Git v1.7.7 Release Notes

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Updates since v1.7.6

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* The scripting part of the codebase is getting prepared for i18n/l10n.

* "git checkout" (both the code to update the files upon checking out a

different branch, the code to checkout specific set of files) learned

to stream the data from object store when possible, without having to

read the entire contents of a file in memory first.

* "git diff --cc" learned to correctly ignore binary files.

* "git diff --stat" learned --stat-count option to limit the output of

diffstat report.

* "git grep" learned --break and --heading options, to let users mimic

output format of "ack".

Also contains various documentation updates and minor miscellaneous

changes.

Fixes since v1.7.6

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Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes in 1.7.6.X maintenance track are

included in this release.

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exec >/var/tmp/1

echo O=$(git describe master)

O=v1.7.6-133-g395f65d

git shortlog --no-merges ^maint ^$O master