@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Git v1.7.8 Release Notes (draft)
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Updates since v1.7.7
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- * Some git-svn, git-gui and msysgit updates.
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+ * Some git-svn, git-gui, git-p4 (in contrib) and msysgit updates.
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* Updates to bash completion scripts.
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@@ -31,6 +31,9 @@ Updates since v1.7.7
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* Variants of "git cherry-pick" and "git revert" that take multiple
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commits learned to "--continue".
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+ * "git daemon" gives more human readble error messages to clients
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+ using ERR packets when appropriate.
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* Errors at the network layer is logged by "git daemon".
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* "git diff" learned "--minimal" option to spend extra cycles to come
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* "git diff" learned "--function-context" option to show the whole
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function as context that was affected by a change.
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+ * "git difftool" can be told to skip launching the tool for a path by
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+ answering 'n' to its prompt.
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* "git fetch" learned to honor transfer.fsckobjects configuration to
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validate the objects that were received from the other end, just like
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"git receive-pack" (the receiving end of "git push") does.
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"git receive-pack" (the receiving end of "git push") learned to do the
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same.
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+ * "git fetch" learned that fetching/cloning from a regular file on the
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+ filesystem is not necessarily a request to unpack a bundle file; the
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+ file could be ".git" with "gitdir: <path>" in it.
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* "git for-each-ref" learned "%(contents:subject)", "%(contents:body)"
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and "%(contents:signature)". The last one is useful for signed tags.
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* "git merge" learned the "--edit" option to allow users to edit the
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merge commit log message.
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+ * "git rebase -i" can be told to use special purpose editor suitable
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+ only for its insn sheet via sequence.editor configuration variable.
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* "git send-email" learned to respond to "-h"(elp) requests.
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* "git send-email" allows the value given to sendemail.aliasfile to begin
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credentials.
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(merge deba493 jk/http-auth later to maint).
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+ * "git branch -m/-M" advertised to update RENAME_REF ref in the
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+ commit log message that introduced the feature but not anywhere in
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+ the documentation, and never did update such a ref anyway. This
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+ undocumented misfeature that did not exist has been excised.
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+ (merge b0eab01 jc/maint-remove-renamed-ref later to maint).
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* Adding many refs to the local repository in one go (e.g. "git fetch"
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that fetches many tags) and looking up a ref by name in a repository
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with too many refs were unnecessarily slow.
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exec >/var/tmp/1
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- O=v1.7.7-418-g40d6987
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+ O=v1.7.7-485-g9ee3d37
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echo O=$(git describe --always master)
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git log --first-parent --oneline --reverse ^$O master
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echo
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