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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.txt index 82dc9292c..6b3264aa7 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.txt @@ -69,6 +69,9 @@ Updates since v1.7.6 generation machinery stolen from jgit, which might give better performance. + * "git diff" had a wierd 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 address succeeds (this is arguably a regression but a deliberate @@ -86,12 +89,22 @@ Updates since v1.7.6 * "git rebase master topci" no longer spews usage hints after giving "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 + 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 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 + 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 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 |