1Git v1.7.10 Release Notes 2========================= 3 4Updates since v1.7.9 5-------------------- 6 7UI, Workflows & Features 8 9 * Improved handling of views, labels and branches in git-p4 (in contrib). 10 11 * Updated command line arguments completion script for zsh (in contrib). 12 13 * "vcs-svn"/"svn-fe" learned to read dumps with svn-deltas and 14 support incremental imports. 15 16 * "git am" learned to pass "-b" option to underlying "git mailinfo", so 17 that bracketed string other than "PATCH" at the beginning can be kept. 18 19 * "git clone" learned "--single-branch" option to limit cloning to a 20 single branch (surprise!). 21 22 * "git clone" learned to detach the HEAD in the resulting repository 23 when the source repository's HEAD does not point to a branch. 24 25 * The commands in the "git diff" family and "git apply --stat" that 26 count the number of files changed and the number of lines 27 inserted/deleted have been updated to match the output from 28 "diffstat". This also opens the door to i18n this line. 29 30 * When showing a patch while ignoring whitespace changes, the context 31 lines are taken from the postimage, in order to make it easier to 32 view the output. 33 34 * "git grep" pays attention to -diff (hence -binary) attributes now. 35 36 * "git tag --list" can be given "--points-at <object>" to limit its 37 output to those that point at the given object. 38 39 * "git merge" in an interactive session learned to spawn the editor 40 by default to let the user edit the auto-generated merge message, 41 to encourage people to explain their merges better. Legacy scripts 42 can export MERGE_AUTOEDIT=no to retain the historical behaviour. 43 Both "git merge" and "git pull" can be given --no-edit from the 44 command line to accept the auto-generated merge message. 45 46 * "gitweb" allows intermediate entries in the directory hierarchy 47 that leads to a projects to be clicked, which in turn shows the 48 list of projects inside that directory. 49 50Performance 51 52 * During "git upload-pack" in respose to "git fetch", unnecessary calls 53 to parse_object() have been eliminated, to help performance in 54 repositories with excessive number of refs. 55 56Internal Implementation (please report possible regressions) 57 58 * Recursive call chains in "git index-pack" to deal with long delta 59 chains have been flattened, to reduce the stack footprint. 60 61 * Use of add_extra_ref() API is now gone, to make it possible to 62 cleanly restructure the overall refs API. 63 64 * The command line parser of "git pack-objects" now uses parse-options 65 API. 66 67 * The test suite supports the new "test_pause" helper function. 68 69 * t/Makefile is adjusted to prevent newer versions of GNU make from 70 running tests in seemingly random order. 71 72Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups. 73 74 75Fixes since v1.7.9 76------------------ 77 78Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.7.9 in the maintenance 79releases are contained in this release (see release notes to them for 80details). 81 82 * When you have both .../foo and .../foo.git, "git clone .../foo" did not 83 favor the former but the latter. 84 (merge b3256eb jk/git-dir-lookup later to maint). 85 86 * Some systems need to explicitly link -lcharset to get locale_charset(). 87 (merge b522528 dp/i18n-libcharset later to maint). 88 89 * The output from "git diff --stat" for two paths that have the same 90 amount of changes showed graph bars of different length due to the 91 way we handled rounding errors. 92 (merge 2eeeef2 jc/diff-stat-scaler later to maint). 93 94 * We failed to give the true terminal width to any subcommand when 95 they are invoked with the pager, i.e. "git -p cmd". 96 (merge ad6c373 zj/term-columns later to maint). 97 98 * The transport programs ignored --no-progress and showed progress when 99 sending their output to a terminal. 100 (merge 01fdc21 cb/transfer-no-progress later to maint). 101 102 * Sometimes error status detected by a check in an earlier phase of 103 receive-pack (the other end of 'git push') was lost by later 104 checks, resulting in false indication of success. 105 (merge ef7e93d cb/receive-pack-keep-errors later to maint). 106 107 * t5541 ignored user-supplied port number used for HTTP server testing 108 (merge d202a51 cb/maint-t5541-make-server-port-portable later to maint). 109 110 * "rev-list --verify" sometimes skipped verification depending on the 111 phase of the moon, which dates back to 1.7.8.x series. 112 (merge cb8da70 cb/maint-rev-list-verify-object later to maint). 113 114--- 115exec >/var/tmp/1 116O=v1.7.9.1-264-g76bdcf0 117echo O=$(git describe) 118git log --first-parent --oneline ^maint $O.. 119echo 120git shortlog --no-merges ^maint $O..