* Interix, Cygwin and Minix ports got updated.
- * A handful of patches to update git-p4 (in contrib/).
+ * Various updates to 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
functions can compress or uncompress more than 4GB data in one call on
platforms with 64-bit long, which has been corrected.
+ * Git now recognizes loose objects written by other implementations that
+ use a non-standard window size for zlib deflation (e.g. Agit running on
+ 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 the "--exclude=<path>" option through to underlying
+ "git apply".
+
+ * You can now feed many empty lines before feeding an mbox file to
+ "git am".
+
* "git archive" can be told to pass the output to gzip compression and
produce "archive.tar.gz".
+ * "git bisect" can be used in a bare repository (provided that the test
+ 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 the core.abbrev configuration variable.
+
+ * "git check-attr" can take relative paths from the command line.
+
+ * "git check-attr" learned an "--all" option to list the attributes for a
+ given path.
+
* "git checkout" (both the code to update the files upon checking out a
- different branch, the code to checkout specific set of files) learned
+ different branch and the code to checkout a specific set of files) learned
to stream the data from object store when possible, without having to
- read the entire contents of a file in memory first. An earlier round
+ read the entire contents of a file into memory first. An earlier round
of this code that is not in any released version had a large leak but
now it has been plugged.
- * "git clone" can now take "--config key=value" option to set the
+ * "git clone" can now take a "--config key=value" option to set the
repository configuration options that affect the initial checkout.
* "git commit <paths>..." now lets you feed relative pathspecs that
- refer outside your current subdirectory.
+ refer to outside your current subdirectory.
- * "git diff --stat" learned --stat-count option to limit the output of
- diffstat report.
+ * "git diff --stat" learned a --stat-count option to limit the output of
+ a diffstat report.
+
+ * "git diff" learned a "--histogram" option to use a different diff
+ generation machinery stolen from jgit, which might give better
+ performance.
+
+ * "git diff" had a weird 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
+ errors for addresses that couldn't be connected to when at least one
address succeeds (this is arguably a regression but a deliberate
one).
- * "git grep" learned --break and --heading options, to let users mimic
- output format of "ack".
+ * "git grep" learned "--break" and "--heading" options, to let users mimic
+ the output format of "ack".
- * "git grep" learned "-W" option that shows wider context using the same
+ * "git grep" learned a "-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 "fatal: no such branch: topci" error message.
- * "git stash" learned --include-untracked option.
+ * The recursive merge strategy implementation got a fairly large
+ fix 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 an "--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 the "--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 that 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
+ useful for larger repositories as repacking would be problematic).
+
* "git verify-pack" has been rewritten to use the "index-pack" machinery
that is more efficient in reading objects in packfiles.
* test scripts for gitweb tried to run even when CGI-related perl modules
- are not installed; it now exits early when they are unavailable.
+ are not installed; they now exit early when the latter are unavailable.
Also contains various documentation updates and minor miscellaneous
changes.
Fixes since v1.7.6
------------------
-Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes in 1.7.6.X maintenance track are
+Unless otherwise noted, all fixes in the 1.7.6.X maintenance track are
included in this release.
---
-exec >/var/tmp/1
-echo O=$(git describe master)
-O=v1.7.6-471-g50b68ae
-git log --first-parent --oneline $O..master
-echo
-git shortlog --no-merges ^maint ^$O master
+ * "git branch -m" and "git checkout -b" incorrectly allowed the tip
+ of the branch that is currently checked out updated.