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