Updates since v1.7.7
--------------------
- * Some git-svn, git-gui and msysgit updates.
+ * Some git-svn, git-gui, git-p4 (in contrib) and msysgit updates.
* Updates to bash completion scripts.
* Variants of "git cherry-pick" and "git revert" that take multiple
commits learned to "--continue".
+ * "git daemon" gives more human readble error messages to clients
+ using ERR packets when appropriate.
+
* Errors at the network layer is logged by "git daemon".
* "git diff" learned "--minimal" option to spend extra cycles to come
* "git diff" learned "--function-context" option to show the whole
function as context that was affected by a change.
+ * "git difftool" can be told to skip launching the tool for a path by
+ answering 'n' to its prompt.
+
* "git fetch" learned to honor transfer.fsckobjects configuration to
validate the objects that were received from the other end, just like
"git receive-pack" (the receiving end of "git push") does.
"git receive-pack" (the receiving end of "git push") learned to do the
same.
+ * "git fetch" learned that fetching/cloning from a regular file on the
+ filesystem is not necessarily a request to unpack a bundle file; the
+ file could be ".git" with "gitdir: <path>" in it.
+
* "git for-each-ref" learned "%(contents:subject)", "%(contents:body)"
and "%(contents:signature)". The last one is useful for signed tags.
* "git merge" learned the "--edit" option to allow users to edit the
merge commit log message.
+ * "git rebase -i" can be told to use special purpose editor suitable
+ only for its insn sheet via sequence.editor configuration variable.
+
* "git send-email" learned to respond to "-h"(elp) requests.
* "git send-email" allows the value given to sendemail.aliasfile to begin
* "git stash" learned "--include-untracked" option to stash away
untracked/ignored cruft from the working tree.
+ * "git submodule clone" does not leak an error message to the UI
+ level unnecessarily anymore.
+
* "git submodule update" learned to honor "none" as the value for
submodule.<name>.update to specify that the named submodule should
not be checked out by default.
* "gitweb" leaked unescaped control characters from syntax hiliter
outputs.
+ * "gitweb" can be told to give custom string at the end of the HTML
+ HEAD element.
+
* "gitweb" now has its own manual pages.
credentials.
(merge deba493 jk/http-auth later to maint).
+ * "git branch -m/-M" advertised to update RENAME_REF ref in the
+ commit log message that introduced the feature but not anywhere in
+ the documentation, and never did update such a ref anyway. This
+ undocumented misfeature that did not exist has been excised.
+ (merge b0eab01 jc/maint-remove-renamed-ref later to maint).
+
* Adding many refs to the local repository in one go (e.g. "git fetch"
that fetches many tags) and looking up a ref by name in a repository
with too many refs were unnecessarily slow.
(merge 17d68a54d jp/get-ref-dir-unsorted later to maint).
+ * "git fetch --prune" was unsafe when used with refspecs from the
+ command line.
+ (merge e8c1e6c cn/fetch-prune later to maint).
+
* Report from "git commit" on untracked files was confused under
core.ignorecase option.
(merge 2548183b jk/name-hash-dirent later to maint).
of a blob, when JavaScript actions are enabled.
(merge 2b07ff3ff ps/gitweb-js-with-lineno later to maint).
+ * The logic to filter out forked projects in the project list in
+ "gitweb" was broken for some time.
+ (merge 53c632f jm/maint-gitweb-filter-forks-fix later to maint).
+
---
exec >/var/tmp/1
-O=v1.7.7-418-g40d6987
+O=v1.7.7.1-492-g324bc2a
echo O=$(git describe --always master)
git log --first-parent --oneline --reverse ^$O master
echo