Update draft release notes to 1.7.8

[git.git] / Documentation / RelNotes / 1.7.8.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.txt
index 27585834694217350f6bcbfbc34ce56e46e1c6a0..c07bbf5ee5c58f8d187a79fde3e8f85387023165 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.txt
@@ -10,8 +10,18 @@ Updates since v1.7.7
  * The date parser now accepts timezone designators that lack minutes
    part and also has a colon between "hh:mm".
 
+ * On some BSD systems, adding +s bit on directories is detrimental
+   (it is not necessary on BSD to begin with). The installation
+   procedure has been updated to take this into account.
+
+ * The contents of the /etc/mailname file, if exists, is used as the
+   default value of the hostname part of the committer/author e-mail.
+
  * "git am" learned how to read from patches generated by Hg.
 
+ * "git archive" talking with a remote repository can report errors
+   from the remote side in a more informative way.
+
  * "git branch" learned an explicit --list option to ask for branches
    listed, optionally with a glob matching pattern to limit its output.
 
@@ -21,6 +31,11 @@ Updates since v1.7.7
  * Variants of "git cherry-pick" and "git revert" that take multiple
    commits learned to "--continue".
 
+ * Errors at the network layer is logged by "git daemon".
+
+ * "git diff" learned "--minimal" option to spend extra cycles to come
+   up with a minimal patch output.
+
  * "git fetch" learned to honor transfer.fsckobjects configuration to
    validate the objects that were received from the other end, just like
    "git receive-pack" (the receiving end of "git push") does.
@@ -33,6 +48,17 @@ Updates since v1.7.7
  * "git for-each-ref" learned "%(contents:subject)", "%(contents:body)"
    and "%(contents:signature)". The last one is useful for signed tags.
 
+ * "git grep" used to incorrectly pay attention to .gitignore files
+   scattered in the directory it was working in even when "--no-index"
+   option was used. It no longer does this. The "--exclude-standard"
+   option needs to be given to explicitly activate the ignore
+   mechanism.
+
+ * "git grep" learned "--untracked" option, where given patterns are
+    searched in untracked (but not ignored) files as well as tracked
+    files in the working tree, so that matches in new but not yet
+    added files do not get missed.
+
  * "git ls-remote" learned to respond to "-h"(elp) requests.
 
  * "git send-email" learned to respond to "-h"(elp) requests.
@@ -87,6 +113,19 @@ included in this release.
    with too many refs were unnecessarily slow.
    (merge 17d68a54d jp/get-ref-dir-unsorted later to maint).
 
+ * After incorrectly written third-party tools store a tag object in
+   HEAD, git diagnosed it as a repository corruption and refused to
+   proceed in order to avoid spreading the damage. We now gracefully
+   recover from such a situation by pretending as if the commit that
+   is pointed at by the tag were in HEAD.
+   (merge baf18fc nd/maint-autofix-tag-in-head later to maint).
+
+ * "git apply --whitespace=error" did not bother to report the exact
+   line number in the patch that introduced new blank lines at the end
+   of the file.
+   (merge 8557263 jc/apply-blank-at-eof-fix later to maint).
+
+
  * "git remote rename $a $b" were not careful to match the remote name
    against $a (i.e. source side of the remote nickname).
    (merge b52d00aed mz/remote-rename later to maint).
@@ -149,7 +188,7 @@ included in this release.
 
 ---
 exec >/var/tmp/1
-O=v1.7.7-236-g5366afa
+O=v1.7.7-289-gb73c683
 echo O=$(git describe --always master)
 git log --first-parent --oneline --reverse ^$O master
 echo