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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 * "git-p4" (in contrib) suffered from unnecessary merge conflicts when
12 p4 expanded the embedded $RCS$-like keywords; it can be now told to
13 unexpand them.
15 * Some "git-svn" updates.
17 * "vcs-svn"/"svn-fe" learned to read dumps with svn-deltas and
18 support incremental imports.
20 * The configuration mechanism learned an "include" facility; an
21 assignment to the include.path pseudo-variable causes the named
22 file to be included in-place when Git looks up configuration
23 variables.
25 * "git am" learned to pass "-b" option to underlying "git mailinfo", so
26 that bracketed string other than "PATCH" at the beginning can be kept.
28 * "git clone" learned "--single-branch" option to limit cloning to a
29 single branch (surprise!).
31 * "git clone" learned to detach the HEAD in the resulting repository
32 when the source repository's HEAD does not point to a branch.
34 * When showing a patch while ignoring whitespace changes, the context
35 lines are taken from the postimage, in order to make it easier to
36 view the output.
38 * "diff-highlight" filter (in contrib/) was updated to produce more
39 aesthetically pleasing output.
41 * "git tag --list" can be given "--points-at <object>" to limit its
42 output to those that point at the given object.
44 * "git merge" in an interactive session learned to spawn the editor
45 by default to let the user edit the auto-generated merge message,
46 to encourage people to explain their merges better. Legacy scripts
47 can export MERGE_AUTOEDIT=no to retain the historical behaviour.
48 Both "git merge" and "git pull" can be given --no-edit from the
49 command line to accept the auto-generated merge message.
51 * "gitweb" allows intermediate entries in the directory hierarchy
52 that leads to a projects to be clicked, which in turn shows the
53 list of projects inside that directory.
55 Performance
57 * During "git upload-pack" in respose to "git fetch", unnecessary calls
58 to parse_object() have been eliminated, to help performance in
59 repositories with excessive number of refs.
61 Internal Implementation (please report possible regressions)
63 * Recursive call chains in "git index-pack" to deal with long delta
64 chains have been flattened, to reduce the stack footprint.
66 * Use of add_extra_ref() API is now gone, to make it possible to
67 cleanly restructure the overall refs API.
69 * The command line parser of "git pack-objects" now uses parse-options
70 API.
72 * The test suite supports the new "test_pause" helper function.
74 * Parallel to the test suite, there is a beginning of performance
75 benchmarking framework.
77 * t/Makefile is adjusted to prevent newer versions of GNU make from
78 running tests in seemingly random order.
80 Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.
83 Fixes since v1.7.9
84 ------------------
86 Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.7.9 in the maintenance
87 releases are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
88 details).
90 * The config.mak.autogen generated by optional autoconf support tried
91 to link the binary with -lintl even when libintl.h is missing from
92 the system.
93 (merge a8356d4 js/configure-libintl later to maint).
95 * "git add --refresh <pathspec>" used to warn about unmerged paths
96 outside the given pathspec.
97 (merge 3d1f148 jc/add-refresh-unmerged later to maint).
99 * "gitweb" used to drop warnings in the log file when "heads" view is
100 accessed in a repository whose HEAD does not point at a valid
101 branch.
103 ---
104 exec >/var/tmp/1
105 O=v1.7.9.2-261-gd065f68
106 echo O=$(git describe)
107 git log --first-parent --oneline ^maint $O..
108 echo
109 git shortlog --no-merges ^maint $O..