* 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
platforms with 64-bit long, which has been corrected.
* Git now recognizes loose objects written by other implementations that
- uses non-standard window size for zlib deflation (e.g. Agit running on
+ 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.
- * "git am" learned to pass "--exclude=<path>" option through to underlying
+ * 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 a mbox file to
+ * 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 if the test
+ * "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 "--all" option to list the attributes for a
+ * "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 "--histogram" option, to use a different diff
+ * "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.
+
+ * 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 --include-untracked option.
+ * "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 upload-pack" and "git receive-pack" learned to pretend only a
+ * "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).
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.
- * "ls-files ../$path" that is run from a subdirectory reported errors
- incorrectly when there is no such path that matches the given pathspec.
- (merge 0f64bfa cb/maint-ls-files-error-report later to 'maint').
-
---
-exec >/var/tmp/1
-echo O=$(git describe master)
-O=v1.7.6-576-g6fcb384
-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.