1Git v2.5.1 Release Notes 2======================== 3 4Fixes since v2.5 5---------------- 6 7 * Running an aliased command from a subdirectory when the .git thing 8 in the working tree is a gitfile pointing elsewhere did not work. 9 10 * Often a fast-import stream builds a new commit on top of the 11 previous commit it built, and it often unconditionally emits a 12 "from" command to specify the first parent, which can be omitted in 13 such a case. This caused fast-import to forget the tree of the 14 previous commit and then re-read it from scratch, which was 15 inefficient. Optimize for this common case. 16 17 * The "rev-parse --parseopt" mode parsed the option specification 18 and the argument hint in a strange way to allow '=' and other 19 special characters in the option name while forbidding them from 20 the argument hint. This made it impossible to define an option 21 like "--pair <key>=<value>" with "pair=key=value" specification, 22 which instead would have defined a "--pair=key <value>" option. 23 24 * A "rebase" replays changes of the local branch on top of something 25 else, as such they are placed in stage #3 and referred to as 26 "theirs", while the changes in the new base, typically a foreign 27 work, are placed in stage #2 and referred to as "ours". Clarify 28 the "checkout --ours/--theirs". 29 30 * An experimental "untracked cache" feature used uname(2) in a 31 slightly unportable way. 32 33 * "sparse checkout" misbehaved for a path that is excluded from the 34 checkout when switching between branches that differ at the path. 35 36 * The low-level "git send-pack" did not honor 'user.signingkey' 37 configuration variable when sending a signed-push. 38 39 * An attempt to delete a ref by pushing into a repository whose HEAD 40 symbolic reference points at an unborn branch that cannot be 41 created due to ref D/F conflict (e.g. refs/heads/a/b exists, HEAD 42 points at refs/heads/a) failed. 43 44 * "git subtree" (in contrib/) depended on "git log" output to be 45 stable, which was a no-no. Apply a workaround to force a 46 particular date format. 47 48Also contains typofixes, documentation updates and trivial code 49clean-ups.