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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.2.txt index 04fe29404c..7a7e9d6fd1 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.2.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.2.txt @@ -14,6 +14,9 @@ Fixes since v1.7.10.1 * HTTP transport that requires authentication did not work correctly when multiple connections are used simultaneously. + * Minor memory leak during unpack_trees (hence "merge" and "checkout" + to check out another branch) has been plugged. + * In the older days, the header "Conflicts:" in "cherry-pick" and "merge" was separated by a blank line from the list of paths that follow for readability, but when "merge" was rewritten in C, we lost it by @@ -24,6 +27,9 @@ 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 +39,44 @@ 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 error and advice messages given by "git push" when it fails due + to non-ff were not very helpful to new users; it has been broken + into three cases, and each is given a separate advice message. + + * 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. + + * "git repack" used to write out unreachable objects as loose objects + when repacking, even if such loose objects will immediately pruned + due to its age. + + * A contrib script "rerere-train" did not work out of the box unless + user futzed with her $PATH. + + * "git rev-parse --show-prefix" used to emit nothing when run at the + top-level of the working tree, but now it gives a blank line. + * 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 |