1Git v1.7.7 Release Notes 2======================== 3 4Updates since v1.7.6 5-------------------- 6 7 * The scripting part of the codebase is getting prepared for i18n/l10n. 8 9 * Interix, Cygwin and Minix ports got updated. 10 11 * A handful of patches to update git-p4 (in contrib/). 12 13 * Gitweb learned to read from /etc/gitweb-common.conf when it exists, 14 before reading from gitweb_config.perl or from /etc/gitweb.conf 15 (this last one is read only when per-repository gitweb_config.perl 16 does not exist). 17 18 * Various codepaths that invoked zlib deflate/inflate assumed that these 19 functions can compress or uncompress more than 4GB data in one call on 20 platforms with 64-bit long, which has been corrected. 21 22 * Git now recognizes loose objects written by other implementations that 23 uses non-standard window size for zlib deflation (e.g. Agit running on 24 Android with 4kb window). We used to reject anything that was not 25 deflated with 32kb window. 26 27 * "git am" learned to pass "--exclude=<path>" option through to underlying 28 "git apply". 29 30 * You can now feed many empty lines before feeding a mbox file to 31 "git am". 32 33 * "git archive" can be told to pass the output to gzip compression and 34 produce "archive.tar.gz". 35 36 * "git bisect" can be used in a bare repository (provided if the test 37 you perform per each iteration does not need a working tree, of 38 course). 39 40 * "git check-attr" can take relative paths from the command line. 41 42 * "git check-attr" learned "--all" option to list the attributes for a 43 given path. 44 45 * "git checkout" (both the code to update the files upon checking out a 46 different branch, the code to checkout specific set of files) learned 47 to stream the data from object store when possible, without having to 48 read the entire contents of a file in memory first. An earlier round 49 of this code that is not in any released version had a large leak but 50 now it has been plugged. 51 52 * "git clone" can now take "--config key=value" option to set the 53 repository configuration options that affect the initial checkout. 54 55 * "git commit <paths>..." now lets you feed relative pathspecs that 56 refer outside your current subdirectory. 57 58 * "git diff --stat" learned --stat-count option to limit the output of 59 diffstat report. 60 61 * "git diff" learned "--histogram" option, to use a different diff 62 generation machinery stolen from jgit, which might give better 63 performance. 64 65 * "git fetch", "git push" and friends no longer show connection 66 errors for addresses that couldn't be connected when at least one 67 address succeeds (this is arguably a regression but a deliberate 68 one). 69 70 * "git grep" learned --break and --heading options, to let users mimic 71 output format of "ack". 72 73 * "git grep" learned "-W" option that shows wider context using the same 74 logic used by "git diff" to determine the hunk header. 75 76 * "git rebase master topci" no longer spews usage hints after giving 77 "fatal: no such branch: topci" error message. 78 79 * "git stash" learned --include-untracked option. 80 81 * "git submodule update" used to stop at the first error updating a 82 submodule; it now goes on to update other submodules that can be 83 updated, and reports the ones with errors at the end. 84 85 * "git upload-pack" and "git receive-pack" learned to pretend only a 86 subset of the refs exist in a repository. This may help a site to 87 put many tiny repositories into one repository (this would not be 88 useful for larger repositories as repacking would be problematic). 89 90 * "git verify-pack" has been rewritten to use the "index-pack" machinery 91 that is more efficient in reading objects in packfiles. 92 93 * test scripts for gitweb tried to run even when CGI-related perl modules 94 are not installed; it now exits early when they are unavailable. 95 96Also contains various documentation updates and minor miscellaneous 97changes. 98 99 100Fixes since v1.7.6 101------------------ 102 103Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes in 1.7.6.X maintenance track are 104included in this release. 105 106 * "ls-files ../$path" that is run from a subdirectory reported errors 107 incorrectly when there is no such path that matches the given pathspec. 108 (merge 0f64bfa cb/maint-ls-files-error-report later to 'maint'). 109 110-- 111exec >/var/tmp/1 112echo O=$(git describe master) 113O=v1.7.6-576-g6fcb384 114git log --first-parent --oneline $O..master 115echo 116git shortlog --no-merges ^maint ^$O master