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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.txt | 41 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.txt index 364e16d0d5..89edfdafc7 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.txt @@ -38,23 +38,30 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * "diff-highlight" filter (in contrib/) was updated to produce more aesthetically pleasing output. - * "git tag --list" can be given "--points-at <object>" to limit its - output to those that point at the given object. - * "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. + can export GIT_MERGE_AUTOEDIT=no to retain the historical behavior. Both "git merge" and "git pull" can be given --no-edit from the command line to accept the auto-generated merge message. + * "git push" learned the "--prune" option, similar to "git fetch". + + * "git tag --list" can be given "--points-at <object>" to limit its + output to those that point at the given object. + * "gitweb" allows intermediate entries in the directory hierarchy that leads to a projects to be clicked, which in turn shows the list of projects inside that directory. + * "gitweb" learned to read various pieces of information for the + repositories lazily, instead of reading everything that could be + needed (including the ones that are not necessary for a specific + task). + Performance - * During "git upload-pack" in respose to "git fetch", unnecessary calls + * During "git upload-pack" in response to "git fetch", unnecessary calls to parse_object() have been eliminated, to help performance in repositories with excessive number of refs. @@ -87,13 +94,35 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.7.9 in the maintenance releases are contained in this release (see release notes to them for details). + * The bulk check-in codepath streamed contents that needs + smudge/clean filters without running them, instead of punting and + delegating to the codepath to run filters after slurping everything + to core. + (merge 4f22b10 jk/maint-avoid-streaming-filtered-contents later to maint). + + * When the filter driver exits before reading the content before the + main git process writes the contents to be filtered to the pipe to + it, the latter could be killed with SIGPIPE instead of ignoring + such an event as an error. + (merge 6424c2a jb/filter-ignore-sigpipe later to maint). + + * When a remote helper exits before reading the blank line from the + main git process to signal the end of commands, the latter could be + killed with SIGPIPE. Instead we should ignore such event as a + non-error. + (merge c34fe63 sp/smart-http-failure-to-push later to maint). + + * "git bundle create" produced a corrupt bundle file upon seeing + commits with excessively long subject line. + (merge 8a557bb tr/maint-bundle-long-subject later to maint). + * "gitweb" used to drop warnings in the log file when "heads" view is accessed in a repository whose HEAD does not point at a valid branch. --- exec >/var/tmp/1 -O=v1.7.9.2-261-gd065f68 +O=v1.7.9.2-301-g507fba2 echo O=$(git describe) git log --first-parent --oneline ^maint $O.. echo |