* 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
* 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.
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).
+ * "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 push -q" was not sufficiently quiet.
- (merge d336572 cb/push-quiet 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).
- * "git log --first-parent $pathspec" did not stay on the first parent
- chain and veered into side branch from which the whole change to the
- specified paths came.
- (merge 36ed191 jc/maint-log-first-parent-pathspec later to maint).
+ * Typo in "git branch --edit-description my-tpoic" was not diagnosed.
+ (merge c2d17ba jc/branch-desc-typoavoidance later to maint).
- * Subprocesses spawned from various git programs were often left running
- to completion even when the top-level process was killed.
- (merge 10c6cdd cb/maint-kill-subprocess-upon-signal later to maint).
+ * rpmbuild noticed an unpackaged but installed *.mo file and failed.
+ (merge 3a9f58c jn/rpm-spec later to maint).
---
exec >/var/tmp/1
-O=v1.7.9
+O=v1.7.9-208-gee8d52f
echo O=$(git describe)
git log --first-parent --oneline ^maint $O..
echo