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Update draft release notes to 1.7.8

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Junio C Hamano 2011-10-18 22:03:30 -07:00
parent 40d6987d24
commit 87009edcbd

@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Git v1.7.8 Release Notes (draft)
Updates since v1.7.7
--------------------
* Some git-svn and git-gui updates.
* Some git-svn, git-gui and msysgit updates.
* Updates to bash completion scripts.
@ -40,6 +40,9 @@ Updates since v1.7.7
* "git diff" learned "--minimal" option to spend extra cycles to come
up with a minimal patch output.
* "git diff" learned "--function-context" option to show the whole
function as context that was affected by a change.
* "git fetch" learned to honor transfer.fsckobjects configuration to
validate the objects that were received from the other end, just like
"git receive-pack" (the receiving end of "git push") does.
@ -63,8 +66,16 @@ Updates since v1.7.7
files in the working tree, so that matches in new but not yet
added files do not get missed.
* The recursive merge backend no longer looks for meaningless
existing merges in submodules unless in the outermost merge.
* "git log" and friends learned "--children" option.
* "git ls-remote" learned to respond to "-h"(elp) requests.
* "git merge" learned the "--edit" option to allow users to edit the
merge commit log message.
* "git send-email" learned to respond to "-h"(elp) requests.
* "git send-email" allows the value given to sendemail.aliasfile to begin
@ -93,6 +104,8 @@ Updates since v1.7.7
* "gitweb" leaked unescaped control characters from syntax hiliter
outputs.
* "gitweb" now has its own manual pages.
Also contains other documentation updates and minor code cleanups.
@ -142,6 +155,9 @@ included in this release.
of the file.
(merge 8557263 jc/apply-blank-at-eof-fix later to maint).
* "git apply --index" did not check corrupted patch.
(merge 2c93286 jm/maint-apply-detects-corrupt-patch-header later to maint).
* "git bisect" did not notice when it failed to update the working tree
to the next commit to be tested.
(merge 1acf11717 js/bisect-no-checkout later to maint).
@ -179,13 +195,17 @@ included in this release.
hooks for attempted removal of non-existing refs.
(merge 160b81ed ph/push-to-delete-nothing later to maint).
* "git send-email" did not honor the configured hostname when restarting
the HELO/EHLO exchange after switching TLS on.
(merge 155b940 md/smtp-tls-hello-again later to maint).
* "gitweb" used to produce a non-working link while showing the contents
of a blob, when JavaScript actions are enabled.
(merge 2b07ff3ff ps/gitweb-js-with-lineno later to maint).
---
exec >/var/tmp/1
O=v1.7.7-368-g9638384
O=v1.7.7-418-g40d6987
echo O=$(git describe --always master)
git log --first-parent --oneline --reverse ^$O master
echo