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+Git v1.7.10 Release Notes
+=========================
+
+Updates since v1.7.9
+--------------------
+
+UI, Workflows & Features
+
+ * Improved handling of views, labels and branches in git-p4 (in contrib).
+
+ * "vcs-svn"/"svn-fe" learned to read dumps with svn-deltas and
+   support incremental imports.
+
+ * "git am" learned to pass "-b" option to underlying "git mailinfo", so
+   that bracketed string other than "PATCH" at the beginning can be kept.
+
+ * "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.
+
+ * "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.
+
+Performance
+
+ * During "git upload-pack" in respose to "git fetch", unnecessary calls
+   to parse_object() have been eliminated, to help performance in
+   repositories with excessive number of refs.
+
+Internal Implementation
+
+ * Recursive call chains in "git index-pack" to deal with long delta
+   chains have been flattened, to reduce the stack footprint.
+
+ * Use of add_extra_ref() API is slowly getting removed, to make it
+   possible to cleanly restructure the overall refs API.
+
+ * 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.
+
+
+Fixes since v1.7.9
+------------------
+
+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).
+
+ * "add -e" learned not to show a diff for an otherwise unmodified
+   submodule that only has uncommitted local changes in the patch
+   prepared by for the user to edit.
+   (merge 701825d js/add-e-submodule-fix later to maint).
+
+ * "rebase" and "commit --amend" failed to work on commits with ancient
+   timestamps near year 1970.
+   (merge 2c733fb jc/parse-date-raw later to maint).
+
+ * "git merge --ff-only $tag" failed because it cannot record the
+   required mergetag without creating a merge, but this is so common
+   operation for branch that is used _only_ to follow the upstream, so
+   it is allowed to fast-forward without recording the mergetag.
+   (merge b5c9f1c jc/merge-ff-only-stronger-than-signed-merge later to maint).
+
+ * Typo in "git branch --edit-description my-tpoic" was not diagnosed.
+   (merge c2d17ba jc/branch-desc-typoavoidance later to maint).
+
+ * rpmbuild noticed an unpackaged but installed *.mo file and failed.
+   (merge 3a9f58c jn/rpm-spec later to maint).
+
+---
+exec >/var/tmp/1
+O=v1.7.9-208-gee8d52f
+echo O=$(git describe)
+git log --first-parent --oneline ^maint $O..
+echo
+git shortlog --no-merges ^maint $O..
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.1.txt
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+Git v1.7.9.1 Release Notes
+==========================
+
+Fixes since v1.7.9
+------------------
+
+ * Subprocesses spawned from various git programs were often left running
+   to completion even when the top-level process was killed.
+
+ * 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.
+
+ * "git log --first-parent $pathspec" did not stay on the first parent
+   chain and veered into side branch from which the whole change to the
+   specified paths came.
+
+ * "git push -q" was not sufficiently quiet.
+
+ * When "git push" fails to update any refs, the client side did not
+   report an error correctly to the end user.
+
+ * "git mergetool" now gives an empty file as the common base version
+   to the backend when dealing with the "both sides added, differently"
+   case.
+
+ * When asking for a tag to be pulled, "request-pull" did not show the
+   name of the tag prefixed with "tags/", which would have helped older
+   clients.
+
+ * "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.
+
+Also contains minor fixes and documentation updates.