releases are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
details).
- * When "git push" fails to update any refs, the client side did not
- report an error correctly to the end user.
- (merge 5238cbf sp/smart-http-failure-to-push later to maint).
-
- * "git push -q" was not sufficiently quiet.
- (merge d336572 cb/push-quiet later to maint).
-
- * "git log --first-parent $pathspec" did not stay on the first parent
- chain and veered into side branch from which the whole change to the
- specified paths came.
- (merge 36ed191 jc/maint-log-first-parent-pathspec later to maint).
-
- * Subprocesses spawned from various git programs were often left running
- to completion even when the top-level process was killed.
- (merge 10c6cdd cb/maint-kill-subprocess-upon-signal later to maint).
-
- * "git mergetool" now gives an empty file as the common base version
- to the backend when dealing with the "both sides added, differently"
- case.
- (merge ec245ba da/maint-mergetool-twoway later to maint).
-
- * "git submodule add $path" forgot to recompute the name to be stored
- in .gitmodules when the submodule at $path was once added to the
- superproject and already initialized.
- (merge 1017c1a jl/submodule-re-add later to maint).
-
- * Using "git grep -l/-L" together with options -W or --break may not
- make much sense as the output is to only count the number of hits
- and there is no place for file breaks, but the latter options made
- "-l/-L" to miscount the hits.
- (merge 50dd0f2 tr/grep-l-with-decoration later to maint).
-
- * When asking for a tag to be pulled, "request-pull" shows the name
- of the tag prefixed with "tags/"
- (merge 2ad9ba0 jc/maint-request-pull-for-tag later to maint).
+ * "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 $tag" failed because it cannot record the
+ required mergetag without creating a merge, but this is so common
+ operation for branch that is used _only_ to follow the upstream, so
+ it is allowed to fast-forward without recording the mergetag.
+ (merge b5c9f1c jc/merge-ff-only-stronger-than-signed-merge later to maint).
+
+ * Typo in "git branch --edit-description my-tpoic" was not diagnosed.
+ (merge c2d17ba jc/branch-desc-typoavoidance later to maint).
+
+ * rpmbuild noticed an unpackaged but installed *.mo file and failed.
+ (merge 3a9f58c jn/rpm-spec later to maint).
---
exec >/var/tmp/1
-O=v1.7.9-187-gdc347e9
+O=v1.7.9-208-gee8d52f
echo O=$(git describe)
git log --first-parent --oneline ^maint $O..
echo