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 * "diff-highlight" filter (in contrib/) was updated to produce more 28 aesthetically pleasing output. 29 30 * "git tag --list" can be given "--points-at <object>" to limit its 31 output to those that point at the given object. 32 33 * "git merge" in an interactive session learned to spawn the editor 34 by default to let the user edit the auto-generated merge message, 35 to encourage people to explain their merges better. Legacy scripts 36 can export MERGE_AUTOEDIT=no to retain the historical behaviour. 37 Both "git merge" and "git pull" can be given --no-edit from the 38 command line to accept the auto-generated merge message. 39 40 * "gitweb" allows intermediate entries in the directory hierarchy 41 that leads to a projects to be clicked, which in turn shows the 42 list of projects inside that directory. 43 44Performance 45 46 * During "git upload-pack" in respose to "git fetch", unnecessary calls 47 to parse_object() have been eliminated, to help performance in 48 repositories with excessive number of refs. 49 50Internal Implementation (please report possible regressions) 51 52 * Recursive call chains in "git index-pack" to deal with long delta 53 chains have been flattened, to reduce the stack footprint. 54 55 * Use of add_extra_ref() API is now gone, to make it possible to 56 cleanly restructure the overall refs API. 57 58 * The command line parser of "git pack-objects" now uses parse-options 59 API. 60 61 * The test suite supports the new "test_pause" helper function. 62 63 * t/Makefile is adjusted to prevent newer versions of GNU make from 64 running tests in seemingly random order. 65 66Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups. 67 68 69Fixes since v1.7.9 70------------------ 71 72Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.7.9 in the maintenance 73releases are contained in this release (see release notes to them for 74details). 75 76 * "gitweb" used to drop warnings in the log file when "heads" view is 77 accessed in a repository whose HEAD does not point at a valid 78 branch. 79 80--- 81exec >/var/tmp/1 82O=v1.7.9.1-289-g5609586 83echo O=$(git describe) 84git log --first-parent --oneline ^maint $O.. 85echo 86git shortlog --no-merges ^maint $O..