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Release Notes 2====================== 3 4Updates since v2.3 5------------------ 6 7Ports 8 9 10UI, Workflows & Features 11 12 * The command usage info strings given by "git cmd -h" and in 13 documentation have been tweaked for consistency. 14 15 * The "sync" subcommand of "git p4" now allows users to exclude 16 subdirectories like its "clone" subcommand does. 17 18 * "git log --invert-grep --grep=WIP" will show only commits that do 19 not have the string "WIP" in their messages. 20 21 * "git push" has been taught a "--atomic" option that makes push to 22 update more than one ref an "all-or-none" affair. 23 24 * Extending the "push to deploy" added in 2.3, the behaviour of "git 25 push" when updating the branch that is checked out can now be 26 tweaked by push-to-checkout hook. 27 28 * Using environment variable LANGUAGE and friends on the client side, 29 HTTP-based transports now send Accept-Language when making requests. 30 31 32Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. 33 34 * Implementation of N_() macro has been updated slightly to help us 35 detect mistakes. 36 37 * Implementation of "reflog expire" has been restructured to fit the 38 reflogs better with the recently updated ref API. 39 40 41Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. 42 43 44Fixes since v2.3 45---------------- 46 47Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v2.3 in the maintenance 48track are contained in this release (see the maintenance releases' 49notes for details). 50 51 * "git blame HEAD -- missing" failed to correctly say "HEAD" when it 52 tried to say "No such path 'missing' in HEAD". 53 (merge a46442f jk/blame-commit-label later to maint). 54 55 * "git rerere" (invoked internally from many mergy operations) did 56 not correctly signal errors when told to update the working tree 57 files and failed to do so for whatever reason. 58 (merge 89ea903 jn/rerere-fail-on-auto-update-failure later to maint). 59 60 * Setting diff.submodule to 'log' made "git format-patch" produce 61 broken patches. 62 (merge 339de50 dk/format-patch-ignore-diff-submodule later to maint). 63 64 * After attempting and failing a password-less authentication 65 (e.g. kerberos), libcURL refuses to fall back to password based 66 Basic authentication without a bit of help/encouragement. 67 (merge 4dbe664 bc/http-fallback-to-password-after-krb-fails later to maint). 68 69 * The "git push" documentation made the "--repo=<there>" option 70 easily misunderstood. 71 (merge 57b92a7 mg/push-repo-option-doc later to maint). 72 73 * Code to read branch name from various files in .git/ directory 74 would have misbehaved if the code to write them left an empty file. 75 (merge 66ec904 jk/status-read-branch-name-fix later to maint). 76 77 * A misspelled conditional that is always true has been fixed. 78 (merge 94ee8e2 jk/remote-curl-an-array-in-struct-cannot-be-null later to maint). 79 80 * The documentation incorrectly said that C(opy) and R(ename) are the 81 only ones that can be followed by the score number in the output in 82 the --raw format. 83 (merge ac1c2d9 jc/diff-format-doc later to maint). 84 85 * A broken pack .idx file in the receiving repository prevented the 86 dumb http transport from fetching a good copy of it from the other 87 side. 88 (merge 8b9c2dd jk/dumb-http-idx-fetch-fix later to maint). 89 90 * The error message from "git commit", when a non-existing author 91 name was given as value to the "--author=" parameter, has been 92 reworded to avoid misunderstanding. 93 (merge 1044b1f mg/commit-author-no-match-malformed-message later to maint). 94 95 * "git log --help" used to show rev-list options that are irrelevant 96 to the "log" command. 97 (merge 3cab02d jc/doc-log-rev-list-options later to maint). 98 99 * "git apply --whitespace=fix" used to under-allocate the memory when 100 the fix resulted in a longer text than the original patch. 101 (merge 407a792 jc/apply-ws-fix-expands later to maint). 102 103 * The interactive "show a list and let the user choose from it" 104 interface "add -i" used showed and prompted to the user even when 105 the candidate list was empty, against which the only "choice" the 106 user could have made was to choose nothing. 107 (merge a9c4641 ak/add-i-empty-candidates later to maint). 108 109 * The insn sheet "git rebase -i" creates did not fully honor 110 core.abbrev settings. 111 (merge edb72d5 ks/rebase-i-abbrev later to maint). 112 113 * "git fetch" over a remote-helper that cannot respond to "list" 114 command could not fetch from a symbolic reference e.g. HEAD. 115 (merge 33cae54 mh/deref-symref-over-helper-transport later to maint). 116 117 * "git push --signed" gave an incorrectly worded error message when 118 the other side did not support the capability. 119 (merge 45917f0 jc/push-cert later to maint). 120 121 * We didn't format an integer that wouldn't fit in "int" but in 122 "uintmax_t" correctly. 123 (merge d306f3d jk/decimal-width-for-uintmax later to maint). 124 125 * Reading configuration from a blob object, when it ends with a lone 126 CR, use to confuse the configuration parser. 127 (merge 1d0655c jk/config-no-ungetc-eof later to maint). 128 129 * The pack bitmap support did not build with older versions of GCC. 130 (merge bd4e882 jk/pack-bitmap later to maint). 131 132 * The documentation wasn't clear that "remote.<nick>.pushURL" and 133 "remote.<nick>.URL" are there to name the same repository accessed 134 via different transports, not two separate repositories. 135 (merge 697f652 jc/remote-set-url-doc later to maint). 136 137 * Older GnuPG implementations may not correctly import the keyring 138 material we prepare for the tests to use. 139 (merge 1f985d6 ch/new-gpg-drops-rfc-1991 later to maint). 140 141 * The credential helper for Windows (in contrib/) used to mishandle 142 a user name with an at-sign in it. 143 (merge 13d261e av/wincred-with-at-in-username-fix later to maint). 144 145 * Longstanding configuration variable naming rules has been added to 146 the documentation. 147 (merge 35840a3 jc/conf-var-doc later to maint). 148 149 * An earlier workaround to squelch unhelpful deprecation warnings 150 from the complier on Mac OSX unnecessarily set minimum required 151 version of the OS, which the user might want to raise (or lower) 152 for other reasons. 153 (merge 88c03eb es/squelch-openssl-warnings-on-macosx later to maint). 154 155 * Certain older vintages of cURL give irregular output from 156 "curl-config --vernum", which confused our build system. 157 (merge 3af6792 tc/curl-vernum-output-broken-in-7.11 later to maint). 158 159 * In v2.2.0, we broke "git prune" that runs in a repository that 160 borrows from an alternate object store. 161 (merge b0a4264 jk/prune-mtime later to maint). 162 163 * "git submodule add" failed to squash "path/to/././submodule" to 164 "path/to/submodule". 165 (merge 8196e72 ps/submodule-sanitize-path-upon-add later to maint). 166 167 * "git merge-file" did not work correctly in a subdirectory. 168 (merge 204a8ff ab/merge-file-prefix later to maint). 169 170 * "git blame" died, trying to free an uninitialized piece of memory. 171 (merge e600592 es/blame-commit-info-fix later to maint).