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authorLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2012-05-10 10:45:42 -0700
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2012-05-10 10:45:42 -0700
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Update draft release notes to 1.7.10.2
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@@ -24,6 +24,9 @@ Fixes since v1.7.10.1
be both revision name and a pathname, even though $name can never be a
path in the context of the command.
+ * The "include.path" facility in the configuration mechanism added in
+ 1.7.10 forgot to interpret "~/path" and "~user/path" as it should.
+
* "git config --rename-section" to rename an existing section into a
bogus one did not check the new name.
@@ -33,11 +36,33 @@ Fixes since v1.7.10.1
* The report from "git fetch" said "new branch" even for a non branch
ref.
+ * The http-backend (the server side of the smart http transfer) used
+ to overwrite GIT_COMMITTER_NAME and GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL with the
+ value obtained from REMOTE_USER unconditionally, making it
+ impossible for the server side site-specific customization to use
+ different identity sources to affect the names logged. It now uses
+ REMOTE_USER only as a fallback value.
+
+ * "log --graph" was not very friendly with "--stat" option and its
+ output had line breaks at wrong places.
+
* Octopus merge strategy did not reduce heads that are recorded in the
final commit correctly.
+ * "git push" over smart-http lost progress output a few releases ago;
+ this release resurrects it.
+
+ * The insn sheet given by "rebase -i" did not make it clear that the
+ insn lines can be re-ordered to affect the order of the commits in
+ the resulting history.
+
+ * A contrib script "rerere-train" did not work out of the box unless
+ user futzed with her $PATH.
+
* The i18n of error message "git stash save" was not properly done.
+ * "git submodule" used a sed script that some platforms mishandled.
+
* When using a Perl script on a system where "perl" found on user's
$PATH could be ancient or otherwise broken, we allow builders to
specify the path to a good copy of Perl with $PERL_PATH. The