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1 | Git v1.7.7 Release Notes |
2 | ======================== | |
3 | ||
4 | Updates since v1.7.6 | |
5 | -------------------- | |
6 | ||
7 | * The scripting part of the codebase is getting prepared for i18n/l10n. | |
8 | ||
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9 | * Interix, Cygwin and Minix ports got updated. |
10 | ||
3793ac56 | 11 | * Various updates to git-p4 (in contrib/), fast-import, and git-svn. |
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12 | |
13 | * Gitweb learned to read from /etc/gitweb-common.conf when it exists, | |
14 | before reading from gitweb_config.perl or from /etc/gitweb.conf | |
15 | (this last one is read only when per-repository gitweb_config.perl | |
16 | does not exist). | |
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17 | |
18 | * Various codepaths that invoked zlib deflate/inflate assumed that these | |
19 | functions can compress or uncompress more than 4GB data in one call on | |
20 | platforms with 64-bit long, which has been corrected. | |
21 | ||
8d9185bc | 22 | * Git now recognizes loose objects written by other implementations that |
3793ac56 | 23 | use a non-standard window size for zlib deflation (e.g. Agit running on |
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24 | Android with 4kb window). We used to reject anything that was not |
25 | deflated with 32kb window. | |
26 | ||
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27 | * Interaction between the use of pager and coloring of the output has |
28 | been improved, especially when a command that is not built-in was | |
29 | involved. | |
30 | ||
3793ac56 | 31 | * "git am" learned to pass the "--exclude=<path>" option through to underlying |
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32 | "git apply". |
33 | ||
3793ac56 | 34 | * You can now feed many empty lines before feeding an mbox file to |
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35 | "git am". |
36 | ||
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37 | * "git archive" can be told to pass the output to gzip compression and |
38 | produce "archive.tar.gz". | |
39 | ||
3793ac56 | 40 | * "git bisect" can be used in a bare repository (provided that the test |
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41 | you perform per each iteration does not need a working tree, of |
42 | course). | |
43 | ||
826603d1 | 44 | * The length of abbreviated object names in "git branch -v" output |
3793ac56 | 45 | now honors the core.abbrev configuration variable. |
826603d1 | 46 | |
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47 | * "git check-attr" can take relative paths from the command line. |
48 | ||
3793ac56 | 49 | * "git check-attr" learned an "--all" option to list the attributes for a |
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50 | given path. |
51 | ||
cf13f6ca | 52 | * "git checkout" (both the code to update the files upon checking out a |
3793ac56 | 53 | different branch and the code to checkout a specific set of files) learned |
cf13f6ca | 54 | to stream the data from object store when possible, without having to |
3793ac56 | 55 | read the entire contents of a file into memory first. An earlier round |
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56 | of this code that is not in any released version had a large leak but |
57 | now it has been plugged. | |
cf13f6ca | 58 | |
3793ac56 | 59 | * "git clone" can now take a "--config key=value" option to set the |
d79bcd68 | 60 | repository configuration options that affect the initial checkout. |
cf13f6ca | 61 | |
b9176629 | 62 | * "git commit <paths>..." now lets you feed relative pathspecs that |
3793ac56 | 63 | refer to outside your current subdirectory. |
b9176629 | 64 | |
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65 | * "git diff --stat" learned a --stat-count option to limit the output of |
66 | a diffstat report. | |
cf13f6ca | 67 | |
3793ac56 | 68 | * "git diff" learned a "--histogram" option to use a different diff |
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69 | generation machinery stolen from jgit, which might give better |
70 | performance. | |
71 | ||
3793ac56 | 72 | * "git diff" had a weird worst case behaviour that can be triggered |
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73 | when comparing files with potentially many places that could match. |
74 | ||
5c2f8459 | 75 | * "git fetch", "git push" and friends no longer show connection |
3793ac56 | 76 | errors for addresses that couldn't be connected to when at least one |
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77 | address succeeds (this is arguably a regression but a deliberate |
78 | one). | |
79 | ||
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80 | * "git grep" learned "--break" and "--heading" options, to let users mimic |
81 | the output format of "ack". | |
cf13f6ca | 82 | |
3793ac56 | 83 | * "git grep" learned a "-W" option that shows wider context using the same |
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84 | logic used by "git diff" to determine the hunk header. |
85 | ||
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86 | * Invoking the low-level "git http-fetch" without "-a" option (which |
87 | git itself never did---normal users should not have to worry about | |
88 | this) is now deprecated. | |
89 | ||
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90 | * The "--decorate" option to "git log" and its family learned to |
91 | highlight grafted and replaced commits. | |
92 | ||
d79bcd68 | 93 | * "git rebase master topci" no longer spews usage hints after giving |
3793ac56 | 94 | the "fatal: no such branch: topci" error message. |
d79bcd68 | 95 | |
e7734c6c | 96 | * The recursive merge strategy implementation got a fairly large |
3793ac56 | 97 | fix for many corner cases that may rarely happen in real world |
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98 | projects (it has been verified that none of the 16000+ merges in |
99 | the Linux kernel history back to v2.6.12 is affected with the | |
100 | corner case bugs this update fixes). | |
101 | ||
3793ac56 | 102 | * "git stash" learned an "--include-untracked option". |
5c2f8459 | 103 | |
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104 | * "git submodule update" used to stop at the first error updating a |
105 | submodule; it now goes on to update other submodules that can be | |
106 | updated, and reports the ones with errors at the end. | |
107 | ||
3793ac56 | 108 | * "git push" can be told with the "--recurse-submodules=check" option to |
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109 | refuse pushing of the supermodule, if any of its submodules' |
110 | commits hasn't been pushed out to their remotes. | |
111 | ||
3793ac56 | 112 | * "git upload-pack" and "git receive-pack" learned to pretend that only a |
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113 | subset of the refs exist in a repository. This may help a site to |
114 | put many tiny repositories into one repository (this would not be | |
115 | useful for larger repositories as repacking would be problematic). | |
116 | ||
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117 | * "git verify-pack" has been rewritten to use the "index-pack" machinery |
118 | that is more efficient in reading objects in packfiles. | |
119 | ||
120 | * test scripts for gitweb tried to run even when CGI-related perl modules | |
3793ac56 | 121 | are not installed; they now exit early when the latter are unavailable. |
d79bcd68 | 122 | |
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123 | Also contains various documentation updates and minor miscellaneous |
124 | changes. | |
125 | ||
126 | ||
127 | Fixes since v1.7.6 | |
128 | ------------------ | |
129 | ||
3793ac56 | 130 | Unless otherwise noted, all fixes in the 1.7.6.X maintenance track are |
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131 | included in this release. |
132 | ||
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133 | * "git branch -m" and "git checkout -b" incorrectly allowed the tip |
134 | of the branch that is currently checked out updated. |