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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 * "vcs-svn"/"svn-fe" learned to read dumps with svn-deltas and
12 support incremental imports.
14 * "git am" learned to pass "-b" option to underlying "git mailinfo", so
15 that bracketed string other than "PATCH" at the beginning can be kept.
17 * "git clone" learned "--single-branch" option to limit cloning to a
18 single branch (surprise!).
20 * "git clone" learned to detach the HEAD in the resulting repository
21 when the source repository's HEAD does not point to a branch.
23 * When showing a patch while ignoring whitespace changes, the context
24 lines are taken from the postimage, in order to make it easier to
25 view the output.
27 * "git merge" in an interactive session learned to spawn the editor
28 by default to let the user edit the auto-generated merge message,
29 to encourage people to explain their merges better. Legacy scripts
30 can export MERGE_AUTOEDIT=no to retain the historical behaviour.
32 * "gitweb" allows intermediate entries in the directory hierarchy
33 that leads to a projects to be clicked, which in turn shows the
34 list of projects inside that directory.
36 Performance
38 * During "git upload-pack" in respose to "git fetch", unnecessary calls
39 to parse_object() have been eliminated, to help performance in
40 repositories with excessive number of refs.
42 Internal Implementation
44 * Recursive call chains in "git index-pack" to deal with long delta
45 chains have been flattened, to reduce the stack footprint.
47 * Use of add_extra_ref() API is slowly getting removed, to make it
48 possible to cleanly restructure the overall refs API.
50 * The test suite supports the new "test_pause" helper function.
52 * t/Makefile is adjusted to prevent newer versions of GNU make from
53 running tests in seemingly random order.
55 Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.
58 Fixes since v1.7.9
59 ------------------
61 Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.7.9 in the maintenance
62 releases are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
63 details).
65 * When "git push" fails to update any refs, the client side did not
66 report an error correctly to the end user.
67 (merge 5238cbf sp/smart-http-failure-to-push later to maint).
69 * "git push -q" was not sufficiently quiet.
70 (merge d336572 cb/push-quiet later to maint).
72 * "git log --first-parent $pathspec" did not stay on the first parent
73 chain and veered into side branch from which the whole change to the
74 specified paths came.
75 (merge 36ed191 jc/maint-log-first-parent-pathspec later to maint).
77 * Subprocesses spawned from various git programs were often left running
78 to completion even when the top-level process was killed.
79 (merge 10c6cdd cb/maint-kill-subprocess-upon-signal later to maint).
81 * "git mergetool" now gives an empty file as the common base version
82 to the backend when dealing with the "both sides added, differently"
83 case.
84 (merge ec245ba da/maint-mergetool-twoway later to maint).
86 * "git submodule add $path" forgot to recompute the name to be stored
87 in .gitmodules when the submodule at $path was once added to the
88 superproject and already initialized.
89 (merge 1017c1a jl/submodule-re-add later to maint).
91 * Using "git grep -l/-L" together with options -W or --break may not
92 make much sense as the output is to only count the number of hits
93 and there is no place for file breaks, but the latter options made
94 "-l/-L" to miscount the hits.
95 (merge 50dd0f2 tr/grep-l-with-decoration later to maint).
97 * When asking for a tag to be pulled, "request-pull" shows the name
98 of the tag prefixed with "tags/"
99 (merge 2ad9ba0 jc/maint-request-pull-for-tag later to maint).
101 ---
102 exec >/var/tmp/1
103 O=v1.7.9-187-gdc347e9
104 echo O=$(git describe)
105 git log --first-parent --oneline ^maint $O..
106 echo
107 git shortlog --no-merges ^maint $O..