| Git v1.7.1 Release Notes |
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| Updates since v1.7.0 |
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| * Eric Raymond is the maintainer of updated CIAbot scripts, in contrib/. |
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| * gitk updates. |
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| * Some commands (e.g. svn and http interfaces) that interactively ask |
| for a password can be told to use an external program given via |
| GIT_ASKPASS. |
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| * Conflict markers that lead the common ancestor in diff3-style output |
| now have a label, which hopefully would help third-party tools that |
| expect one. |
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| * Comes with an updated bash-completion script. |
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| * "git am" learned "--keep-cr" option to handle inputs that are |
| a mixture of changes to files with and without CRLF line endings. |
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| * "git cvsimport" learned -R option to leave revision mapping between |
| CVS revisions and resulting git commits. |
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| * "git diff --submodule" notices and describes dirty submodules. |
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| * "git for-each-ref" learned %(symref), %(symref:short) and %(flag) |
| tokens. |
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| * "git hash-object --stdin-paths" can take "--no-filters" option now. |
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| * "git init" can be told to look at init.templatedir configuration |
| variable (obviously that has to come from either /etc/gitconfig or |
| $HOME/.gitconfig). |
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| * "git grep" learned "--no-index" option, to search inside contents that |
| are not managed by git. |
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| * "git grep" learned --color=auto/always/never. |
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| * "git grep" learned to paint filename and line-number in colors. |
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| * "git log -p --first-parent -m" shows one-parent diff for merge |
| commits, instead of showing combined diff. |
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| * "git merge-file" learned to use custom conflict marker size and also |
| to use the "union merge" behaviour. |
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| * "git notes" command has been rewritten in C and learned many commands |
| and features to help you carry notes forward across rebases and amends. |
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| * "git request-pull" identifies the commit the request is relative to in |
| a more readable way. |
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| * "git reset" learned "--keep" option that lets you discard commits |
| near the tip while preserving your local changes in a way similar |
| to how "git checkout branch" does. |
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| * "git status" notices and describes dirty submodules. |
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| * "git svn" should work better when interacting with repositories |
| with CRLF line endings. |
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| * "git imap-send" learned to support CRAM-MD5 authentication. |
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| * "gitweb" installation procedure can use "minified" js/css files |
| better. |
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| * Various documentation updates. |
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| Fixes since v1.7.0 |
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| All of the fixes in v1.7.0.X maintenance series are included in this |
| release, unless otherwise noted. |
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| * "git add frotz/nitfol" did not complain when the entire frotz/ directory |
| was ignored. |
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| * "git diff --stat" used "int" to count the size of differences, |
| which could result in overflowing. |
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| * "git rev-list --pretty=oneline" didn't terminate a record with LF for |
| commits without any message. |
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| * "git rev-list --abbrev-commit" defaulted to 40-byte abbreviations, unlike |
| newer tools in the git toolset. |
