* Improved handling of views, labels and branches in git-p4 (in contrib).
+ * Updated command line arguments completion script for zsh (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.
+
+ * The commands in the "git diff" family and "git apply --stat" that
+ count the number of files changed and the number of lines
+ inserted/deleted have been updated to match the output from
+ "diffstat". This also opens the door to i18n this line.
+
* 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).
+ * The error message emitted when we see an empty loose object was
+ not phrased correctly.
+ (merge 33e42de mm/empty-loose-error-message later to maint).
+
+ * "git commit" refused to create a commit when entries added with
+ "add -N" remained in the index, without telling Git what their content
+ in the next commit should be. We should have created the commit without
+ these paths.
+ (merge 3f6d56d jc/maint-commit-ignore-i-t-a later to maint).
+
+ * Search box in "gitweb" did not accept non-ASCII characters correctly.
+ (merge 84d9e2d jn/gitweb-search-utf-8 later to maint).
- * "git push -q" was not sufficiently quiet.
- (merge d336572 cb/push-quiet later to maint).
+ * The code to ask for password did not fall back to the terminal
+ input when GIT_ASKPASS is set but does not work (e.g. lack of X
+ with GUI askpass helper).
+ (merge 84d7273 jk/prompt-fallback-to-tty later to maint).
- * "git log --first-parent $pathspec" did not stay on the first parent
- chain and veered into side branch from which the whole change to the
- specified paths came.
- (merge 36ed191 jc/maint-log-first-parent-pathspec later to maint).
+ * map_user() was not rewriting its output correctly, which resulted
+ in the user visible symptom that "git blame -e" sometimes showed
+ excess '>' at the end of email addresses.
+ (merge f026358 jc/maint-mailmap-output later to maint).
- * Subprocesses spawned from various git programs were often left running
- to completion even when the top-level process was killed.
- (merge 10c6cdd cb/maint-kill-subprocess-upon-signal later to maint).
+ * "checkout -b" did not allow switching out of an unborn branch.
+ (merge abe1998 jc/checkout-out-of-unborn later to maint).
---
exec >/var/tmp/1
-O=v1.7.9
+O=v1.7.9-249-gaa47ec9
echo O=$(git describe)
git log --first-parent --oneline ^maint $O..
echo