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..