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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 am" learned to pass "--exclude=<path>" option through to underlying
23 "git apply".
25 * You can now feed many empty lines before feeding a mbox file to
26 "git am".
28 * "git archive" can be told to pass the output to gzip compression and
29 produce "archive.tar.gz".
31 * "git bisect" can be used in a bare repository (provided if the test
32 you perform per each iteration does not need a working tree, of
33 course).
35 * "git check-attr" can take relative paths from the command line.
37 * "git check-attr" learned "--all" option to list the attributes for a
38 given path.
40 * "git checkout" (both the code to update the files upon checking out a
41 different branch, the code to checkout specific set of files) learned
42 to stream the data from object store when possible, without having to
43 read the entire contents of a file in memory first. An earlier round
44 of this code that is not in any released version had a large leak but
45 now it has been plugged.
47 * "git clone" can now take "--config key=value" option to set the
48 repository configuration options that affect the initial checkout.
50 * "git commit <paths>..." now lets you feed relative pathspecs that
51 refer outside your current subdirectory.
53 * "git diff --stat" learned --stat-count option to limit the output of
54 diffstat report.
56 * "git diff" learned "--histogram" option, to use a different diff
57 generation machinery stolen from jgit, which might give better
58 performance.
60 * "git fetch", "git push" and friends no longer show connection
61 errors for addresses that couldn't be connected when at least one
62 address succeeds (this is arguably a regression but a deliberate
63 one).
65 * "git grep" learned --break and --heading options, to let users mimic
66 output format of "ack".
68 * "git grep" learned "-W" option that shows wider context using the same
69 logic used by "git diff" to determine the hunk header.
71 * "git rebase master topci" no longer spews usage hints after giving
72 "fatal: no such branch: topci" error message.
74 * "git stash" learned --include-untracked option.
76 * "git submodule update" used to stop at the first error updating a
77 submodule; it now goes on to update other submodules that can be
78 updated, and reports the ones with errors at the end.
80 * "git upload-pack" and "git receive-pack" learned to pretend only a
81 subset of the refs exist in a repository. This may help a site to
82 put many tiny repositories into one repository (this would not be
83 useful for larger repositories as repacking would be problematic).
85 * "git verify-pack" has been rewritten to use the "index-pack" machinery
86 that is more efficient in reading objects in packfiles.
88 * test scripts for gitweb tried to run even when CGI-related perl modules
89 are not installed; it now exits early when they are unavailable.
91 Also contains various documentation updates and minor miscellaneous
92 changes.
95 Fixes since v1.7.6
96 ------------------
98 Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes in 1.7.6.X maintenance track are
99 included in this release.
101 * Error exits from $PAGER were silently ignored.
102 (merge fc1b56f cb/maint-exec-error-report later).
104 * "git diff -c/--cc" mishandled a deletion that resolves a conflict, and
105 looked in the working tree instead.
106 (merge 9969454 jc/maint-combined-diff-work-tree later).
108 * "git fetch" over smart-http transport used to abort when the
109 repository was updated between the initial connection and the
110 subsequent object transfer.
111 (merge 051e400 jc/maint-smart-http-race-upload-pack later).
113 * "git push --quiet" was not really quiet.
114 (merge 0d086b8 cb/maint-quiet-push later).
116 --
117 exec >/var/tmp/1
118 echo O=$(git describe master)
119 O=v1.7.6-548-g324b6b1
120 git log --first-parent --oneline $O..master
121 echo
122 git shortlog --no-merges ^maint ^$O master