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1 Git v1.7.7 Release Notes
2 ========================
4 Updates since v1.7.6
5 --------------------
7 * The scripting part of the codebase is getting prepared for i18n/l10n.
9 * Interix, Cygwin and Minix ports got updated.
11 * A handful of patches to update git-p4 (in contrib/).
13 * Gitweb learned to read from /etc/gitweb-common.conf when it exists,
14 before reading from gitweb_config.perl or from /etc/gitweb.conf
15 (this last one is read only when per-repository gitweb_config.perl
16 does not exist).
18 * Various codepaths that invoked zlib deflate/inflate assumed that these
19 functions can compress or uncompress more than 4GB data in one call on
20 platforms with 64-bit long, which has been corrected.
22 * "git archive" can be told to pass the output to gzip compression and
23 produce "archive.tar.gz".
25 * "git checkout" (both the code to update the files upon checking out a
26 different branch, the code to checkout specific set of files) learned
27 to stream the data from object store when possible, without having to
28 read the entire contents of a file in memory first. An earlier round
29 of this code that is not in any released version had a large leak but
30 now it has been plugged.
32 * "git clone" can now take "--config key=value" option to set the
33 repository configuration options that affect the initial checkout.
35 * "git commit <paths>..." now lets you feed relative pathspecs that
36 refer outside your current subdirectory.
38 * "git diff --stat" learned --stat-count option to limit the output of
39 diffstat report.
41 * "git fetch", "git push" and friends no longer show connection
42 errors for addresses that couldn't be connected when at least one
43 address succeeds (this is arguably a regression but a deliberate
44 one).
46 * "git grep" learned --break and --heading options, to let users mimic
47 output format of "ack".
49 * "git grep" learned "-W" option that shows wider context using the same
50 logic used by "git diff" to determine the hunk header.
52 * "git rebase master topci" no longer spews usage hints after giving
53 "fatal: no such branch: topci" error message.
55 * "git stash" learned --include-untracked option.
57 * "git submodule update" used to stop at the first error updating a
58 submodule; it now goes on to update other submodules that can be
59 updated, and reports the ones with errors at the end.
61 * "git verify-pack" has been rewritten to use the "index-pack" machinery
62 that is more efficient in reading objects in packfiles.
64 * test scripts for gitweb tried to run even when CGI-related perl modules
65 are not installed; it now exits early when they are unavailable.
67 Also contains various documentation updates and minor miscellaneous
68 changes.
71 Fixes since v1.7.6
72 ------------------
74 Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes in 1.7.6.X maintenance track are
75 included in this release.
77 --
78 exec >/var/tmp/1
79 echo O=$(git describe master)
80 O=v1.7.6-471-g50b68ae
81 git log --first-parent --oneline $O..master
82 echo
83 git shortlog --no-merges ^maint ^$O master