--- /dev/null
- * "git diff $tree $path" used to apply the pathspec at the output stage,
- reading the whole tree, wasting resources.
- (merge 2f88c1970 jc/diff-index-unpack later to maint).
-
+Git v1.7.8 Release Notes (draft)
+================================
+
+Updates since v1.7.7
+--------------------
+
+ * The build procedure has been taught to take advantage of computed
+ dependency automatically when the complier supports it.
+
+ * The date parser now accepts timezone designators that lack minutes
+ part and also has a colon between "hh:mm".
+
+ * On some BSD systems, adding +s bit on directories is detrimental
+ (it is not necessary on BSD to begin with). The installation
+ procedure has been updated to take this into account.
+
+ * The contents of the /etc/mailname file, if exists, is used as the
+ default value of the hostname part of the committer/author e-mail.
+
+ * "git am" learned how to read from patches generated by Hg.
+
+ * "git archive" talking with a remote repository can report errors
+ from the remote side in a more informative way.
+
+ * "git branch" learned an explicit --list option to ask for branches
+ listed, optionally with a glob matching pattern to limit its output.
+
+ * "git check-attr" learned "--cached" option to look at .gitattributes
+ files from the index, not from the working tree.
+
+ * Variants of "git cherry-pick" and "git revert" that take multiple
+ commits learned to "--continue".
+
+ * Errors at the network layer is logged by "git daemon".
+
+ * "git diff" learned "--minimal" option to spend extra cycles to come
+ up with a minimal patch output.
+
+ * "git fetch" learned to honor transfer.fsckobjects configuration to
+ validate the objects that were received from the other end, just like
+ "git receive-pack" (the receiving end of "git push") does.
+
+ * "git fetch" makes sure that the set of objects it received from the
+ other end actually completes the history before updating the refs.
+ "git receive-pack" (the receiving end of "git push") learned to do the
+ same.
+
+ * "git for-each-ref" learned "%(contents:subject)", "%(contents:body)"
+ and "%(contents:signature)". The last one is useful for signed tags.
+
+ * "git grep" used to incorrectly pay attention to .gitignore files
+ scattered in the directory it was working in even when "--no-index"
+ option was used. It no longer does this. The "--exclude-standard"
+ option needs to be given to explicitly activate the ignore
+ mechanism.
+
+ * "git grep" learned "--untracked" option, where given patterns are
+ searched in untracked (but not ignored) files as well as tracked
+ files in the working tree, so that matches in new but not yet
+ added files do not get missed.
+
+ * "git ls-remote" learned to respond to "-h"(elp) requests.
+
+ * "git send-email" learned to respond to "-h"(elp) requests.
+
+ * "git send-email" allows the value given to sendemail.aliasfile to begin
+ with "~/" to refer to the $HOME directory.
+
+ * "git send-email" forces use of Authen::SASL::Perl to work around
+ issues between Authen::SASL::Cyrus and AUTH PLAIN/LOGIN.
+
+ * "git stash" learned "--include-untracked" option to stash away
+ untracked/ignored cruft from the working tree.
+
+ * "git submodule update" learned to honor "none" as the value for
+ submodule.<name>.update to specify that the named submodule should
+ not be checked out by default.
+
+ * When populating a new submodule directory with "git submodule init",
+ the $GIT_DIR metainformation directory for submodules is created inside
+ $GIT_DIR/modules/<name>/ directory of the superproject and referenced
+ via the gitfile mechanism. This is to make it possible to switch
+ between commits in the superproject that has and does not have the
+ submodule in the tree without re-cloning.
+
+ * "mediawiki" remote helper can interact with (surprise!) MediaWiki
+ with "git fetch" & "git push".
+
+ * "gitweb" leaked unescaped control characters from syntax hiliter
+ outputs.
+
+
+Also contains other documentation updates and minor code cleanups.
+
+
+Fixes since v1.7.7
+------------------
+
+Unless otherwise noted, all fixes in the 1.7.7.X maintenance track are
+included in this release.
+
+ * We used to drop error messages from libcurl on certain kinds of
+ errors.
+ (merge be22d92eac8 jn/maint-http-error-message later to maint).
+
+ * Error report from smart HTTP transport, when the connection was
+ broken in the middle of a transfer, showed a useless message on
+ a corrupt packet.
+ (merge 6cdf022 sp/smart-http-failure later to maint).
+
+ * Adding many refs to the local repository in one go (e.g. "git fetch"
+ that fetches many tags) and looking up a ref by name in a repository
+ with too many refs were unnecessarily slow.
+ (merge 17d68a54d jp/get-ref-dir-unsorted later to maint).
+
+ * After incorrectly written third-party tools store a tag object in
+ HEAD, git diagnosed it as a repository corruption and refused to
+ proceed in order to avoid spreading the damage. We now gracefully
+ recover from such a situation by pretending as if the commit that
+ is pointed at by the tag were in HEAD.
+ (merge baf18fc nd/maint-autofix-tag-in-head later to maint).
+
+ * "git apply --whitespace=error" did not bother to report the exact
+ line number in the patch that introduced new blank lines at the end
+ of the file.
+ (merge 8557263 jc/apply-blank-at-eof-fix later to maint).
+
+
+ * "git remote rename $a $b" were not careful to match the remote name
+ against $a (i.e. source side of the remote nickname).
+ (merge b52d00aed mz/remote-rename later to maint).
+
- * The code to check for updated submodules during a "git fetch" of the
- superproject had an unnecessary quadratic loop.
- (merge 6859de45 jk/maint-fetch-submodule-check-fix later to maint).
-
- * "git fetch" from a large bundle did not enable the progress output.
- (merge be042aff jc/maint-bundle-too-quiet later to maint).
-
- * When "git fsck --lost-and-found" found that an empty blob object in the
- object store is unreachable, it incorrectly reported an error after
- writing the lost blob out successfully.
- (merge eb726f2d jc/maint-fsck-fwrite-size-check later to maint).
-
- * "git filter-branch" did not refresh the index before checking that the
- working tree was clean.
- (merge 5347a50f jk/filter-branch-require-clean-work-tree later to maint).
-
- * "git grep $tree" when run with multiple threads had an unsafe access to
- the object database that should have been protected with mutex.
- (merge 8cb5775b2 nm/grep-object-sha1-lock later to maint).
-
- * The "--ancestry-path" option to "git log" and friends misbehaved in a
- history with complex criss-cross merges and showed an uninteresting
- side history as well.
- (merge c05b988a6 bk/ancestry-path later to maint).
-
+ * "git diff --[num]stat" used to use the number of lines of context
+ different from the default, potentially giving different results from
+ "git diff | diffstat" and confusing the users.
+ (merge f01cae918 jc/maint-diffstat-numstat-context later to maint).
+
- * Tests with --valgrind failed to find "mergetool" scriptlets.
- (merge ee0d7bf92 tr/mergetool-valgrind later to maint).
-
- * "git patch-id" miscomputed the patch-id in a patch that has a line longer
- than 1kB.
- (merge b9ab810b ms/patch-id-with-overlong-line later to maint).
-
- * When an "exec" insn failed after modifying the index and/or the working
- tree during "rebase -i", we now check and warn that the changes need to
- be cleaned up.
- (merge 1686519a mm/rebase-i-exec-edit later to maint).
-
+ * "git merge" did not understand ":/<pattern>" as a way to name a commit.
+
+ * "git mergetool" learned to use its arguments as pathspec, not a path to
+ the file that may not even have any conflict.
+ (merge 6d9990a jm/mergetool-pathspec later to maint).
+
+ * "gitweb" used to produce a non-working link while showing the contents
+ of a blob, when JavaScript actions are enabled.
+ (merge 2b07ff3ff ps/gitweb-js-with-lineno later to maint).
+
+---
+exec >/var/tmp/1
+O=v1.7.7-289-gb73c683
+echo O=$(git describe --always master)
+git log --first-parent --oneline --reverse ^$O master
+echo
+git shortlog --no-merges ^$O master
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