Git 2.14 Release Notes ====================== Backward compatibility notes. * Use of an empty string as a pathspec element that is used for 'everything matches' is still warned and Git asks users to use a more explicit '.' for that instead. The hope is that existing users will not mind this change, and eventually the warning can be turned into a hard error, upgrading the deprecation into removal of this (mis)feature. That is not scheduled to happen in the upcoming release (yet). * Git now avoids blindly falling back to ".git" when the setup sequence said we are _not_ in Git repository. A corner case that happens to work right now may be broken by a call to die("BUG"). We've tried hard to locate such cases and fixed them, but there might still be cases that need to be addressed--bug reports are greatly appreciated. Updates since v2.13 ------------------- UI, Workflows & Features * The colors in which "git status --short --branch" showed the names of the current branch and its remote-tracking branch are now configurable. * "git clone" learned the "--no-tags" option not to fetch all tags initially, and also set up the tagopt not to follow any tags in subsequent fetches. * "git archive --format=zip" learned to use zip64 extension when necessary to go beyond the 4GB limit. (merge 867e40ff3a rs/large-zip later to maint). Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. * The default packed-git limit value has been raised on larger platforms to save "git fetch" from a (recoverable) failure while "gc" is running in parallel. * Code to update the cache-tree has been tightened so that we won't accidentally write out any 0{40} entry in the tree object. (merge a96d3cc3f6 jk/no-null-sha1-in-cache-tree later to maint). * Attempt to allow us notice "fishy" situation where we fail to remove the temporary directory used during the test. * Travis CI gained a task to format the documentation with both AsciiDoc and AsciiDoctor. (merge 505ad91304 ls/travis-doc-asciidoctor later to maint). * Some platforms have ulong that is smaller than time_t, and our historical use of ulong for timestamp would mean they cannot represent some timestamp that the platform allows. Invent a separate and dedicated timestamp_t (so that we can distingiuish timestamps and a vanilla ulongs, which along is already a good move), and then declare uintmax_t is the type to be used as the timestamp_t. * We can trigger Windows auto-build tester (credits: Dscho & Microsoft) from our existing Travis CI tester now. Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. Fixes since v2.13 ----------------- Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v2.13 in the maintenance track are contained in this release (see the maintenance releases' notes for details). * "git gc" did not interact well with "git worktree"-managed per-worktree refs. * "git cherry-pick" and other uses of the sequencer machinery mishandled a trailer block whose last line is an incomplete line. This has been fixed so that an additional sign-off etc. are added after completing the existing incomplete line. (merge 44dc738a39 jt/use-trailer-api-in-commands later to maint). * The codepath in "git am" that is used when running "git rebase" leaked memory held for the log message of the commits being rebased. (merge 721f5f1e35 jk/am-leakfix later to maint). * "git clone --config var=val" is a way to populate the per-repository configuration file of the new repository, but it did not work well when val is an empty string. This has been fixed. (merge db4eca1fea jn/clone-add-empty-config-from-command-line later to maint). * Setting "log.decorate=false" in the configuration file did not take effect in v2.13, which has been corrected. (merge c74271aae7 ah/log-decorate-default-to-auto later to maint). * A few codepaths in "checkout" and "am" working on an unborn branch tried to access an uninitialized piece of memory. (merge 57e0ef0e0e rs/checkout-am-fix-unborn later to maint). * The Web interface to gmane news archive is long gone, even though the articles are still accessible via NTTP. Replace the links with ones to public-inbox.org. Because their message identification is based on the actual message-id, it is likely that it will be easier to migrate away from it if/when necessary. (merge 5840eb9d14 ab/doc-replace-gmane-links later to maint). * The receive-pack program now makes sure that the push certificate records the same set of push options used for pushing. (merge cbaf82cc6b jt/push-options-doc later to maint). * Tests have been updated to pass under GETTEXT_POISON (a mechanism to ensure that output strings that should not be translated are not translated by mistake), and TravisCI is told to run them. (merge b8e188f6f5 ab/fix-poison-tests later to maint). * Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups. (merge 515360f9e9 jn/credential-doc-on-clear later to maint). (merge 0e6d899fee ab/aix-needs-compat-regex later to maint). (merge e294e8959f jc/apply-fix-mismerge later to maint). (merge 7f1b225153 bw/submodule-with-bs-path later to maint). (merge c8f7c8b704 tb/dedup-crlf-tests later to maint).