1Git ???? 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 29Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. 30 31 * Implementation of N_() macro has been updated slightly to help us 32 detect mistakes. 33 34 * Implementation of "reflog expire" has been restructured to fit the 35 reflogs better with the recently updated ref API. 36 37 38Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. 39 40 41Fixes since v2.3 42---------------- 43 44Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v2.3 in the maintenance 45track are contained in this release (see the maintenance releases' 46notes for details). 47 48 * "git blame HEAD -- missing" failed to correctly say "HEAD" when it 49 tried to say "No such path 'missing' in HEAD". 50 (merge a46442f jk/blame-commit-label later to maint). 51 52 * "git rerere" (invoked internally from many mergy operations) did 53 not correctly signal errors when told to update the working tree 54 files and failed to do so for whatever reason. 55 (merge 89ea903 jn/rerere-fail-on-auto-update-failure later to maint). 56 57 * Setting diff.submodule to 'log' made "git format-patch" produce 58 broken patches. 59 (merge 339de50 dk/format-patch-ignore-diff-submodule later to maint). 60 61 * After attempting and failing a password-less authentication 62 (e.g. kerberos), libcURL refuses to fall back to password based 63 Basic authentication without a bit of help/encouragement. 64 (merge 4dbe664 bc/http-fallback-to-password-after-krb-fails later to maint). 65 66 * The "git push" documentation made the "--repo=<there>" option 67 easily misunderstood. 68 (merge 57b92a7 mg/push-repo-option-doc later to maint). 69 70 * Code to read branch name from various files in .git/ directory 71 would have misbehaved if the code to write them left an empty file. 72 (merge 66ec904 jk/status-read-branch-name-fix later to maint). 73 74 * A misspelled conditional that is always true has been fixed. 75 (merge 94ee8e2 jk/remote-curl-an-array-in-struct-cannot-be-null later to maint). 76 77 * The documentation incorrectly said that C(opy) and R(ename) are the 78 only ones that can be followed by the score number in the output in 79 the --raw format. 80 (merge ac1c2d9 jc/diff-format-doc later to maint). 81 82 * A broken pack .idx file in the receiving repository prevented the 83 dumb http transport from fetching a good copy of it from the other 84 side. 85 (merge 8b9c2dd jk/dumb-http-idx-fetch-fix later to maint). 86 87 * The error message from "git commit", when a non-existing author 88 name was given as value to the "--author=" parameter, has been 89 reworded to avoid misunderstanding. 90 (merge 1044b1f mg/commit-author-no-match-malformed-message later to maint). 91 92 * "git log --help" used to show rev-list options that are irrelevant 93 to the "log" command. 94 (merge 3cab02d jc/doc-log-rev-list-options later to maint). 95 96 * "git apply --whitespace=fix" used to under-allocate the memory when 97 the fix resulted in a longer text than the original patch. 98 (merge 407a792 jc/apply-ws-fix-expands later to maint). 99 100 * The interactive "show a list and let the user choose from it" 101 interface "add -i" used showed and prompted to the user even when 102 the candidate list was empty, against which the only "choice" the 103 user could have made was to choose nothing. 104 (merge a9c4641 ak/add-i-empty-candidates later to maint). 105 106 * The insn sheet "git rebase -i" creates did not fully honor 107 core.abbrev settings. 108 (merge edb72d5 ks/rebase-i-abbrev later to maint). 109 110 * "git fetch" over a remote-helper that cannot respond to "list" 111 command could not fetch from a symbolic reference e.g. HEAD. 112 (merge 33cae54 mh/deref-symref-over-helper-transport later to maint).