X-Git-Url: https://git.tokkee.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2FRelNotes%2F1.7.7.txt;h=a717cd622a9d9a99d6003790f629822c52589e4f;hb=428c995c4e697457842d00ccab6595e51b088a44;hp=6d3bfd19680faaee7272d2451e12cea4e7440cdb;hpb=e7a85be3cfc4ee017f59f1d1f8ceb63d7c88c9c8;p=git.git diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.txt index 6d3bfd196..a717cd622 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.txt @@ -6,26 +6,62 @@ 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 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=" 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 - 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 +70,9 @@ 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 +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. @@ -59,40 +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 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) - - * "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 branch --set-upstream @{-1} foo" did not expand @{-1} correctly. + (merge e9d4f74 mg/branch-set-upstream-previous later to 'maint'). - * 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 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 tag -l ..." did not take multiple glob patterns from the - command line. - (merge 588d0e8 jk/tag-list-multiple-patterns later) + * "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=v1.7.6-344-g22f4128 +O=v1.7.6.1-415-g284daf2 git log --first-parent --oneline $O..master echo git shortlog --no-merges ^maint ^$O master