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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 now recognizes loose objects written by other implementations that
23 uses non-standard window size for zlib deflation (e.g. Agit running on
24 Android with 4kb window). We used to reject anything that was not
25 deflated with 32kb window.
27 * "git am" learned to pass "--exclude=<path>" option through to underlying
28 "git apply".
30 * You can now feed many empty lines before feeding a mbox file to
31 "git am".
33 * "git archive" can be told to pass the output to gzip compression and
34 produce "archive.tar.gz".
36 * "git bisect" can be used in a bare repository (provided if the test
37 you perform per each iteration does not need a working tree, of
38 course).
40 * "git check-attr" can take relative paths from the command line.
42 * "git check-attr" learned "--all" option to list the attributes for a
43 given path.
45 * "git checkout" (both the code to update the files upon checking out a
46 different branch, the code to checkout specific set of files) learned
47 to stream the data from object store when possible, without having to
48 read the entire contents of a file in memory first. An earlier round
49 of this code that is not in any released version had a large leak but
50 now it has been plugged.
52 * "git clone" can now take "--config key=value" option to set the
53 repository configuration options that affect the initial checkout.
55 * "git commit <paths>..." now lets you feed relative pathspecs that
56 refer outside your current subdirectory.
58 * "git diff --stat" learned --stat-count option to limit the output of
59 diffstat report.
61 * "git diff" learned "--histogram" option, to use a different diff
62 generation machinery stolen from jgit, which might give better
63 performance.
65 * "git fetch", "git push" and friends no longer show connection
66 errors for addresses that couldn't be connected when at least one
67 address succeeds (this is arguably a regression but a deliberate
68 one).
70 * "git grep" learned --break and --heading options, to let users mimic
71 output format of "ack".
73 * "git grep" learned "-W" option that shows wider context using the same
74 logic used by "git diff" to determine the hunk header.
76 * "git rebase master topci" no longer spews usage hints after giving
77 "fatal: no such branch: topci" error message.
79 * "git stash" learned --include-untracked option.
81 * "git submodule update" used to stop at the first error updating a
82 submodule; it now goes on to update other submodules that can be
83 updated, and reports the ones with errors at the end.
85 * "git upload-pack" and "git receive-pack" learned to pretend only a
86 subset of the refs exist in a repository. This may help a site to
87 put many tiny repositories into one repository (this would not be
88 useful for larger repositories as repacking would be problematic).
90 * "git verify-pack" has been rewritten to use the "index-pack" machinery
91 that is more efficient in reading objects in packfiles.
93 * test scripts for gitweb tried to run even when CGI-related perl modules
94 are not installed; it now exits early when they are unavailable.
96 Also contains various documentation updates and minor miscellaneous
97 changes.
100 Fixes since v1.7.6
101 ------------------
103 Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes in 1.7.6.X maintenance track are
104 included in this release.
106 * "git branch --set-upstream @{-1} foo" did not expand @{-1} correctly.
107 (merge e9d4f74 mg/branch-set-upstream-previous later to 'maint').
109 * "git describe --dirty" did not refresh the index before checking the
110 state of the working tree files.
111 (cherry-pick bb57148 ac/describe-dirty-refresh later to 'maint').
113 * "git ls-files ../$path" that is run from a subdirectory reported errors
114 incorrectly when there is no such path that matches the given pathspec.
115 (merge 0f64bfa cb/maint-ls-files-error-report later to 'maint').
117 --
118 exec >/var/tmp/1
119 echo O=$(git describe master)
120 O=v1.7.6.1-415-g284daf2
121 git log --first-parent --oneline $O..master
122 echo
123 git shortlog --no-merges ^maint ^$O master