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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 * "git checkout -b <branch>" sometimes wrote a bogus reflog entry,
78 causing later "git checkout -" fail.
79 (merge 71ee7fd jc/checkout-reflog-fix~1 later).
81 * "git diff --cc" learned to correctly ignore binary files.
82 (merge 0508fe5 jk/combine-diff-binary-etc later)
84 * "git fast-export" forgot to quote pathnames with unsafe characters
85 in its output.
86 (merge 6280dfd jk/fast-export-quote-path later)
88 * "git fetch" did not recurse into submodules in subdirectories.
89 (merge ea2d325 jl/maint-fetch-recursive-fix later)
91 * "git ls-tree" did not error out when asked to show a corrupt tree.
92 (merge 04f8925 js/ls-tree-error later)
94 * "git pull" without any argument left an extra whitespace after the
95 command name in its reflog.
96 (merge c98d1e4 oa/pull-reflog later)
98 * "git rebase -i -p" incorrectly dropped commits from side branches.
99 (merge 12bf828 aw/rebase-i-p later)
101 * "git reset [<commit>] paths..." did not reset the index entry correctly
102 for unmerged paths.
103 (merge ff00b682 jc/maint-reset-unmerged-path later)
105 * "git submodule add" did not allow a relative repository path when
106 the superproject did not have any default remote url.
107 (merge f22a17e8 jl/submodule-add-relurl-wo-upstream later)
109 * "git submodule foreach" failed to correctly give the standard input to
110 the user-supplied command it invoked.
111 (merge 4dca1aa bc/submodule-foreach-stdin-fix-1.7.4 later)
113 * "git submodule update --quiet" was not really quiet.
114 (merge 7e60407 jl/submodule-update-quiet later)
116 * submodules that the user has never showed interest in by running
117 "git submodule init" was incorrectly marked as interesting by "git
118 submodule sync".
119 (merge 2cd9de3 jc/submodule-sync-no-auto-vivify later)
121 * "git tag -l <glob>..." did not take multiple glob patterns from the
122 command line.
123 (merge 588d0e8 jk/tag-list-multiple-patterns later)
125 --
126 exec >/var/tmp/1
127 echo O=$(git describe master)
128 O=v1.7.6-446-g0af53e1
129 git log --first-parent --oneline $O..master
130 echo
131 git shortlog --no-merges ^maint ^$O master