1Git v1.7.10 Release Notes 2========================= 3 4Updates since v1.7.9 5-------------------- 6 7UI, Workflows & Features 8 9 * Teams for localizing the messages from the Porcelain layer of 10 commands are starting to form, thanks to Jiang Xin who volunteered 11 to be the localization coordinator. An initial set of translated 12 messages for simplified chinese is available. 13 14 * The configuration mechanism learned an "include" facility; an 15 assignment to the include.path pseudo-variable causes the named 16 file to be included in-place when Git looks up configuration 17 variables. 18 19 * A content filter (clean/smudge) used to be just a way to make the 20 recorded contents "more useful", and allowed to fail; a filter can 21 new optionally be marked as "required". 22 23 * Options whose names begin with "--no-" (e.g. the "--no-verify" 24 option of the "git commit" command) can be negated by omitting 25 "no-" from its name, e.g. "git commit --verify". 26 27 * "git am" learned to pass "-b" option to underlying "git mailinfo", so 28 that bracketed string other than "PATCH" at the beginning can be kept. 29 30 * "git clone" learned "--single-branch" option to limit cloning to a 31 single branch (surprise!). 32 33 * "git clone" learned to detach the HEAD in the resulting repository 34 when the source repository's HEAD does not point to a branch. 35 36 * When showing a patch while ignoring whitespace changes, the context 37 lines are taken from the postimage, in order to make it easier to 38 view the output. 39 40 * "diff-highlight" filter (in contrib/) was updated to produce more 41 aesthetically pleasing output. 42 43 * "fsck" learned "--no-dangling" option to omit dangling object 44 information. 45 46 * "git merge" in an interactive session learned to spawn the editor 47 by default to let the user edit the auto-generated merge message, 48 to encourage people to explain their merges better. Legacy scripts 49 can export GIT_MERGE_AUTOEDIT=no to retain the historical behavior. 50 Both "git merge" and "git pull" can be given --no-edit from the 51 command line to accept the auto-generated merge message. 52 53 * "git push" learned the "--prune" option, similar to "git fetch". 54 55 * "git symbolic-ref" learned the "--short" option to abbreviate the 56 refname it shows unambiguously. 57 58 * "git tag --list" can be given "--points-at <object>" to limit its 59 output to those that point at the given object. 60 61 * "gitweb" allows intermediate entries in the directory hierarchy 62 that leads to a projects to be clicked, which in turn shows the 63 list of projects inside that directory. 64 65 * "gitweb" learned to read various pieces of information for the 66 repositories lazily, instead of reading everything that could be 67 needed (including the ones that are not necessary for a specific 68 task). 69 70 * Project search in "gitweb" shows the substring that matched in the 71 project name and description highlighted. 72 73Foreign Interface 74 75 * Improved handling of views, labels and branches in git-p4 (in contrib). 76 77 * "git-p4" (in contrib) suffered from unnecessary merge conflicts when 78 p4 expanded the embedded $RCS$-like keywords; it can be now told to 79 unexpand them. 80 81 * Some "git-svn" updates. 82 83 * "vcs-svn"/"svn-fe" learned to read dumps with svn-deltas and 84 support incremental imports. 85 86Performance 87 88 * During "git upload-pack" in response to "git fetch", unnecessary calls 89 to parse_object() have been eliminated, to help performance in 90 repositories with excessive number of refs. 91 92Internal Implementation (please report possible regressions) 93 94 * Recursive call chains in "git index-pack" to deal with long delta 95 chains have been flattened, to reduce the stack footprint. 96 97 * Use of add_extra_ref() API is now gone, to make it possible to 98 cleanly restructure the overall refs API. 99 100 * The command line parser of "git pack-objects" now uses parse-options 101 API. 102 103 * The test suite supports the new "test_pause" helper function. 104 105 * Parallel to the test suite, there is a beginning of performance 106 benchmarking framework. 107 108 * t/Makefile is adjusted to prevent newer versions of GNU make from 109 running tests in seemingly random order. 110 111Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups. 112 113 114Fixes since v1.7.9 115------------------ 116 117Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.7.9 in the maintenance 118releases are contained in this release (see release notes to them for 119details). 120 121 * The code to synthesize the fake ancestor tree used by 3-way merge 122 fallback in "git am" was not prepared to read a patch created with 123 a non-standard -p<num> value. 124 (merge a61ba26 jc/am-3-nonstandard-popt later to maint). 125 126 * "gitweb" used to drop warnings in the log file when "heads" view is 127 accessed in a repository whose HEAD does not point at a valid 128 branch. 129 130--- 131exec >/var/tmp/1 132O=v1.7.9.2-383-gb8b5290 133echo O=$(git describe) 134git log --first-parent --oneline ^maint $O.. 135echo 136git shortlog --no-merges ^maint $O..