Git v1.8.1 Release Notes ======================== Backward compatibility notes ---------------------------- In the next major release (not *this* one), we will change the behavior of the "git push" command. When "git push [$there]" does not say what to push, we have used the traditional "matching" semantics so far (all your branches were sent to the remote as long as there already are branches of the same name over there). We will use the "simple" semantics that pushes the current branch to the branch with the same name, only when the current branch is set to integrate with that remote branch. There is a user preference configuration variable "push.default" to change this, and "git push" will warn about the upcoming change until you set this variable in this release. "git branch --set-upstream" is deprecated and may be removed in a relatively distant future. "git branch [-u|--set-upstream-to]" has been introduced with a saner order of arguments to replace it. Updates since v1.8.0 -------------------- UI, Workflows & Features * Command-line completion scripts for tcsh and zsh have been added. * "git-prompt" scriptlet (in contrib/completion) can be told to paint pieces of the hints in the prompt string in colors. * Some documentation pages that used to ship only in the plain text format are now formatted in HTML as well. * We used to have a workaround for a bug in ancient "less" that causes it to exit without any output when the terminal is resized. The bug has been fixed in "less" version 406 (June 2007), and the workaround has been removed in this release. * When "git checkout" checks out a branch, it tells the user how far behind (or ahead) the new branch is relative to the remote tracking branch it builds upon. The message now also advises how to sync them up by pushing or pulling. This can be disabled with the advice.statusHints configuration variable. * "git config --get" used to diagnose presence of multiple definitions of the same variable in the same configuration file as an error, but it now applies the "last one wins" rule used by the internal configuration logic. Strictly speaking, this may be an API regression but it is expected that nobody will notice it in practice. * A new configuration variable "diff.context" can be used to give the default number of context lines in the patch output, to override the hardcoded default of 3 lines. * "git format-patch" learned the "--notes=" option to give notes for the commit after the three-dash lines in its output. * "git log -p -S" now looks for the after applying the textconv filter (if defined); earlier it inspected the contents of the blobs without filtering. * "git log --grep= " learned to honor the "grep.patterntype" configuration set to "perl". * "git replace -d
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Monday, December 31, 2012
Git 1.8.1
The latest release has just been tagged. Thanks, everybody, and a happy new year.
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