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Update draft release notes to 1.7.10
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <[email protected]>
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Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.txt

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* "diff-highlight" filter (in contrib/) was updated to produce more
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aesthetically pleasing output.
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* "git tag --list" can be given "--points-at <object>" to limit its
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output to those that point at the given object.
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* "git merge" in an interactive session learned to spawn the editor
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by default to let the user edit the auto-generated merge message,
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to encourage people to explain their merges better. Legacy scripts
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can export MERGE_AUTOEDIT=no to retain the historical behaviour.
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can export GIT_MERGE_AUTOEDIT=no to retain the historical behavior.
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Both "git merge" and "git pull" can be given --no-edit from the
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command line to accept the auto-generated merge message.
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* "git push" learned the "--prune" option, similar to "git fetch".
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* "git tag --list" can be given "--points-at <object>" to limit its
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output to those that point at the given object.
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* "gitweb" allows intermediate entries in the directory hierarchy
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that leads to a projects to be clicked, which in turn shows the
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list of projects inside that directory.
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* "gitweb" learned to read various pieces of information for the
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repositories lazily, instead of reading everything that could be
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needed (including the ones that are not necessary for a specific
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task).
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* During "git upload-pack" in respose to "git fetch", unnecessary calls
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* During "git upload-pack" in response to "git fetch", unnecessary calls
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to parse_object() have been eliminated, to help performance in
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repositories with excessive number of refs.
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releases are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
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* The bulk check-in codepath streamed contents that needs
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smudge/clean filters without running them, instead of punting and
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delegating to the codepath to run filters after slurping everything
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to core.
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(merge 4f22b10 jk/maint-avoid-streaming-filtered-contents later to maint).
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* When the filter driver exits before reading the content before the
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main git process writes the contents to be filtered to the pipe to
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it, the latter could be killed with SIGPIPE instead of ignoring
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such an event as an error.
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(merge 6424c2a jb/filter-ignore-sigpipe later to maint).
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* When a remote helper exits before reading the blank line from the
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main git process to signal the end of commands, the latter could be
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killed with SIGPIPE. Instead we should ignore such event as a
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non-error.
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(merge c34fe63 sp/smart-http-failure-to-push later to maint).
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* "git bundle create" produced a corrupt bundle file upon seeing
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commits with excessively long subject line.
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(merge 8a557bb tr/maint-bundle-long-subject later to maint).
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* "gitweb" used to drop warnings in the log file when "heads" view is
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accessed in a repository whose HEAD does not point at a valid
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branch.
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exec >/var/tmp/1
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O=v1.7.9.2-261-gd065f68
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O=v1.7.9.2-301-g507fba2
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echo O=$(git describe)
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git log --first-parent --oneline ^maint $O..
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echo

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