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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.txt index 65df74b9c4..58100bf04e 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.txt @@ -19,15 +19,26 @@ Compatibility Notes GIT_MERGE_AUTOEDIT=no export GIT_MERGE_AUTOEDIT - to disable this behaviour (if you want your users to explain their + to disable this behavior (if you want your users to explain their merge commits, you do not have to do anything). Alternatively, you can give the "--no-edit" option to individual invocations of the "git merge" command if you know everybody who uses your script has Git v1.7.8 or newer. * The "--binary/-b" options to "git am" have been a no-op for quite a - while and was deprecated in mid 2008 (v1.6.0). When you give these - options to "git am", it will now fail with an error. + while and were deprecated in mid 2008 (v1.6.0). When you give these + options to "git am", it will now warn and ask you not to use them. + + * When you do not tell which branches and tags to push to the "git + push" command in any way, the command used "matching refs" rule to + update remote branches and tags with branches and tags with the + same name you locally have. In future versions of Git, this will + change to push out only your current branch according to either the + "upstream" or the "current" rule. Although "upstream" may be more + powerful once the user understands Git better, the semantics + "current" gives is simpler and easier to understand for beginners + and may be a safer and better default option. We haven't decided + yet which one to switch to. Updates since v1.7.9 @@ -35,10 +46,20 @@ Updates since v1.7.9 UI, Workflows & Features + * various "gitk" updates. + - show the path to the top level directory in the window title + - update preference edit dialog + - display file list correctly when directories are given on command line + - make "git-describe" output in the log message into a clickable link + - avoid matching the UNIX timestamp part when searching all fields + - give preference to symbolic font names like sans & monospace + - allow comparing two commits using a mark + - "gitk" honors log.showroot configuration. + * Teams for localizing the messages from the Porcelain layer of commands are starting to form, thanks to Jiang Xin who volunteered - to be the localization coordinator. An initial set of translated - messages for simplified chinese is available. + to be the localization coordinator. Translated messages for + simplified Chinese, Swedish and Portuguese are available. * The configuration mechanism learned an "include" facility; an assignment to the include.path pseudo-variable causes the named @@ -119,8 +140,10 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * Project search in "gitweb" shows the substring that matched in the project name and description highlighted. - * A new script "diffall" is added to contrib/; it drives an external - an external tool to perform a directory diff of two Git revisions + * HTTP transport learned to authenticate with a proxy if needed. + + * A new script "diffall" is added to contrib/; it drives an + external tool to perform a directory diff of two Git revisions in one go, unlike "difftool" that compares one file at a time. Foreign Interface @@ -180,18 +203,17 @@ 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). + * Build with NO_PERL_MAKEMAKER was broken and Git::I18N did not work + with versions of Perl older than 5.8.3. + (merge 5eb660e ab/perl-i18n later to maint). + * "git tag -s" honored "gpg.program" configuration variable since 1.7.9, but "git tag -v" and "git verify-tag" didn't. (merge a2c2506 az/verify-tag-use-gpg-config 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=v1.7.10-rc0-40-g57cec0a -echo O=$(git describe) -git log --first-parent --oneline ^maint $O.. -echo -git shortlog --no-merges ^maint $O.. + * "configure" script learned to take "--with-sane-tool-path" from the + command line to record SANE_TOOL_PATH (used to avoid broken platform + tools in /usr/bin) in config.mak.autogen. This may be useful for + people on Solaris who have saner tools outside /usr/xpg[46]/bin. + + * zsh port of bash completion script needed another workaround. |