4 spaces now expands HT in the log message by default. You can use
the "--no-expand-tabs" option to disable this.
+"git commit-tree" plumbing command required the user to always sign
+its result when the user sets the commit.gpgsign configuration
+variable, which was an ancient mistake, which this release corrects.
+A script that drives commit-tree, if it relies on this mistake, now
+needs to read commit.gpgsign and pass the -S option as necessary.
+
Updates since v2.8
------------------
UI, Workflows & Features
+ * Comes with git-multimail 1.3.1 (in contrib/).
+
* The end-user facing Porcelain level commands like "diff" and "log"
now enables the rename detection by default.
commit."
(merge 7550424 js/name-rev-use-oldest-ref later to maint).
+ * "git clone" learned "--shallow-submodules" option.
+
+ * HTTP transport clients learned to throw extra HTTP headers at the
+ server, specified via http.extraHeader configuration variable.
+
+ * Patch output from "git diff" and friends has been tweaked to be
+ more readable by using a blank line as a strong hint that the
+ contents before and after it belong to a logically separate unit.
+
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
* "merge-recursive" strategy incorrectly checked if a path that is
involved in its internal merge exists in the working tree.
+ * The test scripts for "git p4" (but not "git p4" implementation
+ itself) has been updated so that they would work even on a system
+ where the installed version of Python is python 3.
+ (merge 1fb3fb4 ld/p4-test-py3 later to maint).
+
+ * As nobody maintains our in-tree git.spec.in and distros use their
+ own spec file, we stopped pretending that we support "make rpm".
+
+ * Move from unsigned char[20] to struct object_id continues.
+
Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
for these ref updates blocked on writing them to the main thread,
after the main thread at the receiving end notices that the push
failed and decides not to read these notices and return a failure.
- (merge c4b2751 jk/push-client-deadlock-fix later to maint).
+ (merge f924b52a jk/push-client-deadlock-fix later to maint).
* mmap emulation on Windows has been optimized and work better without
consuming paging store when not needed.
* UI consistency improvements for "git mergetool".
(merge cce076e nf/mergetool-prompt later to maint).
+ * "git rebase -m" could be asked to rebase an entire branch starting
+ from the root, but failed by assuming that there always is a parent
+ commit to the first commit on the branch.
+ (merge 79f4344 bw/rebase-merge-entire-branch later to maint).
+
+ * Fix a broken "p4 lfs" test.
+ (merge 9e220fe ls/p4-lfs-test-fix-2.7.0 later to maint).
+
+ * Recent update to Git LFS broke "git p4" by changing the output from
+ its "lfs pointer" subcommand.
+ (merge 82f2567 ls/p4-lfs later to maint).
+
+ * "git fetch" test t5510 was flaky while running a (forced) automagic
+ garbage collection.
+ (merge bb05510 js/close-packs-before-gc later to maint).
+
+ * Documentation updates to help contributors setting up Travis CI
+ test for their patches.
+ (merge 0e5d028 ls/travis-submitting-patches later to maint).
+
+ * Some multi-byte encoding can have a backslash byte as a later part
+ of one letter, which would confuse "highlight" filter used in
+ gitweb.
+ (merge 029f372 sk/gitweb-highlight-encoding later to maint).
+
+ * "git commit-tree" plumbing command required the user to always sign
+ its result when the user sets the commit.gpgsign configuration
+ variable, which was an ancient mistake. Rework "git rebase" that
+ relied on this mistake so that it reads commit.gpgsign and pass (or
+ not pass) the -S option to "git commit-tree" to keep the end-user
+ expectation the same, while teaching "git commit-tree" to ignore
+ the configuration variable. This will stop requiring the users to
+ sign commit objects used internally as an implementation detail of
+ "git stash".
+ (merge 6694856 jc/commit-tree-ignore-commit-gpgsign later to maint).
+
+
* Other minor clean-ups and documentation updates
(merge 8b5a3e9 kn/for-each-tag-branch later to maint).
- (merge 9c60d9f sb/misc-cleanups later to maint).
+ (merge 99dab16 sb/misc-cleanups later to maint).
(merge 7a6a44c cc/apply later to maint).
(merge 6594883 nd/remove-unused later to maint).
(merge 0ff7410 sg/test-lib-simplify-expr-away later to maint).
(merge 060e776 jk/fix-attribute-macro-in-2.5 later to maint).
(merge d16df0c rt/string-list-lookup-cleanup later to maint).
+ (merge 376eb60 sb/config-exit-status-list later to maint).
+ (merge 9cea46c ew/doc-split-pack-disables-bitmap later to maint).
+ (merge fa72245 ew/normal-to-e later to maint).
+ (merge 2e39a24 rn/glossary-typofix later to maint).
+ (merge cadfbef sb/clean-test-fix later to maint).