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Junio C Hamano b6b3b6a01f Update draft release notes to 1.7.10
Document bunch of bugfix topics to be merged down to 'maint' soonish
for 1.7.9.1 maintenance release.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-10 14:16:32 -08:00

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Git v1.7.10 Release Notes
=========================
Updates since v1.7.9
--------------------
UI, Workflows & Features
* Improved handling of views, labels and branches in git-p4 (in contrib).
* "vcs-svn"/"svn-fe" learned to read dumps with svn-deltas and
support incremental imports.
* "git am" learned to pass "-b" option to underlying "git mailinfo", so
that bracketed string other than "PATCH" at the beginning can be kept.
* "git clone" learned "--single-branch" option to limit cloning to a
single branch (surprise!).
* "git clone" learned to detach the HEAD in the resulting repository
when the source repository's HEAD does not point to a branch.
* When showing a patch while ignoring whitespace changes, the context
lines are taken from the postimage, in order to make it easier to
view the output.
* "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.
* "gitweb" allows intermediate entries in the directory hierarchy
that leads to a projects to be clicked, which in turn shows the
list of projects inside that directory.
Performance
* During "git upload-pack" in respose to "git fetch", unnecessary calls
to parse_object() have been eliminated, to help performance in
repositories with excessive number of refs.
Internal Implementation
* 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.
* The test suite supports the new "test_pause" helper function.
* t/Makefile is adjusted to prevent newer versions of GNU make from
running tests in seemingly random order.
Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.
Fixes since v1.7.9
------------------
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).
* "add -e" learned not to show a diff for an otherwise unmodified
submodule that only has uncommitted local changes in the patch
prepared by for the user to edit.
(merge 701825d js/add-e-submodule-fix later to maint).
* "rebase" and "commit --amend" failed to work on commits with ancient
timestamps near year 1970.
(merge 2c733fb jc/parse-date-raw later to maint).
* "git merge --ff-only $tag" failed because it cannot record the
required mergetag without creating a merge, but this is so common
operation for branch that is used _only_ to follow the upstream, so
it is allowed to fast-forward without recording the mergetag.
(merge b5c9f1c jc/merge-ff-only-stronger-than-signed-merge later to maint).
* Typo in "git branch --edit-description my-tpoic" was not diagnosed.
(merge c2d17ba jc/branch-desc-typoavoidance later to maint).
* rpmbuild noticed an unpackaged but installed *.mo file and failed.
(merge 3a9f58c jn/rpm-spec later to maint).
---
exec >/var/tmp/1
O=v1.7.9-208-gee8d52f
echo O=$(git describe)
git log --first-parent --oneline ^maint $O..
echo
git shortlog --no-merges ^maint $O..