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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.txt index 2ac3d3f297..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. - * A handful of patches to update git-p4 (in contrib/). + * 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 @@ -19,50 +19,106 @@ Updates since v1.7.6 functions can compress or uncompress more than 4GB data in one call on platforms with 64-bit long, which has been corrected. + * Git now recognizes loose objects written by other implementations that + 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. + + * Interaction between the use of pager and coloring of the output has + been improved, especially when a command that is not built-in was + involved. + + * "git am" learned to pass the "--exclude=<path>" option through to underlying + "git apply". + + * 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 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 the core.abbrev configuration variable. + + * "git check-attr" can take relative paths from the command line. + + * "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 a "--histogram" option to use a different diff + generation machinery stolen from jgit, which might give better + performance. + + * "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 + git itself never did---normal users should not have to worry about + this) is now deprecated. + + * The "--decorate" option to "git log" and its family learned to + 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. - * "git stash" learned --include-untracked option. + * The recursive merge strategy implementation got a fairly large + 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 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 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 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). + * "git verify-pack" has been rewritten to use the "index-pack" machinery 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. @@ -71,13 +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. --- -exec >/var/tmp/1 -echo O=$(git describe master) -O=v1.7.6-471-g50b68ae -git log --first-parent --oneline $O..master -echo -git shortlog --no-merges ^maint ^$O master + * "git branch -m" and "git checkout -b" incorrectly allowed the tip + of the branch that is currently checked out updated. |