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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.txt index d81995622d..7655cccfaa 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.txt @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Updates since v1.7.6 * Interix, Cygwin and Minix ports got updated. - * Various updates git-p4 (in contrib/), fast-import, and git-svn. + * Various updates to git-p4 (in contrib/), fast-import, and git-svn. * Gitweb learned to read from /etc/gitweb-common.conf when it exists, before reading from gitweb_config.perl or from /etc/gitweb.conf @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ Updates since v1.7.6 platforms with 64-bit long, which has been corrected. * Git now recognizes loose objects written by other implementations that - uses non-standard window size for zlib deflation (e.g. Agit running on + use a non-standard window size for zlib deflation (e.g. Agit running on Android with 4kb window). We used to reject anything that was not deflated with 32kb window. @@ -28,59 +28,59 @@ Updates since v1.7.6 been improved, especially when a command that is not built-in was involved. - * "git am" learned to pass "--exclude=<path>" option through to underlying + * "git am" learned to pass the "--exclude=<path>" option through to underlying "git apply". - * You can now feed many empty lines before feeding a mbox file to + * You can now feed many empty lines before feeding an mbox file to "git am". * "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 + * "git bisect" can be used in a bare repository (provided that the test you perform per each iteration does not need a working tree, of course). * The length of abbreviated object names in "git branch -v" output - now honors core.abbrev configuration variable. + now honors the core.abbrev configuration variable. * "git check-attr" can take relative paths from the command line. - * "git check-attr" learned "--all" option to list the attributes for a + * "git check-attr" learned an "--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 + different branch and the code to checkout a 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. An earlier round + read the entire contents of a file into 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 + * "git clone" can now take a "--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. + refer to outside your current subdirectory. - * "git diff --stat" learned --stat-count option to limit the output of - diffstat report. + * "git diff --stat" learned a --stat-count option to limit the output of + a diffstat report. - * "git diff" learned "--histogram" option, to use a different diff + * "git diff" learned a "--histogram" option to use a different diff generation machinery stolen from jgit, which might give better performance. - * "git diff" had a wierd worst case behaviour that can be triggered + * "git diff" had a weird worst case behaviour that can be triggered when comparing files with potentially many places that could match. * "git fetch", "git push" and friends no longer show connection - errors for addresses that couldn't be connected when at least one + errors for addresses that couldn't be connected to when at least one address succeeds (this is arguably a regression but a deliberate one). - * "git grep" learned --break and --heading options, to let users mimic - output format of "ack". + * "git grep" learned "--break" and "--heading" options, to let users mimic + the output format of "ack". - * "git grep" learned "-W" option that shows wider context using the same + * "git grep" learned a "-W" option that shows wider context using the same logic used by "git diff" to determine the hunk header. * Invoking the low-level "git http-fetch" without "-a" option (which @@ -91,25 +91,25 @@ Updates since v1.7.6 highlight grafted and replaced commits. * "git rebase master topci" no longer spews usage hints after giving - "fatal: no such branch: topci" error message. + the "fatal: no such branch: topci" error message. * The recursive merge strategy implementation got a fairly large - fixes for many corner cases that may rarely happen in real world + fix for many corner cases that may rarely happen in real world projects (it has been verified that none of the 16000+ merges in the Linux kernel history back to v2.6.12 is affected with the corner case bugs this update fixes). - * "git stash" learned --include-untracked option. + * "git stash" learned an "--include-untracked option". * "git submodule update" used to stop at the first error updating a submodule; it now goes on to update other submodules that can be updated, and reports the ones with errors at the end. - * "git push" can be told with --recurse-submodules=check option to + * "git push" can be told with the "--recurse-submodules=check" option to refuse pushing of the supermodule, if any of its submodules' commits hasn't been pushed out to their remotes. - * "git upload-pack" and "git receive-pack" learned to pretend only a + * "git upload-pack" and "git receive-pack" learned to pretend that 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). @@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ Updates since v1.7.6 that is more efficient in reading objects in packfiles. * test scripts for gitweb tried to run even when CGI-related perl modules - are not installed; it now exits early when they are unavailable. + are not installed; they now exit early when the latter are unavailable. Also contains various documentation updates and minor miscellaneous changes. @@ -127,46 +127,8 @@ changes. Fixes since v1.7.6 ------------------ -Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes in 1.7.6.X maintenance track are +Unless otherwise noted, all fixes in the 1.7.6.X maintenance track are included in this release. - * The error reporting logic of "git am" when the command is fed a file - whose mail-storage format is unknown was fixed. - (merge dff4b0e gb/maint-am-patch-format-error-message later to 'maint'). - - * "git branch --set-upstream @{-1} foo" did not expand @{-1} correctly. - (merge e9d4f74 mg/branch-set-upstream-previous later to 'maint'). - * "git branch -m" and "git checkout -b" incorrectly allowed the tip of the branch that is currently checked out updated. - (merge 55c4a67 ci/forbid-unwanted-current-branch-update later to 'maint'). - - * "git check-ref-format --print" used to parrot a candidate string that - began with a slash (e.g. /refs/heads/master) without stripping it, to make - the result a suitably normalized string the caller can append to "$GIT_DIR/". - (merge f3738c1 mh/check-ref-format-print-normalize later to 'maint'). - - * "git clone" failed to clone locally from a ".git" file that itself - is not a directory but is a pointer to one. - (merge 9b0ebc7 nd/maint-clone-gitdir later to 'maint'). - - * "git clone" from a local repository that borrows from another - object store using a relative path in its objects/info/alternates - file did not adjust the alternates in the resulting repository. - (merge e6baf4a1 jc/maint-clone-alternates later to 'maint'). - - * "git describe --dirty" did not refresh the index before checking the - state of the working tree files. - (cherry-pick bb57148 ac/describe-dirty-refresh later to 'maint'). - - * "git ls-files ../$path" that is run from a subdirectory reported errors - incorrectly when there is no such path that matches the given pathspec. - (merge 0f64bfa cb/maint-ls-files-error-report later to 'maint'). - --- -exec >/var/tmp/1 -echo O=$(git describe master) -O=v1.7.7-rc0-185-gb648557 -git log --first-parent --oneline $O..master -echo -git shortlog --no-merges ^maint ^$O master |