Junio C Hamano | cf13f6c | 2011-07-06 17:00:46 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 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 | |
Junio C Hamano | b917662 | 2011-08-11 12:12:22 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 9 | * Interix, Cygwin and Minix ports got updated. |
| 10 | |
| 11 | * A handful of patches to update git-p4 (in contrib/). |
| 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). |
Junio C Hamano | d79bcd6 | 2011-07-19 10:44:51 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 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 | |
Junio C Hamano | 8d9185b | 2011-08-23 15:43:38 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 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 | |
Junio C Hamano | cee4268 | 2011-08-18 22:10:23 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 27 | * "git am" learned to pass "--exclude=<path>" option through to underlying |
| 28 | "git apply". |
| 29 | |
| 30 | * You can now feed many empty lines before feeding a mbox file to |
| 31 | "git am". |
| 32 | |
Junio C Hamano | d79bcd6 | 2011-07-19 10:44:51 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 33 | * "git archive" can be told to pass the output to gzip compression and |
| 34 | produce "archive.tar.gz". |
| 35 | |
Junio C Hamano | f85a051 | 2011-08-17 17:48:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 36 | * "git bisect" can be used in a bare repository (provided if the test |
| 37 | you perform per each iteration does not need a working tree, of |
| 38 | course). |
| 39 | |
| 40 | * "git check-attr" can take relative paths from the command line. |
| 41 | |
| 42 | * "git check-attr" learned "--all" option to list the attributes for a |
| 43 | given path. |
| 44 | |
Junio C Hamano | cf13f6c | 2011-07-06 17:00:46 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 45 | * "git checkout" (both the code to update the files upon checking out a |
| 46 | different branch, the code to checkout specific set of files) learned |
| 47 | to stream the data from object store when possible, without having to |
Junio C Hamano | b917662 | 2011-08-11 12:12:22 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 48 | read the entire contents of a file in memory first. An earlier round |
| 49 | of this code that is not in any released version had a large leak but |
| 50 | now it has been plugged. |
Junio C Hamano | cf13f6c | 2011-07-06 17:00:46 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 51 | |
Junio C Hamano | d79bcd6 | 2011-07-19 10:44:51 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 52 | * "git clone" can now take "--config key=value" option to set the |
| 53 | repository configuration options that affect the initial checkout. |
Junio C Hamano | cf13f6c | 2011-07-06 17:00:46 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 54 | |
Junio C Hamano | b917662 | 2011-08-11 12:12:22 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 55 | * "git commit <paths>..." now lets you feed relative pathspecs that |
| 56 | refer outside your current subdirectory. |
| 57 | |
Junio C Hamano | cf13f6c | 2011-07-06 17:00:46 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 58 | * "git diff --stat" learned --stat-count option to limit the output of |
| 59 | diffstat report. |
| 60 | |
Junio C Hamano | f85a051 | 2011-08-17 17:48:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 61 | * "git diff" learned "--histogram" option, to use a different diff |
| 62 | generation machinery stolen from jgit, which might give better |
| 63 | performance. |
| 64 | |
Junio C Hamano | 5c2f845 | 2011-07-22 15:32:03 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 65 | * "git fetch", "git push" and friends no longer show connection |
| 66 | errors for addresses that couldn't be connected when at least one |
| 67 | address succeeds (this is arguably a regression but a deliberate |
| 68 | one). |
| 69 | |
Junio C Hamano | cf13f6c | 2011-07-06 17:00:46 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 70 | * "git grep" learned --break and --heading options, to let users mimic |
| 71 | output format of "ack". |
| 72 | |
Junio C Hamano | b917662 | 2011-08-11 12:12:22 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 73 | * "git grep" learned "-W" option that shows wider context using the same |
| 74 | logic used by "git diff" to determine the hunk header. |
| 75 | |
Junio C Hamano | d79bcd6 | 2011-07-19 10:44:51 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 76 | * "git rebase master topci" no longer spews usage hints after giving |
| 77 | "fatal: no such branch: topci" error message. |
| 78 | |
Junio C Hamano | 5c2f845 | 2011-07-22 15:32:03 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 79 | * "git stash" learned --include-untracked option. |
| 80 | |
Junio C Hamano | d79bcd6 | 2011-07-19 10:44:51 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 81 | * "git submodule update" used to stop at the first error updating a |
| 82 | submodule; it now goes on to update other submodules that can be |
| 83 | updated, and reports the ones with errors at the end. |
| 84 | |
Junio C Hamano | f85a051 | 2011-08-17 17:48:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 85 | * "git upload-pack" and "git receive-pack" learned to pretend only a |
| 86 | subset of the refs exist in a repository. This may help a site to |
| 87 | put many tiny repositories into one repository (this would not be |
| 88 | useful for larger repositories as repacking would be problematic). |
| 89 | |
Junio C Hamano | d79bcd6 | 2011-07-19 10:44:51 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 90 | * "git verify-pack" has been rewritten to use the "index-pack" machinery |
| 91 | that is more efficient in reading objects in packfiles. |
| 92 | |
| 93 | * test scripts for gitweb tried to run even when CGI-related perl modules |
| 94 | are not installed; it now exits early when they are unavailable. |
| 95 | |
Junio C Hamano | cf13f6c | 2011-07-06 17:00:46 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 96 | Also contains various documentation updates and minor miscellaneous |
| 97 | changes. |
| 98 | |
| 99 | |
| 100 | Fixes since v1.7.6 |
| 101 | ------------------ |
| 102 | |
| 103 | Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes in 1.7.6.X maintenance track are |
| 104 | included in this release. |
| 105 | |
Junio C Hamano | a452d14 | 2011-08-25 21:00:46 -0700 | [diff] [blame^] | 106 | * "git branch --set-upstream @{-1} foo" did not expand @{-1} correctly. |
| 107 | (merge e9d4f74 mg/branch-set-upstream-previous later to 'maint'). |
| 108 | |
| 109 | * "git describe --dirty" did not refresh the index before checking the |
| 110 | state of the working tree files. |
| 111 | (cherry-pick bb57148 ac/describe-dirty-refresh later to 'maint'). |
| 112 | |
| 113 | * "git ls-files ../$path" that is run from a subdirectory reported errors |
Junio C Hamano | 8d9185b | 2011-08-23 15:43:38 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 114 | incorrectly when there is no such path that matches the given pathspec. |
| 115 | (merge 0f64bfa cb/maint-ls-files-error-report later to 'maint'). |
Junio C Hamano | f85a051 | 2011-08-17 17:48:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 116 | |
Junio C Hamano | cf13f6c | 2011-07-06 17:00:46 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 117 | -- |
| 118 | exec >/var/tmp/1 |
| 119 | echo O=$(git describe master) |
Junio C Hamano | a452d14 | 2011-08-25 21:00:46 -0700 | [diff] [blame^] | 120 | O=v1.7.6.1-415-g284daf2 |
Junio C Hamano | d79bcd6 | 2011-07-19 10:44:51 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 121 | git log --first-parent --oneline $O..master |
| 122 | echo |
Junio C Hamano | cf13f6c | 2011-07-06 17:00:46 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 123 | git shortlog --no-merges ^maint ^$O master |