Update draft release notes to 1.7.7

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 36 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.txt
index 6d3bfd1968..8d0404d6f3 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.txt
@@ -6,7 +6,14 @@ Updates since v1.7.6
 
  * The scripting part of the codebase is getting prepared for i18n/l10n.
 
- * Interix and Cygwin ports got updated.
+ * Interix, Cygwin and Minix ports got updated.
+
+ * A handful of patches to update git-p4 (in contrib/).
+
+ * Gitweb learned to read from /etc/gitweb-common.conf when it exists,
+   before reading from gitweb_config.perl or from /etc/gitweb.conf
+   (this last one is read only when per-repository gitweb_config.perl
+   does not exist).
 
  * Various codepaths that invoked zlib deflate/inflate assumed that these
    functions can compress or uncompress more than 4GB data in one call on
@@ -18,11 +25,16 @@ Updates since v1.7.6
  * "git checkout" (both the code to update the files upon checking out a
    different branch, the code to checkout specific set of files) learned
    to stream the data from object store when possible, without having to
-   read the entire contents of a file in memory first.
+   read the entire contents of a file in memory first. An earlier round
+   of this code that is not in any released version had a large leak but
+   now it has been plugged.
 
  * "git clone" can now take "--config key=value" option to set the
    repository configuration options that affect the initial checkout.
 
+ * "git commit <paths>..." now lets you feed relative pathspecs that
+   refer outside your current subdirectory.
+
  * "git diff --stat" learned --stat-count option to limit the output of
    diffstat report.
 
@@ -34,6 +46,9 @@ Updates since v1.7.6
  * "git grep" learned --break and --heading options, to let users mimic
    output format of "ack".
 
+ * "git grep" learned "-W" option that shows wider context using the same
+   logic used by "git diff" to determine the hunk header.
+
  * "git rebase master topci" no longer spews usage hints after giving
    "fatal: no such branch: topci" error message.
 
@@ -66,12 +81,27 @@ included in this release.
  * "git diff --cc" learned to correctly ignore binary files.
    (merge 0508fe5 jk/combine-diff-binary-etc later)
 
+ * "git fast-export" forgot to quote pathnames with unsafe characters
+   in its output.
+   (merge 6280dfd jk/fast-export-quote-path later)
+
  * "git fetch" did not recurse into submodules in subdirectories.
    (merge ea2d325 jl/maint-fetch-recursive-fix later)
 
+ * "git ls-tree" did not error out when asked to show a corrupt tree.
+   (merge 04f8925 js/ls-tree-error later)
+
+ * "git pull" without any argument left an extra whitespace after the
+   command name in its reflog.
+   (merge c98d1e4 oa/pull-reflog later)
+
  * "git rebase -i -p" incorrectly dropped commits from side branches.
    (merge 12bf828 aw/rebase-i-p later)
 
+ * "git reset [<commit>] paths..." did not reset the index entry correctly
+   for unmerged paths.
+   (merge ff00b682 jc/maint-reset-unmerged-path later)
+
  * "git submodule add" did not allow a relative repository path when
    the superproject did not have any default remote url.
    (merge f22a17e8 jl/submodule-add-relurl-wo-upstream later)
@@ -80,6 +110,9 @@ included in this release.
    the user-supplied command it invoked.
    (merge 4dca1aa bc/submodule-foreach-stdin-fix-1.7.4 later)
 
+ * "git submodule update --quiet" was not really quiet.
+   (merge 7e60407 jl/submodule-update-quiet later)
+
  * submodules that the user has never showed interest in by running
    "git submodule init" was incorrectly marked as interesting by "git
    submodule sync".
@@ -92,7 +125,7 @@ included in this release.
 --
 exec >/var/tmp/1
 echo O=$(git describe master)
-O=v1.7.6-344-g22f4128
+O=v1.7.6-446-g0af53e1
 git log --first-parent --oneline $O..master
 echo
 git shortlog --no-merges ^maint ^$O master