1Git v1.7.10 Release Notes
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Updates since v1.7.9
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UI, Workflows & Features
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* Teams for localizing the messages from the Porcelain layer of
10commands are starting to form, thanks to Jiang Xin who volunteered
11to be the localization coordinator. An initial set of translated
12messages for simplified chinese is available.
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* The configuration mechanism learned an "include" facility; an
15assignment to the include.path pseudo-variable causes the named
16file to be included in-place when Git looks up configuration
17variables.
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* A content filter (clean/smudge) used to be just a way to make the
20recorded contents "more useful", and allowed to fail; a filter can
21new optionally be marked as "required".
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* Options whose names begin with "--no-" (e.g. the "--no-verify"
24option of the "git commit" command) can be negated by omitting
25"no-" from its name, e.g. "git commit --verify".
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* "git am" learned to pass "-b" option to underlying "git mailinfo", so
28that bracketed string other than "PATCH" at the beginning can be kept.
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* "git clone" learned "--single-branch" option to limit cloning to a
31single branch (surprise!).
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* "git clone" learned to detach the HEAD in the resulting repository
34when the source repository's HEAD does not point to a branch.
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* When showing a patch while ignoring whitespace changes, the context
37lines are taken from the postimage, in order to make it easier to
38view the output.
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* "diff-highlight" filter (in contrib/) was updated to produce more
41aesthetically pleasing output.
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* "fsck" learned "--no-dangling" option to omit dangling object
44information.
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* "git merge" in an interactive session learned to spawn the editor
47by default to let the user edit the auto-generated merge message,
48to encourage people to explain their merges better. Legacy scripts
49can export GIT_MERGE_AUTOEDIT=no to retain the historical behavior.
50Both "git merge" and "git pull" can be given --no-edit from the
51command line to accept the auto-generated merge message.
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* "git push" learned the "--prune" option, similar to "git fetch".
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* "git symbolic-ref" learned the "--short" option to abbreviate the
56refname it shows unambiguously.
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* "git tag --list" can be given "--points-at <object>" to limit its
59output to those that point at the given object.
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* "gitweb" allows intermediate entries in the directory hierarchy
62that leads to a projects to be clicked, which in turn shows the
63list of projects inside that directory.
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* "gitweb" learned to read various pieces of information for the
66repositories lazily, instead of reading everything that could be
67needed (including the ones that are not necessary for a specific
68task).
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* Project search in "gitweb" shows the substring that matched in the
71project name and description highlighted.
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Foreign Interface
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* Improved handling of views, labels and branches in git-p4 (in contrib).
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* "git-p4" (in contrib) suffered from unnecessary merge conflicts when
78p4 expanded the embedded $RCS$-like keywords; it can be now told to
79unexpand them.
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* Some "git-svn" updates.
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* "vcs-svn"/"svn-fe" learned to read dumps with svn-deltas and
84support incremental imports.
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Performance
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* During "git upload-pack" in response to "git fetch", unnecessary calls
89to parse_object() have been eliminated, to help performance in
90repositories with excessive number of refs.
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Internal Implementation (please report possible regressions)
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* Recursive call chains in "git index-pack" to deal with long delta
95chains have been flattened, to reduce the stack footprint.
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* Use of add_extra_ref() API is now gone, to make it possible to
98cleanly restructure the overall refs API.
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* The command line parser of "git pack-objects" now uses parse-options
101API.
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* The test suite supports the new "test_pause" helper function.
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* Parallel to the test suite, there is a beginning of performance
106benchmarking framework.
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* t/Makefile is adjusted to prevent newer versions of GNU make from
109running tests in seemingly random order.
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Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.
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Fixes since v1.7.9
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Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.7.9 in the maintenance
118releases are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
119details).
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* The code to synthesize the fake ancestor tree used by 3-way merge
122fallback in "git am" was not prepared to read a patch created with
123a non-standard -p<num> value.
124(merge a61ba26 jc/am-3-nonstandard-popt later to maint).
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* "gitweb" used to drop warnings in the log file when "heads" view is
127accessed in a repository whose HEAD does not point at a valid
128branch.
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---
131exec >/var/tmp/1
132O=v1.7.9.2-383-gb8b5290
133echo O=$(git describe)
134git log --first-parent --oneline ^maint $O..
135echo
136git shortlog --no-merges ^maint $O..