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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 * 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
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 * 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
29 involved.
31 * "git am" learned to pass "--exclude=<path>" option through to underlying
32 "git apply".
34 * You can now feed many empty lines before feeding a mbox file to
35 "git am".
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
42 course).
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
50 given path.
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
66 diffstat report.
68 * "git diff" learned "--histogram" option, to use a different diff
69 generation machinery stolen from jgit, which might give better
70 performance.
72 * "git diff" had a wierd worst case behaviour that can be triggered
73 when comparing files with potentially many places that could match.
75 * "git fetch", "git push" and friends no longer show connection
76 errors for addresses that couldn't be connected when at least one
77 address succeeds (this is arguably a regression but a deliberate
78 one).
80 * "git grep" learned --break and --heading options, to let users mimic
81 output format of "ack".
83 * "git grep" learned "-W" option that shows wider context using the same
84 logic used by "git diff" to determine the hunk header.
86 * The "--decorate" option to "git log" and its family learned to
87 highlight grafted and replaced commits.
89 * "git rebase master topci" no longer spews usage hints after giving
90 "fatal: no such branch: topci" error message.
92 * The recursive merge strategy implementation got a fairly large
93 fixes for many corner cases that may rarely happen in real world
94 projects (it has been verified that none of the 16000+ merges in
95 the Linux kernel history back to v2.6.12 is affected with the
96 corner case bugs this update fixes).
98 * "git stash" learned --include-untracked option.
100 * "git submodule update" used to stop at the first error updating a
101 submodule; it now goes on to update other submodules that can be
102 updated, and reports the ones with errors at the end.
104 * "git push" can be told with --recurse-submodules=check option to
105 refuse pushing of the supermodule, if any of its submodules'
106 commits hasn't been pushed out to their remotes.
108 * "git upload-pack" and "git receive-pack" learned to pretend only a
109 subset of the refs exist in a repository. This may help a site to
110 put many tiny repositories into one repository (this would not be
111 useful for larger repositories as repacking would be problematic).
113 * "git verify-pack" has been rewritten to use the "index-pack" machinery
114 that is more efficient in reading objects in packfiles.
116 * test scripts for gitweb tried to run even when CGI-related perl modules
117 are not installed; it now exits early when they are unavailable.
119 Also contains various documentation updates and minor miscellaneous
120 changes.
123 Fixes since v1.7.6
124 ------------------
126 Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes in 1.7.6.X maintenance track are
127 included in this release.
129 * "git branch --set-upstream @{-1} foo" did not expand @{-1} correctly.
130 (merge e9d4f74 mg/branch-set-upstream-previous later to 'maint').
132 * "git branch -m" and "git checkout -b" incorrectly allowed the tip
133 of the branch that is currently checked out updated.
134 (merge 55c4a67 ci/forbid-unwanted-current-branch-update later to 'maint').
136 * "git clone" failed to clone locally from a ".git" file that itself
137 is not a directory but is a pointer to one.
138 (merge 9b0ebc7 nd/maint-clone-gitdir later to 'maint').
140 * "git clone" from a local repository that borrows from another
141 object store using a relative path in its objects/info/alternates
142 file did not adjust the alternates in the resulting repository.
143 (merge e6baf4a1 jc/maint-clone-alternates later to 'maint').
145 * "git describe --dirty" did not refresh the index before checking the
146 state of the working tree files.
147 (cherry-pick bb57148 ac/describe-dirty-refresh later to 'maint').
149 * "git ls-files ../$path" that is run from a subdirectory reported errors
150 incorrectly when there is no such path that matches the given pathspec.
151 (merge 0f64bfa cb/maint-ls-files-error-report later to 'maint').
153 --
154 exec >/var/tmp/1
155 echo O=$(git describe master)
156 O=v1.7.6.1-415-g284daf2
157 git log --first-parent --oneline $O..master
158 echo
159 git shortlog --no-merges ^maint ^$O master