1Git 2.5 Release Notes 2===================== 3 4Updates since v2.4 5------------------ 6 7Ports 8 9 10UI, Workflows & Features 11 12 * "git p4" now detects the filetype (e.g. binary) correctly even when 13 the files are opened exclusively. 14 15 * "git show-branch --topics HEAD" (with no other arguments) did not 16 do anything interesting. Instead, contrast the given revision 17 against all the local branches by default. 18 19 20Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. 21 22 * "unsigned char [20]" used thoughout the code to represent object 23 names are being converted into a semi-opaque "struct object_id". 24 This effort is expected to interfere with other topics in flight, 25 but hopefully will give us one extra level of abstraction in the 26 end, when completed. 27 28 29Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. 30 31 32Fixes since v2.4 33---------------- 34 35Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v2.4 in the maintenance 36track are contained in this release (see the maintenance releases' 37notes for details). 38 39 * We avoid setting core.worktree when the repository location is the 40 ".git" directory directly at the top level of the working tree, but 41 the code misdetected the case in which the working tree is at the 42 root level of the filesystem (which arguably is a silly thing to 43 do, but still valid). 44 (merge 84ccad8 jk/init-core-worktree-at-root later to maint). 45 46 * "git commit --date=now" or anything that relies on approxidate lost 47 the daylight-saving-time offset. 48 (merge f6e6362 jc/epochtime-wo-tz later to maint). 49 50 * Access to objects in repositories that borrow from another one on a 51 slow NFS server unnecessarily got more expensive due to recent code 52 becoming more cautious in a naive way not to lose objects to pruning. 53 (merge ee1c6c3 jk/prune-mtime later to maint). 54 55 * The codepaths that read .gitignore and .gitattributes files have been 56 taught that these files encoded in UTF-8 may have UTF-8 BOM marker at 57 the beginning; this makes it in line with what we do for configuration 58 files already. 59 (merge 27547e5 cn/bom-in-gitignore later to maint). 60 61 * a few helper scripts in the test suite did not report errors 62 correcty. 63 (merge de248e9 ep/fix-test-lib-functions-report later to maint). 64 65 * The default $HOME/.gitconfig file created upon "git config --global" 66 that edits it had incorrectly spelled user.name and user.email 67 entries in it. 68 (merge 7e11052 oh/fix-config-default-user-name-section later to maint). 69 70 * "git cat-file bl $blob" failed to barf even though there is no 71 object type that is "bl". 72 (merge b7994af jk/type-from-string-gently later to maint). 73 74 * The usual "git diff" when seeing a file turning into a directory 75 showed a patchset to remove the file and create all files in the 76 directory, but "git diff --no-index" simply refused to work. Also, 77 when asked to compare a file and a directory, imitate POSIX "diff" 78 and compare the file with the file with the same name in the 79 directory, instead of refusing to run. 80 (merge 0615173 jc/diff-no-index-d-f later to maint). 81 82 * Code cleanups and documentation updates. 83 (merge 0269f96 mm/usage-log-l-can-take-regex later to maint). 84 (merge 64f2589 nd/t1509-chroot-test later to maint). 85 (merge f86a374 sb/test-bitmap-free-at-end later to maint). 86 (merge 05bfc7d sb/line-log-plug-pairdiff-leak later to maint).