X-Git-Url: https://git.tokkee.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2FRelNotes%2F1.7.7.txt;h=8de880f83a2a33b16e0f8d3e8e9b90cdbb0cbfa1;hb=beace29a0437068a36bc5963d905fac482724196;hp=6d3bfd19680faaee7272d2451e12cea4e7440cdb;hpb=fca64c80fb61147215de89c2f9391ea0f5576b35;p=git.git diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.txt index 6d3bfd196..8de880f83 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.txt @@ -6,7 +6,14 @@ Updates since v1.7.6 * The scripting part of the codebase is getting prepared for i18n/l10n. - * Interix and Cygwin ports got updated. + * Interix, Cygwin and Minix ports got updated. + + * A handful of patches to update git-p4 (in contrib/). + + * Gitweb learned to read from /etc/gitweb-common.conf when it exists, + before reading from gitweb_config.perl or from /etc/gitweb.conf + (this last one is read only when per-repository gitweb_config.perl + does not exist). * Various codepaths that invoked zlib deflate/inflate assumed that these functions can compress or uncompress more than 4GB data in one call on @@ -15,17 +22,35 @@ Updates since v1.7.6 * "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 - read the entire contents of a file in memory first. + read the entire contents of a file in memory first. An earlier round + of this code that is not in any released version had a large leak but + now it has been plugged. * "git clone" can now take "--config key=value" option to set the repository configuration options that affect the initial checkout. + * "git commit ..." now lets you feed relative pathspecs that + refer outside your current subdirectory. + * "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 @@ -34,6 +59,9 @@ Updates since v1.7.6 * "git grep" learned --break and --heading options, to let users mimic output format of "ack". + * "git grep" learned "-W" option that shows wider context using the same + logic used by "git diff" to determine the hunk header. + * "git rebase master topci" no longer spews usage hints after giving "fatal: no such branch: topci" error message. @@ -43,6 +71,11 @@ 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. @@ -59,40 +92,25 @@ Fixes since v1.7.6 Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes in 1.7.6.X maintenance track are included in this release. - * "git checkout -b " sometimes wrote a bogus reflog entry, - causing later "git checkout -" fail. - (merge 71ee7fd jc/checkout-reflog-fix~1 later). - - * "git diff --cc" learned to correctly ignore binary files. - (merge 0508fe5 jk/combine-diff-binary-etc later) - - * "git fetch" did not recurse into submodules in subdirectories. - (merge ea2d325 jl/maint-fetch-recursive-fix later) - - * "git rebase -i -p" incorrectly dropped commits from side branches. - (merge 12bf828 aw/rebase-i-p later) - - * "git submodule add" did not allow a relative repository path when - the superproject did not have any default remote url. - (merge f22a17e8 jl/submodule-add-relurl-wo-upstream later) + * Error exits from $PAGER were silently ignored. + (merge fc1b56f cb/maint-exec-error-report later). - * "git submodule foreach" failed to correctly give the standard input to - the user-supplied command it invoked. - (merge 4dca1aa bc/submodule-foreach-stdin-fix-1.7.4 later) + * "git diff -c/--cc" mishandled a deletion that resolves a conflict, and + looked in the working tree instead. + (merge 9969454 jc/maint-combined-diff-work-tree later). - * submodules that the user has never showed interest in by running - "git submodule init" was incorrectly marked as interesting by "git - submodule sync". - (merge 2cd9de3 jc/submodule-sync-no-auto-vivify later) + * "git fetch" over smart-http transport used to abort when the + repository was updated between the initial connection and the + subsequent object transfer. + (merge 051e400 jc/maint-smart-http-race-upload-pack later). - * "git tag -l ..." did not take multiple glob patterns from the - command line. - (merge 588d0e8 jk/tag-list-multiple-patterns later) + * "git push --quiet" was not really quiet. + (merge 0d086b8 cb/maint-quiet-push later). -- exec >/var/tmp/1 echo O=$(git describe master) -O=v1.7.6-344-g22f4128 +O=v1.7.6-548-g324b6b1 git log --first-parent --oneline $O..master echo git shortlog --no-merges ^maint ^$O master