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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.txt index 8dfeddcd6..37f374bf1 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.txt @@ -25,13 +25,15 @@ UI, Workflows & Features tracking. Also "branch" learned the "-q"uiet option to squelch informational message. + * Your build platform may support hardlinks but you may prefer not to + use them, e.g. when installing to DESTDIR to make a tarball and + untarring on a filesystem that has poor support for hardlinks. + There is a Makefile option NO_INSTALL_HARDLINKS for you. + * The smart-http backend used to always override GIT_COMMITTER_* variables with REMOTE_USER and REMOTE_ADDR, but these variables are now preserved when set. - * "include.path" mechanism of the configuration files learned to - understand "~/path" and "~user/path". - * "git am" learned the "--include" option, which is an opposite of existing the "--exclude" option. @@ -83,6 +85,9 @@ Performance and Internal Implementation (please report possible regressions) * An experimental "version 4" format of the index file has been introduced to reduce on-disk footprint and I/O overhead. + * "git archive" learned to produce its output without reading the + blob object it writes out in memory in its entirety. + * The code to compute hash values for lines used by the internal diff engine was optimized on little-endian machines, using the same trick the kernel folks came up with. @@ -124,6 +129,22 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.7.10 in the maintenance releases are contained in this release (see release notes to them for details). + * When checking out another commit from an already detached state, we + used to report all commits that are not reachable from any of the + refs as lossage, but some of them might be reachable from the new + HEAD, and there is no need to warn about them. + (merge 5d88639 js/checkout-detach-count later to maint). + + * Some time ago, "git clone" lost the progress output for its + "checkout" phase; when run without any "--quiet" option, it should + give progress to the lengthy operation. + (merge 8f63da1 ef/maint-clone-progress-fix later to maint). + + * "git status --porcelain" ignored "--branch" option by mistake. The + output for "git status --branch -z" was also incorrect and did not + terminate the record for the current branch name with NUL as asked. + (merge d4a6bf1 jk/maint-status-porcelain-z-b later to maint). + * "git diff --stat" used to fully count a binary file with modified execution bits whose contents is unmodified, which was not quite right. @@ -132,14 +153,3 @@ details). NUL. The fix is not entirely correct when the output also asks for --patch and/or --stat, though. (merge fafd382 jk/maint-tformat-with-z later to maint). - - * "git push" over smart-http lost progress output a few releases ago. - (merge e304aeb jk/maint-push-progress later to maint). - - * A contrib script "rerere-train" did not work out of the box unless - user futzed with her $PATH. - (merge 53876fc jc/rerere-train later to maint). - - * "log --graph" was not very friendly with "--stat" option and its - output had line breaks at wrong places. - (merge bafa16e lp/diffstat-with-graph later to maint). |