--- /dev/null
- (merge abe1998 jc/checkout-out-of-unborn later to maint).
-
- * "add -e" learned not to show a diff for an otherwise unmodified
- submodule that only has uncommitted local changes in the patch
- prepared by for the user to edit.
- (merge 701825d js/add-e-submodule-fix later to maint).
-
- * "rebase" and "commit --amend" failed to work on commits with ancient
- timestamps near year 1970.
- (merge 2c733fb jc/parse-date-raw later to maint).
-
- * "git merge --ff-only $tag" failed because it cannot record the
- required mergetag without creating a merge, but this is so common
- operation for branch that is used _only_ to follow the upstream, so
- it is allowed to fast-forward without recording the mergetag.
- (merge b5c9f1c jc/merge-ff-only-stronger-than-signed-merge later to maint).
-
- * Typo in "git branch --edit-description my-tpoic" was not diagnosed.
- (merge c2d17ba jc/branch-desc-typoavoidance later to maint).
-
- * rpmbuild noticed an unpackaged but installed *.mo file and failed.
- (merge 3a9f58c jn/rpm-spec later to maint).
+Git v1.7.10 Release Notes
+=========================
+
+Updates since v1.7.9
+--------------------
+
+UI, Workflows & Features
+
+ * 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
+ support incremental imports.
+
+ * "git am" learned to pass "-b" option to underlying "git mailinfo", so
+ that bracketed string other than "PATCH" at the beginning can be kept.
+
+ * "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.
+
+ * 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
+ 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.
+
+ * "gitweb" allows intermediate entries in the directory hierarchy
+ that leads to a projects to be clicked, which in turn shows the
+ list of projects inside that directory.
+
+Performance
+
+ * During "git upload-pack" in respose to "git fetch", unnecessary calls
+ to parse_object() have been eliminated, to help performance in
+ repositories with excessive number of refs.
+
+Internal Implementation
+
+ * Recursive call chains in "git index-pack" to deal with long delta
+ chains have been flattened, to reduce the stack footprint.
+
+ * Use of add_extra_ref() API is slowly getting removed, to make it
+ possible to cleanly restructure the overall refs API.
+
+ * 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.
+
+
+Fixes since v1.7.9
+------------------
+
+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
+details).
+
+ * "git merge --no-edit $tag" failed to honor the --no-edit option.
+ (merge 3adab6f jn/merge-no-edit-fix later to maint).
+
+ * The error message emitted when we see an empty loose object was
+ not phrased correctly.
+ (merge 33e42de mm/empty-loose-error-message later to maint).
+
+ * Many small corner case bugs on "git tag -n" was corrected.
+ (merge 31fd8d7 jk/maint-tag-show-fixes later to maint).
+
+ * "git commit" refused to create a commit when entries added with
+ "add -N" remained in the index, without telling Git what their content
+ in the next commit should be. We should have created the commit without
+ these paths.
+ (merge 3f6d56d jc/maint-commit-ignore-i-t-a later to maint).
+
+ * Search box in "gitweb" did not accept non-ASCII characters correctly.
+ (merge 84d9e2d jn/gitweb-search-utf-8 later to maint).
+
+ * The code to ask for password did not fall back to the terminal
+ input when GIT_ASKPASS is set but does not work (e.g. lack of X
+ with GUI askpass helper).
+ (merge 84d7273 jk/prompt-fallback-to-tty later to maint).
+
+ * map_user() was not rewriting its output correctly, which resulted
+ in the user visible symptom that "git blame -e" sometimes showed
+ excess '>' at the end of email addresses.
+ (merge f026358 jc/maint-mailmap-output later to maint).
+
+ * "checkout -b" did not allow switching out of an unborn branch.
++ (merge abe1998 jc/checkout-out-of-unborn later to maint).
+
+---
+exec >/var/tmp/1
+O=v1.7.9-249-gaa47ec9
+echo O=$(git describe)
+git log --first-parent --oneline ^maint $O..
+echo
+git shortlog --no-merges ^maint $O..
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