@@ -31,10 +31,17 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
3131 lines are taken from the postimage, in order to make it easier to
3232 view the output.
3333
34+ * "git grep" pays attention to -diff (hence -binary) attributes now.
35+
36+ * "git tag --list" can be given "--points-at <object>" to limit its
37+ output to those that point at the given object.
38+
3439 * "git merge" in an interactive session learned to spawn the editor
3540 by default to let the user edit the auto-generated merge message,
3641 to encourage people to explain their merges better. Legacy scripts
3742 can export MERGE_AUTOEDIT=no to retain the historical behaviour.
43+ Both "git merge" and "git pull" can be given --no-edit from the
44+ command line to accept the auto-generated merge message.
3845
3946 * "gitweb" allows intermediate entries in the directory hierarchy
4047 that leads to a projects to be clicked, which in turn shows the
@@ -46,13 +53,16 @@ Performance
4653 to parse_object() have been eliminated, to help performance in
4754 repositories with excessive number of refs.
4855
49- Internal Implementation
56+ Internal Implementation (please report possible regressions)
5057
5158 * Recursive call chains in "git index-pack" to deal with long delta
5259 chains have been flattened, to reduce the stack footprint.
5360
54- * Use of add_extra_ref() API is slowly getting removed, to make it
55- possible to cleanly restructure the overall refs API.
61+ * Use of add_extra_ref() API is now gone, to make it possible to
62+ cleanly restructure the overall refs API.
63+
64+ * The command line parser of "git pack-objects" now uses parse-options
65+ API.
5666
5767 * The test suite supports the new "test_pause" helper function.
5868
@@ -69,35 +79,41 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.7.9 in the maintenance
6979releases are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
7080details).
7181
72- * The error message emitted when we see an empty loose object was
73- not phrased correctly.
74- (merge 33e42de mm/empty-loose-error-message later to maint).
82+ * When you have both .../foo and .../foo.git, "git clone .../foo" did not
83+ favor the former but the latter.
84+ (merge b3256eb jk/git-dir-lookup later to maint).
85+
86+ * Some systems need to explicitly link -lcharset to get locale_charset().
87+ (merge b522528 dp/i18n-libcharset later to maint).
88+
89+ * The output from "git diff --stat" for two paths that have the same
90+ amount of changes showed graph bars of different length due to the
91+ way we handled rounding errors.
92+ (merge 2eeeef2 jc/diff-stat-scaler later to maint).
7593
76- * "git commit" refused to create a commit when entries added with
77- "add -N" remained in the index, without telling Git what their content
78- in the next commit should be. We should have created the commit without
79- these paths.
80- (merge 3f6d56d jc/maint-commit-ignore-i-t-a later to maint).
94+ * We failed to give the true terminal width to any subcommand when
95+ they are invoked with the pager, i.e. "git -p cmd".
96+ (merge ad6c373 zj/term-columns later to maint).
8197
82- * Search box in "gitweb" did not accept non-ASCII characters correctly.
83- (merge 84d9e2d jn/gitweb-search-utf-8 later to maint).
98+ * The transport programs ignored --no-progress and showed progress when
99+ sending their output to a terminal.
100+ (merge 01fdc21 cb/transfer-no-progress later to maint).
84101
85- * The code to ask for password did not fall back to the terminal
86- input when GIT_ASKPASS is set but does not work (e.g. lack of X
87- with GUI askpass helper) .
88- (merge 84d7273 jk/prompt-fallback-to-tty later to maint).
102+ * Sometimes error status detected by a check in an earlier phase of
103+ receive-pack (the other end of 'git push') was lost by later
104+ checks, resulting in false indication of success .
105+ (merge ef7e93d cb/receive-pack-keep-errors later to maint).
89106
90- * map_user() was not rewriting its output correctly, which resulted
91- in the user visible symptom that "git blame -e" sometimes showed
92- excess '>' at the end of email addresses.
93- (merge f026358 jc/maint-mailmap-output later to maint).
107+ * t5541 ignored user-supplied port number used for HTTP server testing
108+ (merge d202a51 cb/maint-t5541-make-server-port-portable later to maint).
94109
95- * "checkout -b" did not allow switching out of an unborn branch.
96- (merge abe1998 jc/checkout-out-of-unborn later to maint).
110+ * "rev-list --verify" sometimes skipped verification depending on the
111+ phase of the moon, which dates back to 1.7.8.x series.
112+ (merge cb8da70 cb/maint-rev-list-verify-object later to maint).
97113
98114---
99115exec >/var/tmp/1
100- O=v1.7.9-249-gaa47ec9
116+ O=v1.7.9.1-264-g76bdcf0
101117echo O=$(git describe)
102118git log --first-parent --oneline ^maint $O..
103119echo
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