Monday, July 30, 2012

Git 1.7.12-rc1

The first release candidate for the upcoming Git 1.7.12 can be found at

    http://code.google.com/p/git-core/downloads/list

and also at the usual repositories.

Some highlights:
  • An experimental support for UTF-8 pathnames on MacOS.
    I think there still are places that need conversion between the system encoding (UTF-8 normalized by decomposing) and the more commonly used encoding (precomposed) that is used internally for better interoperability, but this should be a good start.
  • $HOME/.gitconfig file can be moved to $HOME/.config/git/config, in line with XDG.
    This will also allow $HOME/.config/git/attributes and $HOME/.config/git/ignore, if exist, to be automatically used as core.attributesfile and core.excludesfile, respectively.
  • "git apply" learned the same three-way merge patch wiggling magic "git am" supports, via the "-3" option.
  • "git rebase -i --root" learned how to update the root commit when requested.
  • "git status" can give a more detailed explanation during "intermediate" state of multi-step operations, e.g. "merge", "rebase".
  • A remote "SCM" interface to MediaWiki in contrib/ learned to handle file attachments.
Please test so that we can avoid regressions in the final release that will happen late August.

Thanks.