* 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 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 grep" pays attention to -diff (hence -binary) attributes now.
+
+ * "git tag --list" can be given "--points-at <object>" to limit its
+ output to those that point at the given object.
+
* "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.
+ Both "git merge" and "git pull" can be given --no-edit from the
+ command line to accept the auto-generated merge message.
* "gitweb" allows intermediate entries in the directory hierarchy
that leads to a projects to be clicked, which in turn shows the
to parse_object() have been eliminated, to help performance in
repositories with excessive number of refs.
-Internal Implementation
+Internal Implementation (please report possible regressions)
* Recursive call chains in "git index-pack" to deal with long delta
chains have been flattened, to reduce the stack footprint.
- * Use of add_extra_ref() API is slowly getting removed, to make it
- possible to cleanly restructure the overall refs API.
+ * Use of add_extra_ref() API is now gone, to make it possible to
+ cleanly restructure the overall refs API.
+
+ * The command line parser of "git pack-objects" now uses parse-options
+ API.
* The test suite supports the new "test_pause" helper function.
releases are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
details).
+ * When you have both .../foo and .../foo.git, "git clone .../foo" did not
+ favor the former but the latter.
+ (merge b3256eb jk/git-dir-lookup later to maint).
+
+ * Some systems need to explicitly link -lcharset to get locale_charset().
+ (merge b522528 dp/i18n-libcharset later to maint).
+
+ * The output from "git diff --stat" for two paths that have the same
+ amount of changes showed graph bars of different length due to the
+ way we handled rounding errors.
+ (merge 2eeeef2 jc/diff-stat-scaler later to maint).
+
+ * We failed to give the true terminal width to any subcommand when
+ they are invoked with the pager, i.e. "git -p cmd".
+ (merge ad6c373 zj/term-columns later to maint).
+
+ * The transport programs ignored --no-progress and showed progress when
+ sending their output to a terminal.
+ (merge 01fdc21 cb/transfer-no-progress later to maint).
+
+ * Sometimes error status detected by a check in an earlier phase of
+ receive-pack (the other end of 'git push') was lost by later
+ checks, resulting in false indication of success.
+ (merge ef7e93d cb/receive-pack-keep-errors later to maint).
+
+ * t5541 ignored user-supplied port number used for HTTP server testing
+ (merge d202a51 cb/maint-t5541-make-server-port-portable later to maint).
+
+ * "rev-list --verify" sometimes skipped verification depending on the
+ phase of the moon, which dates back to 1.7.8.x series.
+ (merge cb8da70 cb/maint-rev-list-verify-object later to maint).
+
---
exec >/var/tmp/1
-O=v1.7.9-187-gdc347e9
+O=v1.7.9.1-264-g76bdcf0
echo O=$(git describe)
git log --first-parent --oneline ^maint $O..
echo