-Git v1.7.8 Release Notes (draft)
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+Git v1.7.8 Release Notes
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Updates since v1.7.7
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files from the index, not from the working tree.
* Variants of "git cherry-pick" and "git revert" that take multiple
- commits learned to "--continue".
+ commits learned to "--continue" and "--abort".
* "git daemon" gives more human readble error messages to clients
using ERR packets when appropriate.
between commits in the superproject that has and does not have the
submodule in the tree without re-cloning.
- * "git upload-archive" (hence "git archive --remote") can be built
- and used on mingw port of Git.
-
* "gitweb" leaked unescaped control characters from syntax hiliter
outputs.
the path had the textconv filter in effect.
(merge 8518088 ss/blame-textconv-fake-working-tree 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.
hooks for attempted removal of non-existing refs.
(merge 160b81ed ph/push-to-delete-nothing 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).
-
- * The logic to optimize the locality of the data in a pack introduced in
- 1.7.7 was grossly inefficient.
- (merge 38d4deb dm/pack-objects-update later to maint).
-
----
-exec >/var/tmp/1
-O=v1.7.8-rc0-48-g92622e6
-echo O=$(git describe --always master)
-git log --first-parent --oneline --reverse ^$O master
-echo
-git shortlog --no-merges ^$O master
+ * Help text for "git remote set-url" and "git remote set-branches"
+ were misspelled.
+ (merge c49904e fc/remote-seturl-usage-fix later to maint).
+ (merge 656cdf0 jc/remote-setbranches-usage-fix later to maint).