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