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.
 
+ * 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 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
@@ -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" 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
@@ -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.
 
+ * "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.
 
@@ -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.
 
+ * "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)
-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