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Update draft release notes to 1.7.10

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Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Junio C Hamano
2012-01-31 22:31:35 -08:00
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@ -14,10 +14,18 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
* "git clone" learned "--single-branch" option to limit cloning to a * "git clone" learned "--single-branch" option to limit cloning to a
single branch (surprise!). 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 * 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 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.
Performance Performance
* During "git upload-pack" in respose to "git fetch", unnecessary calls * During "git upload-pack" in respose to "git fetch", unnecessary calls
@ -34,6 +42,9 @@ Internal Implementation
* The test suite supports the new "test_pause" helper function. * 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. Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.
@ -60,9 +71,25 @@ details).
to completion even when the top-level process was killed. to completion even when the top-level process was killed.
(merge 10c6cdd cb/maint-kill-subprocess-upon-signal later to maint). (merge 10c6cdd cb/maint-kill-subprocess-upon-signal later to maint).
* "git mergetool" now gives an empty file as the common base version
to the backend when dealing with the "both sides added, differently"
case.
(merge ec245ba da/maint-mergetool-twoway later to maint).
* "git submodule add $path" forgot to recompute the name to be stored
in .gitmodules when the submodule at $path was once added to the
superproject and already initialized.
(merge 1017c1a jl/submodule-re-add later to maint).
* Using "git grep -l/-L" together with options -W or --break may not
make much sense as the output is to only count the number of hits
and there is no place for file breaks, but the latter options made
"-l/-L" to miscount the hits.
(merge 50dd0f2 tr/grep-l-with-decoration later to maint).
--- ---
exec >/var/tmp/1 exec >/var/tmp/1
O=v1.7.9 O=v1.7.9-110-g873ce7c
echo O=$(git describe) echo O=$(git describe)
git log --first-parent --oneline ^maint $O.. git log --first-parent --oneline ^maint $O..
echo echo