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Update draft release notes to 1.7.10 before -rc1
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <[email protected]>
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Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.txt

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"git merge" command if you know everybody who uses your script has
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Git v1.7.8 or newer.
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* The "--binary/-b" options to "git am" have been a no-op for quite a
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while and was deprecated in mid 2008 (v1.6.0). When you give these
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options to "git am", it will now fail with an error.
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Updates since v1.7.9
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* Project search in "gitweb" shows the substring that matched in the
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project name and description highlighted.
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* A new script "diffall" is added to contrib/; it drives an external
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an external tool to perform a directory diff of two Git revisions
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in one go, unlike "difftool" that compares one file at a time.
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Foreign Interface
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* Improved handling of views, labels and branches in "git-p4" (in contrib).
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releases are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
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* "git bundle" did not record boundary commits correctly when there
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are many of them.
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(merge efe4be1 tr/maint-bundle-boundary later to maint).
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* "git diff-index" and its friends at the plumbing level showed the
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"diff --git" header and nothing else for a path whose cached stat
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info is dirty without actual difference when asked to produce a
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patch. This was a longstanding bug that we could have fixed long
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time ago.
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(merge b3f01ff jc/maint-diff-patch-header later to maint).
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* The code to synthesize the fake ancestor tree used by 3-way merge
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fallback in "git am" was not prepared to read a patch created with
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a non-standard -p<num> value.
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(merge a61ba26 jc/am-3-nonstandard-popt later to maint).
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* "git tag -s" honored "gpg.program" configuration variable since
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1.7.9, but "git tag -v" and "git verify-tag" didn't.
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(merge a2c2506 az/verify-tag-use-gpg-config 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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* "gitweb" did use quotemeta() to prepare search string when asked to
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do a fixed-string project search, but did not use it by mistake and
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used the user-supplied string instead.
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(merge e65ceb6 jn/maint-do-not-match-with-unsanitized-searchtext later to maint).
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exec >/var/tmp/1
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O=v1.7.10-rc0-15-g9a4c97e
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O=v1.7.10-rc0-40-g57cec0a
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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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