Update draft release notes to 1.7.10
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
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@@ -14,10 +14,18 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
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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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+ * "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 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.
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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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Performance
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* During "git upload-pack" in respose to "git fetch", unnecessary calls
@@ -34,6 +42,9 @@ Internal Implementation
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* The test suite supports the new "test_pause" helper function.
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+ * t/Makefile is adjusted to prevent newer versions of GNU make from
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+ running tests in seemingly random order.
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Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.
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@@ -60,9 +71,25 @@ details).
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to completion even when the top-level process was killed.
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(merge 10c6cdd cb/maint-kill-subprocess-upon-signal later to maint).
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+ * "git mergetool" now gives an empty file as the common base version
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+ to the backend when dealing with the "both sides added, differently"
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+ case.
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+ (merge ec245ba da/maint-mergetool-twoway later to maint).
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+
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+ * "git submodule add $path" forgot to recompute the name to be stored
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+ in .gitmodules when the submodule at $path was once added to the
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+ superproject and already initialized.
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+ (merge 1017c1a jl/submodule-re-add later to maint).
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+ * Using "git grep -l/-L" together with options -W or --break may not
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+ make much sense as the output is to only count the number of hits
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+ and there is no place for file breaks, but the latter options made
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+ "-l/-L" to miscount the hits.
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+ (merge 50dd0f2 tr/grep-l-with-decoration later to maint).
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---
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exec >/var/tmp/1
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-O=v1.7.9
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+O=v1.7.9-110-g873ce7c
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echo O=$(git describe)
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git log --first-parent --oneline ^maint $O..
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echo