Update draft release notes to 1.7.7

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.txt
index a717cd622a9d9a99d6003790f629822c52589e4f..82dc9292c3503ecdddd9b9cf6274eae110197188 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Updates since v1.7.6
 
  * Interix, Cygwin and Minix ports got updated.
 
 
  * Interix, Cygwin and Minix ports got updated.
 

- * A handful of patches to update git-p4 (in contrib/).
+ * Various updates git-p4 (in contrib/) and "git fast-import".

 
  * Gitweb learned to read from /etc/gitweb-common.conf when it exists,
    before reading from gitweb_config.perl or from /etc/gitweb.conf
 
  * Gitweb learned to read from /etc/gitweb-common.conf when it exists,
    before reading from gitweb_config.perl or from /etc/gitweb.conf


@@ -24,6 +24,10 @@ Updates since v1.7.6
    Android with 4kb window). We used to reject anything that was not
    deflated with 32kb window.
 
    Android with 4kb window). We used to reject anything that was not
    deflated with 32kb window.
 

+ * Interaction between the use of pager and coloring of the output has
+   been improved, especially when a command that is not built-in was
+   involved.
+

  * "git am" learned to pass "--exclude=<path>" option through to underlying
    "git apply".
 
  * "git am" learned to pass "--exclude=<path>" option through to underlying
    "git apply".
 


@@ -37,6 +41,9 @@ Updates since v1.7.6
    you perform per each iteration does not need a working tree, of
    course).
 
    you perform per each iteration does not need a working tree, of
    course).
 

+ * The length of abbreviated object names in "git branch -v" output
+   now honors core.abbrev configuration variable.
+

  * "git check-attr" can take relative paths from the command line.
 
  * "git check-attr" learned "--all" option to list the attributes for a
  * "git check-attr" can take relative paths from the command line.
 
  * "git check-attr" learned "--all" option to list the attributes for a


@@ -73,6 +80,9 @@ Updates since v1.7.6
  * "git grep" learned "-W" option that shows wider context using the same
    logic used by "git diff" to determine the hunk header.
 
  * "git grep" learned "-W" option that shows wider context using the same
    logic used by "git diff" to determine the hunk header.
 

+ * The "--decorate" option to "git log" and its family learned to
+   highlight grafted and replaced commits.
+

  * "git rebase master topci" no longer spews usage hints after giving
    "fatal: no such branch: topci" error message.
 
  * "git rebase master topci" no longer spews usage hints after giving
    "fatal: no such branch: topci" error message.
 


@@ -106,6 +116,19 @@ 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 branch --set-upstream @{-1} foo" did not expand @{-1} correctly.
    (merge e9d4f74 mg/branch-set-upstream-previous later to 'maint').
 

+ * "git branch -m" and "git checkout -b" incorrectly allowed the tip
+   of the branch that is currently checked out updated.
+   (merge 55c4a67 ci/forbid-unwanted-current-branch-update later to 'maint').
+
+ * "git clone" failed to clone locally from a ".git" file that itself
+   is not a directory but is a pointer to one.
+   (merge 9b0ebc7 nd/maint-clone-gitdir later to 'maint').
+
+ * "git clone" from a local repository that borrows from another
+   object store using a relative path in its objects/info/alternates
+   file did not adjust the alternates in the resulting repository.
+   (merge e6baf4a1 jc/maint-clone-alternates 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 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').