Update draft release notes to 1.7.10

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Junio C Hamano 2012-01-31 22:31:35 -08:00
parent 873ce7c8d5
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@ -14,10 +14,18 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
* "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.
Performance
* 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.
* 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.
@ -60,9 +71,25 @@ details).
to completion even when the top-level process was killed.
(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 $path was once added to the
superproject and already initialized.
(merge 1017c1a jl/submodule-re-add later to maint).
* Using "git grep -l/-L" together with options -W or --break may not
make much sense as the output is to only count the number of hits
and there is no place for file breaks, but the latter options made
"-l/-L" to miscount the hits.
(merge 50dd0f2 tr/grep-l-with-decoration later to maint).
---
exec >/var/tmp/1
O=v1.7.9
O=v1.7.9-110-g873ce7c
echo O=$(git describe)
git log --first-parent --oneline ^maint $O..
echo