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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.txt index 2ac3d3f297..8de880f83a 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.txt @@ -22,6 +22,15 @@ Updates since v1.7.6 * "git archive" can be told to pass the output to gzip compression and produce "archive.tar.gz". + * "git bisect" can be used in a bare repository (provided if the test + you perform per each iteration does not need a working tree, of + course). + + * "git check-attr" can take relative paths from the command line. + + * "git check-attr" learned "--all" option to list the attributes for a + given path. + * "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 @@ -38,6 +47,10 @@ Updates since v1.7.6 * "git diff --stat" learned --stat-count option to limit the output of diffstat report. + * "git diff" learned "--histogram" option, to use a different diff + generation machinery stolen from jgit, which might give better + performance. + * "git fetch", "git push" and friends no longer show connection errors for addresses that couldn't be connected when at least one address succeeds (this is arguably a regression but a deliberate @@ -58,6 +71,11 @@ Updates since v1.7.6 submodule; it now goes on to update other submodules that can be updated, and reports the ones with errors at the end. + * "git upload-pack" and "git receive-pack" learned to pretend only a + subset of the refs exist in a repository. This may help a site to + put many tiny repositories into one repository (this would not be + useful for larger repositories as repacking would be problematic). + * "git verify-pack" has been rewritten to use the "index-pack" machinery that is more efficient in reading objects in packfiles. @@ -74,10 +92,25 @@ Fixes since v1.7.6 Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes in 1.7.6.X maintenance track are included in this release. + * Error exits from $PAGER were silently ignored. + (merge fc1b56f cb/maint-exec-error-report later). + + * "git diff -c/--cc" mishandled a deletion that resolves a conflict, and + looked in the working tree instead. + (merge 9969454 jc/maint-combined-diff-work-tree later). + + * "git fetch" over smart-http transport used to abort when the + repository was updated between the initial connection and the + subsequent object transfer. + (merge 051e400 jc/maint-smart-http-race-upload-pack later). + + * "git push --quiet" was not really quiet. + (merge 0d086b8 cb/maint-quiet-push later). + -- exec >/var/tmp/1 echo O=$(git describe master) -O=v1.7.6-471-g50b68ae +O=v1.7.6-548-g324b6b1 git log --first-parent --oneline $O..master echo git shortlog --no-merges ^maint ^$O master |