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+Git v1.7.7 Release Notes
+========================
+
+Updates since v1.7.6
+--------------------
+
+ * The scripting part of the codebase is getting prepared for i18n/l10n.
+
+ * 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
+   platforms with 64-bit long, which has been corrected.
+
+ * "git archive" can be told to pass the output to gzip compression and
+   produce "archive.tar.gz".
+
+ * "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. 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.
+
+ * "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
+   one).
+
+ * "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.
+
+ * "git stash" learned --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 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.
+
+Also contains various documentation updates and minor miscellaneous
+changes.
+
+
+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 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)
+
+ * "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)
+
+ * "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".
+   (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=v1.7.6-446-g0af53e1
+git log --first-parent --oneline $O..master
+echo
+git shortlog --no-merges ^maint ^$O master