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author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2010-12-17 08:43:08 +0300 |
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committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2010-12-17 08:43:08 +0300 |
commit | 1b9743462d9ef3c0e73a3c439de45c0c16b6c938 (patch) | |
tree | 9181b9a2fee928fb102cffb675979f6d438671c6 /Documentation/RelNotes | |
parent | 38a5932be8a8f0b0bd3bb949bdc5258d9c753f15 (diff) |
Update draft release notes to 1.7.4
We are getting closer to -rc0 ;-)
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/RelNotes')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.4.txt | 32 |
1 files changed, 31 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.4.txt index c1ed23a0c6..ace061f5fe 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.4.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.4.txt @@ -29,17 +29,42 @@ Updates since v1.7.3 * Bash completion script in contrib/ has been adjusted to be also usable by zsh. + * Different pagers can be chosen depending on which subcommand is + being run under the pager, using "pager.<subcommand>" variable. + + * The hardcoded tab-width of 8 used in whitespace breakage checks is now + configurable via the attributes mechanism. + + * Support of case insensitive filesystems (i.e. "core.ignorecase") has + been improved. For example, the gitignore mechanism didn't pay attention + to the case insensitivity. + + * The <tree>:<path> syntax to name a blob in a tree, and :<path> + syntax to name a blob in the index (e.g. "master:Makefile", + ":hello.c") have been extended. You can start <path> with "./" to + implicitly have the (sub)directory you are in prefixed to the + lookup. Similarly, ":../Makefile" from a subdirectory would mean + "the Makefile of the parent directory in the index". + * "git blame" learned --show-email option to display the e-mail addresses instead of the names of authors. + * "git commit" learned --fixup and --squash options to help later invocation + of the interactive rebase. + * "git daemon" can be built in MinGW environment. * "git daemon" can take more than one --listen option to listen to multiple addresses. + * "git describe --exact-match" was optimized not to read commit + objects unnecessarily. + * "git diff" and "git grep" learned how functions and subroutines in Fortran look like. + * "git fetch" learned "--recurse-submodules" option. + * "git mergetool" tells vim/gvim to show three-way diff by default (use vimdiff2/gvimdiff2 as the tool name for old behaviour). @@ -81,11 +106,16 @@ Updates since v1.7.3 git-only login over ssh as login shell, with custom set of commands. + * The current branch name in "git status" output can be colored differently + from the generic header color by setting "color.status.branch" variable. + * "git submodule sync" updates metainformation for all submodules, not just the ones that have been checked out. * gitweb can use custom 'highlight' command with its configuration file. + * other gitweb updates. + Also contains various documentation updates. @@ -113,6 +143,6 @@ release, unless otherwise noted. --- exec >/var/tmp/1 -O=v1.7.3.2-450-g5b9c331 +O=v1.7.3.4-567-g38a5932 echo O=$(git describe master) git shortlog --no-merges ^maint ^$O master |