Update draft release notes to 1.7.7
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Aug 11, 2011 at 12:12 UTC
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@@ -6,7 +6,14 @@ 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 and Cygwin ports got updated.
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+ * Interix, Cygwin and Minix ports got updated.
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+ * A handful of patches to update git-p4 (in contrib/).
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+ * Gitweb learned to read from /etc/gitweb-common.conf when it exists,
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+ before reading from gitweb_config.perl or from /etc/gitweb.conf
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+ (this last one is read only when per-repository gitweb_config.perl
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+ does not exist).
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* Various codepaths that invoked zlib deflate/inflate assumed that these
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functions can compress or uncompress more than 4GB data in one call on
@@ -18,11 +25,16 @@ Updates since v1.7.6
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* "git checkout" (both the code to update the files upon checking out a
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different branch, the code to checkout specific set of files) learned
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to stream the data from object store when possible, without having to
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- read the entire contents of a file in memory first.
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+ read the entire contents of a file in memory first. An earlier round
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+ of this code that is not in any released version had a large leak but
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+ now it has been plugged.
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* "git clone" can now take "--config key=value" option to set the
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repository configuration options that affect the initial checkout.
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+ * "git commit <paths>..." now lets you feed relative pathspecs that
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+ refer outside your current subdirectory.
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* "git diff --stat" learned --stat-count option to limit the output of
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diffstat report.
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@@ -34,6 +46,9 @@ Updates since v1.7.6
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* "git grep" learned --break and --heading options, to let users mimic
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output format of "ack".
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+ * "git grep" learned "-W" option that shows wider context using the same
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+ logic used by "git diff" to determine the hunk header.
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* "git rebase master topci" no longer spews usage hints after giving
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"fatal: no such branch: topci" error message.
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@@ -66,12 +81,27 @@ included in this release.
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* "git diff --cc" learned to correctly ignore binary files.
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(merge 0508fe5 jk/combine-diff-binary-etc later)
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+ * "git fast-export" forgot to quote pathnames with unsafe characters
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+ in its output.
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+ (merge 6280dfd jk/fast-export-quote-path later)
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* "git fetch" did not recurse into submodules in subdirectories.
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(merge ea2d325 jl/maint-fetch-recursive-fix later)
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+ * "git ls-tree" did not error out when asked to show a corrupt tree.
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+ (merge 04f8925 js/ls-tree-error later)
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+ * "git pull" without any argument left an extra whitespace after the
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+ command name in its reflog.
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+ (merge c98d1e4 oa/pull-reflog later)
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* "git rebase -i -p" incorrectly dropped commits from side branches.
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(merge 12bf828 aw/rebase-i-p later)
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+ * "git reset [<commit>] paths..." did not reset the index entry correctly
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+ for unmerged paths.
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+ (merge ff00b682 jc/maint-reset-unmerged-path later)
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* "git submodule add" did not allow a relative repository path when
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the superproject did not have any default remote url.
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(merge f22a17e8 jl/submodule-add-relurl-wo-upstream later)
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the user-supplied command it invoked.
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(merge 4dca1aa bc/submodule-foreach-stdin-fix-1.7.4 later)
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+ * "git submodule update --quiet" was not really quiet.
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+ (merge 7e60407 jl/submodule-update-quiet later)
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* submodules that the user has never showed interest in by running
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"git submodule init" was incorrectly marked as interesting by "git
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submodule sync".
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--
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exec >/var/tmp/1
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echo O=$(git describe master)
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-O=v1.7.6-344-g22f4128
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+O=v1.7.6-446-g0af53e1
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git log --first-parent --oneline $O..master
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echo
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git shortlog --no-merges ^maint ^$O master