* "git svn" used to die with unwanted SIGPIPE when talking with HTTP
server that uses keep-alive.
* "git svn" learned to use platform specific authentication
providers, e.g. gnome-keyring, kwallet, etc.
* "git p4" has been moved out of contrib/ area.
Performance
* "git apply" had some memory leaks plugged.
* "git repack" used to write out unreachable objects as loose objects
when repacking, even if such loose objects will immediately pruned
due to its age.
* Setting up a revision traversal with many starting points was
inefficient as these were placed in a date-order priority queue
one-by-one. Now they are collected in the queue unordered first,
@ -86,6 +96,12 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.7.10 in the maintenance
@@ -86,6 +96,12 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.7.10 in the maintenance
releases are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
details).
* The test scaffolding for git-daemon was flaky.
(merge 46e3581 js/daemon-test-race-fix later to maint).
* The test scaffolding for fast-import was flaky.
(merge 7fb8e16 pw/t5800-import-race-fix later to maint).
* Octopus merge strategy did not reduce heads that are recorded in the
final commit correctly.
(merge 5802f81 jc/merge-reduce-parents-early later to maint).