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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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* Git can be told to normalize pathnames it read from readdir(3) and |
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all arguments it got from the command line into precomposed UTF-8 |
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(assuming that they come as decomposed UTF-8), in order to work |
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around issues on Mac OS. |
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I think there still are other places that need conversion |
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(e.g. paths that are read from stdin for some commands), but this |
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should be a good first step in the right direction. |
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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/git/attributes and $HOME/.config/git/ignore respectively |
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when these files exist. |
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* Logic to disambiguate abbreviated object names have been taught to |
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take advantage of object types that are expected in the context, |
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e.g. XXXXXX in the "git describe" output v1.2.3-gXXXXXX must be a |
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commit object, not a blob nor a tree. This will help us prolong |
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the lifetime of abbreviated object names. |
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* "git apply" learned to wiggle the base version and perform three-way |
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merge when a patch does not exactly apply to the version you have. |
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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 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] --root $tip" can now be used to rewrite all the |
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history leading to "$tip" down to the root commit. |
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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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* "gitweb" pays attention to various forms of credits that are |
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similar to "Signed-off-by:" lines in the commit objects and |
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highlights them accordingly. |
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Foreign Interface |
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* "mediawiki" remote helper (in contrib/) learned to handle file |
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attachments. |
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* "git p4" now uses "Jobs:" and "p4 move" when appropriate. |
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* vcs-svn has been updated to clean-up compilation, lift 32-bit |
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limitations, etc. |
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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 am --rebasing" codepath was taught to grab authorship, log |
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message and the patch text directly out of existing commits. This |
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will help rebasing commits that have confusing "diff" output in |
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their log messages. |
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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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* "git log -n 1 -- rarely-touched-path" was spending unnecessary |
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cycles after showing the first change to find the next one, only to |
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discard it. |
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* "git svn" got a large-looking code reorganization at the last |
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minute before the code freeze. |
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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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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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* "git submodule add" was confused when the superproject did not have |
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its repository in its usual place in the working tree and GIT_DIR |
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and GIT_WORK_TREE was used to access it. |
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* "git commit --amend" let the user edit the log message and then died |
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when the human-readable committer name was given insufficiently by |
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getpwent(3).
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