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 checkout" (both the code to update the files upon checking out a 26 different branch, the code to checkout specific set of files) learned 27 to stream the data from object store when possible, without having to 28 read the entire contents of a file in memory first. An earlier round 29 of this code that is not in any released version had a large leak but 30 now it has been plugged. 31 32 * "git clone" can now take "--config key=value" option to set the 33 repository configuration options that affect the initial checkout. 34 35 * "git commit <paths>..." now lets you feed relative pathspecs that 36 refer outside your current subdirectory. 37 38 * "git diff --stat" learned --stat-count option to limit the output of 39 diffstat report. 40 41 * "git fetch", "git push" and friends no longer show connection 42 errors for addresses that couldn't be connected when at least one 43 address succeeds (this is arguably a regression but a deliberate 44 one). 45 46 * "git grep" learned --break and --heading options, to let users mimic 47 output format of "ack". 48 49 * "git grep" learned "-W" option that shows wider context using the same 50 logic used by "git diff" to determine the hunk header. 51 52 * "git rebase master topci" no longer spews usage hints after giving 53 "fatal: no such branch: topci" error message. 54 55 * "git stash" learned --include-untracked option. 56 57 * "git submodule update" used to stop at the first error updating a 58 submodule; it now goes on to update other submodules that can be 59 updated, and reports the ones with errors at the end. 60 61 * "git verify-pack" has been rewritten to use the "index-pack" machinery 62 that is more efficient in reading objects in packfiles. 63 64 * test scripts for gitweb tried to run even when CGI-related perl modules 65 are not installed; it now exits early when they are unavailable. 66 67Also contains various documentation updates and minor miscellaneous 68changes. 69 70 71Fixes since v1.7.6 72------------------ 73 74Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes in 1.7.6.X maintenance track are 75included in this release. 76 77-- 78exec >/var/tmp/1 79echo O=$(git describe master) 80O=v1.7.6-471-g50b68ae 81git log --first-parent --oneline $O..master 82echo 83git shortlog --no-merges ^maint ^$O master