works.
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+ * "git merge-one-file" learned to honor GIT_WORK_TREE settings when
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+ handling "both sides added, differently" conflict.
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* "git rev-list --count" used with "--cherry-mark" counts the cherry-picked
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commits separately, producing more a useful output.
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@@ -37,7 +51,11 @@ Updates since v1.7.5
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the tarball generation; snapshot from the same tree should result in
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a same tarball.
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- Also contains various documentation updates.
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+ * "git-p4" (in contrib) learned to merge a file that was added on both
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+ branches differently by using 2-way merge.
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+ Also contains various documentation updates and minor miscellaneous
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+ changes.
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Fixes since v1.7.5
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* "git config" used to choke with an insanely long line.
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(merge ef/maint-strbuf-init later)
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- * "diff -M --cached" used to use unmerged path as a possible rename
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+ * "git diff-files" did not show the mode information from the working
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+ tree side of an unmerged path correctly.
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+ (merge jc/fix-diff-files-unmerged later)
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+ * "git diff -M --cached" used to use unmerged path as a possible rename
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source candidate, which made no sense.
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(merge mz/maint-rename-unmerged later)
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@@ -65,6 +87,10 @@ included in this release.
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* "git mergetool" did not handle conflicted submoudules gracefully.
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(merge jm/mergetool-submodules later)
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+ * "git rebase -i -p" failed to preserve the history when there is a
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+ redundant merge created with the --no-ff option.
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+ (merge aw/maint-rebase-i-p-no-ff later)
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* "git stash -p --no-keep-index" and "git stash --no-keep-index -p" now
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mean the same thing.
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(merge dm/stash-k-i-p later)
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---
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exec >/var/tmp/1
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echo O=$(git describe master)
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- O=v1.7.5-184-g23f536c
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+ O=v1.7.5.1-216-g3970fc5
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git shortlog --no-merges ^maint ^$O master
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