@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Git v1.7.8 Release Notes (draft)
44Updates since v1.7.7
55--------------------
66
7- * Some git-svn, git-gui and msysgit updates.
7+ * Some git-svn, git-gui, git-p4 (in contrib) and msysgit updates.
88
99 * Updates to bash completion scripts.
1010
@@ -31,6 +31,9 @@ Updates since v1.7.7
3131 * Variants of "git cherry-pick" and "git revert" that take multiple
3232 commits learned to "--continue".
3333
34+ * "git daemon" gives more human readble error messages to clients
35+ using ERR packets when appropriate.
36+
3437 * Errors at the network layer is logged by "git daemon".
3538
3639 * "git diff" learned "--minimal" option to spend extra cycles to come
@@ -39,6 +42,9 @@ Updates since v1.7.7
3942 * "git diff" learned "--function-context" option to show the whole
4043 function as context that was affected by a change.
4144
45+ * "git difftool" can be told to skip launching the tool for a path by
46+ answering 'n' to its prompt.
47+
4248 * "git fetch" learned to honor transfer.fsckobjects configuration to
4349 validate the objects that were received from the other end, just like
4450 "git receive-pack" (the receiving end of "git push") does.
@@ -48,6 +54,10 @@ Updates since v1.7.7
4854 "git receive-pack" (the receiving end of "git push") learned to do the
4955 same.
5056
57+ * "git fetch" learned that fetching/cloning from a regular file on the
58+ filesystem is not necessarily a request to unpack a bundle file; the
59+ file could be ".git" with "gitdir: <path>" in it.
60+
5161 * "git for-each-ref" learned "%(contents:subject)", "%(contents:body)"
5262 and "%(contents:signature)". The last one is useful for signed tags.
5363
@@ -72,6 +82,9 @@ Updates since v1.7.7
7282 * "git merge" learned the "--edit" option to allow users to edit the
7383 merge commit log message.
7484
85+ * "git rebase -i" can be told to use special purpose editor suitable
86+ only for its insn sheet via sequence.editor configuration variable.
87+
7588 * "git send-email" learned to respond to "-h"(elp) requests.
7689
7790 * "git send-email" allows the value given to sendemail.aliasfile to begin
@@ -126,6 +139,12 @@ included in this release.
126139 credentials.
127140 (merge deba493 jk/http-auth later to maint).
128141
142+ * "git branch -m/-M" advertised to update RENAME_REF ref in the
143+ commit log message that introduced the feature but not anywhere in
144+ the documentation, and never did update such a ref anyway. This
145+ undocumented misfeature that did not exist has been excised.
146+ (merge b0eab01 jc/maint-remove-renamed-ref later to maint).
147+
129148 * Adding many refs to the local repository in one go (e.g. "git fetch"
130149 that fetches many tags) and looking up a ref by name in a repository
131150 with too many refs were unnecessarily slow.
@@ -181,7 +200,7 @@ included in this release.
181200
182201---
183202exec >/var/tmp/1
184- O=v1.7.7-418-g40d6987
203+ O=v1.7.7-485-g9ee3d37
185204echo O=$(git describe --always master)
186205git log --first-parent --oneline --reverse ^$O master
187206echo
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