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+Git v1.7.7 Release Notes
+========================
+
+Updates since v1.7.6
+--------------------
+
+ * The scripting part of the codebase is getting prepared for i18n/l10n.
+
+ * 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
+   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
+   Android with 4kb window). We used to reject anything that was not
+   deflated with 32kb window.
+
+ * "git am" learned to pass "--exclude=<path>" option through to underlying
+   "git apply".
+
+ * You can now feed many empty lines before feeding a 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
+   you perform per each iteration does not need a working tree, of
+   course).
+
+ * "git check-attr" can take relative paths from the command line.
+
+ * "git check-attr" learned "--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
+   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
+   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.
+
+ * "git diff" learned "--histogram" option, to use a different diff
+   generation machinery stolen from jgit, which might give better
+   performance.
+
+ * "git fetch", "git push" and friends no longer show connection
+   errors for addresses that couldn't be connected 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 "-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.
+
+ * "git stash" learned --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 upload-pack" and "git receive-pack" learned to pretend 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).
+
+ * "git verify-pack" has been rewritten to use the "index-pack" machinery
+   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.
+
+Also contains various documentation updates and minor miscellaneous
+changes.
+
+
+Fixes since v1.7.6
+------------------
+
+Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes in 1.7.6.X maintenance track are
+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 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').
+
+ * "git ls-files ../$path" that is run from a subdirectory reported errors
+   incorrectly when there is no such path that matches the given pathspec.
+   (merge 0f64bfa cb/maint-ls-files-error-report later to 'maint').
+
+--
+exec >/var/tmp/1
+echo O=$(git describe master)
+O=v1.7.6.1-415-g284daf2
+git log --first-parent --oneline $O..master
+echo
+git shortlog --no-merges ^maint ^$O master