The tenth batch of topics

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

diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.txt
index 8dfeddcd6850399d8d6a5e118fcd5866cfe47776..37f374bf1d059a2c548a21b486d2309946fafde1 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.txt
@@ -25,13 +25,15 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
    tracking.  Also "branch" learned the "-q"uiet option to squelch
    informational message.
 
    tracking.  Also "branch" learned the "-q"uiet option to squelch
    informational message.
 

+ * Your build platform may support hardlinks but you may prefer not to
+   use them, e.g. when installing to DESTDIR to make a tarball and
+   untarring on a filesystem that has poor support for hardlinks.
+   There is a Makefile option NO_INSTALL_HARDLINKS for you.
+

  * The smart-http backend used to always override GIT_COMMITTER_*
    variables with REMOTE_USER and REMOTE_ADDR, but these variables are
    now preserved when set.
 
  * The smart-http backend used to always override GIT_COMMITTER_*
    variables with REMOTE_USER and REMOTE_ADDR, but these variables are
    now preserved when set.
 

- * "include.path" mechanism of the configuration files learned to
-   understand "~/path" and "~user/path".
-

  * "git am" learned the "--include" option, which is an opposite of
    existing the "--exclude" option.
 
  * "git am" learned the "--include" option, which is an opposite of
    existing the "--exclude" option.
 


@@ -83,6 +85,9 @@ Performance and Internal Implementation (please report possible regressions)
  * An experimental "version 4" format of the index file has been
    introduced to reduce on-disk footprint and I/O overhead.
 
  * An experimental "version 4" format of the index file has been
    introduced to reduce on-disk footprint and I/O overhead.
 

+ * "git archive" learned to produce its output without reading the
+   blob object it writes out in memory in its entirety.
+

  * The code to compute hash values for lines used by the internal diff
    engine was optimized on little-endian machines, using the same
    trick the kernel folks came up with.
  * The code to compute hash values for lines used by the internal diff
    engine was optimized on little-endian machines, using the same
    trick the kernel folks came up with.


@@ -124,6 +129,22 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.7.10 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).
 

+ * When checking out another commit from an already detached state, we
+   used to report all commits that are not reachable from any of the
+   refs as lossage, but some of them might be reachable from the new
+   HEAD, and there is no need to warn about them.
+   (merge 5d88639 js/checkout-detach-count later to maint).
+
+ * Some time ago, "git clone" lost the progress output for its
+   "checkout" phase; when run without any "--quiet" option, it should
+   give progress to the lengthy operation.
+   (merge 8f63da1 ef/maint-clone-progress-fix later to maint).
+
+ * "git status --porcelain" ignored "--branch" option by mistake.  The
+   output for "git status --branch -z" was also incorrect and did not
+   terminate the record for the current branch name with NUL as asked.
+   (merge d4a6bf1 jk/maint-status-porcelain-z-b later to maint).
+

  * "git diff --stat" used to fully count a binary file with modified
    execution bits whose contents is unmodified, which was not quite
    right.
  * "git diff --stat" used to fully count a binary file with modified
    execution bits whose contents is unmodified, which was not quite
    right.


@@ -132,14 +153,3 @@ details).
    NUL.  The fix is not entirely correct when the output also asks for
    --patch and/or --stat, though.
    (merge fafd382 jk/maint-tformat-with-z later to maint).
    NUL.  The fix is not entirely correct when the output also asks for
    --patch and/or --stat, though.
    (merge fafd382 jk/maint-tformat-with-z later to maint).

-
- * "git push" over smart-http lost progress output a few releases ago.
-   (merge e304aeb jk/maint-push-progress later to maint).
-
- * A contrib script "rerere-train" did not work out of the box unless
-   user futzed with her $PATH.
-   (merge 53876fc jc/rerere-train later to maint).
-
- * "log --graph" was not very friendly with "--stat" option and its
-   output had line breaks at wrong places.
-   (merge bafa16e lp/diffstat-with-graph later to maint).