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 * "vcs-svn"/"svn-fe" learned to read dumps with svn-deltas and 12 support incremental imports. 13 14 * "git am" learned to pass "-b" option to underlying "git mailinfo", so 15 that bracketed string other than "PATCH" at the beginning can be kept. 16 17 * "git clone" learned "--single-branch" option to limit cloning to a 18 single branch (surprise!). 19 20 * "git clone" learned to detach the HEAD in the resulting repository 21 when the source repository's HEAD does not point to a branch. 22 23 * When showing a patch while ignoring whitespace changes, the context 24 lines are taken from the postimage, in order to make it easier to 25 view the output. 26 27 * "git merge" in an interactive session learned to spawn the editor 28 by default to let the user edit the auto-generated merge message, 29 to encourage people to explain their merges better. Legacy scripts 30 can export MERGE_AUTOEDIT=no to retain the historical behaviour. 31 32 * "gitweb" allows intermediate entries in the directory hierarchy 33 that leads to a projects to be clicked, which in turn shows the 34 list of projects inside that directory. 35 36Performance 37 38 * During "git upload-pack" in respose to "git fetch", unnecessary calls 39 to parse_object() have been eliminated, to help performance in 40 repositories with excessive number of refs. 41 42Internal Implementation 43 44 * Recursive call chains in "git index-pack" to deal with long delta 45 chains have been flattened, to reduce the stack footprint. 46 47 * Use of add_extra_ref() API is slowly getting removed, to make it 48 possible to cleanly restructure the overall refs API. 49 50 * The test suite supports the new "test_pause" helper function. 51 52 * t/Makefile is adjusted to prevent newer versions of GNU make from 53 running tests in seemingly random order. 54 55Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups. 56 57 58Fixes since v1.7.9 59------------------ 60 61Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.7.9 in the maintenance 62releases are contained in this release (see release notes to them for 63details). 64 65 * "add -e" learned not to show a diff for an otherwise unmodified 66 submodule that only has uncommitted local changes in the patch 67 prepared by for the user to edit. 68 (merge 701825d js/add-e-submodule-fix later to maint). 69 70 * "rebase" and "commit --amend" failed to work on commits with ancient 71 timestamps near year 1970. 72 (merge 2c733fb jc/parse-date-raw later to maint). 73 74 * "git merge --ff-only $tag" failed because it cannot record the 75 required mergetag without creating a merge, but this is so common 76 operation for branch that is used _only_ to follow the upstream, so 77 it is allowed to fast-forward without recording the mergetag. 78 (merge b5c9f1c jc/merge-ff-only-stronger-than-signed-merge later to maint). 79 80 * Typo in "git branch --edit-description my-tpoic" was not diagnosed. 81 (merge c2d17ba jc/branch-desc-typoavoidance later to maint). 82 83 * rpmbuild noticed an unpackaged but installed *.mo file and failed. 84 (merge 3a9f58c jn/rpm-spec later to maint). 85 86--- 87exec >/var/tmp/1 88O=v1.7.9-208-gee8d52f 89echo O=$(git describe) 90git log --first-parent --oneline ^maint $O.. 91echo 92git shortlog --no-merges ^maint $O..