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   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 * "git-p4" (in contrib) suffered from unnecessary merge conflicts when
  12   p4 expanded the embedded $RCS$-like keywords; it can be now told to
  13   unexpand them.
  14
  15 * Some "git-svn" updates.
  16
  17 * "vcs-svn"/"svn-fe" learned to read dumps with svn-deltas and
  18   support incremental imports.
  19
  20 * The configuration mechanism learned an "include" facility; an
  21   assignment to the include.path pseudo-variable causes the named
  22   file to be included in-place when Git looks up configuration
  23   variables.
  24
  25 * "git am" learned to pass "-b" option to underlying "git mailinfo", so
  26   that bracketed string other than "PATCH" at the beginning can be kept.
  27
  28 * "git clone" learned "--single-branch" option to limit cloning to a
  29   single branch (surprise!).
  30
  31 * "git clone" learned to detach the HEAD in the resulting repository
  32   when the source repository's HEAD does not point to a branch.
  33
  34 * When showing a patch while ignoring whitespace changes, the context
  35   lines are taken from the postimage, in order to make it easier to
  36   view the output.
  37
  38 * "diff-highlight" filter (in contrib/) was updated to produce more
  39   aesthetically pleasing output.
  40
  41 * "git tag --list" can be given "--points-at <object>" to limit its
  42   output to those that point at the given object.
  43
  44 * "git merge" in an interactive session learned to spawn the editor
  45   by default to let the user edit the auto-generated merge message,
  46   to encourage people to explain their merges better. Legacy scripts
  47   can export MERGE_AUTOEDIT=no to retain the historical behaviour.
  48   Both "git merge" and "git pull" can be given --no-edit from the
  49   command line to accept the auto-generated merge message.
  50
  51 * "gitweb" allows intermediate entries in the directory hierarchy
  52   that leads to a projects to be clicked, which in turn shows the
  53   list of projects inside that directory.
  54
  55Performance
  56
  57 * During "git upload-pack" in respose to "git fetch", unnecessary calls
  58   to parse_object() have been eliminated, to help performance in
  59   repositories with excessive number of refs.
  60
  61Internal Implementation (please report possible regressions)
  62
  63 * Recursive call chains in "git index-pack" to deal with long delta
  64   chains have been flattened, to reduce the stack footprint.
  65
  66 * Use of add_extra_ref() API is now gone, to make it possible to
  67   cleanly restructure the overall refs API.
  68
  69 * The command line parser of "git pack-objects" now uses parse-options
  70   API.
  71
  72 * The test suite supports the new "test_pause" helper function.
  73
  74 * Parallel to the test suite, there is a beginning of performance
  75   benchmarking framework.
  76
  77 * t/Makefile is adjusted to prevent newer versions of GNU make from
  78   running tests in seemingly random order.
  79
  80Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.
  81
  82
  83Fixes since v1.7.9
  84------------------
  85
  86Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.7.9 in the maintenance
  87releases are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
  88details).
  89
  90 * The config.mak.autogen generated by optional autoconf support tried
  91   to link the binary with -lintl even when libintl.h is missing from
  92   the system.
  93   (merge a8356d4 js/configure-libintl later to maint).
  94
  95 * "git add --refresh <pathspec>" used to warn about unmerged paths
  96   outside the given pathspec.
  97   (merge 3d1f148 jc/add-refresh-unmerged later to maint).
  98
  99 * "gitweb" used to drop warnings in the log file when "heads" view is
 100   accessed in a repository whose HEAD does not point at a valid
 101   branch.
 102
 103---
 104exec >/var/tmp/1
 105O=v1.7.9.2-261-gd065f68
 106echo O=$(git describe)
 107git log --first-parent --oneline ^maint $O..
 108echo
 109git shortlog --no-merges ^maint $O..