Git 1.7.10

[git.git] / Documentation / RelNotes / 1.7.10.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.txt
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--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.txt
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ Compatibility Notes
        GIT_MERGE_AUTOEDIT=no
        export GIT_MERGE_AUTOEDIT
 
-   to disable this behaviour (if you want your users to explain their
+   to disable this behavior (if you want your users to explain their
    merge commits, you do not have to do anything).  Alternatively, you
    can give the "--no-edit" option to individual invocations of the
    "git merge" command if you know everybody who uses your script has
@@ -29,16 +29,37 @@ Compatibility Notes
    while and were deprecated in mid 2008 (v1.6.0).  When you give these
    options to "git am", it will now warn and ask you not to use them.
 
+ * When you do not tell which branches and tags to push to the "git
+   push" command in any way, the command used "matching refs" rule to
+   update remote branches and tags with branches and tags with the
+   same name you locally have.  In future versions of Git, this will
+   change to push out only your current branch according to either the
+   "upstream" or the "current" rule.  Although "upstream" may be more
+   powerful once the user understands Git better, the semantics
+   "current" gives is simpler and easier to understand for beginners
+   and may be a safer and better default option.  We haven't decided
+   yet which one to switch to.
+
 
 Updates since v1.7.9
 --------------------
 
 UI, Workflows & Features
 
+ * various "gitk" updates.
+   - show the path to the top level directory in the window title
+   - update preference edit dialog
+   - display file list correctly when directories are given on command line
+   - make "git-describe" output in the log message into a clickable link
+   - avoid matching the UNIX timestamp part when searching all fields
+   - give preference to symbolic font names like sans & monospace
+   - allow comparing two commits using a mark
+   - "gitk" honors log.showroot configuration.
+
  * Teams for localizing the messages from the Porcelain layer of
    commands are starting to form, thanks to Jiang Xin who volunteered
-   to be the localization coordinator.  An initial set of translated
-   messages for simplified chinese is available.
+   to be the localization coordinator.  Translated messages for
+   simplified Chinese, Swedish and Portuguese are available.
 
  * The configuration mechanism learned an "include" facility; an
    assignment to the include.path pseudo-variable causes the named
@@ -119,6 +140,8 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
  * Project search in "gitweb" shows the substring that matched in the
    project name and description highlighted.
 
+ * HTTP transport learned to authenticate with a proxy if needed.
+
  * A new script "diffall" is added to contrib/; it drives an
    external tool to perform a directory diff of two Git revisions
    in one go, unlike "difftool" that compares one file at a time.
@@ -180,26 +203,17 @@ 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).
 
- * The "remaining" subcommand to "git rerere" was not documented.
-   (merge 3e7a1df ph/rerere-doc later to maint).
+ * Build with NO_PERL_MAKEMAKER was broken and Git::I18N did not work
+   with versions of Perl older than 5.8.3.
+   (merge 5eb660e ab/perl-i18n later to maint).
 
  * "git tag -s" honored "gpg.program" configuration variable since
    1.7.9, but "git tag -v" and "git verify-tag" didn't.
    (merge a2c2506 az/verify-tag-use-gpg-config later to maint).
 
- * When "git config" diagnoses an error in a configuration file and
-   shows the line number for the offending line, it miscounted if the
-   error was at the end of line.
-   (merge 4b34059 ms/maint-config-error-at-eol-linecount later to maint).
-
- * "gitweb" used to drop warnings in the log file when "heads" view is
-   accessed in a repository whose HEAD does not point at a valid
-   branch.
-
----
-exec >/var/tmp/1
-O=v1.7.10-rc0-50-gd973dc0
-echo O=$(git describe)
-git log --first-parent --oneline ^maint $O..
-echo
-git shortlog --no-merges ^maint $O..
+ * "configure" script learned to take "--with-sane-tool-path" from the
+   command line to record SANE_TOOL_PATH (used to avoid broken platform
+   tools in /usr/bin) in config.mak.autogen.  This may be useful for
+   people on Solaris who have saner tools outside /usr/xpg[46]/bin.
+
+ * zsh port of bash completion script needed another workaround.