[racket-dev] [ANNOUNCE] Git 1.7.2

FYI,

On Jul 21, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> The latest feature release Git 1.7.2 is available at the usual
> places:
> 
>   http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/
> 
>   git-1.7.2.tar.{gz,bz2}			(source tarball)
>   git-htmldocs-1.7.2.tar.{gz,bz2}		(preformatted docs)
>   git-manpages-1.7.2.tar.{gz,bz2}		(preformatted docs)
> 
> The RPM binary packages for a few architectures are found in:
> 
>   RPMS/$arch/git-*-1.7.2-1.fc11.$arch.rpm	(RPM)
> 
> We have 500+ non-merge commits from 93 contributors, among which 28 are
> new contributors, since the last release (1.7.1).  Thanks everybody for
> working hard to make git a better system ;-).
> 
> 
> Git v1.7.2 Release Notes
> ========================
> 
> Updates since v1.7.1
> --------------------
> 
>  * core.eol configuration and text/eol attributes are the new way to control
>    the end of line conventions for files in the working tree.
> 
>  * core.autocrlf has been made safer - it will now only handle line
>    endings for new files and files that are LF-only in the
>    repository. To normalize content that has been checked in with
>    CRLF, use the new eol/text attributes.
> 
>  * The whitespace rules used in "git apply --whitespace" and "git diff"
>    gained a new member in the family (tab-in-indent) to help projects with
>    policy to indent only with spaces.
> 
>  * When working from a subdirectory, by default, git does not look for its
>    metadirectory ".git" across filesystems, primarily to help people who
>    have invocations of git in their custom PS1 prompts, as being outside
>    of a git repository would look for ".git" all the way up to the root
>    directory, and NFS mounts are often slow.  DISCOVERY_ACROSS_FILESYSTEM
>    environment variable can be used to tell git not to stop at a
>    filesystem boundary.
> 
>  * Usage help messages generated by parse-options library (i.e. most
>    of the Porcelain commands) are sent to the standard output now.
> 
>  * ':/<string>' notation to look for a commit now takes regular expression
>    and it is not anchored at the beginning of the commit log message
>    anymore (this is a backward incompatible change).
> 
>  * "git" wrapper learned "-c name=value" option to override configuration
>    variable from the command line.
> 
>  * Improved portability for various platforms including older SunOS,
>    HP-UX 10/11, AIX, Tru64, etc. and platforms with Python 2.4.
> 
>  * The message from "git am -3" has been improved when conflict
>    resolution ended up making the patch a no-op.
> 
>  * "git blame" applies the textconv filter to the contents it works
>    on, when available.
> 
>  * "git checkout --orphan newbranch" is similar to "-b newbranch" but
>    prepares to create a root commit that is not connected to any existing
>    commit.
> 
>  * "git cherry-pick" learned to pick a range of commits
>    (e.g. "cherry-pick A..B" and "cherry-pick --stdin"), so did "git
>    revert"; these do not support the nicer sequencing control "rebase
>    [-i]" has, though.
> 
>  * "git cherry-pick" and "git revert" learned --strategy option to specify
>    the merge strategy to be used when performing three-way merges.
> 
>  * "git cvsserver" can be told to use pserver; its password file can be
>    stored outside the repository.
> 
>  * The output from the textconv filter used by "git diff" can be cached to
>    speed up their reuse.
> 
>  * "git diff --word-diff=<mode>" extends the existing "--color-words"
>    option, making it more useful in color-challenged environments.
> 
>  * The regexp to detect function headers used by "git diff" for PHP has
>    been enhanced for visibility modifiers (public, protected, etc.) to
>    better support PHP5.
> 
>  * "diff.noprefix" configuration variable can be used to implicitly
>    ask for "diff --no-prefix" behaviour.
> 
>  * "git for-each-ref" learned "%(objectname:short)" that gives the object
>    name abbreviated.
> 
>  * "git format-patch" learned --signature option and format.signature
>    configuration variable to customize the e-mail signature used in the
>    output.
> 
>  * Various options to "git grep" (e.g. --count, --name-only) work better
>    with binary files.
> 
>  * "git grep" learned "-Ovi" to open the files with hits in your editor.
> 
>  * "git help -w" learned "chrome" and "chromium" browsers.
> 
>  * "git log --decorate" shows commit decorations in various colours.
> 
>  * "git log --follow <path>" follows across copies (it used to only follow
>    renames).  This may make the processing more expensive.
> 
>  * "git log --pretty=format:<template>" specifier learned "% <something>"
>    magic that inserts a space only when %<something> expands to a
>    non-empty string; this is similar to "%+<something>" magic, but is
>    useful in a context to generate a single line output.
> 
>  * "git notes prune" learned "-n" (dry-run) and "-v" options, similar to
>    what "git prune" has.
> 
>  * "git patch-id" can be fed a mbox without getting confused by the
>    signature line in the format-patch output.
> 
>  * "git remote" learned "set-branches" subcommand.
> 
>  * "git rev-list A..B" learned --ancestry-path option to further limit
>    the result to the commits that are on the ancestry chain between A and
>    B (i.e. commits that are not descendants of A are excluded).
> 
>  * "git show -5" is equivalent to "git show --do-walk 5"; this is similar
>    to the update to make "git show master..next" walk the history,
>    introduced in 1.6.4.
> 
>  * "git status [-s] --ignored" can be used to list ignored paths.
> 
>  * "git status -s -b" shows the current branch in the output.
> 
>  * "git status" learned "--ignore-submodules" option.
> 
>  * Various "gitweb" enhancements and clean-ups, including syntax
>    highlighting, "plackup" support for instaweb, .fcgi suffix to run
>    it as FastCGI script, etc.
> 
>  * The test harness has been updated to produce TAP-friendly output.
> 
>  * Many documentation improvement patches are also included.
> 
> 
> Fixes since v1.7.1
> ------------------
> 
> All of the fixes in v1.7.1.X maintenance series are included in this
> release, unless otherwise noted.
> 
>  * We didn't URL decode "file:///path/to/repo" correctly when path/to/repo
>    had percent-encoded characters (638794c, 9d2e942, ce83eda, 3c73a1d).
> 
>  * "git clone" did not configure remote.origin.url correctly for bare
>    clones (df61c889).
> 
>  * "git diff --graph" works better with "--color-words" and other options
>    (81fa024..4297c0a).
> 
>  * "git diff" could show ambiguous abbreviation of blob object names on
>    its "index" line (3e5a188).
> 
>  * "git reset --hard" started from a wrong directory and a working tree in
>    a nonstandard location is in use got confused (560fb6a1).
> 
>  * "git read-tree -m A B" used to switch to branch B while retaining
>    local changes added an incorrect cache-tree information (b1f47514).

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