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).