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| 1 | +Git v1.7.4 Release Notes (draft) |
| 2 | +================================ |
| 3 | + |
| 4 | +Updates since v1.7.3 |
| 5 | +-------------------- |
| 6 | + |
| 7 | + * The option parsers of various commands that create new branch (or |
| 8 | + rename existing ones to a new name) were too loose and users were |
| 9 | + allowed to call a branch with a name that begins with a dash by |
| 10 | + creative abuse of their command line options, which only lead to |
| 11 | + burn themselves. The name of a branch cannot begin with a dash |
| 12 | + now. |
| 13 | + |
| 14 | + * System-wide fallback default attributes can be stored in |
| 15 | + /etc/gitattributes; core.attributesfile configuration variable can |
| 16 | + be used to customize the path to this file. |
| 17 | + |
| 18 | + * "git diff" and "git grep" learned how functions and subroutines |
| 19 | + in Fortran look like. |
| 20 | + |
| 21 | + * "git log -G<pattern>" limits the output to commits whose change has |
| 22 | + added or deleted lines that match the given pattern. |
| 23 | + |
| 24 | + * "git read-tree" with no argument as a way to empty the index is |
| 25 | + deprecated; we might want to remove it in the future. Users can |
| 26 | + use the new --empty option to be more explicit instead. |
| 27 | + |
| 28 | + * "git merge --log" used to limit the resulting merge log to 20 |
| 29 | + entries; this is now customizable by giving e.g. "--log=47". |
| 30 | + |
| 31 | + * you can extend "git shell", which is often used on boxes that allow |
| 32 | + git-only login over ssh as login shell, with custom set of |
| 33 | + commands. |
| 34 | + |
| 35 | +Also contains various documentation updates. |
| 36 | + |
| 37 | + |
| 38 | +Fixes since v1.7.3 |
| 39 | +------------------ |
| 40 | + |
| 41 | +All of the fixes in v1.7.3.X maintenance series are included in this |
| 42 | +release, unless otherwise noted. |
| 43 | + |
| 44 | + * "git log --author=me --author=her" did not find commits written by |
| 45 | + me or by her; instead it looked for commits written by me and by |
| 46 | + her, which is impossible. |
| 47 | + |
| 48 | + |
| 49 | +--- |
| 50 | +exec >/var/tmp/1 |
| 51 | +O=v1.7.3 |
| 52 | +O=v1.7.3.1-42-g34289ec |
| 53 | +echo O=$(git describe master) |
| 54 | +git shortlog --no-merges ^maint ^$O master |
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