Update draft release notes to 1.7.10
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Feb 26, 2012 at 23:11 UTC
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@@ -38,23 +38,30 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
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* "diff-highlight" filter (in contrib/) was updated to produce more
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aesthetically pleasing output.
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- * "git tag --list" can be given "--points-at <object>" to limit its
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- output to those that point at the given object.
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-
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* "git merge" in an interactive session learned to spawn the editor
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by default to let the user edit the auto-generated merge message,
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to encourage people to explain their merges better. Legacy scripts
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- can export MERGE_AUTOEDIT=no to retain the historical behaviour.
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+ can export GIT_MERGE_AUTOEDIT=no to retain the historical behavior.
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Both "git merge" and "git pull" can be given --no-edit from the
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command 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 tag --list" can be given "--points-at <object>" to limit its
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+ output to those that point at the given object.
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* "gitweb" allows intermediate entries in the directory hierarchy
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that leads to a projects to be clicked, which in turn shows the
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list of projects inside that directory.
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+ * "gitweb" learned to read various pieces of information for the
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+ repositories lazily, instead of reading everything that could be
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+ needed (including the ones that are not necessary for a specific
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+ task).
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Performance
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- * During "git upload-pack" in respose to "git fetch", unnecessary calls
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+ * During "git upload-pack" in response to "git fetch", unnecessary calls
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to parse_object() have been eliminated, to help performance in
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repositories with excessive number of refs.
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@@ -87,13 +94,35 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.7.9 in the maintenance
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releases are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
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details).
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+ * The bulk check-in codepath streamed contents that needs
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+ smudge/clean filters without running them, instead of punting and
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+ delegating to the codepath to run filters after slurping everything
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+ to core.
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+ (merge 4f22b10 jk/maint-avoid-streaming-filtered-contents later to maint).
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+ * When the filter driver exits before reading the content before the
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+ main git process writes the contents to be filtered to the pipe to
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+ it, the latter could be killed with SIGPIPE instead of ignoring
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+ such an event as an error.
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+ (merge 6424c2a jb/filter-ignore-sigpipe later to maint).
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+ * When a remote helper exits before reading the blank line from the
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+ main git process to signal the end of commands, the latter could be
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+ killed with SIGPIPE. Instead we should ignore such event as a
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+ non-error.
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+ (merge c34fe63 sp/smart-http-failure-to-push later to maint).
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+ * "git bundle create" produced a corrupt bundle file upon seeing
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+ commits with excessively long subject line.
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+ (merge 8a557bb tr/maint-bundle-long-subject later to maint).
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* "gitweb" used to drop warnings in the log file when "heads" view is
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accessed in a repository whose HEAD does not point at a valid
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branch.
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---
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exec >/var/tmp/1
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-O=v1.7.9.2-261-gd065f68
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+O=v1.7.9.2-301-g507fba2
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echo O=$(git describe)
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git log --first-parent --oneline ^maint $O..
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echo