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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 * "diff-highlight" filter (in contrib/) was updated to produce more
28 aesthetically pleasing output.
30 * "git tag --list" can be given "--points-at <object>" to limit its
31 output to those that point at the given object.
33 * "git merge" in an interactive session learned to spawn the editor
34 by default to let the user edit the auto-generated merge message,
35 to encourage people to explain their merges better. Legacy scripts
36 can export MERGE_AUTOEDIT=no to retain the historical behaviour.
37 Both "git merge" and "git pull" can be given --no-edit from the
38 command line to accept the auto-generated merge message.
40 * "gitweb" allows intermediate entries in the directory hierarchy
41 that leads to a projects to be clicked, which in turn shows the
42 list of projects inside that directory.
44 Performance
46 * During "git upload-pack" in respose to "git fetch", unnecessary calls
47 to parse_object() have been eliminated, to help performance in
48 repositories with excessive number of refs.
50 Internal Implementation (please report possible regressions)
52 * Recursive call chains in "git index-pack" to deal with long delta
53 chains have been flattened, to reduce the stack footprint.
55 * Use of add_extra_ref() API is now gone, to make it possible to
56 cleanly restructure the overall refs API.
58 * The command line parser of "git pack-objects" now uses parse-options
59 API.
61 * The test suite supports the new "test_pause" helper function.
63 * t/Makefile is adjusted to prevent newer versions of GNU make from
64 running tests in seemingly random order.
66 Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.
69 Fixes since v1.7.9
70 ------------------
72 Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.7.9 in the maintenance
73 releases are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
74 details).
76 * "gitweb" used to drop warnings in the log file when "heads" view is
77 accessed in a repository whose HEAD does not point at a valid
78 branch.
80 ---
81 exec >/var/tmp/1
82 O=v1.7.9.1-289-g5609586
83 echo O=$(git describe)
84 git log --first-parent --oneline ^maint $O..
85 echo
86 git shortlog --no-merges ^maint $O..