Update draft release notes to 1.7.7

The second batch of topics for this cycle are now in.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.txt
index c5a5441743c185a99414071963a70d24bb511478..42982e5b24432e0c8cc03065411a4f7e5366764d 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.txt
@@ -6,12 +6,22 @@ Updates since v1.7.6
 
  * The scripting part of the codebase is getting prepared for i18n/l10n.
 
 
  * The scripting part of the codebase is getting prepared for i18n/l10n.
 

+ * Interix and Cygwin ports got updated.
+
+ * Various codepaths that invoked zlib deflate/inflate assumed that these
+   functions can compress or uncompress more than 4GB data in one call on
+   platforms with 64-bit long, which has been corrected.
+
+ * "git archive" can be told to pass the output to gzip compression and
+   produce "archive.tar.gz".
+

  * "git checkout" (both the code to update the files upon checking out a
    different branch, the code to checkout 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.
 
  * "git checkout" (both the code to update the files upon checking out a
    different branch, the code to checkout 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.
 

- * "git diff --cc" learned to correctly ignore binary files.
+ * "git clone" can now take "--config key=value" option to set the
+   repository configuration options that affect the initial checkout.

 
  * "git diff --stat" learned --stat-count option to limit the output of
    diffstat report.
 
  * "git diff --stat" learned --stat-count option to limit the output of
    diffstat report.


@@ -19,6 +29,19 @@ Updates since v1.7.6
  * "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
    output format of "ack".
 

+ * "git rebase master topci" no longer spews usage hints after giving
+   "fatal: no such branch: topci" error message.
+
+ * "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 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.
+

 Also contains various documentation updates and minor miscellaneous
 changes.
 
 Also contains various documentation updates and minor miscellaneous
 changes.
 


@@ -29,8 +52,32 @@ Fixes since v1.7.6
 Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes in 1.7.6.X maintenance track are
 included in this release.
 
 Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes in 1.7.6.X maintenance track are
 included in this release.
 

+ * "git diff --cc" learned to correctly ignore binary files.
+   (merge 0508fe5 jk/combine-diff-binary-etc later)
+
+ * "git fetch" did not recurse into submodules in subdirectories.
+   (merge ea2d325 jl/maint-fetch-recursive-fix later)
+
+ * "git rebase -i -p" incorrectly dropped commits from side branches.
+   (merge 12bf828 aw/rebase-i-p later)
+
+ * "git submodule foreach" failed to correctly give the standard input to
+   the user-supplied command it invoked.
+   (merge 4dca1aa bc/submodule-foreach-stdin-fix-1.7.4 later)
+
+ * submodules that the user has never showed interest in by running
+   "git submodule init" was incorrectly marked as interesting by "git
+   submodule sync".
+   (merge 2cd9de3 jc/submodule-sync-no-auto-vivify later)
+
+ * "git tag -l <glob>..." did not take multiple glob patterns from the
+   command line.
+   (merge 588d0e8 jk/tag-list-multiple-patterns later)
+

 --
 exec >/var/tmp/1
 echo O=$(git describe master)
 --
 exec >/var/tmp/1
 echo O=$(git describe master)

-O=v1.7.6-133-g395f65d
+O=v1.7.6-232-gd907bf8
+git log --first-parent --oneline $O..master
+echo

 git shortlog --no-merges ^maint ^$O master
 git shortlog --no-merges ^maint ^$O master