Update draft release notes to 1.7.10

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Junio C Hamano
2012-02-21 15:29:29 -08:00
parent 5609586f65
commit bd444cadb5

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@ -8,8 +8,6 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
* Improved handling of views, labels and branches in git-p4 (in contrib). * Improved handling of views, labels and branches in git-p4 (in contrib).
* Updated command line arguments completion script for zsh (in contrib).
* "vcs-svn"/"svn-fe" learned to read dumps with svn-deltas and * "vcs-svn"/"svn-fe" learned to read dumps with svn-deltas and
support incremental imports. support incremental imports.
@ -22,16 +20,12 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
* "git clone" learned to detach the HEAD in the resulting repository * "git clone" learned to detach the HEAD in the resulting repository
when the source repository's HEAD does not point to a branch. when the source repository's HEAD does not point to a branch.
* The commands in the "git diff" family and "git apply --stat" that
count the number of files changed and the number of lines
inserted/deleted have been updated to match the output from
"diffstat". This also opens the door to i18n this line.
* When showing a patch while ignoring whitespace changes, the context * When showing a patch while ignoring whitespace changes, the context
lines are taken from the postimage, in order to make it easier to lines are taken from the postimage, in order to make it easier to
view the output. view the output.
* "git grep" pays attention to -diff (hence -binary) attributes now. * "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 * "git tag --list" can be given "--points-at <object>" to limit its
output to those that point at the given object. output to those that point at the given object.
@ -79,41 +73,13 @@ 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 releases are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
details). details).
* When you have both .../foo and .../foo.git, "git clone .../foo" did not * "gitweb" used to drop warnings in the log file when "heads" view is
favor the former but the latter. accessed in a repository whose HEAD does not point at a valid
(merge b3256eb jk/git-dir-lookup later to maint). branch.
* Some systems need to explicitly link -lcharset to get locale_charset().
(merge b522528 dp/i18n-libcharset later to maint).
* The output from "git diff --stat" for two paths that have the same
amount of changes showed graph bars of different length due to the
way we handled rounding errors.
(merge 2eeeef2 jc/diff-stat-scaler later to maint).
* We failed to give the true terminal width to any subcommand when
they are invoked with the pager, i.e. "git -p cmd".
(merge ad6c373 zj/term-columns later to maint).
* The transport programs ignored --no-progress and showed progress when
sending their output to a terminal.
(merge 01fdc21 cb/transfer-no-progress later to maint).
* Sometimes error status detected by a check in an earlier phase of
receive-pack (the other end of 'git push') was lost by later
checks, resulting in false indication of success.
(merge ef7e93d cb/receive-pack-keep-errors later to maint).
* t5541 ignored user-supplied port number used for HTTP server testing
(merge d202a51 cb/maint-t5541-make-server-port-portable later to maint).
* "rev-list --verify" sometimes skipped verification depending on the
phase of the moon, which dates back to 1.7.8.x series.
(merge cb8da70 cb/maint-rev-list-verify-object later to maint).
--- ---
exec >/var/tmp/1 exec >/var/tmp/1
O=v1.7.9.1-264-g76bdcf0 O=v1.7.9.1-289-g5609586
echo O=$(git describe) echo O=$(git describe)
git log --first-parent --oneline ^maint $O.. git log --first-parent --oneline ^maint $O..
echo echo