Update draft release notes to 1.7.10

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.txt
index be3001afe239121328b9d949332e4bf96698ec67..48950d5afbca6e8e23b501163467e2f74a700f52 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.txt
@@ -31,10 +31,17 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
    lines are taken from the postimage, in order to make it easier to
    view the output.
 
    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.
  * "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
 
  * "gitweb" allows intermediate entries in the directory hierarchy
    that leads to a projects to be clicked, which in turn shows the


@@ -46,13 +53,16 @@ Performance
    to parse_object() have been eliminated, to help performance in
    repositories with excessive number of refs.
 
    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.
 
 
  * 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.
 
 
  * The test suite supports the new "test_pause" helper function.
 


@@ -69,35 +79,41 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.7.9 in the maintenance
 releases are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
 details).
 
 releases are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
 details).
 

- * 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).
+ * 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).

 
 

- * "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).
+ * 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).

 
 

- * Search box in "gitweb" did not accept non-ASCII characters correctly.
-   (merge 84d9e2d jn/gitweb-search-utf-8 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).

 
 

- * 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).
+ * 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).

 
 

- * 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).
+ * t5541 ignored user-supplied port number used for HTTP server testing
+   (merge d202a51 cb/maint-t5541-make-server-port-portable later to maint).

 
 

- * "checkout -b" did not allow switching out of an unborn branch.
-   (merge abe1998 jc/checkout-out-of-unborn 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
 
 ---
 exec >/var/tmp/1

-O=v1.7.9-249-gaa47ec9
+O=v1.7.9.1-264-g76bdcf0

 echo O=$(git describe)
 git log --first-parent --oneline ^maint $O..
 echo
 echo O=$(git describe)
 git log --first-parent --oneline ^maint $O..
 echo