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authorJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2011-08-28 21:49:35 -0700
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2011-08-28 21:49:35 -0700
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Update draft release notes to 1.7.7
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Updates since v1.7.6
* Interix, Cygwin and Minix ports got updated.
- * A handful of patches to update git-p4 (in contrib/).
+ * Various updates git-p4 (in contrib/) and "git fast-import".
* Gitweb learned to read from /etc/gitweb-common.conf when it exists,
before reading from gitweb_config.perl or from /etc/gitweb.conf
@@ -24,6 +24,10 @@ Updates since v1.7.6
Android with 4kb window). We used to reject anything that was not
deflated with 32kb window.
+ * Interaction between the use of pager and coloring of the output has
+ been improved, especially when a command that is not built-in was
+ involved.
+
* "git am" learned to pass "--exclude=<path>" option through to underlying
"git apply".
@@ -37,6 +41,9 @@ Updates since v1.7.6
you perform per each iteration does not need a working tree, of
course).
+ * The length of abbreviated object names in "git branch -v" output
+ now honors core.abbrev configuration variable.
+
* "git check-attr" can take relative paths from the command line.
* "git check-attr" learned "--all" option to list the attributes for a
@@ -73,6 +80,9 @@ Updates since v1.7.6
* "git grep" learned "-W" option that shows wider context using the same
logic used by "git diff" to determine the hunk header.
+ * The "--decorate" option to "git log" and its family learned to
+ highlight grafted and replaced commits.
+
* "git rebase master topci" no longer spews usage hints after giving
"fatal: no such branch: topci" error message.
@@ -106,6 +116,19 @@ included in this release.
* "git branch --set-upstream @{-1} foo" did not expand @{-1} correctly.
(merge e9d4f74 mg/branch-set-upstream-previous later to 'maint').
+ * "git branch -m" and "git checkout -b" incorrectly allowed the tip
+ of the branch that is currently checked out updated.
+ (merge 55c4a67 ci/forbid-unwanted-current-branch-update later to 'maint').
+
+ * "git clone" failed to clone locally from a ".git" file that itself
+ is not a directory but is a pointer to one.
+ (merge 9b0ebc7 nd/maint-clone-gitdir later to 'maint').
+
+ * "git clone" from a local repository that borrows from another
+ object store using a relative path in its objects/info/alternates
+ file did not adjust the alternates in the resulting repository.
+ (merge e6baf4a1 jc/maint-clone-alternates later to 'maint').
+
* "git describe --dirty" did not refresh the index before checking the
state of the working tree files.
(cherry-pick bb57148 ac/describe-dirty-refresh later to 'maint').