{"thread":{"id":"26210","subject":"[ANNOUNCE] Git 1.7.4-rc1","startedAt":"2011-01-06T00:54:14Z","lastAt":"2011-01-10T17:11:30Z","messageCount":2,"participants":["Junio C Hamano"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"159013","messageId":"7vtyhmc0nd.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org","threadId":"26210","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"[ANNOUNCE] Git 1.7.4-rc1","fromName":"Junio C Hamano","fromEmail":"gitster@pobox.com","sentAt":"2011-01-06T00:54:14Z","receivedAt":"2011-01-06T00:54:14Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"gitster@pobox.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/54884?v=4"},"body":"A release candidate Git 1.7.4-rc1 is available at the usual places\nfor testing:\n\n http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/\n\n git-1.7.4.rc1.tar.{gz,bz2}\t\t\t(source tarball)\n git-htmldocs-1.7.4.rc1.tar.{gz,bz2}\t\t(preformatted docs)\n git-manpages-1.7.4.rc1.tar.{gz,bz2}\t\t(preformatted docs)\n\nThe RPM binary packages for a few architectures are found in:\n\n testing/git-*-1.7.4.rc1-1.fc13.$arch.rpm\t(RPM)\n\n\nGit v1.7.4 Release Notes (draft)\n================================\n\nUpdates since v1.7.3\n--------------------\n\n * The documentation Makefile now assumes by default asciidoc 8 and\n docbook-xsl >= 1.73. If you have older versions, you can set\n ASCIIDOC7 and ASCIIDOC_ROFF, respectively.\n\n * The option parsers of various commands that create new branches (or\n rename existing ones to a new name) were too loose and users were\n allowed to give a branch a name that begins with a dash by creative\n abuse of their command line options, which only led to burning\n themselves. The name of a branch cannot begin with a dash now.\n\n * System-wide fallback default attributes can be stored in\n /etc/gitattributes; core.attributesfile configuration variable can\n be used to customize the path to this file.\n\n * The thread structure generated by \"git send-email\" has changed\n slightly. Setting the cover letter of the latest series as a reply\n to the cover letter of the previous series with --in-reply-to used\n to make the new cover letter and all the patches replies to the\n cover letter of the previous series; this has been changed to make\n the patches in the new series replies to the new cover letter.\n\n * Bash completion script in contrib/ has been adjusted to be usable with\n Bash 4 (options with '=value' didn't complete) It has been also made\n usable with zsh.\n\n * Different pagers can be chosen depending on which subcommand is\n being run under the pager, using \"pager.\" variable.\n\n * The hardcoded tab-width of 8 used in whitespace breakage checks is now\n configurable via the attributes mechanism.\n\n * Support of case insensitive filesystems (i.e. \"core.ignorecase\") has\n been improved. For example, the gitignore mechanism didn't pay attention\n to the case insensitivity.\n\n * The : syntax to name a blob in a tree, and :\n syntax to name a blob in the index (e.g. \"master:Makefile\",\n \":hello.c\") have been extended. You can start with \"./\" to\n implicitly have the (sub)directory you are in prefixed to the\n lookup. Similarly, \":../Makefile\" from a subdirectory would mean\n \"the Makefile of the parent directory in the index\".\n\n * \"git blame\" learned --show-email option to display the e-mail\n addresses instead of the names of authors.\n\n * \"git commit\" learned --fixup and --squash options to help later invocation\n of the interactive rebase.\n\n * Command line options to \"git cvsimport\" whose names are in capital\n letters (-A, -M, -R and -S) can now be specified as the default in\n the .git/config file by their longer names (cvsimport.authorsFile,\n cvsimport.mergeRegex, cvsimport.trackRevisions, cvsimport.ignorePaths).\n\n * \"git daemon\" can be built in MinGW environment.\n\n * \"git daemon\" can take more than one --listen option to listen to\n multiple addresses.\n\n * \"git describe --exact-match\" was optimized not to read commit\n objects unnecessarily.\n\n * \"git diff\" and \"git grep\" learned how functions and subroutines\n in Fortran look like.\n\n * \"git fetch\" learned \"--recurse-submodules\" option.\n\n * \"git mergetool\" tells vim/gvim to show three-way diff by default\n (use vimdiff2/gvimdiff2 as the tool name for old behaviour).\n\n * \"git log -G\" limits the output to commits whose change has\n added or deleted lines that match the given pattern.\n\n * \"git read-tree\" with no argument as a way to empty the index is\n deprecated; we might want to remove it in the future. Users can\n use the new --empty option to be more explicit instead.\n\n * \"git repack -f\" does not spend cycles to recompress objects in the\n non-delta representation anymore (use -F if you really mean it\n e.g. after you changed the core.compression variable setting).\n\n * \"git merge --log\" used to limit the resulting merge log to 20\n entries; this is now customizable by giving e.g. \"--log=47\".\n\n * \"git merge\" may work better when all files were moved out of a\n directory in one branch while a new file is created in place of that\n directory in the other branch.\n\n * \"git rebase --autosquash\" can use SHA-1 object names to name which\n commit to fix up (e.g. \"fixup! e83c5163\").\n\n * The default \"recursive\" merge strategy learned --rename-threshold\n option to influence the rename detection, similar to the -M option\n of \"git diff\". From \"git merge\" frontend, \"-X\"\n interface, e.g. \"git merge -Xrename-threshold=50% ...\", can be used\n to trigger this.\n\n * The \"recursive\" strategy also learned to ignore various whitespace\n changes; the most notable is -Xignore-space-at-eol.\n\n * \"git send-email\" learned \"--to-cmd\", similar to \"--cc-cmd\", to read\n recipient list from a command output.\n\n * \"git send-email\" learned to read and use \"To:\" from its input files.\n\n * you can extend \"git shell\", which is often used on boxes that allow\n git-only login over ssh as login shell, with custom set of\n commands.\n\n * The current branch name in \"git status\" output can be colored differently\n from the generic header color by setting \"color.status.branch\" variable.\n\n * \"git submodule sync\" updates metainformation for all submodules,\n not just the ones that have been checked out.\n\n * gitweb can use custom 'highlight' command with its configuration file.\n\n * other gitweb updates.\n\n\nAlso contains various documentation updates.\n\n\nFixes since v1.7.3\n------------------\n\nAll of the fixes in v1.7.3.X maintenance series are included in this\nrelease, unless otherwise noted.\n\n * \"git log --author=me --author=her\" did not find commits written by\n me or by her; instead it looked for commits written by me and by\n her, which is impossible.\n\n * \"git push --progress\" shows progress indicators now.\n\n * \"git repack\" places its temporary packs under $GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY/pack\n instead of $GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY/ to avoid cross directory renames.\n\n * \"git submodule update --recursive --other-flags\" passes flags down\n to its subinvocations.\n"},{"id":"159276","messageId":"7v1v4k7kfx.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org","threadId":"26210","inReplyTo":"201101100221.34077.johan@herland.net","subject":"Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git 1.7.4-rc1","fromName":"Junio C Hamano","fromEmail":"gitster@pobox.com","sentAt":"2011-01-10T17:11:30Z","receivedAt":"2011-01-10T17:11:30Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"gitster@pobox.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/54884?v=4"},"body":"Johan Herland writes:\n\n> I can't find \"git merge --abort\" and \"git notes merge\" in this list. \n> Suggested paragraphs:\n>\n> * \"git merge\" learned \"--abort\" option, synonymous to\n> \"git reset --merge\" when a merge is in progress.\n>\n> * \"git notes\" learned the \"merge\" subcommand to merge notes refs.\n> In addition to the default manual conflict resolution, there are\n> also several notes merge strategies for automatically resolving\n> notes merge conflicts.\n\nThanks.\n"}]}