1 Git v1.7.7 Release Notes
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7 * The scripting part of the codebase is getting prepared for i18n/l10n.
9 * Interix, Cygwin and Minix ports got updated.
11 * Various updates git-p4 (in contrib/) and "git fast-import".
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
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 * Interaction between the use of pager and coloring of the output has
28 been improved, especially when a command that is not built-in was
31 * "git am" learned to pass "--exclude=<path>" option through to underlying
34 * You can now feed many empty lines before feeding a mbox file to
37 * "git archive" can be told to pass the output to gzip compression and
38 produce "archive.tar.gz".
40 * "git bisect" can be used in a bare repository (provided if the test
41 you perform per each iteration does not need a working tree, of
44 * The length of abbreviated object names in "git branch -v" output
45 now honors core.abbrev configuration variable.
47 * "git check-attr" can take relative paths from the command line.
49 * "git check-attr" learned "--all" option to list the attributes for a
52 * "git checkout" (both the code to update the files upon checking out a
53 different branch, the code to checkout specific set of files) learned
54 to stream the data from object store when possible, without having to
55 read the entire contents of a file in memory first. An earlier round
56 of this code that is not in any released version had a large leak but
57 now it has been plugged.
59 * "git clone" can now take "--config key=value" option to set the
60 repository configuration options that affect the initial checkout.
62 * "git commit <paths>..." now lets you feed relative pathspecs that
63 refer outside your current subdirectory.
65 * "git diff --stat" learned --stat-count option to limit the output of
68 * "git diff" learned "--histogram" option, to use a different diff
69 generation machinery stolen from jgit, which might give better
72 * "git fetch", "git push" and friends no longer show connection
73 errors for addresses that couldn't be connected when at least one
74 address succeeds (this is arguably a regression but a deliberate
77 * "git grep" learned --break and --heading options, to let users mimic
78 output format of "ack".
80 * "git grep" learned "-W" option that shows wider context using the same
81 logic used by "git diff" to determine the hunk header.
83 * The "--decorate" option to "git log" and its family learned to
84 highlight grafted and replaced commits.
86 * "git rebase master topci" no longer spews usage hints after giving
87 "fatal: no such branch: topci" error message.
89 * "git stash" learned --include-untracked option.
91 * "git submodule update" used to stop at the first error updating a
92 submodule; it now goes on to update other submodules that can be
93 updated, and reports the ones with errors at the end.
95 * "git upload-pack" and "git receive-pack" learned to pretend only a
96 subset of the refs exist in a repository. This may help a site to
97 put many tiny repositories into one repository (this would not be
98 useful for larger repositories as repacking would be problematic).
100 * "git verify-pack" has been rewritten to use the "index-pack" machinery
101 that is more efficient in reading objects in packfiles.
103 * test scripts for gitweb tried to run even when CGI-related perl modules
104 are not installed; it now exits early when they are unavailable.
106 Also contains various documentation updates and minor miscellaneous
113 Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes in 1.7.6.X maintenance track are
114 included in this release.
116 * "git branch --set-upstream @{-1} foo" did not expand @{-1} correctly.
117 (merge e9d4f74 mg/branch-set-upstream-previous later to 'maint').
119 * "git branch -m" and "git checkout -b" incorrectly allowed the tip
120 of the branch that is currently checked out updated.
121 (merge 55c4a67 ci/forbid-unwanted-current-branch-update later to 'maint').
123 * "git clone" failed to clone locally from a ".git" file that itself
124 is not a directory but is a pointer to one.
125 (merge 9b0ebc7 nd/maint-clone-gitdir later to 'maint').
127 * "git clone" from a local repository that borrows from another
128 object store using a relative path in its objects/info/alternates
129 file did not adjust the alternates in the resulting repository.
130 (merge e6baf4a1 jc/maint-clone-alternates later to 'maint').
132 * "git describe --dirty" did not refresh the index before checking the
133 state of the working tree files.
134 (cherry-pick bb57148 ac/describe-dirty-refresh later to 'maint').
136 * "git ls-files ../$path" that is run from a subdirectory reported errors
137 incorrectly when there is no such path that matches the given pathspec.
138 (merge 0f64bfa cb/maint-ls-files-error-report later to 'maint').
142 echo O=$(git describe master)
143 O=v1.7.6.1-415-g284daf2
144 git log --first-parent --oneline $O..master
146 git shortlog --no-merges ^maint ^$O master