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index 6d3bfd1968..2ac3d3f297 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.
@@ -59,40 +74,10 @@ Fixes since v1.7.6
Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes in 1.7.6.X maintenance track are
included in this release.
- * "git checkout -b <branch>" sometimes wrote a bogus reflog entry,
- causing later "git checkout -" fail.
- (merge 71ee7fd jc/checkout-reflog-fix~1 later).
-
- * "git diff --cc" learned to correctly ignore binary files.
- (merge 0508fe5 jk/combine-diff-binary-etc later)
-
- * "git fetch" did not recurse into submodules in subdirectories.
- (merge ea2d325 jl/maint-fetch-recursive-fix later)
-
- * "git rebase -i -p" incorrectly dropped commits from side branches.
- (merge 12bf828 aw/rebase-i-p 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)
-
- * "git submodule foreach" failed to correctly give the standard input to
- the user-supplied command it invoked.
- (merge 4dca1aa bc/submodule-foreach-stdin-fix-1.7.4 later)
-
- * submodules that the user has never showed interest in by running
- "git submodule init" was incorrectly marked as interesting by "git
- submodule sync".
- (merge 2cd9de3 jc/submodule-sync-no-auto-vivify later)
-
- * "git tag -l <glob>..." did not take multiple glob patterns from the
- command line.
- (merge 588d0e8 jk/tag-list-multiple-patterns later)
-
--
exec >/var/tmp/1
echo O=$(git describe master)
-O=v1.7.6-344-g22f4128
+O=v1.7.6-471-g50b68ae
git log --first-parent --oneline $O..master
echo
git shortlog --no-merges ^maint ^$O master