Git v1.7.5 Release Notes
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Updates since v1.7.4
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 * Various MinGW portability fixes.

 * Various git-p4 enhancements (in contrib).

 * Various vcs-svn, git-svn and gitk enhancements and fixes.

 * Various git-gui updates (0.14.0).

 * Update to more modern HP-UX port.

 * The codebase is getting prepared for i18n/l10n; no translated
   strings nor translation mechanism in the code yet, but the strings
   are being marked for l10n.

 * The bash completion script can now complete symmetric difference
   for "git diff" command, e.g. "git diff ...bra<TAB>".

 * The default minimum length of abbreviated and unique object names
   can now be configured by setting the core.abbrev configuration
   variable.

 * "git apply -v" reports offset lines when the patch does not apply at
   the exact location recorded in the diff output.

 * "git config" used to be also known as "git repo-config", but the old
   name is now officially deprecated.

 * "git checkout --detach <commit>" is a more user friendly synonym for
   "git checkout <commit>^0".

 * "git checkout" performed on detached HEAD gives a warning and
   advice when the commit being left behind will become unreachable from
   any branch or tag.

 * "git cherry-pick" and "git revert" can be told to use a custom merge
   strategy, similar to "git rebase".

 * "git cherry-pick" remembers which commit failed to apply when it is
   stopped by conflicts, making it unnecessary to use "commit -c $commit"
   to conclude it.

 * "git cvsimport" bails out immediately when the cvs server cannot be
   reached, without spewing unnecessary error messages that complain about
   the server response it never got.

 * "git fetch" vs "git upload-pack" transfer learned 'no-done'
   protocol extension to save one round-trip after the content
   negotiation is done. This saves one HTTP RPC, reducing the overall
   latency for a trivial fetch.

 * "git fetch" can be told to recursively fetch submodules on-demand.

 * "git grep -f <filename>" learned to treat "-" as "read from the
   standard input stream".

 * "git grep --no-index" did not honor pathspecs correctly, returning
   paths outside the specified area.

 * "git init" learned the --separate-git-dir option to allow the git
   directory for a new repository created elsewhere and linked via the
   gitdir mechanism. This is primarily to help submodule support later
   to switch between a branch of superproject that has the submodule
   and another that does not.

 * "git log" type commands now understand globbing pathspecs.  You
   can say "git log -- '*.txt'" for example.

 * "git log" family of commands