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Update draft release notes to 1.7.7
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Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Junio C Hamano committed Aug 11, 2011
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Expand Up @@ -6,7 +6,14 @@ Updates since v1.7.6

* The scripting part of the codebase is getting prepared for i18n/l10n.

* Interix and Cygwin ports got updated.
* Interix, Cygwin and Minix ports got updated.

* A handful of patches to update git-p4 (in contrib/).

* Gitweb learned to read from /etc/gitweb-common.conf when it exists,
before reading from gitweb_config.perl or from /etc/gitweb.conf
(this last one is read only when per-repository gitweb_config.perl
does not exist).

* Various codepaths that invoked zlib deflate/inflate assumed that these
functions can compress or uncompress more than 4GB data in one call on
Expand All @@ -18,11 +25,16 @@ Updates since v1.7.6
* "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.
read the entire contents of a file in memory first. An earlier round
of this code that is not in any released version had a large leak but
now it has been plugged.

* "git clone" can now take "--config key=value" option to set the
repository configuration options that affect the initial checkout.

* "git commit <paths>..." now lets you feed relative pathspecs that
refer outside your current subdirectory.

* "git diff --stat" learned --stat-count option to limit the output of
diffstat report.

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* "git grep" learned --break and --heading options, to let users mimic
output format of "ack".

* "git grep" learned "-W" option that shows wider context using the same
logic used by "git diff" to determine the hunk header.

* "git rebase master topci" no longer spews usage hints after giving
"fatal: no such branch: topci" error message.

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* "git diff --cc" learned to correctly ignore binary files.
(merge 0508fe5 jk/combine-diff-binary-etc later)

* "git fast-export" forgot to quote pathnames with unsafe characters
in its output.
(merge 6280dfd jk/fast-export-quote-path later)

* "git fetch" did not recurse into submodules in subdirectories.
(merge ea2d325 jl/maint-fetch-recursive-fix later)

* "git ls-tree" did not error out when asked to show a corrupt tree.
(merge 04f8925 js/ls-tree-error later)

* "git pull" without any argument left an extra whitespace after the
command name in its reflog.
(merge c98d1e4 oa/pull-reflog later)

* "git rebase -i -p" incorrectly dropped commits from side branches.
(merge 12bf828 aw/rebase-i-p later)

* "git reset [<commit>] paths..." did not reset the index entry correctly
for unmerged paths.
(merge ff00b682 jc/maint-reset-unmerged-path later)

* "git submodule add" did not allow a relative repository path when
the superproject did not have any default remote url.
(merge f22a17e8 jl/submodule-add-relurl-wo-upstream later)
Expand All @@ -80,6 +110,9 @@ included in this release.
the user-supplied command it invoked.
(merge 4dca1aa bc/submodule-foreach-stdin-fix-1.7.4 later)

* "git submodule update --quiet" was not really quiet.
(merge 7e60407 jl/submodule-update-quiet later)

* submodules that the user has never showed interest in by running
"git submodule init" was incorrectly marked as interesting by "git
submodule sync".
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--
exec >/var/tmp/1
echo O=$(git describe master)
O=v1.7.6-344-g22f4128
O=v1.7.6-446-g0af53e1
git log --first-parent --oneline $O..master
echo
git shortlog --no-merges ^maint ^$O master

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