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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 and Cygwin ports got updated.
11 * Various codepaths that invoked zlib deflate/inflate assumed that these
12 functions can compress or uncompress more than 4GB data in one call on
13 platforms with 64-bit long, which has been corrected.
15 * "git archive" can be told to pass the output to gzip compression and
16 produce "archive.tar.gz".
18 * "git checkout" (both the code to update the files upon checking out a
19 different branch, the code to checkout specific set of files) learned
20 to stream the data from object store when possible, without having to
21 read the entire contents of a file in memory first.
23 * "git clone" can now take "--config key=value" option to set the
24 repository configuration options that affect the initial checkout.
26 * "git diff --stat" learned --stat-count option to limit the output of
27 diffstat report.
29 * "git fetch", "git push" and friends no longer show connection
30 errors for addresses that couldn't be connected when at least one
31 address succeeds (this is arguably a regression but a deliberate
32 one).
34 * "git grep" learned --break and --heading options, to let users mimic
35 output format of "ack".
37 * "git rebase master topci" no longer spews usage hints after giving
38 "fatal: no such branch: topci" error message.
40 * "git stash" learned --include-untracked option.
42 * "git submodule update" used to stop at the first error updating a
43 submodule; it now goes on to update other submodules that can be
44 updated, and reports the ones with errors at the end.
46 * "git verify-pack" has been rewritten to use the "index-pack" machinery
47 that is more efficient in reading objects in packfiles.
49 * test scripts for gitweb tried to run even when CGI-related perl modules
50 are not installed; it now exits early when they are unavailable.
52 Also contains various documentation updates and minor miscellaneous
53 changes.
56 Fixes since v1.7.6
57 ------------------
59 Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes in 1.7.6.X maintenance track are
60 included in this release.
62 * "git checkout -b <branch>" sometimes wrote a bogus reflog entry,
63 causing later "git checkout -" fail.
64 (merge 71ee7fd jc/checkout-reflog-fix~1 later).
66 * "git diff --cc" learned to correctly ignore binary files.
67 (merge 0508fe5 jk/combine-diff-binary-etc later)
69 * "git fetch" did not recurse into submodules in subdirectories.
70 (merge ea2d325 jl/maint-fetch-recursive-fix later)
72 * "git rebase -i -p" incorrectly dropped commits from side branches.
73 (merge 12bf828 aw/rebase-i-p later)
75 * "git submodule add" did not allow a relative repository path when
76 the superproject did not have any default remote url.
77 (merge f22a17e8 jl/submodule-add-relurl-wo-upstream later)
79 * "git submodule foreach" failed to correctly give the standard input to
80 the user-supplied command it invoked.
81 (merge 4dca1aa bc/submodule-foreach-stdin-fix-1.7.4 later)
83 * submodules that the user has never showed interest in by running
84 "git submodule init" was incorrectly marked as interesting by "git
85 submodule sync".
86 (merge 2cd9de3 jc/submodule-sync-no-auto-vivify later)
88 * "git tag -l <glob>..." did not take multiple glob patterns from the
89 command line.
90 (merge 588d0e8 jk/tag-list-multiple-patterns later)
92 --
93 exec >/var/tmp/1
94 echo O=$(git describe master)
95 O=v1.7.6-344-g22f4128
96 git log --first-parent --oneline $O..master
97 echo
98 git shortlog --no-merges ^maint ^$O master