1Git v1.7.10 Release Notes 2========================= 3 4Updates since v1.7.9 5-------------------- 6 7UI, Workflows & Features 8 9 * Improved handling of views, labels and branches in git-p4 (in contrib). 10 11 * Updated command line arguments completion script for zsh (in contrib). 12 13 * "vcs-svn"/"svn-fe" learned to read dumps with svn-deltas and 14 support incremental imports. 15 16 * "git am" learned to pass "-b" option to underlying "git mailinfo", so 17 that bracketed string other than "PATCH" at the beginning can be kept. 18 19 * "git clone" learned "--single-branch" option to limit cloning to a 20 single branch (surprise!). 21 22 * "git clone" learned to detach the HEAD in the resulting repository 23 when the source repository's HEAD does not point to a branch. 24 25 * The commands in the "git diff" family and "git apply --stat" that 26 count the number of files changed and the number of lines 27 inserted/deleted have been updated to match the output from 28 "diffstat". This also opens the door to i18n this line. 29 30 * When showing a patch while ignoring whitespace changes, the context 31 lines are taken from the postimage, in order to make it easier to 32 view the output. 33 34 * "git merge" in an interactive session learned to spawn the editor 35 by default to let the user edit the auto-generated merge message, 36 to encourage people to explain their merges better. Legacy scripts 37 can export MERGE_AUTOEDIT=no to retain the historical behaviour. 38 39 * "gitweb" allows intermediate entries in the directory hierarchy 40 that leads to a projects to be clicked, which in turn shows the 41 list of projects inside that directory. 42 43Performance 44 45 * During "git upload-pack" in respose to "git fetch", unnecessary calls 46 to parse_object() have been eliminated, to help performance in 47 repositories with excessive number of refs. 48 49Internal Implementation 50 51 * Recursive call chains in "git index-pack" to deal with long delta 52 chains have been flattened, to reduce the stack footprint. 53 54 * Use of add_extra_ref() API is slowly getting removed, to make it 55 possible to cleanly restructure the overall refs API. 56 57 * The test suite supports the new "test_pause" helper function. 58 59 * t/Makefile is adjusted to prevent newer versions of GNU make from 60 running tests in seemingly random order. 61 62Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups. 63 64 65Fixes since v1.7.9 66------------------ 67 68Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.7.9 in the maintenance 69releases are contained in this release (see release notes to them for 70details). 71 72 * The error message emitted when we see an empty loose object was 73 not phrased correctly. 74 (merge 33e42de mm/empty-loose-error-message later to maint). 75 76 * "git commit" refused to create a commit when entries added with 77 "add -N" remained in the index, without telling Git what their content 78 in the next commit should be. We should have created the commit without 79 these paths. 80 (merge 3f6d56d jc/maint-commit-ignore-i-t-a later to maint). 81 82 * Search box in "gitweb" did not accept non-ASCII characters correctly. 83 (merge 84d9e2d jn/gitweb-search-utf-8 later to maint). 84 85 * The code to ask for password did not fall back to the terminal 86 input when GIT_ASKPASS is set but does not work (e.g. lack of X 87 with GUI askpass helper). 88 (merge 84d7273 jk/prompt-fallback-to-tty later to maint). 89 90 * map_user() was not rewriting its output correctly, which resulted 91 in the user visible symptom that "git blame -e" sometimes showed 92 excess '>' at the end of email addresses. 93 (merge f026358 jc/maint-mailmap-output later to maint). 94 95 * "checkout -b" did not allow switching out of an unborn branch. 96 (merge abe1998 jc/checkout-out-of-unborn later to maint). 97 98--- 99exec >/var/tmp/1 100O=v1.7.9-249-gaa47ec9 101echo O=$(git describe) 102git log --first-parent --oneline ^maint $O.. 103echo 104git shortlog --no-merges ^maint $O..