Update draft release notes to 1.7.10
Again this round mostly consists of fixes for 1.7.9 in preparation for merging these topics down to maint for 1.7.9.1 Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
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@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
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* Improved handling of views, labels and branches in git-p4 (in contrib).
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+ * Updated command line arguments completion script for zsh (in contrib).
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* "vcs-svn"/"svn-fe" learned to read dumps with svn-deltas and
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support incremental imports.
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@@ -20,6 +22,11 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
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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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+ * The commands in the "git diff" family and "git apply --stat" that
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+ count the number of files changed and the number of lines
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+ inserted/deleted have been updated to match the output from
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+ "diffstat". This also opens the door to i18n this line.
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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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view the output.
@@ -62,6 +69,38 @@ 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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+ * "git merge --no-edit $tag" failed to honor the --no-edit option.
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+ (merge 3adab6f jn/merge-no-edit-fix later to maint).
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+ * The error message emitted when we see an empty loose object was
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+ not phrased correctly.
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+ (merge 33e42de mm/empty-loose-error-message later to maint).
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+ * Many small corner case bugs on "git tag -n" was corrected.
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+ (merge 31fd8d7 jk/maint-tag-show-fixes later to maint).
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+ * "git commit" refused to create a commit when entries added with
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+ "add -N" remained in the index, without telling Git what their content
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+ in the next commit should be. We should have created the commit without
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+ these paths.
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+ (merge 3f6d56d jc/maint-commit-ignore-i-t-a later to maint).
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+ * Search box in "gitweb" did not accept non-ASCII characters correctly.
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+ (merge 84d9e2d jn/gitweb-search-utf-8 later to maint).
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+ * The code to ask for password did not fall back to the terminal
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+ input when GIT_ASKPASS is set but does not work (e.g. lack of X
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+ with GUI askpass helper).
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+ (merge 84d7273 jk/prompt-fallback-to-tty later to maint).
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+ * map_user() was not rewriting its output correctly, which resulted
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+ in the user visible symptom that "git blame -e" sometimes showed
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+ excess '>' at the end of email addresses.
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+ (merge f026358 jc/maint-mailmap-output later to maint).
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+ * "checkout -b" did not allow switching out of an unborn branch.
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+ (merge abe1998 jc/checkout-out-of-unborn later to maint).
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* "add -e" learned not to show a diff for an otherwise unmodified
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submodule that only has uncommitted local changes in the patch
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prepared by for the user to edit.
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---
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exec >/var/tmp/1
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-O=v1.7.9-208-gee8d52f
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+O=v1.7.9-249-gaa47ec9
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echo O=$(git describe)
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git log --first-parent --oneline ^maint $O..
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echo