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GNU Interactive Tools 4.3.7 released
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Sun Jul 23 02:10:24 1995
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 1995 14:47:14 +0300
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-activists@niksula.hut.fi, linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
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From: tudorh@pub.ro (Tudor Hulubei)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
Subject: GNU Interactive Tools 4.3.7 released
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GNU Interactive Tools 4.3.7 released
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The latest version of GNU Interactive Tools is available at pub.pub.ro
in the directory /pub/git as git-4.3.7.tar.gz. It will probably become
available at prep.ai.mit.edu, sunsite.unc.edu, tsx-11.mit.edu and
ftp.funet.fi. Please send bug reports to tudor@chang.pub.ro.
What's new:
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- version 4.3.7
- Few improvements, mostly fixes. All the compilation/installation
problems reported in 4.3.6 have been fixed (I hope :-).
- RUMORS, RUMORS, RUMORS, .... it've heard that newer Linux systems
use "linux" instead of "console" for the TERM environment variable.
Due to this, I've linked .gitrc.linux to .gitrc.console. I'm not
sure if it will really be useful, but it won't hurt.
- git can now display files using different colors, depending on
their types as specified by the [GIT-FTI] section (FTI stands for
file type information). See .gitrc.common for more details. If you
don't want/like colors, they can be disabled by setting the
TypeSensitivity variable to OFF. Note that I've considered more
important to emphasize the file type and *NOT* the fact that it is
compressed. That means that foo.c and foo.c.gz will be displayed
using the same color. Of course, this approach can be changed by
modifying the configuration file...
- GIT_PAGER is a new environment variable that replaces "more" in
all the user defined commands described in the configuration files.
If your system has "less", just add GIT_PAGER=less to your
environment. By default GIT_PAGER='more'. gitaction & .gitaction
use GIT_PAGER too.
- conform-current-directory & conform-other-directory now save the
new directory into the directory history.
- Faster startup.
- ^C= now performs recursive diff.
- flip is the default action for *.fli and *.flc. See gitaction for
details.
- tty.c uses now /dev/vcsa to dump/restore the screen. The ioctl()
system call is no longer used. You should have the right to r/w
the corresponding /dev/vcsaX since I don't like setuids, and I also
think that the appropriate permission/owner should be set by the
login utility in the same way as for /dev/ttyX. Until then, if you
are on a single-user machine or you don't care much about security,
you can give unrestricted r/w permission on /dev/vcsaX.
Enjoy,
Tudor
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