1Git 2.16 Release Notes 2====================== 3 4Backward compatibility notes and other notable changes. 5 6 * Use of an empty string as a pathspec element that is used for 7 'everything matches' is now an error. 8 9 10Updates since v2.15 11------------------- 12 13UI, Workflows & Features 14 15 * An empty string as a pathspec element that means "everything" 16 i.e. 'git add ""', is now illegal. We started this by first 17 deprecating and warning a pathspec that has such an element in 18 2.11 (Nov 2016). 19 20 21Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. 22 23 * An earlier update made it possible to use an on-stack in-core 24 lockfile structure (as opposed to having to deliberately leak an 25 on-heap one). Many codepaths have been updated to take advantage 26 of this new facility. 27 (merge b74c90fb41 ma/lockfile-fixes later to maint). 28 29 * Calling cmd_foo() as if it is a general purpose helper function is 30 a no-no. Correct two instances of such to set an example. 31 (merge a92b1095d1 jc/no-cmd-as-subroutine later to maint). 32 33 * We try to see if somebody runs our test suite with a shell that 34 does not support "local" like bash/dash does. 35 (merge 01d3a526ad mh/test-local-canary later to maint). 36 37 38Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. 39 40 41Fixes since v2.15 42----------------- 43 44 * "auto" as a value for the columnar output configuration ought to 45 judge "is the output consumed by humans?" with the same criteria as 46 "auto" for coloured output configuration, i.e. either the standard 47 output stream is going to tty, or a pager is in use. We forgot the 48 latter, which has been fixed. 49 (merge 965ff23a43 kd/auto-col-with-pager-fix later to maint). 50 51 * The experimental "color moved lines differently in diff output" 52 feature was buggy around "ignore whitespace changes" edges, whihch 53 has been corrected. 54 (merge b66b507292 jk/diff-color-moved-fix later to maint). 55 56 * Instead of using custom line comparison and hashing functions to 57 implement "moved lines" coloring in the diff output, use the pair 58 of these functions from lower-layer xdiff/ code. 59 (merge 01be97c2b2 sb/diff-color-moved-use-xdl-recmatch later to maint). 60 61 * Some codepaths did not check for errors when asking what branch the 62 HEAD points at, which have been fixed. 63 (merge dbd2b55cb7 jk/misc-resolve-ref-unsafe-fixes later to maint). 64 65 * "git commit", after making a commit, did not check for errors when 66 asking on what branch it made the commit, which has been correted. 67 (merge c26de08370 ao/check-resolve-ref-unsafe-result later to maint). 68 69 * "git status --ignored -u" did not stop at a working tree of a 70 separate project that is embedded in an ignored directory and 71 listed files in that other project, instead of just showing the 72 directory itself as ignored. 73 (merge fadb4820c4 js/submodule-in-excluded later to maint). 74 75 * A broken access to object databases in recent update to "git grep 76 --recurse-submodules" has been fixed. 77 (merge 9560e6245a bw/grep-recurse-submodules later to maint). 78 79 * A recent regression in "git rebase -i" that broke execution of git 80 commands from subdirectories via "exec" insn has been fixed. 81 (merge 09d7b6c6fa jk/rebase-i-exec-gitdir-fix later to maint). 82 83 * Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups. 84 (merge bab76141da cn/diff-indent-no-longer-is-experimental later to maint).