Update draft release notes to 1.7.10
Also apply typofixes people on the list helped spotting and correcting. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
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@@ -43,20 +43,23 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
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* A content filter (clean/smudge) used to be just a way to make the
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recorded contents "more useful", and allowed to fail; a filter can
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- new optionally be marked as "required".
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+ now optionally be marked as "required".
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* Options whose names begin with "--no-" (e.g. the "--no-verify"
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option of the "git commit" command) can be negated by omitting
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"no-" from its name, e.g. "git commit --verify".
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* "git am" learned to pass "-b" option to underlying "git mailinfo", so
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- that bracketed string other than "PATCH" at the beginning can be kept.
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+ that a bracketed string other than "PATCH" at the beginning can be kept.
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* "git clone" learned "--single-branch" option to limit cloning to a
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- single branch (surprise!).
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+ single branch (surprise!); tags that do not point into the history
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+ of the branch are not fetched.
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* "git clone" learned to detach the HEAD in the resulting repository
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- when the source repository's HEAD does not point to a branch.
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+ when the user specifies a tag with "--branch" (e.g., "--branch=v1.0").
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+ Clone also learned to print the usual "detached HEAD" advice in such
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+ a case, similar to "git checkout v1.0".
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* When showing a patch while ignoring whitespace changes, the context
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lines are taken from the postimage, in order to make it easier to
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* "fsck" learned "--no-dangling" option to omit dangling object
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information.
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- * "git log -G" learned to pay attention to the "-i" option and can
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- find patch hunks that introduce or remove a string that matches the
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- given pattern ignoring the case.
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+ * "git log -G" and "git log -S" learned to pay attention to the "-i"
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+ option. With "-i", "log -G" ignores the case when finding patch
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+ hunks that introduce or remove a string that matches the given
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+ pattern. Similarly with "-i", "log -S" ignores the case when
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+ finding the commit the given block of text appears or disappears
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+ from the file.
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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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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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- * The advise message given when the user didn't give enough clue on
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+ * The advice message given when the user didn't give enough clue on
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what to merge to "git pull" and "git merge" has been updated to
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be more concise and easier to understand.
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* "git push" learned the "--prune" option, similar to "git fetch".
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+ * The whole directory that houses a top-level superproject managed by
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+ "git submodule" can be moved to another place.
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* "git symbolic-ref" learned the "--short" option to abbreviate the
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refname it shows unambiguously.
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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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+ that leads to a project 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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* The code to check if a path points at a file beyond a symbolic link
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has been restructured to be thread-safe.
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+ * When pruning directories that has become empty during "git prune"
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+ and "git prune-packed", call closedir() that iterates over a
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+ directory before rmdir() it.
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Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.
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@@ -179,9 +192,14 @@ details).
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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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+ * "gitweb" did use quotemeta() to prepare search string when asked to
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+ do a fixed-string project search, but did not use it by mistake and
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+ used the user-supplied string instead.
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+ (merge e65ceb6 jn/maint-do-not-match-with-unsanitized-searchtext later to maint).
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exec >/var/tmp/1
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-O=v1.7.9.3-366-g1e4d087
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+O=v1.7.10-rc0-15-g9a4c97e
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echo O=$(git describe)
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git log --first-parent --oneline ^maint $O..
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echo