Add a remote helper to interact with mediawiki (fetch & push)

[git.git] / Documentation / RelNotes / 1.7.7.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.txt
index 2ac3d3f2976c357e46a93f8e8338d2cd285e08c7..a717cd622a9d9a99d6003790f629822c52589e4f 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.txt
@@ -19,9 +19,29 @@ Updates since v1.7.6
    functions can compress or uncompress more than 4GB data in one call on
    platforms with 64-bit long, which has been corrected.
 
    functions can compress or uncompress more than 4GB data in one call on
    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
+   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
+   "git apply".
+
+ * You can now feed many empty lines before feeding a mbox file to
+   "git am".
+

  * "git archive" can be told to pass the output to gzip compression and
    produce "archive.tar.gz".
 
  * "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
+   you perform per each iteration does not need a working tree, of
+   course).
+
+ * "git check-attr" can take relative paths from the command line.
+
+ * "git check-attr" learned "--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
    to stream the data from object store when possible, without having to
  * "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


@@ -38,6 +58,10 @@ Updates since v1.7.6
  * "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.
 

+ * "git diff" learned "--histogram" option, to use a different diff
+   generation machinery stolen from jgit, which might give better
+   performance.
+

  * "git fetch", "git push" and friends no longer show connection
    errors for addresses that couldn't be connected when at least one
    address succeeds (this is arguably a regression but a deliberate
  * "git fetch", "git push" and friends no longer show connection
    errors for addresses that couldn't be connected when at least one
    address succeeds (this is arguably a regression but a deliberate


@@ -58,6 +82,11 @@ Updates since v1.7.6
    submodule; it now goes on to update other submodules that can be
    updated, and reports the ones with errors at the end.
 
    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
+   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).
+

  * "git verify-pack" has been rewritten to use the "index-pack" machinery
    that is more efficient in reading objects in packfiles.
 
  * "git verify-pack" has been rewritten to use the "index-pack" machinery
    that is more efficient in reading objects in packfiles.
 


@@ -74,10 +103,21 @@ 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 branch --set-upstream @{-1} foo" did not expand @{-1} correctly.
+   (merge e9d4f74 mg/branch-set-upstream-previous later to 'maint').
+
+ * "git describe --dirty" did not refresh the index before checking the
+   state of the working tree files.
+   (cherry-pick bb57148 ac/describe-dirty-refresh later to 'maint').
+
+ * "git 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=$(git describe master)
 --
 exec >/var/tmp/1
 echo O=$(git describe master)

-O=v1.7.6-471-g50b68ae
+O=v1.7.6.1-415-g284daf2

 git log --first-parent --oneline $O..master
 echo
 git shortlog --no-merges ^maint ^$O master
 git log --first-parent --oneline $O..master
 echo
 git shortlog --no-merges ^maint ^$O master