* Interix, Cygwin and Minix ports got updated.
- * A handful of patches to update git-p4 (in contrib/).
+ * Various updates git-p4 (in contrib/), fast-import, and git-svn.
* Gitweb learned to read from /etc/gitweb-common.conf when it exists,
before reading from gitweb_config.perl or from /etc/gitweb.conf
Android with 4kb window). We used to reject anything that was not
deflated with 32kb window.
+ * Interaction between the use of pager and coloring of the output has
+ been improved, especially when a command that is not built-in was
+ involved.
+
* "git am" learned to pass "--exclude=<path>" option through to underlying
"git apply".
you perform per each iteration does not need a working tree, of
course).
+ * The length of abbreviated object names in "git branch -v" output
+ now honors core.abbrev configuration variable.
+
* "git check-attr" can take relative paths from the command line.
* "git check-attr" learned "--all" option to list the attributes for a
generation machinery stolen from jgit, which might give better
performance.
+ * "git diff" had a wierd worst case behaviour that can be triggered
+ when comparing files with potentially many places that could match.
+
* "git fetch", "git push" and friends no longer show connection
errors for addresses that couldn't be connected when at least one
address succeeds (this is arguably a regression but a deliberate
* "git grep" learned "-W" option that shows wider context using the same
logic used by "git diff" to determine the hunk header.
+ * Invoking the low-level "git http-fetch" without "-a" option (which
+ git itself never did---normal users should not have to worry about
+ this) is now deprecated.
+
+ * The "--decorate" option to "git log" and its family learned to
+ highlight grafted and replaced commits.
+
* "git rebase master topci" no longer spews usage hints after giving
"fatal: no such branch: topci" error message.
+ * The recursive merge strategy implementation got a fairly large
+ fixes for many corner cases that may rarely happen in real world
+ projects (it has been verified that none of the 16000+ merges in
+ the Linux kernel history back to v2.6.12 is affected with the
+ corner case bugs this update fixes).
+
* "git stash" learned --include-untracked option.
* "git submodule update" used to stop at the first error updating a
submodule; it now goes on to update other submodules that can be
updated, and reports the ones with errors at the end.
+ * "git push" can be told with --recurse-submodules=check option to
+ refuse pushing of the supermodule, if any of its submodules'
+ commits hasn't been pushed out to their remotes.
+
* "git upload-pack" and "git receive-pack" learned to pretend only a
subset of the refs exist in a repository. This may help a site to
put many tiny repositories into one repository (this would not be
Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes in 1.7.6.X maintenance track are
included in this release.
+ * The error reporting logic of "git am" when the command is fed a file
+ whose mail-storage format is unknown was fixed.
+ (merge dff4b0e gb/maint-am-patch-format-error-message later to 'maint').
+
* "git branch --set-upstream @{-1} foo" did not expand @{-1} correctly.
(merge e9d4f74 mg/branch-set-upstream-previous later to 'maint').
+ * "git branch -m" and "git checkout -b" incorrectly allowed the tip
+ of the branch that is currently checked out updated.
+ (merge 55c4a67 ci/forbid-unwanted-current-branch-update later to 'maint').
+
+ * "git clone" failed to clone locally from a ".git" file that itself
+ is not a directory but is a pointer to one.
+ (merge 9b0ebc7 nd/maint-clone-gitdir later to 'maint').
+
+ * "git clone" from a local repository that borrows from another
+ object store using a relative path in its objects/info/alternates
+ file did not adjust the alternates in the resulting repository.
+ (merge e6baf4a1 jc/maint-clone-alternates later to 'maint').
+
* "git describe --dirty" did not refresh the index before checking the
state of the working tree files.
(cherry-pick bb57148 ac/describe-dirty-refresh later to 'maint').
--
exec >/var/tmp/1
echo O=$(git describe master)
-O=v1.7.6.1-415-g284daf2
+O=v1.7.7-rc0-174-ga536a9d
git log --first-parent --oneline $O..master
echo
git shortlog --no-merges ^maint ^$O master