@@ -43,20 +43,23 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
4343
4444 * A content filter (clean/smudge) used to be just a way to make the
4545 recorded contents "more useful", and allowed to fail; a filter can
46- new optionally be marked as "required".
46+ now optionally be marked as "required".
4747
4848 * Options whose names begin with "--no-" (e.g. the "--no-verify"
4949 option of the "git commit" command) can be negated by omitting
5050 "no-" from its name, e.g. "git commit --verify".
5151
5252 * "git am" learned to pass "-b" option to underlying "git mailinfo", so
53- that bracketed string other than "PATCH" at the beginning can be kept.
53+ that a bracketed string other than "PATCH" at the beginning can be kept.
5454
5555 * "git clone" learned "--single-branch" option to limit cloning to a
56- single branch (surprise!).
56+ single branch (surprise!); tags that do not point into the history
57+ of the branch are not fetched.
5758
5859 * "git clone" learned to detach the HEAD in the resulting repository
59- when the source repository's HEAD does not point to a branch.
60+ when the user specifies a tag with "--branch" (e.g., "--branch=v1.0").
61+ Clone also learned to print the usual "detached HEAD" advice in such
62+ a case, similar to "git checkout v1.0".
6063
6164 * When showing a patch while ignoring whitespace changes, the context
6265 lines are taken from the postimage, in order to make it easier to
@@ -71,9 +74,12 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
7174 * "fsck" learned "--no-dangling" option to omit dangling object
7275 information.
7376
74- * "git log -G" learned to pay attention to the "-i" option and can
75- find patch hunks that introduce or remove a string that matches the
76- given pattern ignoring the case.
77+ * "git log -G" and "git log -S" learned to pay attention to the "-i"
78+ option. With "-i", "log -G" ignores the case when finding patch
79+ hunks that introduce or remove a string that matches the given
80+ pattern. Similarly with "-i", "log -S" ignores the case when
81+ finding the commit the given block of text appears or disappears
82+ from the file.
7783
7884 * "git merge" in an interactive session learned to spawn the editor
7985 by default to let the user edit the auto-generated merge message,
@@ -82,20 +88,23 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
8288 Both "git merge" and "git pull" can be given --no-edit from the
8389 command line to accept the auto-generated merge message.
8490
85- * The advise message given when the user didn't give enough clue on
91+ * The advice message given when the user didn't give enough clue on
8692 what to merge to "git pull" and "git merge" has been updated to
8793 be more concise and easier to understand.
8894
8995 * "git push" learned the "--prune" option, similar to "git fetch".
9096
97+ * The whole directory that houses a top-level superproject managed by
98+ "git submodule" can be moved to another place.
99+
91100 * "git symbolic-ref" learned the "--short" option to abbreviate the
92101 refname it shows unambiguously.
93102
94103 * "git tag --list" can be given "--points-at <object>" to limit its
95104 output to those that point at the given object.
96105
97106 * "gitweb" allows intermediate entries in the directory hierarchy
98- that leads to a projects to be clicked, which in turn shows the
107+ that leads to a project to be clicked, which in turn shows the
99108 list of projects inside that directory.
100109
101110 * "gitweb" learned to read various pieces of information for the
@@ -149,6 +158,10 @@ Internal Implementation (please report possible regressions)
149158 * The code to check if a path points at a file beyond a symbolic link
150159 has been restructured to be thread-safe.
151160
161+ * When pruning directories that has become empty during "git prune"
162+ and "git prune-packed", call closedir() that iterates over a
163+ directory before rmdir() it.
164+
152165Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.
153166
154167
@@ -179,9 +192,14 @@ details).
179192 accessed in a repository whose HEAD does not point at a valid
180193 branch.
181194
195+ * "gitweb" did use quotemeta() to prepare search string when asked to
196+ do a fixed-string project search, but did not use it by mistake and
197+ used the user-supplied string instead.
198+ (merge e65ceb6 jn/maint-do-not-match-with-unsanitized-searchtext later to maint).
199+
182200---
183201exec >/var/tmp/1
184- O=v1.7.9.3-366-g1e4d087
202+ O=v1.7.10-rc0-15-g9a4c97e
185203echo O=$(git describe)
186204git log --first-parent --oneline ^maint $O..
187205echo
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