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1 Git v1.7.10 Release Notes
2 =========================
4 Updates since v1.7.9
5 --------------------
7 UI, Workflows & Features
9 * Improved handling of views, labels and branches in git-p4 (in contrib).
11 * Updated command line arguments completion script for zsh (in contrib).
13 * "vcs-svn"/"svn-fe" learned to read dumps with svn-deltas and
14 support incremental imports.
16 * "git am" learned to pass "-b" option to underlying "git mailinfo", so
17 that bracketed string other than "PATCH" at the beginning can be kept.
19 * "git clone" learned "--single-branch" option to limit cloning to a
20 single branch (surprise!).
22 * "git clone" learned to detach the HEAD in the resulting repository
23 when the source repository's HEAD does not point to a branch.
25 * The commands in the "git diff" family and "git apply --stat" that
26 count the number of files changed and the number of lines
27 inserted/deleted have been updated to match the output from
28 "diffstat". This also opens the door to i18n this line.
30 * When showing a patch while ignoring whitespace changes, the context
31 lines are taken from the postimage, in order to make it easier to
32 view the output.
34 * "git grep" pays attention to -diff (hence -binary) attributes now.
36 * "git tag --list" can be given "--points-at <object>" to limit its
37 output to those that point at the given object.
39 * "git merge" in an interactive session learned to spawn the editor
40 by default to let the user edit the auto-generated merge message,
41 to encourage people to explain their merges better. Legacy scripts
42 can export MERGE_AUTOEDIT=no to retain the historical behaviour.
43 Both "git merge" and "git pull" can be given --no-edit from the
44 command line to accept the auto-generated merge message.
46 * "gitweb" allows intermediate entries in the directory hierarchy
47 that leads to a projects to be clicked, which in turn shows the
48 list of projects inside that directory.
50 Performance
52 * During "git upload-pack" in respose to "git fetch", unnecessary calls
53 to parse_object() have been eliminated, to help performance in
54 repositories with excessive number of refs.
56 Internal Implementation (please report possible regressions)
58 * Recursive call chains in "git index-pack" to deal with long delta
59 chains have been flattened, to reduce the stack footprint.
61 * Use of add_extra_ref() API is now gone, to make it possible to
62 cleanly restructure the overall refs API.
64 * The command line parser of "git pack-objects" now uses parse-options
65 API.
67 * The test suite supports the new "test_pause" helper function.
69 * t/Makefile is adjusted to prevent newer versions of GNU make from
70 running tests in seemingly random order.
72 Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.
75 Fixes since v1.7.9
76 ------------------
78 Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.7.9 in the maintenance
79 releases are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
80 details).
82 * When you have both .../foo and .../foo.git, "git clone .../foo" did not
83 favor the former but the latter.
84 (merge b3256eb jk/git-dir-lookup later to maint).
86 * Some systems need to explicitly link -lcharset to get locale_charset().
87 (merge b522528 dp/i18n-libcharset later to maint).
89 * The output from "git diff --stat" for two paths that have the same
90 amount of changes showed graph bars of different length due to the
91 way we handled rounding errors.
92 (merge 2eeeef2 jc/diff-stat-scaler later to maint).
94 * We failed to give the true terminal width to any subcommand when
95 they are invoked with the pager, i.e. "git -p cmd".
96 (merge ad6c373 zj/term-columns later to maint).
98 * The transport programs ignored --no-progress and showed progress when
99 sending their output to a terminal.
100 (merge 01fdc21 cb/transfer-no-progress later to maint).
102 * Sometimes error status detected by a check in an earlier phase of
103 receive-pack (the other end of 'git push') was lost by later
104 checks, resulting in false indication of success.
105 (merge ef7e93d cb/receive-pack-keep-errors later to maint).
107 * t5541 ignored user-supplied port number used for HTTP server testing
108 (merge d202a51 cb/maint-t5541-make-server-port-portable later to maint).
110 * "rev-list --verify" sometimes skipped verification depending on the
111 phase of the moon, which dates back to 1.7.8.x series.
112 (merge cb8da70 cb/maint-rev-list-verify-object later to maint).
114 ---
115 exec >/var/tmp/1
116 O=v1.7.9.1-264-g76bdcf0
117 echo O=$(git describe)
118 git log --first-parent --oneline ^maint $O..
119 echo
120 git shortlog --no-merges ^maint $O..