Updates since v1.7.8
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+ * gitk updates accumulated since early 2011.
+
* git-gui updated to 0.16.0.
* git-p4 (in contrib/) updates.
the same 'M' moniker. They now use 'D' (for deletion) and 'T' (for
type-change) to match "git status -s" and "git diff --name-status".
+ * "git add" learned to stream large files directly into a packfile
+ instead of writing them into individual loose object files.
+
* "git branch -m <current branch> HEAD" is an obvious no-op and is
now allowed.
* "git checkout" and "git merge" learned "--no-overwrite-ignore" option
to tell Git that untracked and ignored files are not expendable.
+ * "git commit --amend" learned "--no-edit" option to say that the
+ user is amending the tree being recorded, without updating the
+ commit log message.
+
* fsck and prune are relatively lengthy operations that still go
silent while making the end-user wait. They learned to give progress
output like other slow operations.
had trouble with.
(merge 6a5ceda jl/submodule-status-failure-report later to maint).
+ * "fast-import" did not correctly update an existing notes tree,
+ possibly corrupting the fan-out.
+
+ * When a "reword" action in "git rebase -i" failed to run "commit --amend",
+ we did not give the control back to the user to resolve the situation, and
+ instead kept the original commit log message.
+ (merge 0becb3e aw/rebase-i-stop-on-failure-to-amend later to maint).
+
--
exec >/var/tmp/1
-O=v1.7.8-246-gb3f17ac
+O=v1.7.8-282-ga2add85
echo O=$(git describe master)
git log --first-parent --oneline --reverse ^$O master
echo