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   1Git v1.7.8 Release Notes (draft)
   2================================
   3
   4Updates since v1.7.7
   5--------------------
   6
   7 * The build procedure has been taught to take advantage of computed
   8   dependency automatically when the complier supports it.
   9
  10 * The date parser now accepts timezone designators that lack minutes
  11   part and also has a colon between "hh:mm".
  12
  13 * "git am" learned how to read from patches generated by Hg.
  14
  15 * "git branch" learned an explicit --list option to ask for branches
  16   listed, optionally with a glob matching pattern to limit its output.
  17
  18 * "git check-attr" learned "--cached" option to look at .gitattributes
  19   files from the index, not from the working tree.
  20
  21 * Variants of "git cherry-pick" and "git revert" that take multiple
  22   commits learned to "--continue".
  23
  24 * "git fetch" learned to honor transfer.fsckobjects configuration to
  25   validate the objects that were received from the other end, just like
  26   "git receive-pack" (the receiving end of "git push") does.
  27
  28 * "git fetch" makes sure that the set of objects it received from the
  29   other end actually completes the history before updating the refs.
  30   "git receive-pack" (the receiving end of "git push") learned to do the
  31   same.
  32
  33 * "git for-each-ref" learned "%(contents:subject)", "%(contents:body)"
  34   and "%(contents:signature)". The last one is useful for signed tags.
  35
  36 * "git ls-remote" learned to respond to "-h"(elp) requests.
  37
  38 * "git send-email" learned to respond to "-h"(elp) requests.
  39
  40 * "git stash" learned "--include-untracked" option to stash away
  41   untracked/ignored cruft from the working tree.
  42
  43 * "mediawiki" remote helper can interact with (surprise!) MediaWiki
  44   with "git fetch" & "git push".
  45
  46 * "gitweb" leaked unescaped control characters from syntax hiliter
  47   outputs.
  48
  49
  50Fixes since v1.7.7
  51------------------
  52
  53Unless otherwise noted, all fixes in the 1.7.7.X maintenance track are
  54included in this release.
  55
  56 * "git diff $tree $path" used to apply the pathspec at the output stage,
  57   reading the whole tree, wasting resources.
  58   (merge 2f88c1970 jc/diff-index-unpack later to maint).
  59
  60 * The code to check for updated submodules during a "git fetch" of the
  61   superproject had an unnecessary quadratic loop.
  62   (merge 6859de45 jk/maint-fetch-submodule-check-fix later to maint).
  63
  64 * "git fetch" from a large bundle did not enable the progress output.
  65   (merge be042aff jc/maint-bundle-too-quiet later to maint).
  66
  67 * When "git fsck --lost-and-found" found that an empty blob object in the
  68   object store is unreachable, it incorrectly reported an error after
  69   writing the lost blob out successfully.
  70   (merge eb726f2d jc/maint-fsck-fwrite-size-check later to maint).
  71
  72 * "git filter-branch" did not refresh the index before checking that the
  73   working tree was clean.
  74   (merge 5347a50f jk/filter-branch-require-clean-work-tree later to maint).
  75
  76 * "git grep $tree" when run with multiple threads had an unsafe access to
  77   the object database that should have been protected with mutex.
  78   (merge 8cb5775b2 nm/grep-object-sha1-lock later to maint).
  79
  80 * The "--ancestry-path" option to "git log" and friends misbehaved in a
  81   history with complex criss-cross merges and showed an uninteresting
  82   side history as well.
  83   (merge c05b988a6 bk/ancestry-path later to maint).
  84
  85 * "git merge" did not understand ":/<pattern>" as a way to name a commit.
  86
  87 * Tests with --valgrind failed to find "mergetool" scriptlets.
  88   (merge ee0d7bf92 tr/mergetool-valgrind later to maint).
  89
  90 * "git patch-id" miscomputed the patch-id in a patch that has a line longer
  91   than 1kB.
  92   (merge b9ab810b ms/patch-id-with-overlong-line later to maint).
  93
  94 * When an "exec" insn failed after modifying the index and/or the working
  95   tree during "rebase -i", we now check and warn that the changes need to
  96   be cleaned up.
  97   (merge 1686519a mm/rebase-i-exec-edit later to maint).
  98
  99---
 100it=master
 101exec >/var/tmp/1
 102O=v1.7.7
 103O=v1.7.7-137-g2e49dab
 104echo O=$(git describe --always $it)
 105git log --first-parent --oneline --reverse ^$O $it
 106echo
 107git shortlog --no-merges ^$O $it