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Git 1.8.1
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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* Command-line completion scripts for tcsh and zsh have been added.
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* A new remote-helper interface for Mercurial has been added to
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* "git-prompt" scriptlet (in contrib/completion) can be told to paint
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pieces of the hints in the prompt string in colors.
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* Some documentation pages that used to ship only in the plain text
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format are now formatted in HTML as well.
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* We used to have a workaround for a bug in ancient "less" that
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causes it to exit without any output when the terminal is resized.
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The bug has been fixed in "less" version 406 (June 2007), and the
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workaround has been removed in this release.
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give the default number of context lines in the patch output, to
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* When "git checkout" checks out a branch, it tells the user how far
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behind (or ahead) the new branch is relative to the remote tracking
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branch it builds upon. The message now also advises how to sync
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API regression but it is expected that nobody will notice it in
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practice.
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* "git log -p -S<string>" now looks for the <string> after applying
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the textconv filter (if defined); earlier it inspected the contents
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* A new configuration variable "diff.context" can be used to
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give the default number of context lines in the patch output, to
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* "git format-patch" learned the "--notes=<ref>" option to give
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notes for the commit after the three-dash lines in its output.
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of the blobs without filtering.
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* "git log --grep=<pcre>" learned to honor the "grep.patterntype"
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configuration set to "perl".
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* The remote helper interface to interact with subversion
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repositories (one of the GSoC 2012 projects) has been merged.
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* The documentation for git(1) was pointing at a page at an external
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site for the list of authors that no longer existed. The link has
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Documentation/git.txt
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branch of the `git.git` repository.
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Documentation for older releases are available here:
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* link:v1.8.1/git.html[documentation for release 1.8.1]
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* release notes for
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link:RelNotes/1.8.1.txt[1.8.1].
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* link:v1.8.0.3/git.html[documentation for release 1.8.0.3]
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* release notes for