b3a769dc35 · matheusbsbs/matheus-bagliano

@@ -31,10 +31,17 @@ UI, Workflows & Features

31 lines are taken from the postimage, in order to make it easier to

32 view the output.

33

34 + * "git grep" pays attention to -diff (hence -binary) attributes now.

35 +

36 + * "git tag --list" can be given "--points-at <object>" to limit its

37 + output to those that point at the given object.

38 +

39 * "git merge" in an interactive session learned to spawn the editor

40 by default to let the user edit the auto-generated merge message,

41 to encourage people to explain their merges better. Legacy scripts

42 can export MERGE_AUTOEDIT=no to retain the historical behaviour.

43 + Both "git merge" and "git pull" can be given --no-edit from the

44 + command line to accept the auto-generated merge message.

45

46 * "gitweb" allows intermediate entries in the directory hierarchy

47 that leads to a projects to be clicked, which in turn shows the

@@ -46,13 +53,16 @@ Performance

53 to parse_object() have been eliminated, to help performance in

54 repositories with excessive number of refs.

55

49 -Internal Implementation

56 +Internal Implementation (please report possible regressions)

57

58 * Recursive call chains in "git index-pack" to deal with long delta

59 chains have been flattened, to reduce the stack footprint.

60

54 - * Use of add_extra_ref() API is slowly getting removed, to make it

55 - possible to cleanly restructure the overall refs API.

61 + * Use of add_extra_ref() API is now gone, to make it possible to

62 + cleanly restructure the overall refs API.

63 +

64 + * The command line parser of "git pack-objects" now uses parse-options

65 + API.

66

67 * The test suite supports the new "test_pause" helper function.

68

@@ -69,35 +79,41 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.7.9 in the maintenance

79 releases are contained in this release (see release notes to them for

80 details).

81

72 - * The error message emitted when we see an empty loose object was

73 - not phrased correctly.

74 - (merge 33e42de mm/empty-loose-error-message later to maint).

82 + * When you have both .../foo and .../foo.git, "git clone .../foo" did not

83 + favor the former but the latter.

84 + (merge b3256eb jk/git-dir-lookup later to maint).

85 +

86 + * Some systems need to explicitly link -lcharset to get locale_charset().

87 + (merge b522528 dp/i18n-libcharset later to maint).

88 +

89 + * The output from "git diff --stat" for two paths that have the same

90 + amount of changes showed graph bars of different length due to the

91 + way we handled rounding errors.

92 + (merge 2eeeef2 jc/diff-stat-scaler later to maint).

93

76 - * "git commit" refused to create a commit when entries added with

77 - "add -N" remained in the index, without telling Git what their content

78 - in the next commit should be. We should have created the commit without

79 - these paths.

80 - (merge 3f6d56d jc/maint-commit-ignore-i-t-a later to maint).

94 + * We failed to give the true terminal width to any subcommand when

95 + they are invoked with the pager, i.e. "git -p cmd".

96 + (merge ad6c373 zj/term-columns later to maint).

97

82 - * Search box in "gitweb" did not accept non-ASCII characters correctly.

83 - (merge 84d9e2d jn/gitweb-search-utf-8 later to maint).

98 + * The transport programs ignored --no-progress and showed progress when

99 + sending their output to a terminal.

100 + (merge 01fdc21 cb/transfer-no-progress later to maint).

101

85 - * The code to ask for password did not fall back to the terminal

86 - input when GIT_ASKPASS is set but does not work (e.g. lack of X

87 - with GUI askpass helper).

88 - (merge 84d7273 jk/prompt-fallback-to-tty later to maint).

102 + * Sometimes error status detected by a check in an earlier phase of

103 + receive-pack (the other end of 'git push') was lost by later

104 + checks, resulting in false indication of success.

105 + (merge ef7e93d cb/receive-pack-keep-errors later to maint).

106

90 - * map_user() was not rewriting its output correctly, which resulted

91 - in the user visible symptom that "git blame -e" sometimes showed

92 - excess '>' at the end of email addresses.

93 - (merge f026358 jc/maint-mailmap-output later to maint).

107 + * t5541 ignored user-supplied port number used for HTTP server testing

108 + (merge d202a51 cb/maint-t5541-make-server-port-portable later to maint).

109

95 - * "checkout -b" did not allow switching out of an unborn branch.

96 - (merge abe1998 jc/checkout-out-of-unborn later to maint).

110 + * "rev-list --verify" sometimes skipped verification depending on the

111 + phase of the moon, which dates back to 1.7.8.x series.

112 + (merge cb8da70 cb/maint-rev-list-verify-object later to maint).

113

114 ---

115 exec >/var/tmp/1

100 -O=v1.7.9-249-gaa47ec9

116 +O=v1.7.9.1-264-g76bdcf0

117 echo O=$(git describe)

118 git log --first-parent --oneline ^maint $O..

119 echo

Update draft release notes to 1.7.10