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@ -4,10 +4,13 @@ Git v1.7.2 Release Notes (draft) |
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Updates since v1.7.1 |
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Updates since v1.7.1 |
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* core.eol configuration and eol attribute are the new way to control |
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* core.eol configuration and text/eol attributes are the new way to control |
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the end of line conventions for files in the working tree; |
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the end of line conventions for files in the working tree. |
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core.autocrlf overrides it, keeping the traditional behaviour by |
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default. |
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* core.autocrlf has been made safer - it will now only handle line |
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endings for new files and files that are LF-only in the |
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repository. To normalize content that has been checked in with |
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CRLF, use the new eol/text attributes. |
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* The whitespace rules used in "git apply --whitespace" and "git diff" |
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* The whitespace rules used in "git apply --whitespace" and "git diff" |
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gained a new member in the family (tab-in-indent) to help projects with |
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gained a new member in the family (tab-in-indent) to help projects with |
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@ -45,8 +48,12 @@ Updates since v1.7.1 |
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commit. |
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commit. |
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* "git cherry-pick" learned to pick a range of commits |
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* "git cherry-pick" learned to pick a range of commits |
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(e.g. "cherry-pick A..B" and "cherry-pick --stdin"); this does not |
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(e.g. "cherry-pick A..B" and "cherry-pick --stdin"), so did "git |
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have nicer sequencing control "rebase [-i]" has, though. |
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revert"; these do not support the nicer sequencing control "rebase |
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[-i]" has, though. |
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* "git cherry-pick" and "git revert" learned --strategy option to specify |
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the merge strategy to be used when performing three-way merges. |
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* "git cvsserver" can be told to use pserver; its password file can be |
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* "git cvsserver" can be told to use pserver; its password file can be |
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stored outside the repository. |
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stored outside the repository. |
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* Various options to "git grep" (e.g. --count, --name-only) work better |
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* Various options to "git grep" (e.g. --count, --name-only) work better |
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with binary files. |
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with binary files. |
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* "git grep" learned "-Ovi" to open the files with hits in yoru editor. |
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* "git grep" learned "-Ovi" to open the files with hits in your editor. |
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* "git help -w" learned "chrome" and "chromium" browsers. |
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* "git help -w" learned "chrome" and "chromium" browsers. |
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@ -96,8 +103,6 @@ Updates since v1.7.1 |
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* "git remote" learned "set-branches" subcommand. |
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* "git remote" learned "set-branches" subcommand. |
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* "git revert" learned --strategy option to specify the merge strategy. |
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* "git rev-list A..B" learned --ancestry-path option to further limit |
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* "git rev-list A..B" learned --ancestry-path option to further limit |
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the result to the commits that are on the ancestry chain between A and |
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the result to the commits that are on the ancestry chain between A and |
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B (i.e. commits that are not descendants of A are excluded). |
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B (i.e. commits that are not descendants of A are excluded). |
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* "git diff" could show ambiguous abbreviation of blob object names on |
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* "git diff" could show ambiguous abbreviation of blob object names on |
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its "index" line (3e5a188). |
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its "index" line (3e5a188). |
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* "git rebase" did not faithfully reproduce a malformed author ident, that |
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is often seen in a repository converted from foreign SCMs (43c23251). |
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* "git reset --hard" started from a wrong directory and a working tree in |
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* "git reset --hard" started from a wrong directory and a working tree in |
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a nonstandard location is in use got confused (560fb6a1). |
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a nonstandard location is in use got confused (560fb6a1). |
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