Update draft release notes to 1.7.10 before -rc1
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
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@@ -25,6 +25,10 @@ Compatibility Notes
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"git merge" command if you know everybody who uses your script has
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Git v1.7.8 or newer.
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+ * The "--binary/-b" options to "git am" have been a no-op for quite a
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+ while and was deprecated in mid 2008 (v1.6.0). When you give these
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+ options to "git am", it will now fail with an error.
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Updates since v1.7.9
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* Project search in "gitweb" shows the substring that matched in the
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project name and description highlighted.
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+ * A new script "diffall" is added to contrib/; it drives an external
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+ an external tool to perform a directory diff of two Git revisions
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+ in one go, unlike "difftool" that compares one file at a time.
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Foreign Interface
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* Improved handling of views, labels and branches in "git-p4" (in contrib).
@@ -172,34 +180,17 @@ 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 bundle" did not record boundary commits correctly when there
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- are many of them.
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- (merge efe4be1 tr/maint-bundle-boundary later to maint).
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- * "git diff-index" and its friends at the plumbing level showed the
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- "diff --git" header and nothing else for a path whose cached stat
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- info is dirty without actual difference when asked to produce a
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- patch. This was a longstanding bug that we could have fixed long
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- time ago.
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- (merge b3f01ff jc/maint-diff-patch-header later to maint).
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- * The code to synthesize the fake ancestor tree used by 3-way merge
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- fallback in "git am" was not prepared to read a patch created with
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- a non-standard -p<num> value.
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- (merge a61ba26 jc/am-3-nonstandard-popt later to maint).
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+ * "git tag -s" honored "gpg.program" configuration variable since
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+ 1.7.9, but "git tag -v" and "git verify-tag" didn't.
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+ (merge a2c2506 az/verify-tag-use-gpg-config later to maint).
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* "gitweb" used to drop warnings in the log file when "heads" view is
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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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---
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exec >/var/tmp/1
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-O=v1.7.10-rc0-15-g9a4c97e
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+O=v1.7.10-rc0-40-g57cec0a
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echo O=$(git describe)
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git log --first-parent --oneline ^maint $O..
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echo