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author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2012-02-01 10:31:35 +0400 |
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committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2012-02-02 03:26:53 +0400 |
commit | f3fb07509c2e0b21b12a598fcd0a19a92fc38a9d (patch) | |
tree | a907f91cdc87176a5ebbc155cde54be71982b74f /Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.txt | |
parent | 873ce7c8d5a57b5f8f3bcc8f9905dac13cb38988 (diff) |
Update draft release notes to 1.7.10
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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1 files changed, 28 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.txt index cc222819a0..e1d70bd27f 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.txt @@ -14,10 +14,18 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * "git clone" learned "--single-branch" option to limit cloning to a single branch (surprise!). + * "git clone" learned to detach the HEAD in the resulting repository + when the source repository's HEAD does not point to a branch. + * When showing a patch while ignoring whitespace changes, the context lines are taken from the postimage, in order to make it easier to view the output. + * "git merge" in an interactive session learned to spawn the editor + by default to let the user edit the auto-generated merge message, + to encourage people to explain their merges better. Legacy scripts + can export MERGE_AUTOEDIT=no to retain the historical behaviour. + Performance * During "git upload-pack" in respose to "git fetch", unnecessary calls @@ -34,6 +42,9 @@ Internal Implementation * The test suite supports the new "test_pause" helper function. + * t/Makefile is adjusted to prevent newer versions of GNU make from + running tests in seemingly random order. + Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups. @@ -60,9 +71,25 @@ details). to completion even when the top-level process was killed. (merge 10c6cdd cb/maint-kill-subprocess-upon-signal later to maint). + * "git mergetool" now gives an empty file as the common base version + to the backend when dealing with the "both sides added, differently" + case. + (merge ec245ba da/maint-mergetool-twoway later to maint). + + * "git submodule add $path" forgot to recompute the name to be stored + in .gitmodules when the submodule at $path was once added to the + superproject and already initialized. + (merge 1017c1a jl/submodule-re-add later to maint). + + * Using "git grep -l/-L" together with options -W or --break may not + make much sense as the output is to only count the number of hits + and there is no place for file breaks, but the latter options made + "-l/-L" to miscount the hits. + (merge 50dd0f2 tr/grep-l-with-decoration later to maint). + --- exec >/var/tmp/1 -O=v1.7.9 +O=v1.7.9-110-g873ce7c echo O=$(git describe) git log --first-parent --oneline ^maint $O.. echo |