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   1Git v1.7.10.2 Release Notes
   2===========================
   3
   4Fixes since v1.7.10.1
   5---------------------
   6
   7 * The test scaffolding for git-daemon was flaky.
   8
   9 * The test scaffolding for fast-import was flaky.
  10
  11 * The filesystem boundary was not correctly reported when .git directory
  12   discovery stopped at a mount point.
  13
  14 * HTTP transport that requires authentication did not work correctly when
  15   multiple connections are used simultaneously.
  16
  17 * In the older days, the header "Conflicts:" in "cherry-pick" and "merge"
  18   was separated by a blank line from the list of paths that follow for
  19   readability, but when "merge" was rewritten in C, we lost it by
  20   mistake. Remove the newline from "cherry-pick" to make them match
  21   again.
  22
  23 * The command line parser choked "git cherry-pick $name" when $name can
  24   be both revision name and a pathname, even though $name can never be a
  25   path in the context of the command.
  26
  27 * The "include.path" facility in the configuration mechanism added in
  28   1.7.10 forgot to interpret "~/path" and "~user/path" as it should.
  29
  30 * "git config --rename-section" to rename an existing section into a
  31   bogus one did not check the new name.
  32
  33 * The "diff --no-index" codepath used limited-length buffers, risking
  34   pathnames getting truncated.  Update it to use the strbuf API.
  35
  36 * The report from "git fetch" said "new branch" even for a non branch
  37   ref.
  38
  39 * The http-backend (the server side of the smart http transfer) used
  40   to overwrite GIT_COMMITTER_NAME and GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL with the
  41   value obtained from REMOTE_USER unconditionally, making it
  42   impossible for the server side site-specific customization to use
  43   different identity sources to affect the names logged. It now uses
  44   REMOTE_USER only as a fallback value.
  45
  46 * "log --graph" was not very friendly with "--stat" option and its
  47   output had line breaks at wrong places.
  48
  49 * Octopus merge strategy did not reduce heads that are recorded in the
  50   final commit correctly.
  51
  52 * "git push" over smart-http lost progress output a few releases ago;
  53   this release resurrects it.
  54
  55 * The insn sheet given by "rebase -i" did not make it clear that the
  56   insn lines can be re-ordered to affect the order of the commits in
  57   the resulting history.
  58
  59 * A contrib script "rerere-train" did not work out of the box unless
  60   user futzed with her $PATH.
  61
  62 * The i18n of error message "git stash save" was not properly done.
  63
  64 * "git submodule" used a sed script that some platforms mishandled.
  65
  66 * When using a Perl script on a system where "perl" found on user's
  67   $PATH could be ancient or otherwise broken, we allow builders to
  68   specify the path to a good copy of Perl with $PERL_PATH.  The
  69   gitweb test forgot to use that Perl when running its test.
  70
  71Also contains minor fixes and documentation updates.