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Update draft release notes to 1.7.7
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <[email protected]>
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Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.txt

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* "git archive" can be told to pass the output to gzip compression and
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produce "archive.tar.gz".
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* "git bisect" can be used in a bare repository (provided if the test
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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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* "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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given path.
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* "git checkout" (both the code to update the files upon checking out a
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different branch, the code to checkout specific set of files) learned
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to stream the data from object store when possible, without having to
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* "git diff --stat" learned --stat-count option to limit the output of
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diffstat report.
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* "git diff" learned "--histogram" option, to use a different diff
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generation machinery stolen from jgit, which might give better
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performance.
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* "git fetch", "git push" and friends no longer show connection
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errors for addresses that couldn't be connected when at least one
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address succeeds (this is arguably a regression but a deliberate
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submodule; it now goes on to update other submodules that can be
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updated, and reports the ones with errors at the end.
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* "git upload-pack" and "git receive-pack" learned to pretend only a
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subset of the refs exist in a repository. This may help a site to
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put many tiny repositories into one repository (this would not be
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useful for larger repositories as repacking would be problematic).
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* "git verify-pack" has been rewritten to use the "index-pack" machinery
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that is more efficient in reading objects in packfiles.
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Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes in 1.7.6.X maintenance track are
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included in this release.
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* Error exits from $PAGER were silently ignored.
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(merge fc1b56f cb/maint-exec-error-report later).
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* "git diff -c/--cc" mishandled a deletion that resolves a conflict, and
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looked in the working tree instead.
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(merge 9969454 jc/maint-combined-diff-work-tree later).
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* "git fetch" over smart-http transport used to abort when the
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repository was updated between the initial connection and the
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subsequent object transfer.
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(merge 051e400 jc/maint-smart-http-race-upload-pack later).
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* "git push --quiet" was not really quiet.
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(merge 0d086b8 cb/maint-quiet-push later).
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--
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exec >/var/tmp/1
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echo O=$(git describe master)
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O=v1.7.6-471-g50b68ae
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O=v1.7.6-548-g324b6b1
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git log --first-parent --oneline $O..master
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echo
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git shortlog --no-merges ^maint ^$O master

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