Update draft release notes to 1.7.7
The second batch of topics for this cycle are now in. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
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@@ -6,12 +6,22 @@ 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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+ * 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
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+ platforms with 64-bit long, which has been corrected.
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+ * "git archive" can be told to pass the output to gzip compression and
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+ produce "archive.tar.gz".
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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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- * "git diff --cc" learned to correctly ignore binary files.
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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 diff --stat" learned --stat-count option to limit the output of
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diffstat report.
@@ -19,6 +29,19 @@ 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 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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+ * "git submodule update" used to stop at the first error updating a
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+ submodule; it now goes on to update other submodules that can be
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+ updated, and reports the ones with errors at the end.
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+ * "git verify-pack" has been rewritten to use the "index-pack" machinery
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+ 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
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+ are not installed; it now exits early when they are unavailable.
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Also contains various documentation updates and minor miscellaneous
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changes.
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@@ -29,8 +52,32 @@ Fixes since v1.7.6
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Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes in 1.7.6.X maintenance track are
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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 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 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 submodule foreach" failed to correctly give the standard input to
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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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+ * 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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+ (merge 2cd9de3 jc/submodule-sync-no-auto-vivify later)
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+ * "git tag -l <glob>..." did not take multiple glob patterns from the
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+ command line.
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+ (merge 588d0e8 jk/tag-list-multiple-patterns later)
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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=v1.7.6-133-g395f65d
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+O=v1.7.6-232-gd907bf8
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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