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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.txt index be3001afe..48950d5af 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.txt @@ -31,10 +31,17 @@ UI, Workflows & Features lines are taken from the postimage, in order to make it easier to view the output. + * "git grep" pays attention to -diff (hence -binary) attributes now. + + * "git tag --list" can be given "--points-at <object>" to limit its + output to those that point at the given object. + * "git merge" in an interactive session learned to spawn the editor by default to let the user edit the auto-generated merge message, to encourage people to explain their merges better. Legacy scripts can export MERGE_AUTOEDIT=no to retain the historical behaviour. + Both "git merge" and "git pull" can be given --no-edit from the + command line to accept the auto-generated merge message. * "gitweb" allows intermediate entries in the directory hierarchy that leads to a projects to be clicked, which in turn shows the @@ -46,13 +53,16 @@ Performance to parse_object() have been eliminated, to help performance in repositories with excessive number of refs. -Internal Implementation +Internal Implementation (please report possible regressions) * Recursive call chains in "git index-pack" to deal with long delta chains have been flattened, to reduce the stack footprint. - * Use of add_extra_ref() API is slowly getting removed, to make it - possible to cleanly restructure the overall refs API. + * Use of add_extra_ref() API is now gone, to make it possible to + cleanly restructure the overall refs API. + + * The command line parser of "git pack-objects" now uses parse-options + API. * The test suite supports the new "test_pause" helper function. @@ -69,35 +79,41 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.7.9 in the maintenance releases are contained in this release (see release notes to them for details). - * The error message emitted when we see an empty loose object was - not phrased correctly. - (merge 33e42de mm/empty-loose-error-message later to maint). + * When you have both .../foo and .../foo.git, "git clone .../foo" did not + favor the former but the latter. + (merge b3256eb jk/git-dir-lookup later to maint). + + * Some systems need to explicitly link -lcharset to get locale_charset(). + (merge b522528 dp/i18n-libcharset later to maint). + + * The output from "git diff --stat" for two paths that have the same + amount of changes showed graph bars of different length due to the + way we handled rounding errors. + (merge 2eeeef2 jc/diff-stat-scaler later to maint). - * "git commit" refused to create a commit when entries added with - "add -N" remained in the index, without telling Git what their content - in the next commit should be. We should have created the commit without - these paths. - (merge 3f6d56d jc/maint-commit-ignore-i-t-a later to maint). + * We failed to give the true terminal width to any subcommand when + they are invoked with the pager, i.e. "git -p cmd". + (merge ad6c373 zj/term-columns later to maint). - * Search box in "gitweb" did not accept non-ASCII characters correctly. - (merge 84d9e2d jn/gitweb-search-utf-8 later to maint). + * The transport programs ignored --no-progress and showed progress when + sending their output to a terminal. + (merge 01fdc21 cb/transfer-no-progress later to maint). - * The code to ask for password did not fall back to the terminal - input when GIT_ASKPASS is set but does not work (e.g. lack of X - with GUI askpass helper). - (merge 84d7273 jk/prompt-fallback-to-tty later to maint). + * Sometimes error status detected by a check in an earlier phase of + receive-pack (the other end of 'git push') was lost by later + checks, resulting in false indication of success. + (merge ef7e93d cb/receive-pack-keep-errors later to maint). - * map_user() was not rewriting its output correctly, which resulted - in the user visible symptom that "git blame -e" sometimes showed - excess '>' at the end of email addresses. - (merge f026358 jc/maint-mailmap-output later to maint). + * t5541 ignored user-supplied port number used for HTTP server testing + (merge d202a51 cb/maint-t5541-make-server-port-portable later to maint). - * "checkout -b" did not allow switching out of an unborn branch. - (merge abe1998 jc/checkout-out-of-unborn later to maint). + * "rev-list --verify" sometimes skipped verification depending on the + phase of the moon, which dates back to 1.7.8.x series. + (merge cb8da70 cb/maint-rev-list-verify-object later to maint). --- exec >/var/tmp/1 -O=v1.7.9-249-gaa47ec9 +O=v1.7.9.1-264-g76bdcf0 echo O=$(git describe) git log --first-parent --oneline ^maint $O.. echo |