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 archive" can be told to pass the output to gzip compression and 23 produce "archive.tar.gz". 24 25 * "git bisect" can be used in a bare repository (provided if the test 26 you perform per each iteration does not need a working tree, of 27 course). 28 29 * "git check-attr" can take relative paths from the command line. 30 31 * "git check-attr" learned "--all" option to list the attributes for a 32 given path. 33 34 * "git checkout" (both the code to update the files upon checking out a 35 different branch, the code to checkout specific set of files) learned 36 to stream the data from object store when possible, without having to 37 read the entire contents of a file in memory first. An earlier round 38 of this code that is not in any released version had a large leak but 39 now it has been plugged. 40 41 * "git clone" can now take "--config key=value" option to set the 42 repository configuration options that affect the initial checkout. 43 44 * "git commit <paths>..." now lets you feed relative pathspecs that 45 refer outside your current subdirectory. 46 47 * "git diff --stat" learned --stat-count option to limit the output of 48 diffstat report. 49 50 * "git diff" learned "--histogram" option, to use a different diff 51 generation machinery stolen from jgit, which might give better 52 performance. 53 54 * "git fetch", "git push" and friends no longer show connection 55 errors for addresses that couldn't be connected when at least one 56 address succeeds (this is arguably a regression but a deliberate 57 one). 58 59 * "git grep" learned --break and --heading options, to let users mimic 60 output format of "ack". 61 62 * "git grep" learned "-W" option that shows wider context using the same 63 logic used by "git diff" to determine the hunk header. 64 65 * "git rebase master topci" no longer spews usage hints after giving 66 "fatal: no such branch: topci" error message. 67 68 * "git stash" learned --include-untracked option. 69 70 * "git submodule update" used to stop at the first error updating a 71 submodule; it now goes on to update other submodules that can be 72 updated, and reports the ones with errors at the end. 73 74 * "git upload-pack" and "git receive-pack" learned to pretend only a 75 subset of the refs exist in a repository. This may help a site to 76 put many tiny repositories into one repository (this would not be 77 useful for larger repositories as repacking would be problematic). 78 79 * "git verify-pack" has been rewritten to use the "index-pack" machinery 80 that is more efficient in reading objects in packfiles. 81 82 * test scripts for gitweb tried to run even when CGI-related perl modules 83 are not installed; it now exits early when they are unavailable. 84 85Also contains various documentation updates and minor miscellaneous 86changes. 87 88 89Fixes since v1.7.6 90------------------ 91 92Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes in 1.7.6.X maintenance track are 93included in this release. 94 95 * Error exits from $PAGER were silently ignored. 96 (merge fc1b56f cb/maint-exec-error-report later). 97 98 * "git diff -c/--cc" mishandled a deletion that resolves a conflict, and 99 looked in the working tree instead. 100 (merge 9969454 jc/maint-combined-diff-work-tree later). 101 102 * "git fetch" over smart-http transport used to abort when the 103 repository was updated between the initial connection and the 104 subsequent object transfer. 105 (merge 051e400 jc/maint-smart-http-race-upload-pack later). 106 107 * "git push --quiet" was not really quiet. 108 (merge 0d086b8 cb/maint-quiet-push later). 109 110-- 111exec >/var/tmp/1 112echo O=$(git describe master) 113O=v1.7.6-548-g324b6b1 114git log --first-parent --oneline $O..master 115echo 116git shortlog --no-merges ^maint ^$O master