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Git v1.7.12 Release Notes
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Updates since v1.7.11
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UI, Workflows & Features
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* Per-user $HOME/.gitconfig file can optionally be stored in
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$HOME/.config/git/config instead, which is in line with XDG.
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* The value of core.attributesfile and core.excludesfile default to
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$HOME/.config/attributes and $HOME/.config/ignore respectively when
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these files exist.
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* Scripted Porcelain writers now have access to the credential API via
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the "git credential" plumbing command.
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* "git help" used to always default to "man" format even on platforms
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where "man" viewer is not widely available.
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* "git clone --local $path" started its life as an experiment to
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optionally use link/copy when cloning a repository on the disk, but
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we didn't deprecate it after we made the option a no-op to always
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use the optimization. The command learned "--no-local" option to
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turn this off, as a more explicit alternative over use of file://
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URL.
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* "git fetch" and friends used to say "remote side hung up
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unexpectedly" when they failed to get response they expect from the
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other side, but one common reason why they don't get expected
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response is that the remote repository does not exist or cannot be
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read. The error message in this case was updated to give better
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hints to the user.
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* git native protocol agents learned to show software version over
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the wire, so that the server log can be examined to see the vintage
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distribution of clients.
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* "git help -w $cmd" can show HTML version of documentation for
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"git-$cmd" by setting help.htmlpath to somewhere other than the
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default location where the build procedure installs them locally;
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the variable can even point at a http:// URL.
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* "git rebase -i" learned "-x <cmd>" to insert "exec <cmd>" after
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each commit in the resulting history.
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* "git status" gives finer classification to various states of paths
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in conflicted state and offer advice messages in its output.
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* "git submodule" learned to deal with nested submodule structure
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where a module is contained within a module whose origin is
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specified as a relative URL to its superproject's origin.
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* A rather heavy-ish "git completion" script has been split to create
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a separate "git prompting" script, to help lazy-autoloading of the
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completion part while making prompting part always available.
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Foreign Interface
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Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. (please report possible regressions)
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* Some tests showed false failures caused by a bug in ecryptofs.
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* We no longer use AsciiDoc7 syntax in our documentation and favor a
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more modern style.
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* "git index-pack" and "git pack-objects" use streaming API to read
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from the object store to avoid having to hold a large blob object
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in-core while they are doing their thing.
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* Code to match paths with exclude patterns learned to avoid calling
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fnmatch() by comparing fixed leading substring literally when
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possible.
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Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.
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Fixes since v1.7.11
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-------------------
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Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.7.11 in the maintenance
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releases are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
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details).
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* We did not have test to make sure "git rebase" without extra options
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filters out an empty commit in the original history.
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(merge 2b5ba7b mz/empty-rebase-test later to maint).
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* "git fast-export" produced an input stream for fast-import without
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properly quoting pathnames when they contain SPs in them.
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(merge ff59f6d js/fast-export-paths-with-spaces later to maint).
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* "git checkout --detach", when you are still on an unborn branch,
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should be forbidden, but it wasn't.
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(merge 8ced1aa cw/no-detaching-an-unborn later to maint).
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* Some implementations of Perl terminates "lines" with CRLF even when
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the script is operating on just a sequence of bytes. Make sure to
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use "$PERL_PATH", the version of Perl the user told Git to use, in
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our tests to avoid unnecessary breakages in tests.
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(merge ad78585 vr/use-our-perl-in-tests later to maint).
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