From d79bcd68056250d7c03bf9b12728ee2fd85a0ab3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Junio C Hamano Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 10:44:51 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] 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 --- Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.txt | 51 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 49 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.txt index c5a5441743..42982e5b24 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.txt @@ -6,12 +6,22 @@ Updates since v1.7.6 * The scripting part of the codebase is getting prepared for i18n/l10n. + * Interix and Cygwin ports got updated. + + * 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. + + * "git archive" can be told to pass the output to gzip compression and + produce "archive.tar.gz". + * "git checkout" (both the code to update the files upon checking out a different branch, the code to checkout specific set of files) learned to stream the data from object store when possible, without having to read the entire contents of a file in memory first. - * "git diff --cc" learned to correctly ignore binary files. + * "git clone" can now take "--config key=value" option to set the + repository configuration options that affect the initial checkout. * "git diff --stat" learned --stat-count option to limit the output of diffstat report. @@ -19,6 +29,19 @@ Updates since v1.7.6 * "git grep" learned --break and --heading options, to let users mimic output format of "ack". + * "git rebase master topci" no longer spews usage hints after giving + "fatal: no such branch: topci" error message. + + * "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. + + * "git verify-pack" has been rewritten to use the "index-pack" machinery + that is more efficient in reading objects in packfiles. + + * test scripts for gitweb tried to run even when CGI-related perl modules + are not installed; it now exits early when they are unavailable. + Also contains various documentation updates and minor miscellaneous changes. @@ -29,8 +52,32 @@ Fixes since v1.7.6 Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes in 1.7.6.X maintenance track are included in this release. + * "git diff --cc" learned to correctly ignore binary files. + (merge 0508fe5 jk/combine-diff-binary-etc later) + + * "git fetch" did not recurse into submodules in subdirectories. + (merge ea2d325 jl/maint-fetch-recursive-fix later) + + * "git rebase -i -p" incorrectly dropped commits from side branches. + (merge 12bf828 aw/rebase-i-p later) + + * "git submodule foreach" failed to correctly give the standard input to + the user-supplied command it invoked. + (merge 4dca1aa bc/submodule-foreach-stdin-fix-1.7.4 later) + + * submodules that the user has never showed interest in by running + "git submodule init" was incorrectly marked as interesting by "git + submodule sync". + (merge 2cd9de3 jc/submodule-sync-no-auto-vivify later) + + * "git tag -l ..." did not take multiple glob patterns from the + command line. + (merge 588d0e8 jk/tag-list-multiple-patterns later) + -- exec >/var/tmp/1 echo O=$(git describe master) -O=v1.7.6-133-g395f65d +O=v1.7.6-232-gd907bf8 +git log --first-parent --oneline $O..master +echo git shortlog --no-merges ^maint ^$O master