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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000..3c247cc23 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.txt @@ -0,0 +1,107 @@ +Git v1.7.8 Release Notes (draft) +================================ + +Updates since v1.7.7 +-------------------- + + * The build procedure has been taught to take advantage of computed + dependency automatically when the complier supports it. + + * The date parser now accepts timezone designators that lack minutes + part and also has a colon between "hh:mm". + + * "git am" learned how to read from patches generated by Hg. + + * "git branch" learned an explicit --list option to ask for branches + listed, optionally with a glob matching pattern to limit its output. + + * "git check-attr" learned "--cached" option to look at .gitattributes + files from the index, not from the working tree. + + * Variants of "git cherry-pick" and "git revert" that take multiple + commits learned to "--continue". + + * "git fetch" learned to honor transfer.fsckobjects configuration to + validate the objects that were received from the other end, just like + "git receive-pack" (the receiving end of "git push") does. + + * "git fetch" makes sure that the set of objects it received from the + other end actually completes the history before updating the refs. + "git receive-pack" (the receiving end of "git push") learned to do the + same. + + * "git for-each-ref" learned "%(contents:subject)", "%(contents:body)" + and "%(contents:signature)". The last one is useful for signed tags. + + * "git ls-remote" learned to respond to "-h"(elp) requests. + + * "git send-email" learned to respond to "-h"(elp) requests. + + * "git stash" learned "--include-untracked" option to stash away + untracked/ignored cruft from the working tree. + + * "mediawiki" remote helper can interact with (surprise!) MediaWiki + with "git fetch" & "git push". + + * "gitweb" leaked unescaped control characters from syntax hiliter + outputs. + + +Fixes since v1.7.7 +------------------ + +Unless otherwise noted, all fixes in the 1.7.7.X maintenance track are +included in this release. + + * "git diff $tree $path" used to apply the pathspec at the output stage, + reading the whole tree, wasting resources. + (merge 2f88c1970 jc/diff-index-unpack later to maint). + + * The code to check for updated submodules during a "git fetch" of the + superproject had an unnecessary quadratic loop. + (merge 6859de45 jk/maint-fetch-submodule-check-fix later to maint). + + * "git fetch" from a large bundle did not enable the progress output. + (merge be042aff jc/maint-bundle-too-quiet later to maint). + + * When "git fsck --lost-and-found" found that an empty blob object in the + object store is unreachable, it incorrectly reported an error after + writing the lost blob out successfully. + (merge eb726f2d jc/maint-fsck-fwrite-size-check later to maint). + + * "git filter-branch" did not refresh the index before checking that the + working tree was clean. + (merge 5347a50f jk/filter-branch-require-clean-work-tree later to maint). + + * "git grep $tree" when run with multiple threads had an unsafe access to + the object database that should have been protected with mutex. + (merge 8cb5775b2 nm/grep-object-sha1-lock later to maint). + + * The "--ancestry-path" option to "git log" and friends misbehaved in a + history with complex criss-cross merges and showed an uninteresting + side history as well. + (merge c05b988a6 bk/ancestry-path later to maint). + + * "git merge" did not understand ":/<pattern>" as a way to name a commit. + + * Tests with --valgrind failed to find "mergetool" scriptlets. + (merge ee0d7bf92 tr/mergetool-valgrind later to maint). + + * "git patch-id" miscomputed the patch-id in a patch that has a line longer + than 1kB. + (merge b9ab810b ms/patch-id-with-overlong-line later to maint). + + * When an "exec" insn failed after modifying the index and/or the working + tree during "rebase -i", we now check and warn that the changes need to + be cleaned up. + (merge 1686519a mm/rebase-i-exec-edit later to maint). + +--- +it=master +exec >/var/tmp/1 +O=v1.7.7 +O=v1.7.7-137-g2e49dab +echo O=$(git describe --always $it) +git log --first-parent --oneline --reverse ^$O $it +echo +git shortlog --no-merges ^$O $it diff --git a/GIT-VERSION-GEN b/GIT-VERSION-GEN index f1dc5faea..19a142adc 100755 --- a/GIT-VERSION-GEN +++ b/GIT-VERSION-GEN @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ #!/bin/sh GVF=GIT-VERSION-FILE -DEF_VER=v1.7.7 +DEF_VER=v1.7.7.GIT LF=' ' @@ -1 +1 @@ -Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.txt
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