| Git v1.7.7 Release Notes |
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| Updates since v1.7.6 |
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| * The scripting part of the codebase is getting prepared for i18n/l10n. |
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| * Interix, Cygwin and Minix ports got updated. |
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| * Various updates to git-p4 (in contrib/), fast-import, and git-svn. |
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| * 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). |
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| * 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. |
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| * Git now recognizes loose objects written by other implementations that |
| use a 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. |
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| * 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. |
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| * "git am" learned to pass the "--exclude=<path>" option through to underlying |
| "git apply". |
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| * You can now feed many empty lines before feeding an mbox file to |
| "git am". |
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| * "git archive" can be told to pass the output to gzip compression and |
| produce "archive.tar.gz". |
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| * "git bisect" can be used in a bare repository (provided that the test |
| you perform per each iteration does not need a working tree, of |
| course). |
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| * The length of abbreviated object names in "git branch -v" output |
| now honors the core.abbrev configuration variable. |
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| * "git check-attr" can take relative paths from the command line. |
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| * "git check-attr" learned an "--all" option to list the attributes for a |
| given path. |
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| * "git checkout" (both the code to update the files upon checking out a |
| different branch and the code to checkout a specific set of files) learned |
| to stream the data from object store when possible, without having to |
| read the entire contents of a file into 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. |
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| * "git clone" can now take a "--config key=value" option to set the |
| repository configuration options that affect the initial checkout. |
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| * "git commit <paths>..." now lets you feed relative pathspecs that |
| refer to outside your current subdirectory. |
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| * "git diff --stat" learned a --stat-count option to limit the output of |
| a diffstat report. |
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| * "git diff" learned a "--histogram" option to use a different diff |
| generation machinery stolen from jgit, which might give better |
| performance. |
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| * "git diff" had a weird worst case behaviour that can be triggered |
| when comparing files with potentially many places that could match. |
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| * "git fetch", "git push" and friends no longer show connection |
| errors for addresses that couldn't be connected to when at least one |
| address succeeds (this is arguably a regression but a deliberate |
| one). |
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| * "git grep" learned "--break" and "--heading" options, to let users mimic |
| the output format of "ack". |
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| * "git grep" learned a "-W" option that shows wider context using the same |
| logic used by "git diff" to determine the hunk header. |
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| * Invoking the low-level "git http-fetch" without "-a" option (which |
| git itself never did--normal users should not have to worry about |
| this) is now deprecated. |
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| * The "--decorate" option to "git log" and its family learned to |
| highlight grafted and replaced commits. |
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| * "git rebase master topci" no longer spews usage hints after giving |
| the "fatal: no such branch: topci" error message. |
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| * The recursive merge strategy implementation got a fairly large |
| fix for many corner cases that may rarely happen in real world |
| projects (it has been verified that none of the 16000+ merges in |
| the Linux kernel history back to v2.6.12 is affected with the |
| corner case bugs this update fixes). |
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| * "git stash" learned an "--include-untracked option". |
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| * "git submodule update" used to stop at the first error updating a |
| submodule; it now goes on to update other submodules that can be |
| updated, and reports the ones with errors at the end. |
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| * "git push" can be told with the "--recurse-submodules=check" option to |
| refuse pushing of the supermodule, if any of its submodules' |
| commits hasn't been pushed out to their remotes. |
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| * "git upload-pack" and "git receive-pack" learned to pretend that 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). |
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| * "git verify-pack" has been rewritten to use the "index-pack" machinery |
| that is more efficient in reading objects in packfiles. |
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| * test scripts for gitweb tried to run even when CGI-related perl modules |
| are not installed; they now exit early when the latter are unavailable. |
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| Also contains various documentation updates and minor miscellaneous |
| changes. |
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| Fixes since v1.7.6 |
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| Unless otherwise noted, all fixes in the 1.7.6.X maintenance track are |
| included in this release. |
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| * "git branch -m" and "git checkout -b" incorrectly allowed the tip |
| of the branch that is currently checked out updated. |