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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 | ||
826603d1 | 11 | * Various updates git-p4 (in contrib/) and "git fast-import". |
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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 | ||
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22 | * Git now recognizes loose objects written by other implementations that |
23 | uses non-standard window size for zlib deflation (e.g. Agit running on | |
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 | ||
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31 | * "git am" learned to pass "--exclude=<path>" option through to underlying |
32 | "git apply". | |
33 | ||
34 | * You can now feed many empty lines before feeding a mbox file to | |
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 | ||
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40 | * "git bisect" can be used in a bare repository (provided if the test |
41 | you perform per each iteration does not need a working tree, of | |
42 | course). | |
43 | ||
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44 | * The length of abbreviated object names in "git branch -v" output |
45 | now honors core.abbrev configuration variable. | |
46 | ||
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47 | * "git check-attr" can take relative paths from the command line. |
48 | ||
49 | * "git check-attr" learned "--all" option to list the attributes for a | |
50 | given path. | |
51 | ||
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52 | * "git checkout" (both the code to update the files upon checking out a |
53 | different branch, the code to checkout specific set of files) learned | |
54 | to stream the data from object store when possible, without having to | |
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55 | read the entire contents of a file in memory first. An earlier round |
56 | of this code that is not in any released version had a large leak but | |
57 | now it has been plugged. | |
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59 | * "git clone" can now take "--config key=value" option to set the |
60 | repository configuration options that affect the initial checkout. | |
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62 | * "git commit <paths>..." now lets you feed relative pathspecs that |
63 | refer outside your current subdirectory. | |
64 | ||
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65 | * "git diff --stat" learned --stat-count option to limit the output of |
66 | diffstat report. | |
67 | ||
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68 | * "git diff" learned "--histogram" option, to use a different diff |
69 | generation machinery stolen from jgit, which might give better | |
70 | performance. | |
71 | ||
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72 | * "git fetch", "git push" and friends no longer show connection |
73 | errors for addresses that couldn't be connected when at least one | |
74 | address succeeds (this is arguably a regression but a deliberate | |
75 | one). | |
76 | ||
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77 | * "git grep" learned --break and --heading options, to let users mimic |
78 | output format of "ack". | |
79 | ||
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80 | * "git grep" learned "-W" option that shows wider context using the same |
81 | logic used by "git diff" to determine the hunk header. | |
82 | ||
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83 | * The "--decorate" option to "git log" and its family learned to |
84 | highlight grafted and replaced commits. | |
85 | ||
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86 | * "git rebase master topci" no longer spews usage hints after giving |
87 | "fatal: no such branch: topci" error message. | |
88 | ||
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89 | * "git stash" learned --include-untracked option. |
90 | ||
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91 | * "git submodule update" used to stop at the first error updating a |
92 | submodule; it now goes on to update other submodules that can be | |
93 | updated, and reports the ones with errors at the end. | |
94 | ||
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95 | * "git upload-pack" and "git receive-pack" learned to pretend only a |
96 | subset of the refs exist in a repository. This may help a site to | |
97 | put many tiny repositories into one repository (this would not be | |
98 | useful for larger repositories as repacking would be problematic). | |
99 | ||
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100 | * "git verify-pack" has been rewritten to use the "index-pack" machinery |
101 | that is more efficient in reading objects in packfiles. | |
102 | ||
103 | * test scripts for gitweb tried to run even when CGI-related perl modules | |
104 | are not installed; it now exits early when they are unavailable. | |
105 | ||
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106 | Also contains various documentation updates and minor miscellaneous |
107 | changes. | |
108 | ||
109 | ||
110 | Fixes since v1.7.6 | |
111 | ------------------ | |
112 | ||
113 | Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes in 1.7.6.X maintenance track are | |
114 | included in this release. | |
115 | ||
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116 | * "git branch --set-upstream @{-1} foo" did not expand @{-1} correctly. |
117 | (merge e9d4f74 mg/branch-set-upstream-previous later to 'maint'). | |
118 | ||
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119 | * "git branch -m" and "git checkout -b" incorrectly allowed the tip |
120 | of the branch that is currently checked out updated. | |
121 | (merge 55c4a67 ci/forbid-unwanted-current-branch-update later to 'maint'). | |
122 | ||
123 | * "git clone" failed to clone locally from a ".git" file that itself | |
124 | is not a directory but is a pointer to one. | |
125 | (merge 9b0ebc7 nd/maint-clone-gitdir later to 'maint'). | |
126 | ||
127 | * "git clone" from a local repository that borrows from another | |
128 | object store using a relative path in its objects/info/alternates | |
129 | file did not adjust the alternates in the resulting repository. | |
130 | (merge e6baf4a1 jc/maint-clone-alternates later to 'maint'). | |
131 | ||
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132 | * "git describe --dirty" did not refresh the index before checking the |
133 | state of the working tree files. | |
134 | (cherry-pick bb57148 ac/describe-dirty-refresh later to 'maint'). | |
135 | ||
136 | * "git ls-files ../$path" that is run from a subdirectory reported errors | |
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137 | incorrectly when there is no such path that matches the given pathspec. |
138 | (merge 0f64bfa cb/maint-ls-files-error-report later to 'maint'). | |
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140 | -- |
141 | exec >/var/tmp/1 | |
142 | echo O=$(git describe master) | |
a452d148 | 143 | O=v1.7.6.1-415-g284daf2 |
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144 | git log --first-parent --oneline $O..master |
145 | echo | |
cf13f6ca | 146 | git shortlog --no-merges ^maint ^$O master |