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authorMichael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>2011-09-07 13:54:11 +0200
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2011-09-07 16:29:18 -0700
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RelNotes/1.7.7: minor fixes
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> 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.
- * Various updates git-p4 (in contrib/), fast-import, and git-svn.
+ * Various updates to git-p4 (in contrib/), fast-import, and git-svn.
* Gitweb learned to read from /etc/gitweb-common.conf when it exists,
before reading from gitweb_config.perl or from /etc/gitweb.conf
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ Updates since v1.7.6
platforms with 64-bit long, which has been corrected.
* Git now recognizes loose objects written by other implementations that
- uses non-standard window size for zlib deflation (e.g. Agit running on
+ use a non-standard window size for zlib deflation (e.g. Agit running on
Android with 4kb window). We used to reject anything that was not
deflated with 32kb window.
@@ -28,59 +28,59 @@ Updates since v1.7.6
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 am" learned to pass the "--exclude=<path>" option through to underlying
"git apply".
- * You can now feed many empty lines before feeding a mbox file to
+ * You can now feed many empty lines before feeding an mbox file to
"git am".
* "git archive" can be told to pass the output to gzip compression and
produce "archive.tar.gz".
- * "git bisect" can be used in a bare repository (provided if the test
+ * "git bisect" can be used in a bare repository (provided that the test
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.
+ now honors the 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
+ * "git check-attr" learned an "--all" option to list the attributes for a
given path.
* "git checkout" (both the code to update the files upon checking out a
- different branch, the code to checkout specific set of files) learned
+ different branch and the code to checkout a 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. An earlier round
+ read the entire contents of a file into 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
+ * "git clone" can now take a "--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.
+ refer to outside your current subdirectory.
- * "git diff --stat" learned --stat-count option to limit the output of
- diffstat report.
+ * "git diff --stat" learned a --stat-count option to limit the output of
+ a diffstat report.
- * "git diff" learned "--histogram" option, to use a different diff
+ * "git diff" learned a "--histogram" option to use a different diff
generation machinery stolen from jgit, which might give better
performance.
- * "git diff" had a wierd worst case behaviour that can be triggered
+ * "git diff" had a weird worst case behaviour that can be triggered
when comparing files with potentially many places that could match.
* "git fetch", "git push" and friends no longer show connection
- errors for addresses that couldn't be connected when at least one
+ errors for addresses that couldn't be connected to when at least one
address succeeds (this is arguably a regression but a deliberate
one).
- * "git grep" learned --break and --heading options, to let users mimic
- output format of "ack".
+ * "git grep" learned "--break" and "--heading" options, to let users mimic
+ the output format of "ack".
- * "git grep" learned "-W" option that shows wider context using the same
+ * "git grep" learned a "-W" option that shows wider context using the same
logic used by "git diff" to determine the hunk header.
* Invoking the low-level "git http-fetch" without "-a" option (which
@@ -91,25 +91,25 @@ Updates since v1.7.6
highlight grafted and replaced commits.
* "git rebase master topci" no longer spews usage hints after giving
- "fatal: no such branch: topci" error message.
+ the "fatal: no such branch: topci" error message.
* The recursive merge strategy implementation got a fairly large
- fixes for many corner cases that may rarely happen in real world
+ fix for many corner cases that may rarely happen in real world
projects (it has been verified that none of the 16000+ merges in
the Linux kernel history back to v2.6.12 is affected with the
corner case bugs this update fixes).
- * "git stash" learned --include-untracked option.
+ * "git stash" learned an "--include-untracked option".
* "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 push" can be told with --recurse-submodules=check option to
+ * "git push" can be told with the "--recurse-submodules=check" option to
refuse pushing of the supermodule, if any of its submodules'
commits hasn't been pushed out to their remotes.
- * "git upload-pack" and "git receive-pack" learned to pretend only a
+ * "git upload-pack" and "git receive-pack" learned to pretend that only a
subset of the refs exist in a repository. This may help a site to
put many tiny repositories into one repository (this would not be
useful for larger repositories as repacking would be problematic).
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ Updates since v1.7.6
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.
+ are not installed; they now exit early when the latter are unavailable.
Also contains various documentation updates and minor miscellaneous
changes.
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ changes.
Fixes since v1.7.6
------------------
-Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes in 1.7.6.X maintenance track are
+Unless otherwise noted, all fixes in the 1.7.6.X maintenance track are
included in this release.
* The error reporting logic of "git am" when the command is fed a file