1Git v1.7.7 Release Notes 2======================== 3 4Updates since v1.7.6 5-------------------- 6 7 * The scripting part of the codebase is getting prepared for i18n/l10n. 8 9 * Interix, Cygwin and Minix ports got updated. 10 11 * A handful of patches to update git-p4 (in contrib/). 12 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). 17 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. 21 22 * "git am" learned to pass "--exclude=<path>" option through to underlying 23 "git apply". 24 25 * You can now feed many empty lines before feeding a mbox file to 26 "git am". 27 28 * "git archive" can be told to pass the output to gzip compression and 29 produce "archive.tar.gz". 30 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). 34 35 * "git check-attr" can take relative paths from the command line. 36 37 * "git check-attr" learned "--all" option to list the attributes for a 38 given path. 39 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. 46 47 * "git clone" can now take "--config key=value" option to set the 48 repository configuration options that affect the initial checkout. 49 50 * "git commit <paths>..." now lets you feed relative pathspecs that 51 refer outside your current subdirectory. 52 53 * "git diff --stat" learned --stat-count option to limit the output of 54 diffstat report. 55 56 * "git diff" learned "--histogram" option, to use a different diff 57 generation machinery stolen from jgit, which might give better 58 performance. 59 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). 64 65 * "git grep" learned --break and --heading options, to let users mimic 66 output format of "ack". 67 68 * "git grep" learned "-W" option that shows wider context using the same 69 logic used by "git diff" to determine the hunk header. 70 71 * "git rebase master topci" no longer spews usage hints after giving 72 "fatal: no such branch: topci" error message. 73 74 * "git stash" learned --include-untracked option. 75 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. 79 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). 84 85 * "git verify-pack" has been rewritten to use the "index-pack" machinery 86 that is more efficient in reading objects in packfiles. 87 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. 90 91Also contains various documentation updates and minor miscellaneous 92changes. 93 94 95Fixes since v1.7.6 96------------------ 97 98Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes in 1.7.6.X maintenance track are 99included in this release. 100 101 * Error exits from $PAGER were silently ignored. 102 (merge fc1b56f cb/maint-exec-error-report later). 103 104 * "git diff -c/--cc" mishandled a deletion that resolves a conflict, and 105 looked in the working tree instead. 106 (merge 9969454 jc/maint-combined-diff-work-tree later). 107 108 * "git fetch" over smart-http transport used to abort when the 109 repository was updated between the initial connection and the 110 subsequent object transfer. 111 (merge 051e400 jc/maint-smart-http-race-upload-pack later). 112 113 * "git push --quiet" was not really quiet. 114 (merge 0d086b8 cb/maint-quiet-push later). 115 116-- 117exec >/var/tmp/1 118echo O=$(git describe master) 119O=v1.7.6-548-g324b6b1 120git log --first-parent --oneline $O..master 121echo 122git shortlog --no-merges ^maint ^$O master