The fifth batch of topics graduated to 'master'
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Apr 24, 2012 at 14:50 UTC
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Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.txt
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@@ -8,6 +8,9 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
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* A third-party tool "git subtree" is distributed in contrib/
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+ * Error messages given when @{u} is used for a branch without its
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+ upstream configured have been clatified.
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* Even with "-q"uiet option, "checkout" used to report setting up
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tracking. Also "branch" learned the "-q"uiet option to squelch
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informational message.
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* The cases "git push" fails due to non-ff can be broken into three
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categories; each case is given a separate advise message.
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+ * "git push --recurse-submodules" learned to optionally look into the
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+ histories of submodules bound to the superproject and push them
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+ out.
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* A 'snapshot' request to "gitweb" honors If-Modified-Since: header,
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based on the commit date.
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+ * "gitweb" learned to highlight the patch it outputs even more.
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Foreign Interface
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+ * "git svn" used to die with unwanted SIGPIPE when talking with HTTP
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+ server that uses keep-alive.
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* "git p4" has been moved out of contrib/ area.
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Performance
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systems, run-command API now uses SHELL_PATH, not /bin/sh, when
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spawning an external command (not applicable to Windows port).
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+ * The API to iterate over refs/ hierarchy has been tweaked to allow
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+ walking only a subset of it more efficiently.
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Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.
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@@ -71,6 +86,17 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.7.10 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 parser in "fast-import" did not diagnose ":9" style references
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+ that is not followed by required SP/LF as an error.
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+ (merge 06454cb pw/fast-import-dataref-parsing later to maint).
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+ * When "git fetch" encounters repositories with too many references,
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+ the command line of "fetch-pack" that is run by a helper
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+ e.g. remote-curl, may fail to hold all of them. Now such an
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+ internal invocation can feed the references through the standard
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+ input of "fetch-pack".
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+ (merge 7103d25 it/fetch-pack-many-refs later to maint).
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* "git fetch" that recurses into submodules on demand did not check
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if it needs to go into submodules when non branches (most notably,
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tags) are fetched.