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 and Cygwin ports got updated. 10 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. 14 15 * "git archive" can be told to pass the output to gzip compression and 16 produce "archive.tar.gz". 17 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. 22 23 * "git clone" can now take "--config key=value" option to set the 24 repository configuration options that affect the initial checkout. 25 26 * "git diff --stat" learned --stat-count option to limit the output of 27 diffstat report. 28 29 * "git grep" learned --break and --heading options, to let users mimic 30 output format of "ack". 31 32 * "git rebase master topci" no longer spews usage hints after giving 33 "fatal: no such branch: topci" error message. 34 35 * "git submodule update" used to stop at the first error updating a 36 submodule; it now goes on to update other submodules that can be 37 updated, and reports the ones with errors at the end. 38 39 * "git verify-pack" has been rewritten to use the "index-pack" machinery 40 that is more efficient in reading objects in packfiles. 41 42 * test scripts for gitweb tried to run even when CGI-related perl modules 43 are not installed; it now exits early when they are unavailable. 44 45Also contains various documentation updates and minor miscellaneous 46changes. 47 48 49Fixes since v1.7.6 50------------------ 51 52Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes in 1.7.6.X maintenance track are 53included in this release. 54 55 * "git diff --cc" learned to correctly ignore binary files. 56 (merge 0508fe5 jk/combine-diff-binary-etc later) 57 58 * "git fetch" did not recurse into submodules in subdirectories. 59 (merge ea2d325 jl/maint-fetch-recursive-fix later) 60 61 * "git rebase -i -p" incorrectly dropped commits from side branches. 62 (merge 12bf828 aw/rebase-i-p later) 63 64 * "git submodule foreach" failed to correctly give the standard input to 65 the user-supplied command it invoked. 66 (merge 4dca1aa bc/submodule-foreach-stdin-fix-1.7.4 later) 67 68 * submodules that the user has never showed interest in by running 69 "git submodule init" was incorrectly marked as interesting by "git 70 submodule sync". 71 (merge 2cd9de3 jc/submodule-sync-no-auto-vivify later) 72 73 * "git tag -l <glob>..." did not take multiple glob patterns from the 74 command line. 75 (merge 588d0e8 jk/tag-list-multiple-patterns later) 76 77-- 78exec >/var/tmp/1 79echo O=$(git describe master) 80O=v1.7.6-232-gd907bf8 81git log --first-parent --oneline $O..master 82echo 83git shortlog --no-merges ^maint ^$O master