1 Git v1.7.7 Release Notes
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7 * The scripting part of the codebase is getting prepared for i18n/l10n.
9 * Interix and Cygwin ports got updated.
11 * Various codepaths that invoked zlib deflate/inflate assumed that these
12 functions can compress or uncompress more than 4GB data in one call on
13 platforms with 64-bit long, which has been corrected.
15 * "git archive" can be told to pass the output to gzip compression and
16 produce "archive.tar.gz".
18 * "git checkout" (both the code to update the files upon checking out a
19 different branch, the code to checkout specific set of files) learned
20 to stream the data from object store when possible, without having to
21 read the entire contents of a file in memory first.
23 * "git clone" can now take "--config key=value" option to set the
24 repository configuration options that affect the initial checkout.
26 * "git diff --stat" learned --stat-count option to limit the output of
29 * "git fetch", "git push" and friends no longer show connection
30 errors for addresses that couldn't be connected when at least one
31 address succeeds (this is arguably a regression but a deliberate
34 * "git grep" learned --break and --heading options, to let users mimic
35 output format of "ack".
37 * "git rebase master topci" no longer spews usage hints after giving
38 "fatal: no such branch: topci" error message.
40 * "git stash" learned --include-untracked option.
42 * "git submodule update" used to stop at the first error updating a
43 submodule; it now goes on to update other submodules that can be
44 updated, and reports the ones with errors at the end.
46 * "git verify-pack" has been rewritten to use the "index-pack" machinery
47 that is more efficient in reading objects in packfiles.
49 * test scripts for gitweb tried to run even when CGI-related perl modules
50 are not installed; it now exits early when they are unavailable.
52 Also contains various documentation updates and minor miscellaneous
59 Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes in 1.7.6.X maintenance track are
60 included in this release.
62 * "git checkout -b <branch>" sometimes wrote a bogus reflog entry,
63 causing later "git checkout -" fail.
64 (merge 71ee7fd jc/checkout-reflog-fix~1 later).
66 * "git diff --cc" learned to correctly ignore binary files.
67 (merge 0508fe5 jk/combine-diff-binary-etc later)
69 * "git fetch" did not recurse into submodules in subdirectories.
70 (merge ea2d325 jl/maint-fetch-recursive-fix later)
72 * "git rebase -i -p" incorrectly dropped commits from side branches.
73 (merge 12bf828 aw/rebase-i-p later)
75 * "git submodule add" did not allow a relative repository path when
76 the superproject did not have any default remote url.
77 (merge f22a17e8 jl/submodule-add-relurl-wo-upstream later)
79 * "git submodule foreach" failed to correctly give the standard input to
80 the user-supplied command it invoked.
81 (merge 4dca1aa bc/submodule-foreach-stdin-fix-1.7.4 later)
83 * submodules that the user has never showed interest in by running
84 "git submodule init" was incorrectly marked as interesting by "git
86 (merge 2cd9de3 jc/submodule-sync-no-auto-vivify later)
88 * "git tag -l <glob>..." did not take multiple glob patterns from the
90 (merge 588d0e8 jk/tag-list-multiple-patterns later)
94 echo O=$(git describe master)
96 git log --first-parent --oneline $O..master
98 git shortlog --no-merges ^maint ^$O master
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