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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 ---
66 exec >/var/tmp/1
67 O=v1.7.9-187-gdc347e9
68 echo O=$(git describe)
69 git log --first-parent --oneline ^maint $O..
70 echo
71 git shortlog --no-merges ^maint $O..