@@ -14,13 +14,29 @@ Updates since v1.7.5
1414 * Clean-up of the C part of i18n (but not l10n---please wait)
1515 continues.
1616
17+ * The scripting part of the codebase is getting prepared for i18n/l10n.
18+
1719 * Processes spawned by "[alias] <name> = !process" in the configuration
1820 can inspect GIT_PREFIX environment variable to learn where in the
1921 working tree the original command was invoked.
2022
23+ * A magic pathspec ":/" tells a command that limits its operation to
24+ the current directory when ran from a subdirectory to work on the
25+ entire working tree. In general, ":/path/to/file" would be relative
26+ to the root of the working tree hierarchy.
27+
28+ After "git reset --hard; edit Makefile; cd t/", "git add -u" would
29+ be a no-op, but "git add -u :/" would add the updated contents of
30+ the Makefile at the top level. If you want to name a path in the
31+ current subdirectory whose unusual name begins with ":/", you can
32+ name it by "./:/that/path" or by "\:/that/path".
33+
2134 * "git blame" learned "--abbrev[=<n>]" option to control the minimum
2235 number of hexdigits shown for commit object names.
2336
37+ * "git blame" learned "--line-porcelain" that is less efficient but is
38+ easier to parse.
39+
2440 * Aborting "git commit --interactive" discards updates to the index
2541 made during the interctive session.
2642
@@ -50,6 +66,9 @@ Updates since v1.7.5
5066 "--show-notes" option. Unlike "--show-notes", "--notes=<ref>" does
5167 not imply showing the default notes.
5268
69+ * "git ls-remote" learned "--exit-code" option to consider it a
70+ different kind of error when no remote ref to be shown.
71+
5372 * "git merge" learned "-" as a short-hand for "the previous branch", just
5473 like the way "git checkout -" works.
5574
@@ -101,12 +120,21 @@ included in this release.
101120 miscounted the length of the name it formatted.
102121 (merge rg/copy-gecos-username later)
103122
123+ * The single-key mode of "git add -p" was easily fooled into thinking
124+ that it was told to add everthing ('a') when up-arrow was pressed by
125+ mistake.
126+ (merge tr/add-i-no-escape later)
127+
104128 * "git cherry-pick -s resolve" failed to cherry-pick a root commit.
105129 (merge jk/cherry-pick-root-with-resolve later)
106130
107131 * "git config" used to choke with an insanely long line.
108132 (merge ef/maint-strbuf-init later)
109133
134+ * "git diff --word-diff" misbehaved when diff.suppress-blank-empty was
135+ in effect.
136+ (merge jm/maint-diff-words-with-sbe later)
137+
110138 * "git log --stdin path" with an input that has additional pathspec
111139 used to corrupt memory.
112140 (merge jc/maint-pathspec-stdin-and-cmdline later)
@@ -119,5 +147,5 @@ included in this release.
119147---
120148exec >/var/tmp/1
121149echo O=$(git describe master)
122- O=v1.7.5.1-339-g254fd97
150+ O=v1.7.5.2-352-g4961210
123151git shortlog --no-merges ^maint ^$O master
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